If you liked the horror plot in The God Of Dark Laughter by Michael Chabon , here is a list of 21 books like this:
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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- fiction
- horror
"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)
2. El horror de Dunwich
By: H.P. Lovecraft , Aurelio Martínez Benito
3.81
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Deadly forces are about to be awakened! In the degenerate, unpopular backwater of Dunwich, Wilbu… read more
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- lovecraftian
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
3. The Masque of the Red Death
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.06
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more
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- mystery
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
4. Night Film
By: Marisha Pessl
3.78
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
On a damp October night, 24-year-old Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lowe… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- horror
"Moe was a triple threat."-Marisha Pessl, Night Film
"Freak the ferocious out."-Marisha Pessl, Night Film
"Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect."-Marisha Pessl, Night Film
" Everyone smiles for a photograph. "-Marisha Pessl, Night Film
5. The Black Stone
By: Robert E. Howard
4.17
Format: None pages,
A marvelous rendition of the short story the Black Stone by Conan author Robert E. Howard. You can … read more
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- lovecraftian
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
6. The Colour Out of Space
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.03
Format: 78 pages, Mass Market Paperback
'It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies … read more
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- lovecraftian
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
"It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws."-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space
"West of Arkham the hills rise wild and there are valleys with deep woods that no ax has ever cut. There are dark, narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, where thin brooklets trickle withou…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space
7. The Lottery
By: Shirley Jackson
4.05
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
Similar categories in H.P. Lovecraft's Dagon book and Michael Chabon's The God Of Dark Laughter
- lovecraftian
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
9. The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
By: John Langan
4.06
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemp… read more
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- lovecraftian
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
10. North American Lake Monsters
By: Nathan Ballingrud
3.97
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous exp… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
"He imagined the room bathed in blood, himself striding through it, a raven amongst the carcasses. Strutting like any carrion king."-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
"A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost end…"-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
"Sounds rose from the earth. New sounds: cobwebs of exhalations, pauses of the heart, the monastic work of the worms translating flesh to soil, the slow crawl of rock. There was another kind of indust…"-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
11. Herbert West: Reanimator
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Herbert West: Reanimator" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It w… read more
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- lovecraftian
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
12. Between Two Fires
By: Christopher Buehlman
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"The only thing I say to God is my daughter's names; and it is not a prayer, it's a rebuke."-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires
"He was being kissed now by his own mouth, not as lovers kiss, with tongues, but as true lovers kiss, sharing breath."-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires
"A dark-haired little boy just in pants stood bewildered near the blaze, saying, as if there had been some mistake, "We live here. We live here."-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires
"But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death…"-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires
13. The Fisherman
By: John Langan
3.91
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more
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- mystery
- lovecraftian
- fiction
- horror
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"-John Langan, The Fisherman
"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"-John Langan, The Fisherman
14. Young Goodman Brown
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Hawthorne's classic tale of a young Puritan's meeting with the Devil. read more
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15. Piercing
By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of In the Miso Soup A renaissance man for the… read more
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16. The Scarlet Citadel
By: Robert E. Howard
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventur… read more
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18. The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)
By: Patrick Rothfuss
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Bast knows how to bargain. The give-and-take of a negotiation is as familiar to him as the in-and-o… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Laughter was the true applause you offered to the world for being beautiful."-Patrick Rothfuss, The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)
"But this? Convincing someone of the truth they were too twisted up to see? How could Bast begin to loosen such a knot? It was baffling. These creatures, fraught and frayed in their desire. A snake wo…"-Patrick Rothfuss, The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)
"What he was asking for was, effectively, a story without all the conflict. Without tension and animosity. Without many of the things I'd been taught were essential to storytelling. This wasn't a tota…"-Patrick Rothfuss, The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)
19. Masquerade in Lodi (Penric and Desdemona, #9)
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
4.28
Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition
Bastard’s Eve is a night of celebration for most residents in the canal city of Lodi -- but not for… read more
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- mystery
- short stories
- fiction
20. The Orphans of Raspay (Penric and Desdemona, #7)
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
4.28
Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition
When the ship in which they are traveling is captured by Carpagamon island raiders, Temple sorcerer… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
21. Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell
By: Nathan Ballingrud
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
22. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)
By: John Scalzi
4.18
Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition
An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
23. Mouthful of Birds
By: Samanta Schweblin
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star. Unearth… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
24. The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories
By: Bernardo Esquinca
4.14
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Bernardo Esquinca's haunting tale "Señor Ligotti" represented Mexico in the acclaimed The Valancour… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
"Sooner or later', she said,' our true nature separates us from the person we love. Losing one's shadow shouldn't be a tragedy but a goal. It's the only way of finding out who we really are."-Bernardo Esquinca, The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories
25. After the Animal Flesh Beings
By: Brian Evenson
3.85
Format: 23 pages, ebook
A post-human civilization of synthetic beings, fixated on the concept of children, grapples with th… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
26. Two Truths and a Lie
By: Sarah Pinsker
3.79
Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition
Stella thought she’d made up a lie on the spot, asking her childhood friend if he remembered the st… read more
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- mystery
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
"In that moment, she remembered Chris Bethel, pre-transition, playing Viola in Twelfth Night like a person who knew what it was to be shipwrecked on a strange shore. Good for him."-Sarah Pinsker, Two Truths and a Lie
27. We Are Here to Hurt Each Other
By: Paula D. Ashe
4.06
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
With these twelve stories Paula D. Ashe takes you into a dark and bloody world where nothing is sac… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
28. The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)
By: Hailey Piper
3.75
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
New York City, 1990: When you slip through the cracks, no one is there to catch you. Monique learns… read more
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- lovecraftian
- fiction
- horror
"She’s part of the nothing now."-Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)
"I think death is what happens when anyone meets a god."-Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)
29. The God Of Dark Laughter
By: Michael Chabon
3.82
Format: 20 pages, None
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- lovecraftian
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
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