This Dreaming Isle
By: Dan Coxon
3.75
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Something strange is happening on British shores. Britain has a long history of folk tales, ghos…
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1. Stories of Your Life and Others
By: Ted Chiang
4.26
Format: 281 pages, ebook
What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
2. The Loney
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
"If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney - that strange nowhere be… read more
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- fiction
- horror
3. Devil's Day
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the Lancashire farm where he grew up to help gather the she… read more
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- fiction
- horror
4. Under Milk Wood
By: Dylan Thomas
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Woodis "ly… read more
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- fiction
5. Our Endless Numbered Days
By: Claire Fuller
3.68
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in … read more
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6. The Beauty
By: Aliya Whiteley
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Somewhere away from the cities and towns, a group of men and boys gather around the fire each night… read more
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7. The House on the Borderland
By: William Hope Hodgson
5.00
Format: 32 pages,
A manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the s… read more
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8. Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
By: Mervyn Peake
4.27
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
Starts with the birth and ends with the first birthday celebrations of the heir to the grand, tradi… read more
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9. Death and the Seaside
By: Alison Moore
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
With an abandoned degree behind her and a thirtieth birthday approaching, amateur writer Bonnie Fal… read more
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10. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
11. Ghost Wall
By: Sarah Moss
3.73
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie an… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"It was bright again, as if England had forgotten how to rain"-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"Lights blind you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"Haven't you been listening, people don't bother to hurt what they don't love. To sacrifice it."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"I knew better than to challenge him; even the word 'Negro' was already some concession to my ideas because he preferred to use a more offensive term and wait, chin raised, for a reaction."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
12. A Guest in the House
By: Emily Carroll
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
13. Salt Slow
By: Julia Armfield
3.99
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"She was a gentle sort of horror,"-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
14. Starve Acre
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
15. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
16. Black Mouth
By: Ronald Malfi
3.96
Format: 436 pages, Paperback
For nearly two decades, Jamie Warren has been running from darkness. He's haunted by a traumatic ch… read more
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- fiction
- horror
17. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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- fiction
18. The Fell
By: Sarah Moss
3.63
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. K… read more
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- fiction
"Life, then, to be lived, somehow."-Sarah Moss, The Fell
19. Bitter Orange
By: Claire Fuller
3.58
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico sees them—Cara fi… read more
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- fiction
20. Winterset Hollow
By: Jonathan Edward Durham
3.99
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to me… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"Winterset Hollow was one of those timeless, inimitable books that was simple and pure and patently entertaining on the surface, but so much more underneath. It spoke about life and loss and struggle,…"-Jonathan Edward Durham, Winterset Hollow
21. This Dreaming Isle
By: Dan Coxon
3.75
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Something strange is happening on British shores. Britain has a long history of folk tales, ghos… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Dan Coxon's This Dreaming Isle book and Dan Coxon's This Dreaming Isle
- weird fiction
- anthologies
- folklore
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- 21st century
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- ghost stories
