The Earth Wire and Other Stories
By: Joel Lane
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Love and Death. Sex and Despair. In this critically acclaimed collection of seventeen short stories…
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1. High-Rise
By: J.G. Ballard
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
2. 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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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
"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
3. 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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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"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
4. The Butcher Boy
By: Patrick McCabe
3.43
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
"I was thinking how right ma was -- Mrs. Nugent all smiles when she met us and how are you getting … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
5. The Hill of Dreams
By: Arthur Machen
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lucian Taylor is damned, either through contact with an erotically pagan faerie world or through so… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
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- short stories
- fantasy
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- horror
7. The Amulet
By: Michael McDowell
3.46
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
When a rifle range accident leaves Dean Howell disfigured and in a vegetative state, his wife Sarah… read more
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- fiction
- horror
8. The Hunter (Parker, #1)
By: Richard Stark
4.12
Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Double-crossed, shot, and left for dead -- by his wife. The thriller that introduces Parker. "A bri… read more
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9. The King in Yellow
By: Robert W. Chambers
3.55
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
10. The Doll Who Ate His Mother
By: Ramsey Campbell
3.75
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
It was a freak accident. The man had suddenly stepped into the road, and the brakes had failed. Cla… read more
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11. American Tabloid (Underworld USA, #1)
By: James Ellroy
3.37
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassina… read more
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12. Dracula's Guest
By: Bram Stoker
4.36
Format: 39 pages,
A passage from the manuscript of Dracula. read more
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13. Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s
By: Grady Hendrix
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of the 1970s and '80s . . . if you dare. Page throu… read more
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14. 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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15. Pop. 1280
By: Jim Thompson
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest cri… read more
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17. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
By: Huw Lemmey
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more
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18. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- literary fiction
- horror
- fiction
- contemporary
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
19. Seven Empty Houses
By: Samanta Schweblin
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
20. Survivor Song
By: Paul Tremblay
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spre… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"By then Ramola had begun to see herself as asexual but would not admit this to her mum. She said she was impressed by Mum's vocabulary choice, and added she enjoyed the idea of sex like she enjoyed t…"-Paul Tremblay, Survivor Song
21. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
By: Oliver Darkshire
3.97
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackvill… read more
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- contemporary
"Early one morning, which is to say about five minutes before noon..."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"There is something about geriatric men which attracts them to dangerous ladders."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
"Hell hath no fury, they say, like a man treated the same way as he treats women."-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
22. No es un río
By: Selva Almada
3.95
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
23. 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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- short story collection
- collections
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
24. Bonding
By: Maggie Siebert
4.13
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
"Maggie understands that splatter for splatter's sake is boring. Psychopathy is boring. Coldness is… read more
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- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
25. 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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- fiction
- horror
26. Landscapes
By: Christine Lai
3.78
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
A darkly absorbing, prismatic debut novel from Christine Lai, set in a near future that is fraught … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
27. Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories
By: Sarah Coolidge
4.01
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist… A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brin… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
28. Rare Singles
By: Benjamin Myers
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul mu… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
29. The Earth Wire and Other Stories
By: Joel Lane
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Love and Death. Sex and Despair. In this critically acclaimed collection of seventeen short stories… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- collections
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- fantasy
30. Titus Crow, Volume 3: In The Moons of Borea, Elysia
By: Brian Lumley
3.98
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The Titus Crow novels are full of acts of nobility and heroism. Titus Crow and his faithful compani… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
31. Noctuary & the Spectral Link
By: Thomas Ligotti
4.45
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Chiroptera Press presents Noctuary & The Spectral Link by the legendary Thomas Ligotti, a consolida… read more
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- short stories
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