8 best-selling horror books like Writing Horror Fiction by Guy N. Smith

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Writing Horror Fiction

By: Guy N. Smith

3.30

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

This writer's guide looks at the development of horror fiction and explains how to write short stor…

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Cover of Providence Act 1 by Alan             Moore, Jacen Burrows

1. Providence Act 1

By: Alan Moore , Jacen Burrows

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Alan Moore’s quintessential horror series has set the standard for a terrifying examination of the … read more

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  • horror
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2. The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)

By: Shaun Bythell

3.72

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100… read more

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  • nonfiction
"the immersive capacity of a good novel to transport you into a different world is unique to the written word."

-Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)

"...people still cling to the notion that first editions are somehow imbued with a magical and financial value."

-Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)

"I am putting a mental jigsaw together of what a hobbit looks like, based on a composite of every customer I have ever sold a copy to."

-Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)

"A less than friendly email this morning... [from a booksop customer] After lunch I went to my parents' house to get my shotgun and shoot a kindle (broken screen, bought on eBay for £10)"

-Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)

Cover of Neonomicon by Alan             Moore, Antony Johnston, Jacen Burrows

3. Neonomicon

By: Alan Moore , Antony Johnston , Jacen Burrows

3.46

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Misteriosos assassinatos atraem a atenção do FBI e, durante a investigação, revelações indicam coin… read more

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  • horror
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4. Providence Act 2

By: Alan Moore , Jacen Burrows

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Hardcover

The second arc of Providence is unveiled in this special hardcover-only edition. Robert Black came … read more

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  • horror

5. Girl Meets Boy

By: Ali Smith

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new s… read more

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6. The Fog

By: James Herbert

2.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

A peaceful village in Wiltshire is shattered by a disaster which strikes without reason or explanat… read more

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7. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

By: Tim Burton

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burtonhas … read more

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8. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

By: Stephen King

3.96

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

On Writing begins with King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. K… read more

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9. Providence Act 3

By: Alan Moore , Jacen Burrows

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is the final soul-crushing arc of Providence, and nothing will be the same! Alan Moore's quint… read more

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10. The Face That Must Die

By: J.K. Potter , Ramsey Campbell , Poppy Z. Brite

3.74

Format: 646 pages, Paperback

Ramsey Campbell's daring look into the mind of a psychotic killer was published in truncated form i… read more

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11. The Only Harmless Great Thing

By: Brooke Bolander

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

In the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey slo… read more

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12. Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection

By: Junji Ito

4.23

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

FRESH NIGHTMARES BROUGHT TO YOU BY HORROR MASTER JUNJI ITO. Countless tombstones stand in rows, … read more

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  • horror
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13. Mooncakes

By: Suzanne Walker

3.83

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft. Nova Huang knows more about magic than your a… read more

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14. No Longer Human

By: Junji Ito

4.28

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a… read more

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  • horror
"The more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them."

-Junji Ito, No Longer Human

"I drew with extremely excessively depressed emotions, deliberately penning each line, only to earn money for drink."

-Junji Ito, No Longer Human

"Los cobardes temen hasta la felicidad. Pueden herirse incluso con el algodón. A veces, hasta la felicidad les hiere."

-Junji Ito, No Longer Human

"Los débiles temen la felicidad misma. Pueden hacerse daño en el algodón. A veces son heridos incluso por la felicidad"

-Junji Ito, No Longer Human

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15. Homie

By: Danez Smith

4.42

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more

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  • nonfiction
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"

-Danez Smith, Homie

"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"

-Danez Smith, Homie

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16. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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17. Property

By: Valerie Martin

3.69

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

Valerie Martin’s Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery’s venomous effects on… read more

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"Everyone else felt the need to assure me that Mother's death was part of God's plan. Exactly, I wanted to shout after reading this sentiment half a dozen times--- his plan is to kill us all, and if a…"

-Valerie Martin, Property

Cover of Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell

18. Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

By: Shaun Bythell

3.48

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A cantankerously funny view of books and the people who love them. It does take all kinds and throu… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It should go without saying that anyone who introduces themselves as 'a bit weird' is almost certainly not."

-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

"This group derives an alternate sort of gratification from the fact that their niche obsession somehow differentiates them from other people, mistakenly assuming that it makes them more interesting."

-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

"It's not as though there is anything wrong with being American, although perhaps in a land of immigrants the only way to differentiate yourself is to cling onto a piece of the land you left, even if …"

-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

Cover of Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome by Garth Marenghi

19. Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

By: Garth Marenghi

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dar… read more

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  • horror
"Good job I loaded this with silver bullets from that box of silver bullets that was sitting on that table labelled “Silver Bullets"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"She may well have whispered, ‘I’ll miss you,’ once I’d gone, but I couldn’t hear that from where I was, and as this is first-person narration and therefore not omniscient, we just won’t know."

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"Thanks for the warning about leaving the car door open, by the way,’ Capello said, his manner towards Nick softening. ‘You know it makes sense, amigo. I guess we’re both learning something out here.’…"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"Roz, I need you to do this,’ I said, although I didn’t, in actual fact – that’s just a lazy phrase which helps steer a lost narrative back on course when readers are giving up in droves, and is, iron…"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

Cover of Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard  Chizmar

20. Chasing the Boogeyman

By: Richard Chizmar

3.95

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Gwendy’s Button Box brings his signature prose to this s… read more

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21. Writing Horror Fiction

By: Guy N. Smith

3.30

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

This writer's guide looks at the development of horror fiction and explains how to write short stor… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21 best-selling fiction books like Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar

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Gwendy's Button Box (The Button Box, #1)

Stephen King , Richard Chizmar

3.92

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Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

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Craig DiLouie

3.53

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4.32

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