15 best-selling fantasy books like Profane Altars: Weird Sword & Sorcery by Sam Richard

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Profane Altars: Weird Sword & Sorcery

By: Sam Richard

4.21

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

In the spirit of Robert E. Howard, Tanith Lee, Karl Edward Wagner, and films like Conquest and Fire…

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Cover of Berserk, Vol. 1 (Berserk, #1) by Kentaro Miura, Jason DeAngelis

1. Berserk, Vol. 1 (Berserk, #1)

By: Kentaro Miura , Jason DeAngelis

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

His name is Guts, the Black Swordsman, a feared warrior spoken of only in whispers. Bearer of a gig… read more

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  • fantasy
"It was too big to be called a sword. Massive, thick, heavy, and far too rough. Indeed, it was a heap of raw iron."

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 1 (Berserk, #1)

"I will never draw my sword for another man again, or be dangled by another mans dream. From now on, I will fight my own battles. -Guts, Berserk"

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 1 (Berserk, #1)

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2. Berserk, Vol. 2 (Berserk, #2)

By: Kentaro Miura , Jason DeAngelis

4.43

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The evil Count uses his dark powers to transform a defeated guard captain into an inhuman horror to… read more

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  • fantasy
"Living for the future is more important than trying to avenge the past."

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 2 (Berserk, #2)

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3. 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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  • short stories
  • fantasy
"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

4. The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year

By: Armin A. Brott

3.48

Format: 208 pages,

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5. A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs , John Seelye

3.81

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A Princess of Mars is the first of eleven thrilling novels that comprise Edgar Rice Burroughs' most… read more

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  • fantasy
"Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons of Barsoom, and with Earth looking down upon us out of her luminous green eye, it seemed that we wer…"

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

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6. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

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  • fantasy
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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7. The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)

By: Premee Mohamed

3.72

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

In post-climate disaster Alberta, a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether t… read more

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  • fantasy
"In silent agreement we squeeze into the window to study our valley. Unlovely in the early spring, crusted with think rime of muddy snow, the river still choked with ice, a single dark thread of water…"

-Premee Mohamed, The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)

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8. Helpmeet

By: Naben Ruthnum

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband from Manhattan to the upstate orchard estate… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
"This isn’t like the nose. That came off, like it was being picked at, pulled, tugged like taffy. This is from the inside. I can feel it when I’m going to sleep. Through the optic nerves. Drinking, ge…"

-Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet

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9. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

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  • fantasy
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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10. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

By: Eric LaRocca

2.96

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet… read more

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  • short stories
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11. Untethered Sky

By: Fonda Lee

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
"People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"I know this as much as God knows every creature, because I once thought there was no reason for me to be alive, no logic to survival, no meaning to be found past endurance of loss, yet there was."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

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12. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives

By: Adam Cesare

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Set a year after the first book, it looks at how the surviving characters are dealing with fame and… read more

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13. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 7

By: James Tynion IV

4.28

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The final chapter of the Tribulation saga and the decisive showdown between Erica Slaughter and Cut… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca

14. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

By: Eric LaRocca

3.22

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensati… read more

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  • short stories
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15. The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

By: James Tynion IV

4.30

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

With Something Is Killing the Children and The Department of Truth, James Tynion IV has changed the… read more

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"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, …"

-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, …"

-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

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16. The Day of the Door

By: Laurel Hightower

4.13

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Once there were four Lasco siblings banded together against a world that failed to protect them. Bu… read more

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17. Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories by Andrew Cull

18. Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories

By: Andrew Cull

3.95

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Between April and August 2021 eighteen horror writers disappeared. Gathered together for the first … read more

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  • short stories
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19. Eynhallow

By: Tim McGregor

4.29

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 – Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island… read more

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20. And Then I Woke Up

By: Malcolm Devlin

3.48

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Mira Grant and Stephen Graham Jones, Malcolm Devlin’s And Then I Woke Up is a c… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
"We were monsters once, and although we are not anymore, we know we remain unforgiven."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

". . . it’s those differences — even the smallest and most trivial — that scare us the most."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

"Relationships aren't scientific, they're not mathematical. They're chaotic, abstract, irrational."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

"Macey once told me that the worst way a story can end is by someone waking up and realising everything that happened was only a dream."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

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21. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

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"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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22. Undead Folk

By: Katherine Silva

4.38

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Beyond the smoke-choked skies of an apocalyptic United States, a woman travels the desolate railroa… read more

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  • short stories
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23. AHH! That's What I Call Horror: An Anthology of '90s Horror

By: Chelsea Pumpkins

3.99

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

With fourteen horror stories set during the decade of flannel shirts and neon dolphin Trapper Keepe… read more

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  • short stories
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24. Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery

By: Brian Murphy

4.23

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Little did then-obscure Texas writer Robert E. Howard know that with the 1929 publication of “The S… read more

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  • fantasy
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25. Shakespeare Unleashed (Unleashed Series Book 2)

By: James Aquilone

4.08

Format: 439 pages, Kindle Edition

SHAKESPEARE IN BLOOD! From the blood of Macbeth and the ghosts of Hamlet, to the dark fantasy of T… read more

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  • short stories
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26. Chaindevils

By: Matthew Mitchell

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Take heed, and smoke what you got… In the far-distant post-apocalypse of rural America, an embat… read more

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27. Profane Altars: Weird Sword & Sorcery

By: Sam Richard

4.21

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

In the spirit of Robert E. Howard, Tanith Lee, Karl Edward Wagner, and films like Conquest and Fire… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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28. Void Haus

By: Void Collective

4.62

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

The Void Matthew Mitchell, Same Richard, Edwin Callihan, Evan Dean Shelton, Justin Lutz, & Michael… read more

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29. The Legend of Charlie Fish

By: Josh Rountree

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

As an unlikely found-family flees toward Galveston, a psychic young girl bonds with Charlie Fish, a… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) by Nathan Ballingrud

30. Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into th… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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31. Gone to Seed

By: Justin Lutz

4.57

Format: None pages, None

Gone to Seed is the debut collection of five horror stories by Justin Lutz, the acclaimed author of… read more

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Clive Barker

4.07

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3.41

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2.96

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3.90

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4.02

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4.18

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4.25

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