7 must-read games books like Dead Light & Other Dark Turns by Mike Mason

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Dead Light & Other Dark Turns

By: Mike Mason

4.09

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

You take on the role of Dr. L. C. Nadelmann, an anthropologist from the renowned Miskatonic Univers…

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Cover of Call of Cthulhu: Keeper Rulebook by Sandy Petersen

1. Call of Cthulhu: Keeper Rulebook

By: Sandy Petersen

4.60

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Call of Cthulhu is a tabletop roleplaying game based upon the worlds of H. P. Lovecraft. It is a ga… read more

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  • role playing games
  • games
  • horror
Cover of Call of Cthulhu: Horror Roleplaying (Call of Cthulhu RPG) by Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis

2. Call of Cthulhu: Horror Roleplaying (Call of Cthulhu RPG)

By: Sandy Petersen , Lynn Willis

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

CALL OF CTHULHU is Chaosium's classic roleplaying game of Lovecraftian horror in which ordinary peo… read more

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  • role playing games
  • games
  • horror
Cover of Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3) by James S.A. Corey

3. Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.27

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

Abaddon's Gate is the third book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. For generati… read more

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"Partners,"

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

"Trashy people puke,"

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

"Tell me everything it explains,"

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

"No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito."

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

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4. The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

By: Iain M. Banks

4.28

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of … read more

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"Escape is a commodity like anything else"

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"Escape is a commodity like anything else."

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh."

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"The ship told you a guilty system recognises no innocents. I’d say it does. It recognises the innocence of a young child, for example, and you saw how they treated that. In a sense it even recognises…"

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

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5. Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)

By: Matt Ruff

4.02

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and i… read more

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  • horror
"Then he heard it. Out in the Wood, straight ahead and much closer than before: The beast."

-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)

"I’m sick of belonging to an Order that wants to change the world but can’t even change itself. I’m tired of the bullshit."

-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)

"Atticus tried not to care, telling himself paperbacks were meant to be abused, but it was hard, like watching friends get knocked around."

-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)

"The tea and the cookie were remarkably bland - flavourless, to be honest - but when swallowed, they produced a mild intoxication, a torpor of reason that allowed him to embrace a parley with a dead m…"

-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)

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6. The Hellbound Heart

By: Clive Barker

4.07

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. … read more

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  • horror
"She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas"

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

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7. The Children of Húrin

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Alan Lee

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

The Children of Hurin is the first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The… read more

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8. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • horror

9. Doors to Darkness: Five Scenarios for Beginning Keepers

By: Glynn Owen Barrass , Brian M. Sammons , Kevin Ross , Tom Lynch , Brian Courtemanche , Christopher Smith Adair

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

read more

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  • role playing games
  • games
  • horror
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10. At the Mountains of Madness

By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Time of the Twins (Dragonlance: Legends, #1) by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

11. Time of the Twins (Dragonlance: Legends, #1)

By: Margaret Weis , Tracy Hickman

4.17

Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times–bestselling series: The War of the Lance has ended, and the darkness has passed. Or… read more

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12. Streams of Silver (Forgotten Realms: Icewind Dale, #2; Legend of Drizzt, #5)

By: R.A. Salvatore

3.37

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

"Yer eyes'll shine when ye see the rivers runnin' silver in Mithril Hall!" Bruenor the dwarf, Wulfg… read more

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13. The Crystal Shard (Forgotten Realms: Icewind Dale, #1; Legend of Drizzt, #4)

By: R.A. Salvatore

3.37

Format: 297 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Akar Kessel, weak-willed apprentice mage, starts events that find a magical device, the crystal sha… read more

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14. The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.00

Format: 18 pages,

The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBoo… read more

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15. 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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16. House of M

By: Brian Michael Bendis , Scott Hanna , Tim Townsend , None , Chris Eliopoulos , Olivier Coipel , Rick Magyar , John Dell , Frank D'Armata , None , None , None

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Marvel event of the decade is here! The Avengers and the X-Men are faced with a common foe that… read more

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17. The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.33

Format: 75 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In The Light Fantasticonly one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortuna… read more

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18. 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 Vaesen: Nordic Horror Roleplaying by Nils Hintze

19. Vaesen: Nordic Horror Roleplaying

By: Nils Hintze

4.45

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying is based on the work of Swedish illustrator and author Johan Ege… read more

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  • role playing games
  • games
  • horror
Cover of Pulp Cthulhu (Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying) by Mike  Mason

20. Pulp Cthulhu (Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying)

By: Mike Mason

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Pulp Cthulhu is a game of two-fisted adventure, weird science, dark deeds, and brave heroes. With t… read more

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  • games
  • horror
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21. Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

By: F. Wesley Schneider

3.98

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Legendary War Has Begun The Dragon Queen Takhisis—known as Tiamat on other worlds—was banished… read more

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  • role playing games
  • games
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22. Dead Light & Other Dark Turns

By: Mike Mason

4.09

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

You take on the role of Dr. L. C. Nadelmann, an anthropologist from the renowned Miskatonic Univers… read more

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  • role playing games
  • games
  • horror
Cover of Alien, Vol. 2: Descendant by Declan Shalvey

23. Alien, Vol. 2: Descendant

By: Declan Shalvey

3.25

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Everyone will hear you scream! In deep space spins a world infected by the universe’s greatest k… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Gateways to Terror: Three Evenings of Nightmare by Leigh Carr

24. Gateways to Terror: Three Evenings of Nightmare

By: Leigh Carr

3.96

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

THREE PORTALS INTO NIGHTMARE The Necropolis What ancient horrors lie slumbering in a newly discov… read more

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  • role playing games
  • horror
Cover of Mansions of Madness – Vol. 1: Behind Closed Doors by Stuart Boon

25. Mansions of Madness – Vol. 1: Behind Closed Doors

By: Stuart Boon

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Mansions of Madness Vol. 1 contains five scenarios for use with the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set or … read more

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  • role playing games
  • horror
Cover of Terror Australis: Call of Cthulhu in the Land Down Under by Mike  Mason

26. Terror Australis: Call of Cthulhu in the Land Down Under

By: Mike Mason

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Nearly three-quarters of Australia remains unknown in the 1920s. It is one of the last great wilder… read more

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  • role playing games
  • horror
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27. Alone Against the Frost

By: Glenn Rahman

3.54

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Alone Against the Frost is a solo horror adventure for one player, set during a research expedition… read more

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  • role playing games
  • horror
Cover of The Asylum and Other Tales (Call of Cthulhu RPG) by Sandy Petersen

28. The Asylum and Other Tales (Call of Cthulhu RPG)

By: Sandy Petersen

3.42

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Seven Sinister Situations In every Call of Cthulhu campaign certain situations arise regularly. … read more

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  • role playing games
  • horror
Cover of The Lightless Beacon by Leigh Carr

29. The Lightless Beacon

By: Leigh Carr

3.69

Format: 43 pages, ebook

To mark the first anniversary of the passing of Chaosium founder Greg Stafford, the publisher encou… read more

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  • role playing games
  • horror
Cover of Fragments of Fear: The Second Cthulhu Companion (Call of Cthulhu RPG) by Sandy Petersen

30. Fragments of Fear: The Second Cthulhu Companion (Call of Cthulhu RPG)

By: Sandy Petersen

3.36

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Sections: Call of Cthulhu Questions, Ritual Curses, Mythos Comparative Sizes, On the Ubiquity of Ct… read more

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  • role playing games
  • horror
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31. Delta Green - Presence

By: Shane Ivey

4.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

THE MOTHER OF MOONS AWAKENS A lethal cord of cause and appalling effect connects the Vermont hills… read more

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4.60

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Sandy Petersen , Lynn Willis

4.45

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Matt Ruff

4.02

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Clive Barker

4.07

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R.A. Salvatore

4.23

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Weasel's Luck (Dragonlance: Heroes, #3)

Michael Williams

3.77

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Richard A. Knaak

3.75

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Terry Brooks

3.65

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