5 must-read short stories books like The Living Mummy and Other Stories by Jack Davis

Cover of The Living Mummy and Other Stories by Jack  Davis

The Living Mummy and Other Stories

By: Jack Davis

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When Jack Davis took up his pen for EC Comics, he made his innocent victims more eye-poppingly terr…

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Cover of Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

1. Mother Night

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.23

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Mother Night is a darin… read more

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  • fiction
"When you're dead you're dead."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,"

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

Cover of Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham, Nick Tosches

2. Nightmare Alley

By: William Lindsay Gresham , Nick Tosches

3.83

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abje… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Also Dad said it was a shame to go to bed early and miss everything when you could sleep late the next day and catch up..."

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"Beyond that elfin face, the steady eyes, there was something breathing, something that was fed blood from a tiny heart beating under pointed breasts. But is was cobweb under the fingers. Cobweb in th…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"Hoatley - First Carnival Owner: Now this creature - There he is, THE GEEK! He has puzzled the foremost scientists of Europe and America. Is he the missing link? Is he man or beast? Some have pronounc…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

Cover of The Addams Family: An Evilution by Charles Addams, None, H. Kevin Miserocchi

3. The Addams Family: An Evilution

By: Charles Addams , None , H. Kevin Miserocchi

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Addams Family: An Evilution is the first book to trace The Addams Family history, presenting mo… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • horror

4. Slaine: The Horned God (2000 Ad)

By: Pat Mills

3.98

Format: 269 pages,

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In by Joe R. Lansdale, Andres Guinaldo

5. Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In

By: Joe R. Lansdale , Andres Guinaldo

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

When a group of friends decided to spend a day at the world's largest Drive-In theater horror fest,… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror

6. Nameless

By: Grant Morrison , None , Nathan Fairbairn , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Namelesstells the story of a down-at-heel occult hustler known only as "Nameless" who is recruited … read more

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7. Bone: The Complete Edition

By: Jeff Smith

3.04

Format: 40 pages,

An American graphic novel first! The complete 1300 page epic from start to finish in one deluxe tra… read more

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8. The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt, Vol. 3

By: None , None

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Originally published in 1952 and 1953, this volume of Gemstone''s EC Archives series reprints issue… read more

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9. The Name of the Game

By: Will Eisner

4.40

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

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10. 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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11. The EC Archives: Shock SuspenStories, Vol. 1

By: None , Steven Spielberg

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

This beautifully bound hardcover reprints the first six complete issues (24 stories) of the comic b… read more

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12. Creepy Archives, Vol. 1

By: Ambrose Bierce , Gray Morrow , Edgar Allan Poe , Bram Stoker , Roy G. Krenkel , Archie Goodwin , Shawna Gore , None , Al Williamson , Bill Pearson , Reed Crandall , Joe Orlando , Otto Binder , Alden McWilliams , Jack Davis , Frank Frazetta , None , None , None , Larry Ivie , None

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Gather up your wooden stakes, your blood-covered hatchets, and all the skeletons in the darkest dep… read more

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Cover of Saga, Volume 10 by Brian K. Vaughan

13. Saga, Volume 10

By: Brian K. Vaughan

4.31

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

At long last, Hazel and her star-crossed family are finally back, and they’ve made some new...frien… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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14. Smashed

By: Junji Ito

4.15

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Thirteen Chilling Nightmares Presented by the Master of Horror. Try not to be noticed when you e… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • short stories
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau

16. 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
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Saga, Volume 11 by Brian K. Vaughan

17. Saga, Volume 11

By: Brian K. Vaughan

4.26

Format: 153 pages, ebook

While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new all… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Public Domain, Volume 1: Past Mistakes by Chip Zdarsky

18. Public Domain, Volume 1: Past Mistakes

By: Chip Zdarsky

3.94

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Syd Dallas is responsible for pop culture's greatest hero: THE DOMAIN! But his sons Miles and David… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito

19. Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection

By: Junji Ito

4.23

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

FRESH NIGHTMARES BROUGHT TO YOU BY HORROR MASTER JUNJI ITO. Countless tombstones stand in rows, … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • short stories
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Do a Powerbomb!

By: Daniel Warren Johnson

4.52

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

From the creator of MURDER-FALCON and WONDER WOMAN: DEAD EARTH comes the wrestling adventure of the… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV

21. The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

By: James Tynion IV

4.30

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

With Something Is Killing the Children and The Department of Truth, James Tynion IV has changed the… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, …"

-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, …"

-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

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22. The Human Target: Volume 2

By: Tom King

4.36

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Christopher Chance has 12 days to solve his own murder! Superstar writer Tom King and acclaimed art… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 2 by James Tynion IV

23. The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 2

By: James Tynion IV

4.15

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

One of the most critically acclaimed and bestselling horror books of 2021 returns for its shocking … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Illuminations: Stories by Alan             Moore

24. Illuminations: Stories

By: Alan Moore

3.53

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a se… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"When most of our contemporary superhero movies are showcases for their escalating special effects, then the question of which film has the greater cinematic or artistic value becomes a matter of comp…"

-Alan Moore, Illuminations: Stories

Cover of Transformers, Vol. 1: Robots in Disguise by Daniel Warren Johnson

25. Transformers, Vol. 1: Robots in Disguise

By: Daniel Warren Johnson

4.33

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

THE TRANSFORMERS JOIN THE ENERGON UNIVERSE! Optimus Prime was supposed to have led the Autobots … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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26. Puzzle House

By: Duncan Ralston

3.58

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Six strangers arrive at the home of preeminent puzzle master Alexei Vasiliev for the reading of his… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Ito Junji's Cat Diary by Junji Ito

27. Ito Junji's Cat Diary

By: Junji Ito

4.24

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

The representative of Japanese horror comics, Junji Ito = horror manga author J. J, a dog person, w… read more

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  • comics
  • horror
"The road to cat wand mastery is long and treacherous indeed!"

-Junji Ito, Ito Junji's Cat Diary

Cover of Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant

28. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

By: Brian Merchant

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story … read more

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"If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are."

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

"It’s the same story, time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead."

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

"The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and qui…"

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

"Uber’s chief innovation is not that its app summons a car to your location with a smartphone and a GPS signal. It is that it used this moderately novel configuration of technology to argue that the o…"

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

Cover of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 3—Stardust Crusaders, Vol. 5 (Jojonium, #12) by Hirohiko Araki

29. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 3—Stardust Crusaders, Vol. 5 (Jojonium, #12)

By: Hirohiko Araki

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

A multigenerational tale of the heroic Joestar family and their never-ending battle against evil!Th… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 3—Stardust Crusaders, Vol. 6 (Jojonium Editon, #13) by Hirohiko Araki

30. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 3—Stardust Crusaders, Vol. 6 (Jojonium Editon, #13)

By: Hirohiko Araki

4.26

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A multigenerational tale of the heroic Joestar family and their never-ending battle against evil!Th… read more

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  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of The Living Mummy and Other Stories by Jack  Davis

31. The Living Mummy and Other Stories

By: Jack Davis

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When Jack Davis took up his pen for EC Comics, he made his innocent victims more eye-poppingly terr… read more

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  • short stories
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  • horror

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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3.98

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