10 best-selling short stories books like The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (The Annotated Books) by H.P. Lovecraft

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The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (The Annotated Books)

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

In 2014, The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft was published to widespread acclaim— vaunted as a “treas…

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1. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more

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  • classics
"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

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2. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2

By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

3.93

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

It's one month after the events in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 1, and the skies over Eng… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. Paingod and Other Delusions

By: Harlan Ellison

4.05

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Robert Heinlein says, ?This book is raw corn liquor ? you should serve a whiskbroom with each shot … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"we are all inescapably responsible, not only for our own actions, but for our lack of action, the morality and ethic of our silences and our avoidances, the shared guilt of hypocrisy, voyeurism, and …"

-Harlan Ellison, Paingod and Other Delusions

"I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. With…"

-Harlan Ellison, Paingod and Other Delusions

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4. 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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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Neonomicon

By: Alan Moore , Antony Johnston , Jacen Burrows

3.46

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Misteriosos assassinatos atraem a atenção do FBI e, durante a investigação, revelações indicam coin… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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6. Books of Blood: Volume Two (Books of Blood #2)

By: Clive Barker

4.09

Format: 116 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition of ISBN 9780425087398 To a surgeon, cutting into the human body is an art. … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy

7. La casa y el cerebro

By: Edward Bulwer-Lytton , Arturo Agüero Herranz

4.48

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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8. The Inhuman Condition (Books of Blood, #4)

By: Clive Barker

4.06

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

A master storyteller and unrivaled visionary, Clive Barker has mixed the real and unreal with the h… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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9. 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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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"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

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10. Through the Woods

By: Emily Carroll

3.94

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

'It came from the woods. Most strange things do.' Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... but the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once."

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"But the worst kind of monster was the BURROWING KIND. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"I married my love in the springtime, but by summer he'd locked me away. He'd murdered me dead by the autumn, & by winter I was naught but decay. It's cold where I am and so lonely, but in loneliness …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

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11. 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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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"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)

12. The Hounds of Tindalos

By: Frank Belknap Long

3.19

Format: None pages,

Frank Belknap Long wrote a number of early Cthulhu Mythos stories. These included "The Hounds of Ti… read more

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13. Death Troopers

By: Joe Schreiber

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the Imperial prison barge Purge-temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy's most ruthless k… read more

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14. Cycle of the Werewolf

By: Stephen King , Bernie Wrightson

3.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the fangs ripping at his throat. The n… read more

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15. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

By: David Foster Wallace

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the bounda… read more

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16. The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #4)

By: Dan Simmons

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forev… read more

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17. Noctuary

By: Thomas Ligotti

4.23

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

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18. Those Across the River

By: Christopher Buehlman

3.71

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whit… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Violence like that is private, don't you think?"

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"That was a mean thought, and not funny at all. I let it turn to sand and blow out of my head."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"I mostly drink clear booze because the rest of it looks it's already been through a gentleman."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"But when I make a good [taxidermy] mount I feel like I beat God in a small way. As though the Almighty said, Let such critter be dead, and I said, 'Fuck You, he can still play the banjo."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

19. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1

By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

London, 1898. The Victorian Era draws to a close and the twentieth century approaches. It is a time… read more

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20. Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

By: Dan Simmons

4.19

Format: 563 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The multiple-award-winning SF master returns to the universe that is his greatest success--the worl… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance."

-Dan Simmons, Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

"I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space."

-Dan Simmons, Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

"The support and covering craft in orbit were also decimated, sir.’ ‘Decimated?’ The pain is making de Soya angry. ‘That means one in ten, Captain. Are ten percent of ship’s personnel on the casualty …"

-Dan Simmons, Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

"And then Robinson Crusoe stripped naked, swam out to his ship, filled his pockets with biscuits, and swam back to shore...." "What?" I said, hefting my pack and frowning at the child. "Nothing," she …"

-Dan Simmons, Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

21. Song of Kali

By: Dan Simmons

1.33

Format: 397 pages,

"O terrible wife of Siva / Your tongue is drinking the blood, / O dark Mother! O unclad Mother." It… read more

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22. Apartment 16

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

4.18

Format: 578 pages, Paperback

Some doors are better left closed--a spine-chilling horror novel from a new talent In Barrington Ho… read more

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23. Stormbringer (Elric, #6)

By: Michael Moorcock

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

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24. I Am Legend

By: Richard Matheson

4.06

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and c… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend."

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"It’s horrible," she said. He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him the word “horror"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

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25. The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories

By: Arthur Machen

3.89

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentac… read more

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  • classics
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"He could even talk about painting, and that's more than can be said of most painters."

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories

"Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures; we muddle through the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and, consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are al…"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories

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26. A Study in Emerald

By: Neil Gaiman

3.92

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

This supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos featur… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"She was called Victoria, because she had beaten us in battle, seven hundred years before, and she was called Gloriana, because she was glorious, and she was called the Queen, because the human mouth …"

-Neil Gaiman, A Study in Emerald

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27. Dracul

By: Dacre Stoker

4.14

Format: 497 pages, Hardcover

The prequel to Dracula, inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic novel,… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Like life, there is much we do not understand about death."

-Dacre Stoker, Dracul

"I have known politicians with more skeletons in their closet than an undertaker's wife."

-Dacre Stoker, Dracul

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28. Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

Cover of The Invisible Hotel by Yeji Y. Ham

29. The Invisible Hotel

By: Yeji Y. Ham

3.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A work of literary horror in the gothic tradition, The Invisible Hotel is a startling, speculative … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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30. The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (The Annotated Books)

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

In 2014, The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft was published to widespread acclaim— vaunted as a “treas… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enríquez

31. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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  • horror

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Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

3.93

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Paingod and Other Delusions

Harlan Ellison

4.05

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Gahan Wilson , Roger Zelazny , James Warhola

4.18

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3.46

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Jennifer Croft

3.26

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R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Johanna van Veen

3.89

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Elliott Gish

3.96

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