Spontaneous Human Combustion
By: Richard Thomas
3.65
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Best Fiction Collection With a foreword by Brian Evenson. In th…
Want to Read $ 13.49"The first time they come to measure my son, he is only eleven years old. (From Within)"-Richard Thomas, Spontaneous Human Combustion
"The first time they come to measure my son, he is only eleven years old. (From Within)"-Richard Thomas, Spontaneous Human Combustion
"In the beginning, there was no pattern to the sacrifice, merely one more thing to clean up after a long, hard day—no reason to believe that I’d brought this upon myself. (Repent)"-Richard Thomas, Spontaneous Human Combustion
"In the beginning, there was no pattern to the sacrifice, merely one more thing to clean up after a long, hard day—no reason to believe that I’d brought this upon myself. (Repent)"-Richard Thomas, Spontaneous Human Combustion
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1. The Last Days of Jack Sparks
By: Jason Arnopp
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jack Sparks died while writing this book. This is the account of his final days. In 2014, Jack Spar… read more
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- fantasy
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2. Experimental Film
By: Gemma Files
3.56
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Experimental Film is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois … read more
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- audiobook
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"Because stories lie hidden inside other stories, and we always know more about any given thing than we think we do, even if the only thing we think we know is nothing."-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
"You could argue—as I have more than enough times, as part of my Film History lecture—that, no matter its actual narrative content, every movie is a ghost story. A film's production forms a time capsu…"-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
"What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in s…"-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
"We're storytelling creatures. Give us a bunch of seemingly random images and we will try to organize them into a linear progression: tree, apple, head, bruise, gravity . . . a man sat under a tree, a…"-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
3. Maeve Fly
By: C.J. Leede
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more
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"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly
"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly
"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly
4. This Is Where We Talk Things Out
By: Caitlin Marceau
3.77
Format: 93 pages, ebook
This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contempo… read more
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- short stories
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5. Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology
By: Vince A. Liaguno
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
An anthology of original horror stories edited by Bram Stoker Award ® winners Vince A. Liaguno and … read more
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6. Gothic
By: Philip Fracassi
3.83
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
On his 59th birthday, Tyson Parks—a famous, but struggling, horror writer—receives an antique desk … read more
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7. Ghost Eaters
By: Clay McLeod Chapman
3.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
One of Vulture's Best Horror Novels of 2022, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you… read more
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8. The Devil Takes You Home
By: Gabino Iglesias
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father despera… read more
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9. Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories
By: Brian Evenson
3.89
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome le… read more
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- collections
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- horror
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
" The world is a strange place , thought Haupt, alone in the dark, almost unbearably so. And yet, it is the only place I have. And I'm not even entirely sure I have it. "-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories
"We did speak, occasionally, but gestured more often than moved our lips, and in general lived in that brusque and silent accord enjoyed, if enjoyed is the right word, by certain long-married couples."-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories
"And there's another one, where you look yourself in the mirror and keep looking until you can see through your skin, and then you draw your own heart and send the drawing in a letter to someone else.…"-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories
10. The Beast You Are: Stories
By: Paul Tremblay
3.34
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club , A He… read more
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11. The Strange
By: Nathan Ballingrud
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more
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- audiobook
12. Sister, Maiden, Monster
By: Lucy A. Snyder
3.58
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transfo… read more
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13. Goblin
By: Josh Malerman
3.40
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie, a novella collection in which e… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
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- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"How can there be nothing?" he said, shaking his head. "Nothing doesn't make noise! Nothing doesn't wake you up! You know what does that?" he looked down the length of his booby-trapped rooms. "Someth…"-Josh Malerman, Goblin
"One night at closing time in his second week at his second week on the job, a possible explanation popped up, unasked for. They know I’m not where I am supposed to be. Up here- he tapped his head – I…"-Josh Malerman, Goblin
14. This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances
By: Eric LaRocca
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram St… read more
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- short story collection
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
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- audiobook
"The worst thing a person can do to you after they've hurt you is let you live."-Eric LaRocca, This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances
15. A Black and Endless Sky
By: Matthew Lyons
3.33
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Night Will Find Us comes a white-knuckled horror-thriller set across the Ame… read more
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16. The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell
By: Brian Evenson
4.10
Format: 254 pages, ebook
“Here is how monstrous humans are.” A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurkin… read more
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- collections
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17. Flowers of Mold
By: Ha Seong-nan
3.54
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Praised for her meticulous descriptions and ability to transform the mundanity of everyday life int… read more
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18. Bluejay
By: Megan Stockton
3.71
Format: None pages, ebook
Noah, Jack, and Phil are three average guys who collect horror memorabilia and have a running compe… read more
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- adult
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19. Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous
By: Ellen Datlow
3.67
Format: 479 pages, Hardcover
A bone-chilling anthology from legendary horror editor, Ellen Datlow, Screams from the Dark contain… read more
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20. The Boatman's Daughter
By: Andy Davidson
3.50
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
Ever since her father was killed when she was just a child, Miranda Crabtree has kept her head down… read more
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- audiobook
21. Night's Edge (Night's Edge, #1)
By: Liz Kerin
3.91
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
Liz Kerin’s Night’s Edge is a sun-drenched novel about the darkest secrets we hide and how monstrou… read more
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22. A History of Fear
By: Luke Dumas
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devi… read more
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23. 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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24. 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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"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
25. Below
By: Laurel Hightower
3.70
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO HELP A STRANGER? While driving through the mountains of West Virginia du… read more
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26. A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
By: John Hornor Jacobs
3.82
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales—b… read more
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27. Anybody Home?
By: Michael J. Seidlinger
3.17
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
What came first, the home or the desire to invade? A seasoned invader with multiple home invasi… read more
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28. Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror
By: John F.D. Taff
3.44
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
Dark Stars, edited by John F.D. Taff, is a tribute to horror’s longstanding short fiction legacy, f… read more
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- anthologies
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- audiobook
29. Your Mind Is a Terrible Thing
By: Hailey Piper
3.41
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
Communications specialist Alto’s shift aboard the starship M.G. Yellowjacket turns hellish after wa… read more
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30. Spontaneous Human Combustion
By: Richard Thomas
3.65
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Best Fiction Collection With a foreword by Brian Evenson. In th… read more
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- short story collection
- collections
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"The first time they come to measure my son, he is only eleven years old. (From Within)"-Richard Thomas, Spontaneous Human Combustion
"In the beginning, there was no pattern to the sacrifice, merely one more thing to clean up after a long, hard day—no reason to believe that I’d brought this upon myself. (Repent)"-Richard Thomas, Spontaneous Human Combustion
"I’d been trying to find myself for what seemed like my whole life. Then a dark fate found me instead. I summoned something and drew its gaze down upon me. This is how the suffering began. (Nodus Toll…"-Richard Thomas, Spontaneous Human Combustion
"When the red sea of rage washes over me, I picture a house on a hill, far away from the rest of the world, a band of oak trees around it, full of greenery, a singular whisper of smoke drifting up int…"-Richard Thomas, Spontaneous Human Combustion
31. Everything the Darkness Eats
By: Eric LaRocca
2.77
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. A haunting… read more
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