15 Best fantasy books like Weird Shadows over Innsmouth by Stephen Jones

Cover of Weird Shadows over Innsmouth by Stephen              Jones

Weird Shadows over Innsmouth

By: Stephen Jones

3.71

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Weird new terrors spawn in H.P. Lovecraft's sea-shadowed town. Written in 1931, H.P. Lovecraft's 'T…

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Cover of Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell, Ruth Sepp

1. Fever Dream

By: Samanta Schweblin , Megan McDowell , Ruth Sepp

3.72

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream… A young woman named Amanda lies dyin… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"There’s only so much searching you can do, either a horse is there or it’s not."

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

"I’m just tired, that’s what I tell myself, and sometimes I’m afraid when I think that everyday problems might be a little more terrible for me than for other people."

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

"But I’m going to die in a few hours. That’s going to happen, isn’t it? It’s strange how calm I am. Because even though you haven’t told me, I know. And still, it’s an impossible thing to tell yoursel…"

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

"My mother always said something bad would happen. My mother was sure that sooner or later something bad would happen and now I can see it with total clarity, I can feel it coming toward us like a tan…"

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

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2. Strange Wine

By: Harlan Ellison

4.14

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

From Harlan Ellison, whom The Washington Post regards as a "lyric poet, satirist, explorer of odd p… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"There are some people who just shouldn't be allowed to fool around with love."

-Harlan Ellison, Strange Wine

" He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere."

-Harlan Ellison, Strange Wine

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3. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

By: Laird Barron

3.98

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Lai… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"After years in the wilderness, he usually talked to himself."

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"Actually, coyotes are much scarier than wolves. Sneaky, sneaky little suckers. Eat you up. Lick the blood all up."

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"I hate puppets. Hate them. They descend from a demonic line parallel to mimes and clowns and are wholly of the devil, especially the lifelike variety."

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"I was accustomed to liars, bold-faced or wide-eyed, silver tongued or pleading, often with the barrel of my gun directed at them as they babbled their last prayers to an indifferent god, squirted the…"

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Cover of The Grip of It by Jac Jemc

4. The Grip of It

By: Jac Jemc

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

A chilling literary horror novel about a young couple who purchase and live in a haunted house. Jac… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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5. 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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  • fiction
  • horror

6. Alien: Out of the Shadows (Canonical Alien trilogy, #1)

By: Tim Lebbon

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

As a child, Chris Hooper dreamed of monsters. But in deep space, he found only darkness and isolati… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft

7. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of The Madness of Cthulhu Anthology (Volume Two) by S.T. Joshi

8. The Madness of Cthulhu Anthology (Volume Two)

By: S.T. Joshi

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE MADNESS GROWS Recognized as Lovecraft's masterpiece of terror, At the Mountains of Madnesshas f… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • cthulhu mythos
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9. The Doll House

By: Edward Lee

4.30

Format: None pages,

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  • horror

10. Bunnicula (Bunnicula, #1)

By: James Howe , Alan Daniel , Deborah Howe

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

BEWARE THE HARE! Is he or isn't he a vampire? Before it's too late, Harold the dog and Chester the … read more

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Cover of John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1) by David  Wong

11. John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

By: David Wong

3.88

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"When a man plans, a woman laughs."

-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

"John, let me make one thing clear,"

-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

"My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy"

-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

"No. We talked about this. I’m going home to eat a pie."

-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

12. Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories

By: Algernon Blackwood , S.T. Joshi

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Spine-tingling supernatural tales from "the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmospher… read more

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13. The Auctioneer

By: Ed Gorman , Joan Samson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Harrowing tensions explode in a series of events that could happen anywhere, to anyone, just as the… read more

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14. The Manitou (Manitou #1)

By: Graham Masterton

2.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

It only grows at night. Karen Tandy was a sweet and unassuming girl until she discovers the mysteri… read more

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15. The Children of Cthulhu: Chilling New Tales Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft

By: Caitlín R. Kiernan , Steve Rasnic Tem , China Miéville , Mark Chadbourn , Yvonne Navarro , Richard Laymon , Alan Dean Foster , Paul Finch , Brian Hodge , James Dorr , Weston Ochse , James Van Pelt , Matt Cardin , John Pelan , James Robert Smith , Poppy Z. Brite , Benjamin Adams , L.H. Maynard , None , None , None , W.H. Pugmire

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Descend to the depths of primal horror with this chilling collection of original stories drawn from… read more

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16. 999: Twenty-nine Original Tales of Horror and Suspense

By: Stephen King , Thomas F. Monteleone , Joyce Carol Oates , Neil Gaiman , Gene Wolfe , Thomas M. Disch , Chet Williamson , Kim Newman , Nancy A. Collins , Tim Powers , Al Sarrantonio , David Morrell , Ramsey Campbell , F. Paul Wilson , Ed Gorman , Joe R. Lansdale , Edward Lee , Thomas Ligotti , Michael Marshall Smith , Eric Van Lustbader , Steven G. Spruill , William Peter Blatty , Bentley Little , T.E.D. Klein , Edward Bryant , Dennis L. McKiernan , Peter Schneider , Rick Hautala , P.D. Cacek

3.00

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

A ward-winning writer and editor Al Sarrantonio gathers together twenty-nine original stories from … read more

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17. The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)

By: Susan Cooper

4.00

Format: 98 pages,

"When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back, three from the circle, three from the track; w… read more

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18. The Ceremonies

By: T.E.D. Klein

3.86

Format: None pages,

Jeremy Freirs is a graduate student and teacher who decides to spend his summer working on his diss… read more

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19. Agents of Dreamland

By: Caitlín R. Kiernan

3.35

Format: None pages, ebook

A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning… read more

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20. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Nothing But Blackened Teeth

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.66

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Every religion is a one-way relationship."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"The dead miss the sun. It's dark down there."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

Cover of Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman

22. Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

By: Neil Gaiman

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 0060515236 (ISBN13: 9780060515232). Fragile Things is … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Words can wound, and wounds can heal."

-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

"We save our lives in such unlikely ways."

-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."

-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

"I was not so old that I would deny my own senses."

-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

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23. The Death of Jane Lawrence

By: Caitlin Starling

3.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Goodbye, Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto

24. Goodbye, Eri

By: Tatsuki Fujimoto

4.34

Format: 202 pages, None

With his mother dying, Yuta attempts to capture her last days on his phone. After her death, Yuta h… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"It's missing a pinch of fantasy, don't you think?"

-Tatsuki Fujimoto, Goodbye, Eri

Cover of Girl Juice by Benji Nate

25. Girl Juice

By: Benji Nate

3.95

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A hilarious slice of twentysomething life in the twenty-first century Welcome to the Girl Juice … read more

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  • fiction
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26. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

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27. Dead Silence

By: S.A. Barnes

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."

-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

Cover of Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by David Zucker

28. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

By: David Zucker

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more

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29. Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

4.04

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

A god wages war—using all of humanity as its pawns—in the unforgettable conclusion to the Founders … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"It'll just go on. More fixes gone awry. The mad pride of men who think themselves engineers of all creation."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

"No. There are people in this world who learned the lessons I never did, the lessons that our son has learned all too late - that you are right. There is no magic fix. That a better world can only be …"

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

Cover of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, Volume 1 by Gou Tanabe

30. H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, Volume 1

By: Gou Tanabe

4.24

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

FROM THE ARTIST OF THE EISNER-NOMINATED H.P. LOVECRAFT'S THE HOUND AND OTHER STORIES! January 25… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Weird Shadows over Innsmouth by Stephen              Jones

31. Weird Shadows over Innsmouth

By: Stephen Jones

3.71

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Weird new terrors spawn in H.P. Lovecraft's sea-shadowed town. Written in 1931, H.P. Lovecraft's 'T… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • cthulhu mythos

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Samanta Schweblin , Megan McDowell , Ruth Sepp

3.72

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Harlan Ellison

4.14

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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

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3.98

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Craig DiLouie

3.53

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Leigh Bardugo

3.84

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