23 Best horror books like We are Happy, We are Doomed by Kurt Fawver

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We are Happy, We are Doomed

By: Kurt Fawver

4.48

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

We are Happy, We are Doomed collects fifteen stories of the strange and the terrifying and weaves t…

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1. The Secret of Ventriloquism

By: Jon Padgett

3.90

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Jon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism, named the Best Fiction Book of 2016 by Rue Morgue Magazi… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"I was seven years old the first time my brother tried to kill me."

-Jon Padgett, The Secret of Ventriloquism

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2. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Format: 957 pages, Paperback

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more

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"...every social class has its own pathology..."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

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3. Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales

By: Jordan Krall , Christopher Slatsky

3.41

Format: None pages,

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  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Cathedral of Mist by Edward Gauvin, Paul Willems, Bette Burgoyne

4. The Cathedral of Mist

By: Edward Gauvin , Paul Willems , Bette Burgoyne

4.12

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

First published in French in 1983, The Cathedral of Mist is a collection of stories from the last o… read more

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  • short stories
"Miracles belong only to the moment, and live on only in memory."

-Edward Gauvin, The Cathedral of Mist

"For the palace was but emptiness, a hole in a labyrinth of lines, a skyward precipice."

-Edward Gauvin, The Cathedral of Mist

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5. 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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  • short stories
  • horror
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6. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • short stories
  • horror
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7. Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories

By: Robert Aickman

4.40

Format: 436 pages,

Cold Hand in Minewas first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story Pages from … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1) by Marcel Proust, Simon Vance, Lydia Davis

8. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

9. In a Lonely Place

By: Karl Edward Wagner

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: xi * Introduction * Peter Straub * in 1 * Prologue to In the Pines ["Lonely Places"] * vi… read more

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10. My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

By: Thomas Ligotti , None

3.87

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

When junior manager Frank Dominio is suddenly demoted and then sacked it seems there was more than … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew."

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

"Generally speaking: Expect nothing but nightmarish obscenities to be born when human heads come together in intercourse."

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

"Every milestone in the history of the company, even when forecast with heaps of hoopla, was ultimately played out according to some secret timeline of geologic tedium, so that it was drained of all i…"

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

"It all seemed so enticing, but like every other attraction along the world’s midway the greatest part of its appeal lay in those moments of anticipation. And after it was all over, the particular att…"

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

11. The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.00

Format: 18 pages,

The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBoo… read more

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12. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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13. You've Lost a Lot of Blood

By: Eric LaRocca

3.26

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

A disturbing new vision of terror from the author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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14. Beneath a Pale Sky

By: Philip Fracassi

4.19

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Beneath a Pale Sky collects eight stories of horror, including two original novelettes, that will t… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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15. Black Tide

By: K.C. Jones

3.59

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

A story with a cinematic feel, Black Tide is Cujo meets A Quiet Place. It was just another day a… read more

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  • horror
"We're alive. And we have hope. I say, no matter what, we're heading in the right direction."

-K.C. Jones, Black Tide

"Stories explained the unknowable before the advent of science. What happens when science is left shrugging its shoulders?"

-K.C. Jones, Black Tide

"I'm a liar, but I'm telling you the truth about this: I want to stay on the road. I want to go as far as these wheels and gears can take me."

-K.C. Jones, Black Tide

"My dad always used to say it's important that people never stop appreciating sunsets. As long as we can still be stopped in our tracks and remember what a big deal it is that we're even here, there's…"

-K.C. Jones, Black Tide

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16. In That Endlessness, Our End

By: Gemma Files

4.03

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection COME C… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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17. Killer, Come Back To Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury

By: Ray Bradbury

3.95

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centenary, this collection commemorates his finest crime stories – tales… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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18. The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales

By: Attila Veres

4.17

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Every so often a new horror writer bursts onto the scene with a book that is so dazzlingly original… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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19. 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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20. The World Below

By: David Peak

3.98

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Witches, LSD psychosis, and the slippery nature of truth. The World Below is about the limitless ho… read more

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  • horror
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21. The Inconsolables

By: Michael Wehunt

4.24

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

In his first collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt introduced the world to his singular voic… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Well, my wife and child have moved out," Fulton told him, "and I've gotten back into vampires to fill the hole they left behind."

-Michael Wehunt, The Inconsolables

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22. Different Faces

By: Rory Say

4.54

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Single author mini-collection containing 5 short stories read more

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23. The Dead Hours of Night

By: Lisa Tuttle

4.12

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

In a career spanning almost 50 years, Lisa Tuttle has proven herself a master of the weird tale, an… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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24. We are Happy, We are Doomed

By: Kurt Fawver

4.48

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

We are Happy, We are Doomed collects fifteen stories of the strange and the terrifying and weaves t… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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25. Blood from the Air

By: Gemma Files

4.08

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

Angels and insects, holes in the known world's fabric and what comes out of them, the love of death… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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26. Unquiet Grove

By: Mark Beech

4.58

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

UNQUIET GROVE is Egaeus Press's latest collection of strange, dark and uncategorisable stories dedi… read more

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27. Michigan Basement

By: Thomas Ligotti

3.59

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

As a child, Jeffrey could see nachtwachers, or night watchers, moving in the corners of his bedroom… read more

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  • horror
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28. Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into th… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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29. Noctuary & the Spectral Link

By: Thomas Ligotti

4.45

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Chiroptera Press presents Noctuary & The Spectral Link by the legendary Thomas Ligotti, a consolida… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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30. The Obsecration

By: Matthew M. Bartlett

4.25

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Leeds, Massachusetts. The patrons of the Look Diner await their meals, drawn by something greater t… read more

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  • horror
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31. Only the Living Are Lost

By: Simon Strantzas

3.78

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Canadian writer Simon Strantzas has long been recognized as one of the most dynamic voices in conte… read more

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  • short stories

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