11 best-selling short stories books like Madame Cruller's Couch & Other Dark and Bizarre Tales by Elizabeth Massie

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Madame Cruller's Couch & Other Dark and Bizarre Tales

By: Elizabeth Massie

4.08

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

A small-town psychic’s trailer burns, leaving little in the wreckage but her lovely green couch. A …

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1. Baby's First Book of Seriously Fucked-up Shit

By: Robert Devereaux

3.89

Format: None pages,

From an orgy between God, Satan, Adam and Eve to beauty pageants for fetuses. From a giant human-ab… read more

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  • short stories
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2. Vortex

By: Ray Garton

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Karen Moffett and Gavin Keoph are outstanding private investigators hired by Martin Burgess, a Step… read more

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3. Judas Goat

By: Greg F. Gifune

3.50

Format: 142 pages,

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4. A Mountain Walked

By: Caitlín R. Kiernan , Neil Gaiman , Cody Goodfellow , Gemma Files , Ramsey Campbell , Mark Samuels , S.T. Joshi , Rhys Hughes , Thomas Ligotti , Lois H. Gresh , T.E.D. Klein , C. Hall Thompson , Patrick McGrath , Jonathan Thomas , Joseph S. Pulver Sr. , Donald Tyson , Michael Shea , W.H. Pugmire , None , Jason V. Brock , Robert Barbour Johnson , None , James Wade , Mearle Prout

4.06

Format: None pages,

H. P. Lovecraft wrote "The Call of Cthulhu" in 1926, initiating the Cthulhu Mythos, one of the most… read more

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5. Dweller

By: Jeff Strand

5.00

Format: 646 pages, Paperback

Toby was just a boy the first time he saw the creature in the woods. His parents convinced the terr… read more

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6. The Cipher

By: Kathe Koja

3.54

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blo… read more

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7. The Pram

By: Joe Hill

3.77

Format: 58 pages, Kindle Edition

A husband’s obsessive desire for a child leads to an unexpected manifestation of his yearning in a … read more

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  • short stories
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8. You've Lost a Lot of Blood

By: Eric LaRocca

3.26

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

A disturbing new vision of terror from the author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. … read more

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  • short stories
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9. Helpmeet

By: Naben Ruthnum

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband from Manhattan to the upstate orchard estate… read more

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  • short stories
"This isn’t like the nose. That came off, like it was being picked at, pulled, tugged like taffy. This is from the inside. I can feel it when I’m going to sleep. Through the optic nerves. Drinking, ge…"

-Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet

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10. Road of Bones

By: Christopher Golden

3.38

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A stunning supernatural thriller set in Siberia, where a film crew is covering an elusive ghost sto… read more

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11. Clown in a Cornfield (Clown in a Cornfield, #1)

By: Adam Cesare

3.74

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Quinn Maybrook just wants to make it until graduation. She might not make it to morning. Quinn a… read more

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12. Mr. Flood's Last Resort

By: Jess Kidd

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning author of Himself comes a spellbinding and “magically entertaining read” (Go… read more

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"Memory is like a wayward dog. Sometimes it drops the ball and sometimes it brings it, and sometimes it doesn’t bring a ball at all; it brings a shoe."

-Jess Kidd, Mr. Flood's Last Resort

"The wind grabbed a handful of sand and scattered it like bright confetti along the hard-packed, sea-scoured, deserted beach. The sky had a newly rinsed look, the clouds spun and wrung out on high."

-Jess Kidd, Mr. Flood's Last Resort

"My sister said that when the tide was out you could walk all the way to America; the waves pulled back that far. So far that the starfish forgot there ever was an ocean and stiffened with dismay. So …"

-Jess Kidd, Mr. Flood's Last Resort

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13. Growing Things and Other Stories

By: Paul Tremblay

3.50

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A chilling anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction from the multiple award-winning aut… read more

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  • short stories
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14. Ghost Eaters

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One of Vulture's Best Horror Novels of 2022, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you… read more

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15. 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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16. Inside The Devil's Nest

By: John Durgin

4.03

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Real estate agent Anthony Graham has his family on the run after witnessing a murder at the hands o… read more

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17. Ghostwritten

By: Ronald Malfi

4.12

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

Four brand-new horror novellas from “a modern-day Algernon Blackwood” all about books, stories, man… read more

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  • short stories
"myself asks am i here? i've lost myself i fear"

-Ronald Malfi, Ghostwritten

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18. Wonderland

By: Zoje Stage

3.11

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

If Shirley Jackson wrote The Shining, it might look like this deliciously unsettling horror novel f… read more

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"That sometimes when you're out in the world - he meant the mountains, the forests; he'd always lived here- you recognize the other parts of your soul"

-Zoje Stage, Wonderland

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19. They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces

By: Eric LaRocca

3.59

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the viral sensation Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes They Were… read more

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  • short stories
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20. 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

By: Sadie Hartmann

4.43

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

The Ultimate List of Must-Read Horror! Curious readers and fans of monsters and the macabre, get re… read more

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"I love a good story about everyone dying."

-Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

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21. Just Like Home

By: Sarah Gailey

3.35

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of… read more

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"Here is something that she controls, here is something that responds to her with the kind of frantic immediacy she always wanted from the world"

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"Tenderness was a foreign, forgotten thing that she hadn't encountered since before everything went wrong. She did not want it. Not now. Not from him."

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"Is one possible without the other? I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them."

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them. There’s the thin hate we have for strangers. (...) And then there’s the thick,…"

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

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22. The Turtle Boy: Peregrine's Tale (Timmy Quinn #4)

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

4.10

Format: 87 pages, Hardcover

Brand new and unread. read more

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23. House of Skin (Fiction Without Frontiers)

By: Jonathan Janz

3.74

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Myles Carver is dead. But his estate, Watermere, lives on, waiting for a new Carver to move in. Myl… read more

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24. A Bouquet of Viscera

By: Bridgett Nelson

4.24

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

An overzealous vigilante, who sees her victims' auras, finds herself in a very uncomfortable situat… read more

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  • short stories
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25. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

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26. Shakespeare Unleashed (Unleashed Series Book 2)

By: James Aquilone

4.08

Format: 439 pages, Kindle Edition

SHAKESPEARE IN BLOOD! From the blood of Macbeth and the ghosts of Hamlet, to the dark fantasy of T… read more

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  • short stories
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27. Try Again

By: Wesley Southard

4.09

Format: 77 pages, Kindle Edition

After an exhausting day at work and a run-in with an obnoxious loudmouth at the gym, all Robin Bell… read more

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28. The Horror Collection: Gold Edition

By: Kevin J. Kennedy

3.95

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

The first book in a new series of mini-anthologies brought to you by KJK Publishing. Featuring sto… read more

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  • short stories
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29. August's Eyes (Fiction Without Frontiers)

By: Glenn Rolfe

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"An intense tale reminiscent of classic works by Jack Ketchum or Stephen King" — Booklist When dre… read more

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30. Madame Cruller's Couch & Other Dark and Bizarre Tales

By: Elizabeth Massie

4.08

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

A small-town psychic’s trailer burns, leaving little in the wreckage but her lovely green couch. A … read more

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  • short stories
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31. Influencer

By: Adam Cesare

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Aaron Fortin is new in town. He drives a brand-new Acura—a gift from his parents for uprooting him … read more

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Transform Your Habits

Blood Games

Richard Laymon

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Fear Me

Tim Curran

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Brian Keene

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Aliens: Bug Hunt

Scott Sigler , Jonathan Maberry , Rachel Caine , Heather Graham , Larry Correia , David Farland

4.12

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