14 Top fantasy books like Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology by Alan Lastufka

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Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

By: Alan Lastufka

4.22

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

OBSOLESCENCE is a collection of short stories about horrifying or fantastical interactions with tec…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology by Alan Lastufka , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

3.53

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's Episode Thirteen book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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2. 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

Similar categories in Joe Hill's The Pram book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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4. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Nestlings book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fiction
  • horror
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

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5. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. 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

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Silver Nitrate book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito

7. Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection

By: Junji Ito

4.23

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

FRESH NIGHTMARES BROUGHT TO YOU BY HORROR MASTER JUNJI ITO. Countless tombstones stand in rows, … read more

Similar categories in Junji Ito's Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. It Waits in the Woods

By: Josh Malerman

3.72

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

Some chilling campfire tales ring too true to ignore. For one young woman, an urban legend calls he… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's It Waits in the Woods book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. Piñata

By: Leopoldo Gout

3.67

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

A Head Full of Ghosts meets Hereditary in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist… read more

Similar categories in Leopoldo Gout's Piñata book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Peele's Out There Screaming book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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11. Don't Look: 30 Tales of Terror

By: Blair Daniels

4.18

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

My wife and I have been playing hide and seek for three days straight.I babysat a parrot. It said s… read more

Similar categories in Blair Daniels's Don't Look: 30 Tales of Terror book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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12. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

Similar categories in Elliott Gish's Grey Dog book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fiction
  • horror
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13. The Handyman Method

By: Nick Cutter

3.27

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror. When a y… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Handyman Method book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fiction
  • horror
"When prey dies in fear, hunters will say the meat tastes bitter."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"What of happiness, then? May we speak of the taste of joyful meat?"

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"Old memories were like land mines: dormant, forgotten, but forever deadly."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

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14. Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

By: Yamile Saied Méndez

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars, featuring Latine mythology’s most memorable mons… read more

Similar categories in Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"I don't want the type of love that uses our bodies to cover the holes in our relationship."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

"Where there is war there are monsters. They are drawn to the violence, seduces by the evil on display in humans. And when monsters slip into a place, they never go away."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

Cover of Melon Head Mayhem (Killer VHS Series, #1) by Alex Ebenstein

15. Melon Head Mayhem (Killer VHS Series, #1)

By: Alex Ebenstein

3.77

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever wanted to live inside your favorite horror film? Prove you have what it takes to figh… read more

Similar categories in Alex Ebenstein's Melon Head Mayhem (Killer VHS Series, #1) book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Natural Beauty

By: Ling Ling Huang

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more

Similar categories in Ling Ling Huang's Natural Beauty book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fiction
  • horror
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

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17. Spin a Black Yarn

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the singular mind of the New York Ti… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Spin a Black Yarn book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories by Eric LaRocca

18. 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 Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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19. What Kind of Mother

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Bran… read more

Similar categories in Clay McLeod Chapman's What Kind of Mother book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Linghun

By: Ai Jiang

3.96

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

WELCOME HOME. Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian… read more

Similar categories in Ai Jiang's Linghun book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"In HOME, Liam was a dream. Here, he's a flawed but beautiful reality. Whispers of our future together lull us both into a dreamless sleep. It's the first time we find such emptiness comforting."

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

"Feelings, emotions, experiences, are all part of humanity's shared language, and in Linghun, that shared language is grief. Grief is a language that tears us apart, but it is also what brings us toge…"

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

Cover of Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2) by Brian  McAuley

21. Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2)

By: Brian McAuley

4.12

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Oh what fun it is to DIE! When Austin’s parents drag him and his little sister Fiona to a remote… read more

Similar categories in Brian McAuley's Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2) book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe

22. We Are Here to Hurt Each Other

By: Paula D. Ashe

4.06

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

With these twelve stories Paula D. Ashe takes you into a dark and bloody world where nothing is sac… read more

Similar categories in Paula D. Ashe's We Are Here to Hurt Each Other book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

23. 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

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fiction
  • horror
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24. American Rapture

By: C.J. Leede

4.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. Sop… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's American Rapture book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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25. Look in the Mirror

By: Catherine Steadman

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

🎧Listening Length 8 hours, 13 minutes Nina, still grieving from the loss of her father, discove… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Steadman's Look in the Mirror book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fiction
  • horror
"She reassures herself: sometimes the only way out is through. She knows this fact as implicitly as she knows how to stand and walk and run as fast as she possibly can. She learned it young. Sometimes…"

-Catherine Steadman, Look in the Mirror

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26. Evil in Me

By: Brom

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Evil in Me is bestselling author Brom's newest novel of possession, damnation, and rock-n-roll wher… read more

Similar categories in Brom's Evil in Me book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. House of Bone and Rain

By: Gabino Iglesias

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME… read more

Similar categories in Gabino Iglesias's House of Bone and Rain book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of I Died Too, But They Haven't Buried Me Yet by Ross   Jeffery

28. I Died Too, But They Haven't Buried Me Yet

By: Ross Jeffery

3.36

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

Henry was burying his daughter again, but the thing is...she just won’t stay buried. Elsie, Henry’s… read more

Similar categories in Ross Jeffery's I Died Too, But They Haven't Buried Me Yet book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Hungers as Old as This Land by Zachary Rosenberg

29. Hungers as Old as This Land

By: Zachary Rosenberg

4.12

Format: 107 pages, ebook

The settlement of Grey's Bluffs is a prosperous town. An independent community dwelling in the shad… read more

Similar categories in Zachary Rosenberg's Hungers as Old as This Land book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fantasy
  • horror
Cover of Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology by Alan Lastufka

30. Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

By: Alan Lastufka

4.22

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

OBSOLESCENCE is a collection of short stories about horrifying or fantastical interactions with tec… read more

Similar categories in Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

31. Everything the Darkness Eats

By: Eric LaRocca

2.77

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. A haunting… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's Everything the Darkness Eats book and Alan Lastufka's Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

30 Best fiction books like Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology by Alan Lastufka

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Craig DiLouie

3.53

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Joe Hill

3.77

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Mona Awad

3.56

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Nat Cassidy

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Stephen Gregory

4.81

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Philip Fracassi

4.18

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Nat Cassidy

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