We Are for the Dark: Six Ghost Stories
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
4.39
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Wine-Dark Sea
By: Peter Straub , Robert Aickman
4.10
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
From Publishers WeeklySince his death several years ago, British writer Aickman's reputation has co… read more
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"Probably everything in the world is decided by tiny last straws."-Peter Straub, The Wine-Dark Sea
"You speak English beautifully, which means you can't be English."-Peter Straub, The Wine-Dark Sea
"Those who deem this either weak of me or incredible are invited to find themselves in a like situation."-Peter Straub, The Wine-Dark Sea
"Dreams, [...], are misleading, because they make life seem real. When it loses the support of dreams, life dissolves."-Peter Straub, The Wine-Dark Sea
2. The Model
By: Robert Aickman
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
After Robert Aickman's death in 1981 the manuscript of The Model, a wintry rococo fable set in Czar… read more
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3. Experimental Film
By: Gemma Files
3.56
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Experimental Film is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois … read more
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"Because stories lie hidden inside other stories, and we always know more about any given thing than we think we do, even if the only thing we think we know is nothing."-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
"You could argue—as I have more than enough times, as part of my Film History lecture—that, no matter its actual narrative content, every movie is a ghost story. A film's production forms a time capsu…"-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
"What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in s…"-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
"We're storytelling creatures. Give us a bunch of seemingly random images and we will try to organize them into a linear progression: tree, apple, head, bruise, gravity . . . a man sat under a tree, a…"-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
4. 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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5. Dark Entries
By: Robert Aickman
3.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Sewn signatures, printed on 110gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in bergundy wibalin cloth … read more
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6. Hammers on Bone (Persons Non Grata, #1)
By: Cassandra Khaw
3.98
Format: 176 pages, ebook
John Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. He's been hi… read more
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7. In the Flesh (Books of Blood #5)
By: Clive Barker
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Terrifying and forbidding, subversive and insightful, Clive Barker's groundbreaking stories revolut… read more
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8. Devil House
By: John Darnielle
3.22
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him. Now, he is a true… read more
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"The past is charming and safe when you're skittering around on its surface. It's a nice place to linger a moment before seeking the lower depths."-John Darnielle, Devil House
"I remember before I finally fell asleep feeling like there wasn't all that much to say about my life. I'd had several satisfying relationships, they hadn't amounted to much. I'd gotten better at my w…"-John Darnielle, Devil House
"What would my work be like if I had to keep returning to the same story every time, I wondered. If, instead of hunting down sad places where people's lives had been ruined, there was only the one pla…"-John Darnielle, Devil House
9. The Vessel
By: Adam L.G. Nevill
3.73
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
'A watcher may remark that after sleeping for so long, the building appears to have been roused.' … read more
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10. The Apparition Phase
By: Will Maclean
3.91
Format: 384 pages, ebook
An atmospheric and stunning literary debut, reminiscent of the gothic suspense of Shirley Jackson a… read more
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11. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes
By: Eric LaRocca
3.22
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensati… read more
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12. The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales
By: Attila Veres
4.17
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Every so often a new horror writer bursts onto the scene with a book that is so dazzlingly original… read more
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13. Winterset Hollow
By: Jonathan Edward Durham
3.99
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to me… read more
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"Winterset Hollow was one of those timeless, inimitable books that was simple and pure and patently entertaining on the surface, but so much more underneath. It spoke about life and loss and struggle,…"-Jonathan Edward Durham, Winterset Hollow
14. We Are for the Dark: Six Ghost Stories
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
4.39
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
We Are for the Dark is a remarkable collection, and one that can be said to have kick-started the ‘… read more
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