The Golem
By: Michael Cisco
3.63
Format: 173 pages, Hardcover
Sequel to The Divinity Student.
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1. Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters
By: John Langan
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated profess… read more
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- fantasy
- horror
2. Winter's Tale
By: Mark Helprin
3.51
Format: 769 pages, Paperback
New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it … read more
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- fantasy
"She felt as if she knew the stars, and had been among them, or would be."-Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
"There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery."-Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
"They move, don't they? Who do you think sets things to moving? Nothing that moves lacks a soul."-Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
"Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived."-Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
3. Occultation and Other Stories
By: Laird Barron
4.08
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, … read more
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- fantasy
- horror
4. Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1)
By: Stephen R. Donaldson
3.72
Format: 480 pages, Mass Market Paperback
He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange altern… read more
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- fantasy
"Dreams never forgive."-Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1)
"Where do you get dreams like this?"-Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1)
"Ah, it is hard to take pride in human history."-Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1)
"Take heart. Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world."-Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1)
5. King Rat
By: China Miéville
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Something is stirring in London's dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood. Somethin… read more
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- fantasy
- horror
6. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
By: Laird Barron
3.98
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Lai… read more
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- fantasy
- horror
"After years in the wilderness, he usually talked to himself."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"Actually, coyotes are much scarier than wolves. Sneaky, sneaky little suckers. Eat you up. Lick the blood all up."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"I hate puppets. Hate them. They descend from a demonic line parallel to mimes and clowns and are wholly of the devil, especially the lifelike variety."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"I was accustomed to liars, bold-faced or wide-eyed, silver tongued or pleading, often with the barrel of my gun directed at them as they babbled their last prayers to an indifferent god, squirted the…"-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
7. The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun #4)
By: Gene Wolfe
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Severian the Torturer continues his epic journey across the lands of Urth, a journey as fraught wit… read more
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- fantasy
8. The Ballad of Black Tom
By: Victor LaValle
3.85
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more
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- fantasy
- horror
"I wish I’d been more like my father,"-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
9. Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #39)
By: Agatha Christie
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughte… read more
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10. Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)
By: Margaret Weis , Tracy Hickman
4.01
Format: 444 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This Dungeons & Dragons-inspired fantasy adventure is the first installment in the beloved Dragonla… read more
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- fantasy
"There comes a time, Laurana, when you've got to risk your life for something you believe in -- something that means more than life itself."-Margaret Weis, Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)
"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time-as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis," the mage whispered, "I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see…"-Margaret Weis, Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)
"Tas had been teasing Flint unmercifully all morning, calling him "Seamaster" and "Shipmate" asking him the price of fish, and how much he would charge to Ferry them back across the lake. Flint finall…"-Margaret Weis, Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)
"He remembered a dog—the only living thing they found in the entire village—curled around the body of a dead child. Caramon stopped to pet the small dog. The animal cringed, then licked the big man’s …"-Margaret Weis, Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)
11. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
By: Laird Barron
4.00
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
To the long tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, P… read more
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- fantasy
- horror
"Wisdom devours the weak."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"...he was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
12. Third Girl (Hercule Poirot, #35)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: 377 pages, Paperback
Poirot is approached by a girl who shared a flat with two other girls in London. She is convinced s… read more
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13. 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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- fantasy
- 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
"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
"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
14. North American Lake Monsters
By: Nathan Ballingrud
3.97
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous exp… read more
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- fantasy
- horror
"He imagined the room bathed in blood, himself striding through it, a raven amongst the carcasses. Strutting like any carrion king."-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
"A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost end…"-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
"Sounds rose from the earth. New sounds: cobwebs of exhalations, pauses of the heart, the monastic work of the worms translating flesh to soil, the slow crawl of rock. There was another kind of indust…"-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
15. House of Chains (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #4)
By: Steven Erikson
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In Northern Genabackis, tribal mountain warriors raid southern flatlands. Years later, Tavore, Adju… read more
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16. The Fisherman
By: John Langan
3.91
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more
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- fantasy
- horror
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"-John Langan, The Fisherman
"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"-John Langan, The Fisherman
17. Embassytown
By: China Miéville
3.48
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient … read more
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18. Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)
By: Clive Barker
4.04
Format: 210 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that h… read more
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- fantasy
- horror
"Logic is the last refuge of a coward."-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)
"Es war ekelerregend, es war sauberste Arbeit, und es verwirrte zutiefst."-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)
"En el mundo hay algo peor que el Terror... Hay sueños que se vuelven realidad."-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)
"I don't want to see another church; the smell of the places makes me sick. Stale incense, old sweat, and lies... "In the Hills, the Cities"-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)
19. The Black Spider
By: Susan Bernofsky , Jeremias Gotthelf
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
An NYRB Classics Original It is a sunny summer Sunday in a remote Swiss village, and a christening … read more
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20. The Golem
By: Michael Cisco
3.63
Format: 173 pages, Hardcover
Sequel to The Divinity Student. read more
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- fantasy
- horror
