5 Top mystery books like The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood

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The Lost Valley and Other Stories

By: Algernon Blackwood

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Ten stories for a long, dark night. Ten stories that explore the psyche of Man, that plumb his dept…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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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

Similar categories in Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream book and Algernon Blackwood's The Lost Valley and Other Stories

  • mystery
  • 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. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense

By: Linda Landrigan

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

Con men and criminals, PIs and amateur sleuths, the mean streets of New York and San Francisco, Chi… read more

Similar categories in Linda Landrigan's Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense book and Algernon Blackwood's The Lost Valley and Other Stories

  • mystery
  • short stories
  • horror
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3. Experimental Film

By: Gemma Files

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Experimental Film is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois … read more

Similar categories in Gemma Files's Experimental Film book and Algernon Blackwood's The Lost Valley and Other Stories

  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • horror
"Because stories lie hidden inside other stories, and we always know more about any given thing than we think we do, even if the only thing we think we know is nothing."

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"You could argue—as I have more than enough times, as part of my Film History lecture—that, no matter its actual narrative content, every movie is a ghost story. A film's production forms a time capsu…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in s…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"We're storytelling creatures. Give us a bunch of seemingly random images and we will try to organize them into a linear progression: tree, apple, head, bruise, gravity . . . a man sat under a tree, a…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

4. The Machine Stops

By: E.M. Forster

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial… read more

Similar categories in E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops book and Algernon Blackwood's The Lost Valley and Other Stories

  • classics
  • fantasy
  • short stories

5. House of Small Shadows

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

4.30

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

Catherine's last job ended badly. Corporate bullying at a top television production company saw her… read more

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6. The Pale Blue Eye

By: Louis Bayard

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Timothycomes an ingenious tale of murder and revenge, f… read more

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7. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.37

Format: 414 pages,

Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits… read more

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8. Hell House

By: Richard Matheson

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Can any soul survive? Regarded as the Mount Everest of haunted houses, Belasco House has witnessed … read more

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9. Kingdom Cons

By: Yuri Herrera , Lisa Dillman

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

"Herrera is Mexico's greatest novelist." --Francisco Goldman "Herrera's novels are like little ligh… read more

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10. The Werewolf of Paris

By: Guy Endore

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

In a work that strives to do for werewolves what Stoker's Dracula did for vampires, Endore's werewo… read more

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11. 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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12. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

Similar categories in Benjamín Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World book and Algernon Blackwood's The Lost Valley and Other Stories

  • short stories
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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13. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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14. La masacre de Kruguer

By: Luciano Lamberti

3.79

Format: 208 pages, ebook

En el pequeño pueblo de montaña de Kruguer cada 26 de junio se realiza la Fiesta de la Nieve: ante … read more

Similar categories in Luciano Lamberti's La masacre de Kruguer book and Algernon Blackwood's The Lost Valley and Other Stories

  • horror
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15. Still Born

By: Guadalupe Nettel

4.13

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize! For readers of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, … read more

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"Thoughts are like clouds moving in the sky, you know? Before you know it, they change shape or they just aren't there anymore."

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child."

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

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16. Friday, Book One: The First Day of Christmas

By: Ed Brubaker

4.05

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Friday Fitzhugh spent her childhood solving crimes and digging up occult secrets with her best frie… read more

Similar categories in Ed Brubaker's Friday, Book One: The First Day of Christmas book and Algernon Blackwood's The Lost Valley and Other Stories

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • horror
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17. El Asilo y otros relatos de lo extraño

By: Robert Aickman

3.65

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Las autodenominadas «historias extrañas» de Robert Aickman son desconcertantemente únicas. Su prosa… read more

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18. Malasangre

By: Michelle Roche Rodríguez

3.17

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Venezuela, año 1921. Diana, la hija de catorce años de una familia de arribistas de Caracas, descub… read more

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19. The Lost Valley and Other Stories

By: Algernon Blackwood

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Ten stories for a long, dark night. Ten stories that explore the psyche of Man, that plumb his dept… read more

Similar categories in Algernon Blackwood's The Lost Valley and Other Stories book and Algernon Blackwood's The Lost Valley and Other Stories

  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
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20. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

Similar categories in Mariana Enríquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People book and Algernon Blackwood's The Lost Valley and Other Stories

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
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21. Caballería mutante

By: José A. Cantallops

3.50

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Aquí hay literatura fantástica cubana contemporánea. Si hay algún lugar donde Alejandro Magno, José… read more

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Gemma Files

3.56

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E.M. Forster

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4.05

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Samanta Schweblin , Megan McDowell , Ruth Sepp

3.72

Tengo Miedo Torero

Pedro Lemebel

4.00

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Mónica Ojeda

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