11 must-read weird fiction books like A Deep Horror That Was Very Nearly Awe by J.R. Hamantaschen

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A Deep Horror That Was Very Nearly Awe

By: J.R. Hamantaschen

4.26

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

J.R. Hamantaschen’s third collection of short stories delivers more inimitable dark fiction. These …

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Cover of Swift to Chase by Laird Barron, Paul Tremblay

1. Swift to Chase

By: Laird Barron , Paul Tremblay

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Laird Barron’s fourth collection gathers a dozen stories set against the backdrops of the Alaskan w… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of El horror de Dunwich by H.P. Lovecraft, Aurelio Martínez Benito

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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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Jeff VanderMeer, Thomas Ligotti

3. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" (TheWashington Pos… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. Welcome to the Arms Race

By: Justin Isis

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Churches made of meat, spaceships powered by song, simulated authors and a soul-warping artwork tha… read more

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  • short stories
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5. 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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  • weird fiction
  • 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

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6. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

By: H.P. Lovecraft , E. Hoffmann Price

3.90

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) published by Arkham H… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity. - Through the Gates of the Silver Key "

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

"Hei! Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pray to all space that you may never meet me in my thousand other forms. Farewell, Randolph Carter, an…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

"Some of them stole off to those cryptical realms which are known only to cats and which villagers say are on the moon's dark side, whither the cats leap from tall housetops; but one small black kitte…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

"Then in the slow creeping course of eternity the utmost cycle of the cosmos churned itself into another futile completion, and all things became again as they were unreckoned kalpas before. Matter an…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

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7. The Croning

By: Laird Barron

3.73

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyon… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did."

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"Ramirez walked ahead with a torch he'd fashioned from a stick and some rags and by that queer and reddish light, devils, or the shadows of devils hooked to the shoes of the men and capered across the…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"The light in the gallery changed subtly and he whirled and saw someone approaching him from between the exhibit cases. The individual moved with alarming speed, bent low to the floor, but straighteni…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"They would, according to his experience of their traditions, suspect he was a demon, or demon-inhabited. Considering the volume of alcohol saturating his liver, that ancient gateway of spirits, of co…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

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8. At the Mountains of Madness

By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

9. I Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like

By: Justin Isis

3.68

Format: 420 pages,

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10. The Strange Library

By: Haruki Murakami , Ted Goossen

4.36

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami--a fantastical illustrated short novel about … read more

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11. Gateways to Abomination: Collected Short Fiction

By: Matthew M. Bartlett

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Bizarre radio broadcasts luring dissolute souls into the dark woods of Western Massachusetts. Sinis… read more

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12. Dark Entries

By: Robert Aickman

3.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sewn signatures, printed on 110gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in bergundy wibalin cloth … read more

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13. Animal Money

By: Michael Cisco

4.29

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A living form of money results in the unraveling of the world. "The bank is there to save and lend.… read more

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14. 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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  • fiction
  • horror
"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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15. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

Cover of Fever House (Fever House, #1) by Keith Rosson

16. Fever House (Fever House, #1)

By: Keith Rosson

4.03

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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17. The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales

By: Attila Veres

4.17

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Every so often a new horror writer bursts onto the scene with a book that is so dazzlingly original… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. 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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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

By: John Langan

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. To Rouse Leviathan

By: Matt Cardin

4.04

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Matt Cardin has distinguished himself by writing weird … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1) by Cassandra Khaw

21. The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.66

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling authors Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey have teamed up to deliver a dark new story wi… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Julie felt its hunger ripple eover her, listened: It was waiting for the city to die. It would wait forever. It did not need this to come to pass now. It was used to waiting. It knew, in the way of g…"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

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22. Commodore

By: Philip Fracassi

4.21

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

There is a legend in the town of Sabbath that tells of a haunted car lost somewhere in the local ju… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Neo-Decadence: 12 Manifestos by Justin Isis

23. Neo-Decadence: 12 Manifestos

By: Justin Isis

4.77

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

The early 21st Century: a gilded age of pious guilt, poison nostalgia, environmental collapse, unch… read more

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Cover of Instagrimoire//Fax Screen Sect: The Cancellation of Graham Greene, Volume 1: Tales from Orthographic Oceans, or: A Room with a View (Self-Portrait in a Concave Mirror with Interior Landscape & Key to the Scriptures) by Justin Isis

24. Instagrimoire//Fax Screen Sect: The Cancellation of Graham Greene, Volume 1: Tales from Orthographic Oceans, or: A Room with a View (Self-Portrait in a Concave Mirror with Interior Landscape & Key to the Scriptures)

By: Justin Isis

4.84

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

“These inappropriately pleasant poems about TikTok, necromantic sex and the pseudo-Platonic theurgy… read more

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25. Pleasant Tales II

By: Justin Isis

4.78

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Two young sisters enjoy the gustatory delights of chocolate pudding. A healthy young man takes a wa… read more

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26. Drowning in Beauty: The Neo-Decadent Anthology

By: Justin Isis

4.73

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

From the ashes of countless decayed Modernities comes Neo-Decadence, a profaned cathedral whose bro… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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27. The Inconsolables

By: Michael Wehunt

4.24

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

In his first collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt introduced the world to his singular voic… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
"Well, my wife and child have moved out," Fulton told him, "and I've gotten back into vampires to fill the hole they left behind."

-Michael Wehunt, The Inconsolables

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28. Skidding Into Oblivion

By: Brian Hodge

4.28

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

We each inhabit many worlds, often at the same time. From worlds on the inside, to the world on a c… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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29. The Ballad of Old Joe Booth

By: William Pauley III

3.93

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Some monsters are impossible to see. This is The Ballad of Old Joe Booth. An epic poem in fou… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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30. A Deep Horror That Was Very Nearly Awe

By: J.R. Hamantaschen

4.26

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

J.R. Hamantaschen’s third collection of short stories delivers more inimitable dark fiction. These … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
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  • horror
Cover of A Sick Gray Laugh by Nicole Cushing

31. A Sick Gray Laugh

By: Nicole Cushing

3.78

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Noelle Cashman is no stranger to depression and anxiety. In fact, her entire a… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

22 Top fiction books like A Deep Horror That Was Very Nearly Awe by J.R. Hamantaschen

Transform Your Habits

Swift to Chase

Laird Barron , Paul Tremblay

3.98

Transform Your Habits

El horror de Dunwich

H.P. Lovecraft , Aurelio Martínez Benito

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Colour Out of Space

H.P. Lovecraft

4.03

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Transform Your Habits

Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

John Langan

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Experimental Film

Gemma Files

3.56

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