Smoke Ghost
By: Fritz Leiber
3.69
Format: 9 pages, None
When a man keeps on seeing a smoke ghost, he questions his own sanity.
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1. The Sleepless
By: Nuzo Onoh
4.02
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
An innocent boy is lured to his death by the one person that should have protected him. Someone kno… read more
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- horror
2. Heart-Shaped Box
By: Joe Hill
3.84
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An aging death-metal rock god, Judas Coyne, is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals… read more
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- horror
- ghosts
"The dead pull the living down."-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box
"All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together."-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box
"You're a sympathetic sonofabitch, you know that?". "You want sympathy, go fuck James Taylor."-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box
"Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst."-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box
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4. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
By: James Ellroy
4.26
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more
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- short stories
- horror
6. The Willows
By: Algernon Blackwood
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood person… read more
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8. Young Goodman Brown
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Hawthorne's classic tale of a young Puritan's meeting with the Devil. read more
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9. The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
By: Joe Haldeman
4.14
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce ali… read more
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"Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket."-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
"I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch"-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
"Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop."-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
10. The Fall of the House of Usher
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.87
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more
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- horror
"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
11. White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
By: James Ellroy
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant D… read more
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12. El Aleph
By: Jorge Luis Borges
4.29
Format: 16 pages, ebook
Cuento "El Aleph", de Jorge Luis Borges, originalmente publicado en el libro El Aleph, en 1949. read more
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"La segunda, que un famoso poeta es menos inventor que descubridor."-Jorge Luis Borges, El Aleph
"Dilatar la vida de los hombres era dilatar su agonía y multiplicar el numero de sus muertes."-Jorge Luis Borges, El Aleph
"Un hombre se confunde, gradualmente, con la forma de su destino; un hombre es, a la larga, sus circunstancias."-Jorge Luis Borges, El Aleph
"I am not certain whether I ever believed in the City of the Immortals; I think the task of finding it was enough for me."-Jorge Luis Borges, El Aleph
13. American Tabloid (Underworld USA, #1)
By: James Ellroy
3.37
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassina… read more
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14. The Cipher
By: Kathe Koja
3.54
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blo… read more
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16. The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
By: James Ellroy
4.10
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Holl… read more
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17. The Call of Cthulhu
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more
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18. The Tower of the Elephant (Conan, #3) (Weird Tales)
By: Robert E. Howard
3.37
Format: 204 pages,
"The Tower of the Elephant" is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and s… read more
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19. The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5)
By: Jeff VanderMeer
4.15
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
The Strange Bird—from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer—is a digital original tha… read more
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- horror
"Everything added to her and everything taken away had led to that moment and from her perch she had radiated love for every animal she could not help, with nothing left over for any human being."-Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5)
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21. L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
By: James Ellroy
3.66
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals. Six prisoner… read more
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22. It's a Good Life
By: Jerome Bixby
4.09
Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio
What is more idyllic than a small Midwestern agricultural town? Peaksville would sound like a scene… read more
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23. Evening Primrose
By: John Collier
3.62
Format: 14 pages, Kindle Edition
A writer decides to encamp in a local department store to save on room and board, but mainly to fin… read more
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24. The Mysteries of the Joy Rio
By: Tennessee Williams
3.44
Format: None pages, None
"Sometimes you will find it and other times you won’t find it and the times you don’t find it are t… read more
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"Clocks and watches he ficed with marvelous delicacy and precision, but he paid no attention to them; he had grown as obliviously accustomed to their many small noises as someone grows to the sound of…"-Tennessee Williams, The Mysteries of the Joy Rio
"A single watch or clock can be a powerful influence on a man, but when a man lives among as many watches and clocks as crowded the tiny, dim shop of Mr Gonzales, some lagging behind, some skipping ah…"-Tennessee Williams, The Mysteries of the Joy Rio
25. Míster Taylor
By: Augusto Monterroso
3.55
Format: 6 pages, ebook
-Menos rara, aunque sin duda más ejemplar -dijo entonces el otro-, es la historia de Mr. Percy Tayl… read more
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26. Same time, same place
By: Mervyn Peake
3.47
Format: None pages, None
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29. The Daemon Lover
By: Shirley Jackson
3.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A short story about a woman searching for her fiancé. read more
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30. Smoke Ghost
By: Fritz Leiber
3.69
Format: 9 pages, None
When a man keeps on seeing a smoke ghost, he questions his own sanity. read more
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