The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan
By: Caitlín R. Kiernan
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Caitlín R. Kiernan is one of dark fantasy and horror’s most acclaimed and influential short fiction…
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1. Occultation and Other Stories
By: Laird Barron
4.08
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, … read more
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- short story collection
- weird fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
2. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
By: Laird Barron
3.98
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Lai… read more
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- weird fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"After years in the wilderness, he usually talked to himself."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"Actually, coyotes are much scarier than wolves. Sneaky, sneaky little suckers. Eat you up. Lick the blood all up."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"I hate puppets. Hate them. They descend from a demonic line parallel to mimes and clowns and are wholly of the devil, especially the lifelike variety."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"I was accustomed to liars, bold-faced or wide-eyed, silver tongued or pleading, often with the barrel of my gun directed at them as they babbled their last prayers to an indifferent god, squirted the…"-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
3. Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Death has to happen. That's what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It … read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
4. The Elementals
By: Michael McDowell
4.01
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
On a split of land cut off by the Gulf, three Victorian summer houses stand against the encroaching… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"Savage mothers eat their children!"-Michael McDowell, The Elementals
"There's no point in advertising a circus when everybody hates the clown."-Michael McDowell, The Elementals
5. Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
By: Matt Ruff
4.02
Format: 400 pages, ebook
The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and i… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"Then he heard it. Out in the Wood, straight ahead and much closer than before: The beast."-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
"I’m sick of belonging to an Order that wants to change the world but can’t even change itself. I’m tired of the bullshit."-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
"Atticus tried not to care, telling himself paperbacks were meant to be abused, but it was hard, like watching friends get knocked around."-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
"The tea and the cookie were remarkably bland - flavourless, to be honest - but when swallowed, they produced a mild intoxication, a torpor of reason that allowed him to embrace a parley with a dead m…"-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
6. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
By: Laird Barron
4.00
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
To the long tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, P… read more
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- short story collection
- weird fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"Wisdom devours the weak."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"...he was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
7. Fables and Reflections (The Sandman #6)
By: Neil Gaiman , John Watkiss , Bryan Talbot , Kent Williams , P. Craig Russell , Stan Woch , Jill Thompson , Shawn McManus , Duncan Eagleson , Todd Klein
4.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Fables & Reflections (1993) is the sixth collection of issues in the DC Comics series, The Sandman.… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
8. Cold Moon Over Babylon
By: Michael McDowell
3.99
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Terror grows in Babylon, a typical sleepy Southern town with its throbbing sun and fog-shrouded swa… read more
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- fiction
- horror
9. Hearts in Atlantis
By: Stephen King
3.77
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
Five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deepl… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
10. Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.25
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
The titles of the first story in this collection—'Jeeves Takes Charge'— and the last—'Bertie Change… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Employers are like horses — they require management."-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
"You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound."-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
"Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship."-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
"What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?"-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
11. Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga, #15)
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
4.20
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
Captain Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor’s life as a staff officer t… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving."-Lois McMaster Bujold, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga, #15)
"I'm afraid even ImpSec has no explanation for women's tastes in men."-Lois McMaster Bujold, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga, #15)
"Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and wrong. Reminding him that the daylight was the illusion, the scattering of ligh…"-Lois McMaster Bujold, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga, #15)
"Could you people stop trying to come up with novel ways to kill me for just ONE HOUR? Or maybe the rest of the night? I would SO like that. Just the rest of the night. Just sit down. Just stop doing …"-Lois McMaster Bujold, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga, #15)
12. Long Day's Journey Into Night
By: Eugene O'Neill
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work… read more
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13. Dark Matter
By: Michelle Paver
3.22
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poo… read more
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14. Ancient Images
By: Ramsey Campbell
4.60
Format: 200 pages,
A colleague's violent death and its apparent cause - a stolen copy of an old, never-released Karlof… read more
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15. How Long 'til Black Future Month?
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.28
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and dra… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"Still. Marching."-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
"I’ll take the dreams,"-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
"I need to talk to you,"-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
"The monster is amused to be found monstrous"-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
16. There Is No Antimemetics Division
By: qntm
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, disc… read more
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- weird fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- fantasy
"Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine, to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two…"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"We don't have an Antimemetics Division," Clay says. "Yes, you do. We do." O5-8 says, "We have a Memetics Division, a Telekontainment Division, Fire Services, Ops-A, Ops-B, Personnel, D-personnel and …"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
17. The Infinite and the Divine (Warhammer 40,000)
By: Robert Rath
4.46
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
A Necrons novel Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner are opposites. Each is obsessed with … read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"The sound of mechanized brutality that could only come from one species."-Robert Rath, The Infinite and the Divine (Warhammer 40,000)
18. The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell
By: Brian Evenson
4.10
Format: 254 pages, ebook
“Here is how monstrous humans are.” A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurkin… read more
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- short story collection
- weird fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- fantasy
19. The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven
By: Ellen Datlow
3.78
Format: 512 pages, ebook
For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most f… read more
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- dark fantasy
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
20. The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan
By: Caitlín R. Kiernan
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Caitlín R. Kiernan is one of dark fantasy and horror’s most acclaimed and influential short fiction… read more
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- dark fantasy
- short story collection
- weird fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
21. Not a Speck of Light: Stories
By: Laird Barron
4.16
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
It’s about to get very dark. Bram Stoker Award-winning author Laird Barron returns to the dark and … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
