6 Top short stories books like Shadows 8 by Charles L. Grant

Cover of Shadows 8 by Charles L. Grant

Shadows 8

By: Charles L. Grant

3.82

Format: 182 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Recipe for terror. Take one innocent child with the bizarre power to release man's darkest, and mos…

If you liked the short stories plot in Shadows 8 by Charles L. Grant , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. James

1. Collected Ghost Stories

By: M.R. James

4.14

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

M. R. James is widely regarded as the father of the modern ghost story, and his tales have influenc… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"The door was opening again. The seer does not like to dwell upon what he saw entering the room: he says it might be described as a frog - the size of a man - but it had scanty white hair about its he…"

-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories

"Those that spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pa…"

-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories

"But it was in the life-saving competition that Stanley Judkins's conduct was most blameable and had the most far-reaching effects. The practice, as you know, was to throw a selected lower boy, of sui…"

-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories

Cover of A Night in the Lonesome October by Gahan Wilson, Roger Zelazny, James Warhola

2. A Night in the Lonesome October

By: Gahan Wilson , Roger Zelazny , James Warhola

4.18

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

All is not what it seems… In the murky London gloom, a knife-wielding gentleman named Jack prowl… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Black House (The Talisman, #2) by Stephen        King, Peter Straub

3. Black House (The Talisman, #2)

By: Stephen King , Peter Straub

3.93

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories t… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Shadows by Stephen        King, Thomas F. Monteleone, Bill Pronzini, Michael  Bishop, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch, Avram Davidson, Raylyn Moore, R.A. Lafferty, Dennis Etchison, Charles L. Grant, John Crowley, William Jon Watkins

4. Shadows

By: Stephen King , Thomas F. Monteleone , Bill Pronzini , Michael Bishop , Ramsey Campbell , Robert Bloch , Avram Davidson , Raylyn Moore , R.A. Lafferty , Dennis Etchison , Charles L. Grant , John Crowley , William Jon Watkins

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the World Fantasy Award. An anthology including the short story Nona by Stephen King. CON… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

5. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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  • horror
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Cover of Fables and Reflections (The Sandman #6) by Neil Gaiman, John Watkiss, Bryan Talbot, Kent Williams, P. Craig Russell, Stan Woch, Jill Thompson, Shawn McManus, Duncan Eagleson, Todd Klein

6. Fables and Reflections (The Sandman #6)

By: Neil Gaiman , John Watkiss , Bryan Talbot , Kent Williams , P. Craig Russell , Stan Woch , Jill Thompson , Shawn McManus , Duncan Eagleson , Todd Klein

4.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Fables & Reflections (1993) is the sixth collection of issues in the DC Comics series, The Sandman.… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Brief Lives (The Sandman #7) by Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, Jill Thompson, Vince Locke

7. Brief Lives (The Sandman #7)

By: Neil Gaiman , Peter Straub , Jill Thompson , Vince Locke

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Dream's youngest sister, the loopy Delirium, convinces him to go on a quest for their missing broth… read more

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  • horror
Cover of The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman, Matt Wagner, Harlan Ellison, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, P. Craig Russell, Dick Giordano, Todd Klein, Kelley Jones, George Pratt

8. The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

By: Neil Gaiman , Matt Wagner , Harlan Ellison , Mike Dringenberg , Malcolm Jones III , P. Craig Russell , Dick Giordano , Todd Klein , Kelley Jones , George Pratt

4.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Ten thousand years ago, Morpheus condemned a woman who loved him to Hell. Now the other members of … read more

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  • horror
"Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of night."

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

"Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night."

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

"[Dream] I do not want a grape. [Desire] I could make you want one."

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

"I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go."

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

Cover of Dream Country (The Sandman #3) by Neil Gaiman, Malcolm Jones III, Colleen Doran, Charles Vess, Steve Erickson, Kelley Jones

9. Dream Country (The Sandman #3)

By: Neil Gaiman , Malcolm Jones III , Colleen Doran , Charles Vess , Steve Erickson , Kelley Jones

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The third volume of the Sandman collection is a series of four short comic book stories. In each of… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

10. Something Wicked This Way Comes

By: Ray Bradbury

None

Format: None pages, None

One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now feat… read more

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  • horror
Cover of The Fisherman by John  Langan

11. 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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  • 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

12. A Nest of Nightmares

By: Lisa Tuttle

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Stories include: Bug House; Dollburger; Community Property; Flying to Byzantium; Treading the Maze;… read more

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13. Ghost Story

By: Peter Straub

4.09

Format: 372 pages,

In life, not every sin goes unpunished. GHOST STORY For four aging men in the terror-stricken town … read more

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14. Furnace

By: Livia Llewellyn

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

Horror fiction has long celebrated and explored the twin engines driving human existence. Call them… read more

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Cover of Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1) by Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, Sam Kieth, Todd Klein, None

15. Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)

By: Neil Gaiman , Mike Dringenberg , Malcolm Jones III , Sam Kieth , Todd Klein , None

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman's transcendent series SANDMAN is often hailed as the… read more

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  • horror
"I am hope."

-Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)

"You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime."

-Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)

"I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage."

-Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)

"Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions too huge to be felt."

-Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)

Cover of You Like It Darker by Stephen        King

16. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

17. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi

18. Black Mouth

By: Ronald Malfi

3.96

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

For nearly two decades, Jamie Warren has been running from darkness. He's haunted by a traumatic ch… read more

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  • horror
Cover of The Women of Weird Tales by Melanie R. Anderson

19. The Women of Weird Tales

By: Melanie R. Anderson

4.06

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Launched in 1923, the pulp magazine Weird Tales quickly became one of the most important outlets fo… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of Promethean Horrors: Classic Stories of Mad Science by Xavier Aldana  Reyes

20. Promethean Horrors: Classic Stories of Mad Science

By: Xavier Aldana Reyes

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From the imaginations of Gothic short-story writers such as Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, M… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of Shadows 8 by Charles L. Grant

21. Shadows 8

By: Charles L. Grant

3.82

Format: 182 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Recipe for terror. Take one innocent child with the bizarre power to release man's darkest, and mos… read more

Similar categories in Charles L. Grant's Shadows 8 book and Charles L. Grant's Shadows 8

  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror

18 must-read horror books like Shadows 8 by Charles L. Grant

Transform Your Habits

Collected Ghost Stories

M.R. James

4.14

Transform Your Habits

A Night in the Lonesome October

Gahan Wilson , Roger Zelazny , James Warhola

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Black House (The Talisman, #2)

Stephen King , Peter Straub

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Shadows

Stephen King , Thomas F. Monteleone , Bill Pronzini , Michael Bishop , Ramsey Campbell , Robert Bloch , Avram Davidson , Raylyn Moore , R.A. Lafferty , Dennis Etchison , Charles L. Grant , John Crowley , William Jon Watkins

3.00

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17 best-selling fiction books like Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Transform Your Habits

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

None

Transform Your Habits

The Fisherman

John Langan

3.91

Transform Your Habits

’Salem’s Lot

Stephen King

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty

4.20

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