13 must-read anthologies books like Diabolica Americana by Keith Anthony Baird

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Diabolica Americana

By: Keith Anthony Baird

4.00

Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition

Diabolica Americana is a charity horror anthology featuring 22 authors with a foreword by Eric LaRo…

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1. FantasticLand

By: Mike Bockoven

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where “Fun is Guaranteed!” But when a hurric… read more

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  • horror
"One more thing. I...I kind of hate people. Seriously, I've thought about how to phrase this and the best thing I can say isn't, "I'm not a people person," or something like that. It's that I hate peo…"

-Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

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2. The Hunger

By: Alma Katsu

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The Hunger is a tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical mome… read more

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  • horror

3. Meddling Kids

By: Edgar Cantero

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

1990. The teen detectives once known as the Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small … read more

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4. This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)

By: David Wong

4.26

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Originally released as an online serial where itreceivedmore than 70,000 downloads,John Dies at the… read more

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  • horror
"Damn it! I knew she was a monster! John! Amy! Listen! Guard your buttholes."

-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)

"When they write the sequel to the Bible, that shit is definitely gonna be in there."

-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)

"Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back."

-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)

"Your 'let's remain calm and stay put' speech would be a lot more convincing if you weren't giving it in front of a pile of burning skeletons."

-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)

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5. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

By: Imani Perry

3.97

Format: 410 pages, Hardcover

An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more

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"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

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6. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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7. Mister Magic

By: Kiersten White

3.59

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and di… read more

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"Magic never forgets the taste of your friendship."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"This version of him isn't perfect. None of them are. New isn't the same as perfect. Growing up isn't inherently loss, it's just change."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"I think you've told me thank you more in the last day than anyone else has in years. It's like--when there's a stack of dishes, if my husband actually does them , I tell him thank you. But when I do …"

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

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8. Clown in a Cornfield (Clown in a Cornfield, #1)

By: Adam Cesare

3.74

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Quinn Maybrook just wants to make it until graduation. She might not make it to morning. Quinn a… read more

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  • horror
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9. The Spite House

By: Johnny Compton

3.53

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife,… read more

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  • horror
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10. Lone Women

By: Victor LaValle

3.72

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more

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  • horror
"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

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11. Come with Me

By: Ronald Malfi

3.94

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

A masterful, heart-palpitating novel of small-town horror and psychological dread from a Bram Stoke… read more

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  • horror
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12. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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13. The Devil Takes You Home

By: Gabino Iglesias

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father despera… read more

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  • horror
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14. The Laws of the Skies

By: Grégoire Courtois

3.39

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None o… read more

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  • horror
"because it was him and him alone she didn't want to disappoint."

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"Was there nothing left in this world that was worth opening your eyes and fighting for?"

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"Even he who deserves to die, who deserves to be killed, doesn't deserve to be killed like that."

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"But she was in love, head over heels in love the way you are at age six, without knowing that this love would be as fleeting as it was powerful, and as powerful as it was secret, and misunderstood, a…"

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

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15. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

By: Joe Vallese

4.18

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"

-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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16. Wild Spaces

By: S.L. Coney

3.51

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life meets H. P. Lovecraft in Wild Spaces, a foreboding, sensual coming-… read more

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  • horror
"As funny as he thinks a fish would look, he wonders how the sea felt when her inhabitants started walking away. He wonders if maybe that’s why she keeps eating away at the land, trying to take back w…"

-S.L. Coney, Wild Spaces

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17. On the Savage Side

By: Tiffany McDaniel

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Six women--mothers, daughters, sisters--gone missing. When the first is found floating dead in the … read more

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  • horror
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18. The Haunting of Alejandra

By: V. Castro

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her fam… read more

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  • horror
"It occurred to Frances that perhaps everyone wore another set of clothing beneath their human skin, stitched together with all the things they hated about themselves and tried to hide."

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

"There are many times in life we feel there are no choices. Sometimes that is true. But I feel perhaps the true answers to the choices we must make find our way to us. Sometimes it is right away and a…"

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

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19. Anybody Home?

By: Michael J. Seidlinger

3.17

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

What came first, the home or the desire to invade? A seasoned invader with multiple home invasi… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology by Richard  Wells

20. Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

By: Richard Wells

3.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Damnable Tales is an illustrated collection of classic short stories drawing upon the haunted lands… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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21. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Slice of Paradise: A Beach Vacation Horror Anthology by Ben Long

22. Slice of Paradise: A Beach Vacation Horror Anthology

By: Ben Long

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An unknown danger lurks beneath the sand at a secluded beach. A couple encounters a deadly creature… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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23. Alien Horrors

By: Tim Curran

4.20

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

In the deepest, darkest depths of space, the stars are cold, malevolent eyes looking across a vast … read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of Graveyard Smash : Women of Horror Anthology, Volume 2 by Jill Girardi

24. Graveyard Smash : Women of Horror Anthology, Volume 2

By: Jill Girardi

4.18

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Step through the prettiest cemetery gates you've ever seen and experience tombstone raves and widow… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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25. What One Wouldn't Do: An Anthology on the Lengths One Might Go To

By: Scott J. Moses

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

What One Wouldn't Do for...What? Power? Safety? Love? Revenge? Here's to the lengths one migh… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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26. Diabolica Americana

By: Keith Anthony Baird

4.00

Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition

Diabolica Americana is a charity horror anthology featuring 22 authors with a foreword by Eric LaRo… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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27. Dark Lines

By: Jack Harding

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of Ripper Country comes sixteen tales of psychological horror, each more frightenin… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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28. Under Her Black Wings : 2020 Women of Horror Anthology

By: Jill Girardi

4.05

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

- A glamorous actress whose very flesh is reanimated by a beloved Hollywood icon - A Boy Scout Tro… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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29. Twisted: Tainted Tales

By: Janine Pipe

3.84

Format: None pages, ebook

An abandoned house. A locked desk drawer full of old papers. And an 80’s mix tape? Jill is tasked w… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of Non-Practicing Cultist by Scott J. Moses

30. Non-Practicing Cultist

By: Scott J. Moses

4.07

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

Early 1970s. A Vietnam veteran systematically dismantles the murderous cult he was forced to joi… read more

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  • horror
Cover of The One That Got Away : Women of Horror Anthology Volume 3 by Jill Girardi

31. The One That Got Away : Women of Horror Anthology Volume 3

By: Jill Girardi

4.32

Format: 382 pages, Paperback

What doesn't kill me, might make me kill you! 30 women authors from around the world were challe… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror

13 Top short stories books like Diabolica Americana by Keith Anthony Baird

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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

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Out There Screaming

Jordan Peele

3.79

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It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Joe Vallese

4.18

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Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

Richard Wells

3.90

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Devil's Day

Andrew Michael Hurley

3.25

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They Lurk

Ronald Malfi

3.79

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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

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Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

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