Deadly Dolls: Midnight Tales of Uncanny Playthings
By: Elizabeth Dearnley
4.22
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
As mannequins, automata, effigies and dummies, dolls have haunted our imagination since ancient tim…
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1. Fen
By: Daisy Johnson
3.64
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Daisy Johnson’s Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with familia… read more
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- short stories
- horror
"I know who you are though in a moment I will not. It is getting. I do not remember the word. Soon it will be. How easily they go again. There is no loyalty in language. There is no."-Daisy Johnson, Fen
"Salma had read books where couples kissed, spoke in platitudes or come-ons; something about to happen, hinted at. Beyond that there was always only a white space on the page. A gap between paragraphs…"-Daisy Johnson, Fen
2. The Arrival of Missives
By: Aliya Whiteley
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Arrival of Missivesis a genre-defying story of fate, free-will and the choices we make in life.… read more
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3. Tour de Force
By: Christianna Brand
3.69
Format: None pages, Paperback
The vacationing Inspector Cockrill is on the job again when a fellow tourist is stabbed to death on… read more
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4. A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.80
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
At Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party, five guests have gathered for the uproarious parlor … read more
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6. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
By: T.S. Eliot , Edward Gorey
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
T. S. Eliot's playful cat poems have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since t… read more
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7. Teatro Grottesco
By: Thomas Ligotti
4.29
Format: 128 pages,
This collection features tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns,… read more
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- short stories
- horror
8. Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
When lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor after drinking the ritual wine at the House of th… read more
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"Look here,' said Nigel suddenly, 'let's pretend it's a detective novel. Where would we be by this time? About halfway through, I should think. Well, who's your pick' 'I am invariably gulled by detect…"-Ngaio Marsh, Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)
9. The House of the Seven Gables
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more
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- horror
10. The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
By: Mary Renault
4.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
"It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply… read more
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11. The Damned Thing
By: Ambrose Bierce , None
3.87
Format: 144 pages, kindle
This engrossing tale presents as its central theme the ultimately unknowable - and untameable - ess… read more
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12. The Lifted Veil
By: George Eliot
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
Horror was my familiar. Published the same year as her first novel, Adam Bede, this overlooked work… read more
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13. In a Lonely Place
By: Karl Edward Wagner
4.07
Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Contents: xi * Introduction * Peter Straub * in 1 * Prologue to In the Pines ["Lonely Places"] * vi… read more
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14. 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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15. Terry Jones' Barbarians
By: Terry Jones , Alan Ereira
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Terry Jones' Barbarianstakes a completely fresh approach to Roman history. This is the story of the… read more
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16. Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2)
By: C.J. Sansom
3.71
Format: 364 pages,
It is 1540, and Henry VIII has been on the throne for thirty-one years when Matthew Shardlake, the … read more
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17. Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)
By: C.J. Sansom
3.71
Format: 364 pages,
Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extra… read more
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18. The Ceremonies
By: T.E.D. Klein
3.86
Format: None pages,
Jeremy Freirs is a graduate student and teacher who decides to spend his summer working on his diss… read more
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19. The October Country
By: Ray Bradbury
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Ray Bradbury's second short story collection is back in print, its chilling encounters with funhous… read more
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20. Smallbone Deceased
By: Michael Gilbert
4.05
Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderHorniman, Birley and Craine is a highly re… read more
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"It’s quite a good idea. Only for heaven’s sake don’t be like that mug in the detective story who confides all his best ideas to a friendly sort of character who turns out to be the murderer in Chapte…"-Michael Gilbert, Smallbone Deceased
21. A Haunting on the Hill
By: Elizabeth Hand
3.35
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more
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22. The Next Time I Die (Hard Case Crime)
By: Jason Starr
3.64
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
DYING WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING. Steven Blitz didn't think about his own safety when he saw the man… read more
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23. 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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"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
24. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
25. Lost in the Garden
By: Adam S. Leslie
3.73
Format: 446 pages, Paperback
"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more
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- horror
26. Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology
By: Richard Wells
3.90
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Damnable Tales is an illustrated collection of classic short stories drawing upon the haunted lands… read more
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- horror
27. Blood on Satan's Claw: or, The Devil's Skin
By: Robert Wynne-Simmons
3.98
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
Beware the buried skull underfoot and watch out for children with fur on their backs... Blood on S… read more
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28. Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries
By: Martin Edwards
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
'Dr Greeby was found lying dead there, with his lecture-notes scattered all round him and brickbat … read more
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29. Deadly Dolls: Midnight Tales of Uncanny Playthings
By: Elizabeth Dearnley
4.22
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
As mannequins, automata, effigies and dummies, dolls have haunted our imagination since ancient tim… read more
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30. Lost Estates
By: Mark Valentine
4.27
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
“I am, and ever have been, a great reader . . . a library cormorant. I am deep in all out of the wa… read more
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31. 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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- horror
