11 must-read fantasy books like Out of the Darkness by Dan Coxon

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Out of the Darkness

By: Dan Coxon

4.17

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

Out of the Darkness, in collaboration with mental health charity Together for Mental Wellbeing, cha…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Out of the Darkness by Dan Coxon , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1) by Iain M. Banks

1. Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

By: Iain M. Banks

3.85

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the … read more

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  • fantasy
"Better still to have problems than to let death eradicate them all...."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

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2. Stories of Your Life and Others

By: Ted Chiang

4.26

Format: 281 pages, ebook

What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • anthologies
"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

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3. The Arrival of Missives

By: Aliya Whiteley

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Arrival of Missivesis a genre-defying story of fate, free-will and the choices we make in life.… read more

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  • fantasy
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4. Don't Look Now and Other Stories

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

A married couple on holiday in Venice are caught up in a sinister series of events. A lonely school… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordina…"

-Daphne du Maurier, Don't Look Now and Other Stories

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5. 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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  • fantasy
  • horror

6. Daredevil: Born Again

By: Frank Miller , David Mazzucchelli

4.89

Format: 78 pages,

"And I -- I have shown him... that a man without hope is a man without fear." The definitive Darede… read more

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7. The Beauty

By: Aliya Whiteley

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Somewhere away from the cities and towns, a group of men and boys gather around the fire each night… read more

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8. Bluebeard

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.06

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at ag… read more

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"It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

"Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

"Why should a real man stay home when he could be raping a virgin continent?"

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

"We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

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9. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

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  • fantasy
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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10. Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.19

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space oper… read more

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  • fantasy
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11. Arm of the Sphinx (The Books of Babel, #2)

By: Josiah Bancroft

4.32

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The Tower of Babel is proving to be as difficult to reenter as it was to break out of. Forced into … read more

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  • fantasy
"Routine is rather like the egg whites in a batter: It imparts little flavor, but it holds everything together."

-Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx (The Books of Babel, #2)

"If you remember nothing else of what I say, remember this: When humanity ceases to aspire, it begins to decline."

-Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx (The Books of Babel, #2)

"We are, each of us, a multitude. I am not the man I was this morning, nor the man of yesterday. I am a throng of myself queued through time. We are, gentle reader, each a crowd within a crowd."

-Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx (The Books of Babel, #2)

"Yes, it is somewhat vexing to thread through the stacks of a library, only to discover an absence rather than the sought-after volume, but once the ire subsides, doesn’t one feel a sense of community…"

-Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx (The Books of Babel, #2)

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12. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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13. 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 Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha  Allen

14. Patricia Wants to Cuddle

By: Samantha Allen

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror
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15. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror
Cover of The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories by Eric LaRocca

16. The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories

By: Eric LaRocca

3.74

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and autho… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories book and Dan Coxon's Out of the Darkness

  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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17. All the White Spaces

By: Ally Wilkes

3.58

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determin… read more

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  • horror
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18. Dead Relatives

By: Lucie McKnight Hardy

3.92

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Iris has never left the big house in the country she shares with Mammy and the servants. When The L… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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19. Always North

By: Vicki Jarrett

3.62

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

We all have to work to live, even if it is an illegal survey for oil in the rapidly melting arctic.… read more

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Cover of The Others of Edenwell by Verity M. Holloway

20. The Others of Edenwell

By: Verity M. Holloway

3.62

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

Norfolk, 1917. Unable to join the army due to a heart condition, Freddie lives and works with his f… read more

Similar categories in Verity M. Holloway's The Others of Edenwell book and Dan Coxon's Out of the Darkness

  • horror
Cover of Out of the Darkness by Dan Coxon

21. Out of the Darkness

By: Dan Coxon

4.17

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

Out of the Darkness, in collaboration with mental health charity Together for Mental Wellbeing, cha… read more

Similar categories in Dan Coxon's Out of the Darkness book and Dan Coxon's Out of the Darkness

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • anthologies
  • horror

5 Top short stories books like Out of the Darkness by Dan Coxon

Transform Your Habits

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Don't Look Now and Other Stories

Daphne du Maurier

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories

Eric LaRocca

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Dead Relatives

Lucie McKnight Hardy

3.92

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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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