15 must-read horror books like The Angry Dead by Rosemary Pardoe

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The Angry Dead

By: Rosemary Pardoe

3.93

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

"All of the elements of literate, affectionate, and skilful pastiche are the country churches, the…

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1. Harvest Home

By: Thomas Tryon

3.82

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

It was almost as if time had not touched the village of Cornwall Coombe. The quiet, peaceful place … read more

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"His heart's in the right place, but his tongue's an affliction."

-Thomas Tryon, Harvest Home

Cover of A Night in the Lonesome October by Gahan Wilson, Roger Zelazny, James Warhola

2. A Night in the Lonesome October

By: Gahan Wilson , Roger Zelazny , James Warhola

4.18

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

All is not what it seems… In the murky London gloom, a knife-wielding gentleman named Jack prowl… read more

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3. Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score

By: Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A high-octane trip across America, The Score finds Parker assembling the best caper men he can find… read more

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4. Galactic Pot-Healer

By: Philip K. Dick

3.61

Format: 177 pages, Paperback

The Glimmung wants Joe Fernwright. Fernwright is a pot-healer - a repairer of ceramics - in a drabl… read more

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"No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it."

-Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer

"For a time Joe considered. In his mind he considered his room, the cubicle in which he worked, the loss of his coins, the police—he thought about it all and tried to make it add up. What ties me here…"

-Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer

"A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they – all of them – had been genuine angels, and at that time they had had a choice between good and evil, so it was easy, ea…"

-Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer

"Già suo padre, prima di lui, era stato un guaritore di vasi. E così anche lui guariva vasi, e a dire il vero qualsiasi manufatto di ceramica risalente ai Vecchi Tempi, prima della guerra, quando anco…"

-Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer

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5. Antique Dust: Ghost Stories

By: Robert Westall

4.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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6. The Devil Rides Out (Black Magic, #1)

By: Dennis Wheatley

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

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7. Cold Moon Over Babylon

By: Michael McDowell

3.99

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Terror grows in Babylon, a typical sleepy Southern town with its throbbing sun and fog-shrouded swa… read more

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8. Who Goes There?

By: William F. Nolan , John W. Campbell Jr.

3.80

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

"Who Goes There?" is the novella that formed the basis of John Carpenter's film The Thing. Campbell… read more

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9. Heavy Weather

By: Bruce Sterling

3.68

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Bruce Sterling, one of the founding fathers of the cyberpunk genre, now presents a novel of vivid i… read more

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10. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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11. All Hallows' Eve

By: Charles Williams

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Charles Williams had a genius for choosing strange and exciting themes for his novels and making th… read more

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12. Carnacki, the Ghost Finder

By: William Hope Hodgson

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder is a collection of supernatural detective short stories by author Willia… read more

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13. Dracula's Guest

By: Bram Stoker

4.36

Format: 39 pages,

A passage from the manuscript of Dracula. read more

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14. Jingo (Discworld, #21; City Watch, #4)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Neighbours... hah. People'd live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their w… read more

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15. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

By: J.M. Barrie , Arthur Rackham

4.25

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Before he flew away to Neverland, the little boy who wouldn't grow up dwelt in the heart of London,… read more

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16. John the Balladeer

By: Manly Wade Wellman , David Drake , Karl Edward Wagner

3.86

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

Collection of 17 short stories (written in two chronological periods, 1951-58 and 1979-86) plus a f… read more

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17. Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Other children get given xylophones. Susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off. Ye… read more

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"We're on a mission from Glod."

-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)

"It's . . . it's like a legend! It has to happen!"

-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)

"The fastest way to travel is to be there already."

-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)

"Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide?"

-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)

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18. Black River Orchard

By: Chuck Wendig

4.13

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A small town is transformed by dark magic when a strange tree begins bearing magical apples in this… read more

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19. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

By: Werner Herzog

4.25

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more

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20. Venomous Lumpsucker

By: Ned Beauman

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more

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"I can’t believe this!"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

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21. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

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"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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22. The Butcher of the Forest

By: Premee Mohamed

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more

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Cover of The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan (Tales of the Weird) by Michael Wheatley

23. The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan (Tales of the Weird)

By: Michael Wheatley

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Many writers in the early twentieth century particularly were fascinated by Pan as a figure of unbr… read more

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24. The Angry Dead

By: Rosemary Pardoe

3.93

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

"All of the elements of literate, affectionate, and skilful pastiche are the country churches, the… read more

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Cover of Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth by Cathi Unsworth

25. Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth

By: Cathi Unsworth

3.96

Format: 543 pages, Kindle Edition

A Times Book of the YearA Mojo Book of the YearA Louder Than War Book of the YearA Waterstones Book… read more

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26. The Peacock Escritoire with At Dusk

By: Mark Valentine

4.46

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The Peacock Escritoire A stranger returns a silver coin; a dream museum releases its dreams; a dyi… read more

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27. And Midnight Never Come

By: Hugh Lamb

4.48

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

The diary with a nasty tale to tell. A burglary gone horribly wrong. The sinister woman at the wind… read more

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Cover of The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library by Darrell Schweitzer

28. The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library

By: Darrell Schweitzer

4.08

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Miskatonic University, in fabled Arkham Massachusetts, has long been described in the fiction of H.… read more

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Cover of War in Heaven by Charles  Williams

29. War in Heaven

By: Charles Williams

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more

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"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

Cover of Literary Hauntings: A Gazetteer of  Literary Ghost Stories by R.B. Russell

30. Literary Hauntings: A Gazetteer of Literary Ghost Stories

By: R.B. Russell

4.17

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Literary Hauntings identifies and describes the real-life locations that have inspired the best fic… read more

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Cover of Tarra Khash: Hrossak!: Tales of the Primal Land by Brian Lumley

31. Tarra Khash: Hrossak!: Tales of the Primal Land

By: Brian Lumley

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Classic Lovecraftian horror from one of the masters of the form, British Fantasy Award-winner Brian… read more

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  • horror

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Washington Irving

3.66

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3.62

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.78

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