17 Top short stories books like The Testament of Athammaus by Clark Ashton Smith

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The Testament of Athammaus

By: Clark Ashton Smith

3.69

Format: None pages, None

Completed February 1931. First published in Weird Tales, October 1932.

If you liked the short stories plot in The Testament of Athammaus by Clark Ashton Smith , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. The Opener of the Way

By: Robert Bloch

3.78

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The Opener of the Way is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories and was the author's firs… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
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2. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

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  • fantasy
"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

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3. The Picture in the House

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.50

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

The Picture in the House by Howard Phillips Lovecraft read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
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4. The Oval Portrait

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.94

Format: None pages,

In this story of artistic obsession, a wounded man finds shelter in an abandoned chteau in the Appe… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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5. The Evil Clergyman

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.87

Format: 411 pages,

H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in th… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • horror
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6. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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7. The Dunwich Horror

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The story of Wilbur Whateley, son of a deformed albino mother and an unknown father, and the strang… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
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8. The Terrible Old Man

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

"The Terrible Old Man" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written on January 28, 1920, and first … read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
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9. 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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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • 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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10. Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)

By: Mark Lawrence

3.84

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Before the thorns taught me their sharp lessons and bled weakness from me I had but one brother, an… read more

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  • fantasy
"War, my friends, is a thing of beauty."

-Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)

"Go fuck yourself,' I said. I kept it pleasant."

-Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)

"Four years and everything was the same, except me."

-Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)

"Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?"

-Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)

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11. Facts Concerning The Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
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12. The Strange High House in the Mist

By: H.P. Lovecraft

5.00

Format: None pages,

"The Strange High House in the Mist" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written on November 9, 19… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
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13. The Inmost Light

By: Arthur Machen

4.00

Format: None pages,

The Inmost Light, one of Arthur Machen's most disturbing stories, involves a doctor's scientific ex… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
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14. The Shadow Over Innsmouth

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures rese… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
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15. 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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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror

16. The Willows

By: Algernon Blackwood

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood person… read more

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17. La música de Erich Zann

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Format: 16 pages, ebook

"The Music of Erich Zann" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December … read more

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18. Necroscope (Necroscope, #1)

By: Brian Lumley

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES... Except to Harry Keogh, Necroscope. And what they tell him is horrifying. … read more

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19. The Cats of Ulthar

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

"The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnam… read more

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20. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By: Mark Twain , E.W. Kemble , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell

3.83

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down t… read more

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"งั้นก็เอาละ เราจะลงนรก..."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"Confound it, it's foolish, Tom"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"He had a dream and it shot him."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"All right, then, I'll go to hell."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

21. The Whisperer in Darkness

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Ar… read more

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22. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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23. Beren and Lúthien

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.04

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmaril… read more

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  • fantasy
"And then he turned, and did not weep: too dark his heart, the wound too deep."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Beren and Lúthien

"Thou smellest of dog, and what news of good came ever to a cat from a fairy that had had dealings with the dogs?"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Beren and Lúthien

"Rivers of fire at dead of night in winter lying cold and white upon the plain burst forth, and high the red was mirrored in the sky."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Beren and Lúthien

"The slow time passed. Then in the gloom two eyes there glowed. He saw his doom, Beren, silent, as his bonds he strained beyond mortal might enchained. Lo! sudden there was rending sound of chains tha…"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Beren and Lúthien

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24. I, the Vampire

By: Henry Kuttner

3.60

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

The best of Henry Kuttner's horror tales show no influence other than his own imagination: ‘‘I, the… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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25. The Cimmerian, Vol 4

By: Mathieu Gabella

3.95

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

ABLAZE is back again, adding to its bestselling line of UNCENSORED Robert E. Howard Cimmerian graph… read more

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  • fantasy

26. The Fire Vampires

By: Donald Wandrei

3.41

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
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27. The Testament of Athammaus

By: Clark Ashton Smith

3.69

Format: None pages, None

Completed February 1931. First published in Weird Tales, October 1932. read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
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28. The Suicide In The Study

By: Robert Bloch

3.51

Format: None pages, None

First published in Weird Tales, June 1935 read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
"It is the fate of the genius to dwell alone."

-Robert Bloch, The Suicide In The Study

29. Night Must Not Come

By: Allison V. Harding

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

None read more

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30. ."The Way Home

By: Paul Frederick Stern

3.67

Format: None pages, Audiobook

.The Way Home" is a short story by the obscure author, Paul Frederick Stern. In the author’s only p… read more

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31. The Watcher at the Door (The Early Kuttner Volume Two)

By: Henry Kuttner

3.82

Format: 710 pages, Hardcover

TABLE OF Foreword by Robert A. Madle Introduction by Garyn G. Roberts, Ph.D. We Are the Dead, Weir… read more

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