9 must-read short stories books like The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler and Other Strange Stories by Reggie Oliver

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The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler and Other Strange Stories

By: Reggie Oliver

4.35

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

'The Complete Symphonies Of Adolf Hitler' 'Lapland Nights' 'The Garden Of Strangers' 'Among T…

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1. The Sleepwalkers (The Sleepwalkers, #1-3)

By: Hermann Broch , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir

4.09

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great inno… read more

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"En el techo de la alcoba había una mancha que parecía una mariposa negra, pero era simplemente suciedad."

-Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers (The Sleepwalkers, #1-3)

"Young man, until you know that all names are false you know nothing; not even the clothes on your body are what they seem to be."

-Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers (The Sleepwalkers, #1-3)

"Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A simple metaphor can give birth to love."

-Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers (The Sleepwalkers, #1-3)

"ESCH (sumido en sus pensamientos): En sueños, la verdad camina siempre con muletas... (Da un golpe sobre la mesa.) El mundo entero camina con muletas... Un aborto que cojea."

-Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers (The Sleepwalkers, #1-3)

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2. A Crown of Lights (Merrily Watkins, #3)

By: Phil Rickman

4.15

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

When a derelict country church is bought by a pagan couple, the local evangelical minister reacts w… read more

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  • horror
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3. 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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  • short stories
  • horror
"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

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4. High-Rise

By: J.G. Ballard

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more

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  • horror
"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

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5. The White Hands and Other Weird Tales

By: Mark Samuels

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

This is the first collection of strange stories by contemporary writer Mark Samuels. The themes tha… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • horror
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6. Breakfast of Champions

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Breakfast of Champions,one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore … read more

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7. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" (TheWashington Pos… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • horror
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8. All the Way

By: Charles Williams , Charles Williams

3.98

Format: 269 pages,

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9. Glory

By: Vladimir Nabokov , Dmitri Nabokov

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Gloryis the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian emigre of no acco… read more

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10. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • short stories
  • horror
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11. Nine Ghosts

By: R.H. Malden

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • short stories
  • horror
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12. The Stars My Destination

By: Neil Gaiman , Alfred Bester

4.06

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand… read more

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"Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

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13. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • horror
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

14. Lovecraft Unbound

By: Caitlín R. Kiernan , Joyce Carol Oates , Gemma Files , Joel Lane , Michael Chabon , Brian Evenson , Michael Shea , Nick Mamatas , Simon Kurt Unsworth , Lavie Tidhar , Ellen Datlow , Richard Bowes , Marc Laidlaw , Laird Barron , William Browning Spencer , Elizabeth Bear , Amanda Downum , Sarah Monette , Nathan Ballingrud , Holly Phillips , Michael Cisco , Dale Bailey , Anna Tambour

3.80

Format: 8 pages,

The stories are legendary, the characters unforgettable, the world horrible and disturbing. Howard … read more

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15. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more

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16. As I Lay Dying

By: William Faulkner

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more

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"vomiting the crying"

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"But peace is my heart: I know it is."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

17. The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales

By: Mark Samuels

4.36

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Cryptic and potent languages, bizarre cults, mysteries that span the gulf between life and death, o… read more

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18. Ghost Story

By: Peter Straub

4.09

Format: 372 pages,

In life, not every sin goes unpunished. GHOST STORY For four aging men in the terror-stricken town … read more

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19. A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

By: Vernor Vinge

4.14

Format: 613 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that … read more

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"We're endangered by our own success."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

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20. The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

By: H.P. Lovecraft , August Derleth

3.95

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

WARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF UTMOST TERROR When you open this book you wil… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • horror
"Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told o…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

"And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of sheer darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

21. The Eye

By: Vladimir Nabokov , Dmitri Nabokov

3.79

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Nabokov's fourth novel, The Eyeis as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refracti… read more

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22. A Haunting on the Hill

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.35

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more

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  • horror
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23. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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24. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

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  • horror
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25. The Book of Love

By: Kelly Link

3.50

Format: 628 pages, Hardcover

The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attu… read more

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26. When Things Get Dark

By: Ellen Datlow

3.90

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary editor, Ellen Datlow, collects today’s best horror writers in tribute to the genius of Sh… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Soul searching pairs seductively with large quantities of liquor."

-Ellen Datlow, When Things Get Dark

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27. Spectral Evidence

By: Gemma Files

3.81

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

For almost thirty years, Shirley Jackson Award-winning horror author Gemma Files has consistently s… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • horror
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28. Utopia Avenue

By: David Mitchell

4.00

Format: 574 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone C… read more

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"I is an Empire of I's."

-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

"Self-pity can lift one's mood."

-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

"America loves exclamation marks."

-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

"Crows tumble like socks in a drier."

-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

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29. Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet

By: Matthew T. Huber

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Why the struggle against climate change is a class struggle The climate crisis is not primarily … read more

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"Why do we not focus on the activities associated with production and investment when considering the individual's carbon footprint? I argue that it is because what Marx called the "hidden abode of pr…"

-Matthew T. Huber, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet

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30. Witch-Cult Abbey

By: Mark Samuels

4.15

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

During the height of the London Blitz, book-cataloguer Saul Prior is offered work in the recondite … read more

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  • weird fiction
  • horror
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31. The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler and Other Strange Stories

By: Reggie Oliver

4.35

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

'The Complete Symphonies Of Adolf Hitler' 'Lapland Nights' 'The Garden Of Strangers' 'Among T… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • english literature
  • short stories
  • horror
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15 best-selling horror books like The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler and Other Strange Stories by Reggie Oliver

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A Crown of Lights (Merrily Watkins, #3)

Phil Rickman

4.15

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Collected Ghost Stories

M.R. James

4.14

Transform Your Habits

High-Rise

J.G. Ballard

3.61

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The White Hands and Other Weird Tales

Mark Samuels

4.35

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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

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Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

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