9 best-selling fantasy books like Xélucha and Others by M.P. Shiel

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Xélucha and Others

By: M.P. Shiel

3.61

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

CONTENTS: * Xélucha (1896) * The primate of the rose (1928) * Dark lot of one Saul (1933) * The…

"Of ignorant people I am accustomed to consider the mere scientist the most ignorant!"

-M.P. Shiel, Xélucha and Others

"However, the human female can be pretty queer and wayward; and her heart is like spittle on the palm that the Tartar slaps — no telling which way it will pitch."

-M.P. Shiel, Xélucha and Others

"The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander far and wide through the city under the sedative influence of a tincture which has become necessary to my life"

-M.P. Shiel, Xélucha and Others

If you liked the fantasy plot in Xélucha and Others by M.P. Shiel , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Horror in the Museum

By: H.P. Lovecraft , Stephen Jones

4.02

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Some tales in this collection were inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, others he revised, two he co-author… read more

Similar categories in H.P. Lovecraft's The Horror in the Museum book and M.P. Shiel's Xélucha and Others

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
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2. Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more

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  • science fiction
"Exterminate all rational thought"

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

Cover of Kaiki: Cuentos de terror y locura by Edogawa Rampo, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Ōgai Mori, Kidō Okamoto, Isami Romero Hoshino, Kaita Murayama, None, Rohan Kōda, Kyōka Izumi, Kōtarō Tanaka, Atsushi Nakajima, Kyūsaku Yumeno, None, None

3. Kaiki: Cuentos de terror y locura

By: Edogawa Rampo , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Ōgai Mori , Kidō Okamoto , Isami Romero Hoshino , Kaita Murayama , None , Rohan Kōda , Kyōka Izumi , Kōtarō Tanaka , Atsushi Nakajima , Kyūsaku Yumeno , None , None

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Hasta la introduccion de los ideogramas chinos en el siglo VI, el japones era una lengua oral que n… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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4. Invasiones

By: Ismael Martínez Biurrun , Efe al Cuadrado

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

Tenemos miedo de lo inesperado. Nos aterra perder el control. Temblamos ante la sola idea de que un… read more

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  • science fiction
  • horror
Cover of Grimscribe: His Lives and Works by Thomas Ligotti

5. Grimscribe: His Lives and Works

By: Thomas Ligotti

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Seeking deadly justice when she and her invalid father receive next to nothing in a lawsuit settlem… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
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6. Things We Lost in the Fire

By: Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell

4.06

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling au… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"El problema es que no nos creen."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Hace años que Lala decidió ser mujer y brasileña, pero había nacido varón y uruguayo."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Me acuerdo de la risa de mi madre, de lo joven que era esa tarde de verano, del olor a champú de limón de su pelo y de la carcajada de chicle de menta."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Apagábamos las luces y jugábamos en la oscuridad con inciensos encendidos; parecían luciérnagas y a mí me hacían llorar, me hacían acordar a una casa de tejas con parque lejos de la ciudad, una casa …"

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

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7. The Complete Wandering Ghosts

By: F. Marion Crawford , Lee Weinstein

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

For the first time, complete as the author intended them, here are all eight of F. Marion Crawford'… read more

Similar categories in F. Marion Crawford's The Complete Wandering Ghosts book and M.P. Shiel's Xélucha and Others

  • short stories
  • horror
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8. Come Closer

By: Sara Gran

3.65

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

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9. Needful Things

By: Stephen King

4.82

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store fin… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror

10. Feet of Clay (Discworld, #19; City Watch, #3)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Sorry?' said Carrot. If it's just a thing, how can it commit murder? A sword is a thing' - he drew… read more

Similar categories in Terry Pratchett's Feet of Clay (Discworld, #19; City Watch, #3) book and M.P. Shiel's Xélucha and Others

  • fantasy

11. The Face in the Glass and Other Gothic Tales

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A young girl whose love for her fiance continues even after her death; a sinister old lady with cla… read more

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12. The Wendigo

By: Algernon Blackwood

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Algernon Blackwood's classic tale, The Wendigo. An influential novella by one of the most best-know… read more

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13. The Fifth Child

By: Doris Lessing

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story--centered on the birth of a baby who seems less th… read more

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14. El rey de amarillo: Relatos macabros y terroríficos

By: Robert W. Chambers , Jesús Palacios

4.07

Format: 71 pages, Hardcover

Robert William Chambers (1865-1933) nacio en Brooklyn en una familia de terratenientes de origen es… read more

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15. 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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16. Maestros del horror de Arkham House

By: Ray Bradbury , H.P. Lovecraft , E. Hoffmann Price , Ramsey Campbell , Robert Bloch , Robert E. Howard , Seabury Quinn , Frank Belknap Long , David H. Keller , Carl Jacobi , Clark Ashton Smith , August Derleth , H. Russell Wakefield , None , Nelson S. Bond , Mary Elizabeth Counselman , Mark Schorer , Henry S. Whitehead , Peter Ruber , Arthur J. Burks , Donald Wandrei , Greye La Spina

3.79

Format: 1 pages, Hardcover

"Maestros del horror de Arkham House" es una antologia conmemorativa de los sesenta anos de la miti… read more

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17. Pelea de gallos

By: María Fernanda Ampuero

4.15

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Pelea de gallos narra desde diferentes voces el hogar, ese espacio que construye –­o destruye– a la… read more

Similar categories in María Fernanda Ampuero's Pelea de gallos book and M.P. Shiel's Xélucha and Others

  • short stories
  • horror
"There is nothing more perfect than Love. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

"No me gusta ser hombre. ¿No se puede ser otra cosa? No hay otro sitio en el que quisiera estar - ¿es el pasado un sitio? -, pero tampoco aqui."

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

"Volver, lo sabe todo el mundo, es imposible. Luego de los abrazos y las lágrimas viene el verdadero reencuentro, estar frente a frente a los mismos cuando nosotros ya somos otros, frente a ellos cuan…"

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

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18. A Cosmology of Monsters

By: Shaun Hamill

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Noah Turner sees monsters. His father saw them—and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dar… read more

Similar categories in Shaun Hamill's A Cosmology of Monsters book and M.P. Shiel's Xélucha and Others

  • fantasy
  • horror
"...there's no such thing as a happy ending. The songs, books, and movies with "happy endings" al stop at teh moment of triumph....There are, however, good stopping places."

-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters

"Living with a family wounded by a loss you can't remember is like sitting behind a tall person at a movie theater. The people around you are laughing, crying, reacting to something, but you have no i…"

-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters

"I don't reject the choices I've made, or the cost. It's not so surprising, I guess. My monster suit always fit better than my regular skin. I was never a guardian, or a hero, but a creator and harves…"

-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters

"...he has so much he wants to tell the boy, but most important, maybe, is this: life makes monsters of everyone, but it's always possible to come back. Pain and death are real, but so are love, and f…"

-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters

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19. Linghun

By: Ai Jiang

3.96

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

WELCOME HOME. Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian… read more

Similar categories in Ai Jiang's Linghun book and M.P. Shiel's Xélucha and Others

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
"In HOME, Liam was a dream. Here, he's a flawed but beautiful reality. Whispers of our future together lull us both into a dreamless sleep. It's the first time we find such emptiness comforting."

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

"Feelings, emotions, experiences, are all part of humanity's shared language, and in Linghun, that shared language is grief. Grief is a language that tears us apart, but it is also what brings us toge…"

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

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20. Xélucha and Others

By: M.P. Shiel

3.61

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

CONTENTS: * Xélucha (1896) * The primate of the rose (1928) * Dark lot of one Saul (1933) * The… read more

Similar categories in M.P. Shiel's Xélucha and Others book and M.P. Shiel's Xélucha and Others

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
"Of ignorant people I am accustomed to consider the mere scientist the most ignorant!"

-M.P. Shiel, Xélucha and Others

"However, the human female can be pretty queer and wayward; and her heart is like spittle on the palm that the Tartar slaps — no telling which way it will pitch."

-M.P. Shiel, Xélucha and Others

"The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander far and wide through the city under the sedative influence of a tincture which has become ne…"

-M.P. Shiel, Xélucha and Others

Cover of A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enríquez

21. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

Similar categories in Mariana Enríquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People book and M.P. Shiel's Xélucha and Others

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror

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