Promethean Horrors: Classic Stories of Mad Science
By: Xavier Aldana Reyes
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From the imaginations of Gothic short-story writers such as Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, M…
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1. Collected Ghost Stories
By: M.R. James
4.14
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
M. R. James is widely regarded as the father of the modern ghost story, and his tales have influenc… read more
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- gothic
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"The door was opening again. The seer does not like to dwell upon what he saw entering the room: he says it might be described as a frog - the size of a man - but it had scanty white hair about its he…"-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
"Those that spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pa…"-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
"But it was in the life-saving competition that Stanley Judkins's conduct was most blameable and had the most far-reaching effects. The practice, as you know, was to throw a selected lower boy, of sui…"-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
2. Roadside Picnic
By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None
4.14
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more
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- science fiction
- classics
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"Keep your head high,"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
3. The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume Two
By: Allen Grove
4.00
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen more chilling tales of Yuletide terror, collected from rare Victorian periodicals Follow… read more
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- gothic
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4. Night of the Crabs
By: Guy N. Smith
3.33
Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Welsh coast basks in summer tranquility, then the drownings begin... Not until the monstrous cr… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
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5. Last and First Men
By: Olaf Stapledon
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No book before or since has ever had such an impact upon my imagination," declared Arthur C. Clark… read more
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- science fiction
- classics
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6. Meg (MEG, #1)
By: Steve Alten
3.97
Format: 570 pages, Paperback
Revised and Expanded. On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor fo… read more
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- science fiction
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7. Greybeard
By: Brian W. Aldiss
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The sombre story of a group of people in their fifties who face the fact that there is no younger g… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
8. The Ruins
By: Scott Smith
3.68
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything th… read more
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- fiction
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"The Greek pissed and pissed and pissed."-Scott Smith, The Ruins
9. The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
By: Stephen King , Haruki Murakami , Jeff VanderMeer , George R.R. Martin , William Gibson , Kelly Link , Neil Gaiman , Mervyn Peake , Franz Kafka , Ann VanderMeer , Michael Chabon , Bob Leman
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a co… read more
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- weird fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
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10. The Penultimate Truth
By: Philip K. Dick
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. … read more
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11. Grendel
By: John Gardner
4.03
Format: 606 pages,
The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tel… read more
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12. The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
By: Tara Moore
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century perio… read more
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13. The Day of the Triffids
By: John Wyndham
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffidsto moderate acclaim. Fifty-two year… read more
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14. The Fifth Head of Cerberus
By: Gene Wolfe
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Back in print for the first time in more than a decade, Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberusis a… read more
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15. Lost in a Pyramid: Other Classic Mummy Stories
By: Andrew Smith
3.26
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'As he rushed madly and wildly through the night, he could hear a swift, dry patter behind him, and… read more
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16. Dracula's Guest
By: Bram Stoker
4.36
Format: 39 pages,
A passage from the manuscript of Dracula. read more
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17. The Kraken Wakes
By: John Wyndham
3.76
Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fir… read more
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- science fiction
- classics
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- horror
"I don't care. I don't mind working hard when there's hope. It was having no more hope that was too much for me."-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
"Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling"-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
"I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get …"-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
"What is more, nobody has ever actually proved him wrong. His chief trouble was that he usually provided such large, indigestible slabs that they stuck in all gullets—even mine, and I would class myse…"-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
18. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
19. Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)
By: Dan Jones
3.92
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel… read more
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- fiction
"What matters is that you did not know the story. And the reason you did not...is that our ancestor William - through his deeds of arms, his force of personality and his vast conquests - had achieved …"-Dan Jones, Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)
20. There Is No Antimemetics Division
By: qntm
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, disc… read more
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- short stories
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"Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine, to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two…"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"We don't have an Antimemetics Division," Clay says. "Yes, you do. We do." O5-8 says, "We have a Memetics Division, a Telekontainment Division, Fire Services, Ops-A, Ops-B, Personnel, D-personnel and …"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
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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- gothic
- fiction
- horror
"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
22. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
By: Bridget Collins
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more
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- gothic
- anthologies
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- horror
23. The Luminous Dead
By: Caitlin Starling
3.66
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping… read more
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- fiction
- horror
24. The Whistling
By: Rebecca Netley
3.69
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
Alone in the world, Elspeth Swansome has taken the position of nanny to a family on the remote Scot… read more
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25. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
By: Ellis Peters
4.17
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more
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- fiction
"Love shared is no sin."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
26. Cunning Folk
By: Adam L.G. Nevill
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Money's tight and their new home is a fixer-upper. Deep in rural South West England, with an ancien… read more
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- gothic
- fiction
- horror
27. Family Business
By: Jonathan Sims
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Diya Burman’s best friend dies, her life falls apart. She loses everything. But then she ge… read more
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- fiction
- horror
28. Alien³: The Unproduced First-Draft Screenplay by William Gibson
By: Pat Cadigan
3.51
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The first-draft Alien screenplay by William Gibson, the founder of cyberpunk, turned into a novel b… read more
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- fiction
- horror
29. Ghosts From the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
By: Tony Medawar
3.39
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of t… read more
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- classics
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
30. The Starmer Project: A journey to the Right
By: Oliver Eagleton
3.98
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The Labour Party has virtually disappeared from view under the leadership of Keir Starmer. Hailed a… read more
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31. Promethean Horrors: Classic Stories of Mad Science
By: Xavier Aldana Reyes
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From the imaginations of Gothic short-story writers such as Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, M… read more
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- weird fiction
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
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