19 best-selling fantasy books like Sing Your Sadness Deep by Laura Mauro

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Sing Your Sadness Deep

By: Laura Mauro

4.32

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

British Fantasy Award-winning author, and Shirley Jackson Award finalist Laura Mauro, a leading voi…

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1. The Vet's Daughter

By: Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns

3.90

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridde… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone."

-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter

"When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies."

-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter

"It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church."

-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter

"Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowin…"

-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter

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2. Come Closer

By: Sara Gran

3.65

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

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3. Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

By: Christina Henry

4.04

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a familiar story with a dark hook--a tale about… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. The Croning

By: Laird Barron

3.73

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyon… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did."

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"Ramirez walked ahead with a torch he'd fashioned from a stick and some rags and by that queer and reddish light, devils, or the shadows of devils hooked to the shoes of the men and capered across the…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"They would, according to his experience of their traditions, suspect he was a demon, or demon-inhabited. Considering the volume of alcohol saturating his liver, that ancient gateway of spirits, of co…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"The light in the gallery changed subtly and he whirled and saw someone approaching him from between the exhibit cases. The individual moved with alarming speed, bent low to the floor, but straighteni…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

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5. The Shadow Over Innsmouth

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures rese… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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6. Goth

By: Otsuichi , Andrew Cunningham

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In these haunting stories, two teenagers linked by an obsession with murder and torture explore the… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"What I saw there was my own death."

-Otsuichi, Goth

"I'm not gonna die alone, no way! He will never allow it!"

-Otsuichi, Goth

"Tobacco kills a lot of people, but cigarette vending machines are killing that woman by stealing her job."

-Otsuichi, Goth

"By understanding the value system the world preferred, remembering and feigning it, I was able to convince others that I was free of problems. I simply had to participate enthusiastically in the bori…"

-Otsuichi, Goth

7. Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more

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8. The Doll's Alphabet

By: Camilla Grudova

3.60

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Surreal, ambitious, and exquisitely conceived, The Doll's Alphabetis a collection of stories in the… read more

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9. Phantoms

By: Dean Koontz

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

CLOSER... They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body strangel… read more

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10. Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

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11. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

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  • horror
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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12. Idol, Burning

By: Rin Usami

3.23

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer,… read more

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  • fiction
"His existence and my witnessing of it were all I asked for."

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

"Maybe that was how a home broke down over the years, as the sound of doors slamming and chairs roughly scraping the floor built up like dust, and the slow drip of gnashing teeth and resentful grumbli…"

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

"Idol groups generally assigned each member an official color, which would be used for the light sticks that fans would hold up to show your support at a performance or for other individual merch. My …"

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

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13. 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

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  • 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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14. 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
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

Cover of Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1) by Emily Tesh

15. Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

By: Emily Tesh

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias,… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"he felt himself for a moment as the stump of a rotten old tree, putting up thin green shoots at strange new angles."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He knew it the same way the woodsman knew it, because he knew trees: but he also knew it with the knowledge of the Wild Man of Greenhallow, who felt every slow green beat of the forest's heart."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He planted his feet a shoulders width apart in the ground. After a moment he closed his eyes. Here was the wood. Slow and green he felt the life of it, the life that had been his life as well these f…"

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

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16. Paradise Rot

By: Jenny Hval

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more

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  • horror
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

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17. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

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  • horror
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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18. 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

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

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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19. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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  • fiction
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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20. Hare House

By: Sally Hinchcliffe

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Sally Hinchcliffe’s Hare House is a modern-day witch story, perfect for fans of Pine and The Loney.… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"We soon fell silent too, and above and around us came the murmur of all the countless branches; a distant sort of a noise, ungraspable yet pervasive, like voices in another room."

-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House

"It was then, as I hesitated, that the head stepped in and said, 'We don't want a witch hunt'. I looked from one to another of them, and then back to her. Three very different women but in each of the…"

-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House

"It's not a simple matter. You can drain the water or grit the ice, or move the wall. It makes no difference in the end. It's just a bad spot here, and always has been. A crossroads. The place where t…"

-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House

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21. 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

Cover of Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías

22. Pink Slime

By: Fernanda Trías

3.68

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura

23. My Annihilation

By: Fuminori Nakamura

3.34

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn this … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Aristotle, the scholar from ancient times, supposedly said "Even gods cannot change the past." In which case, the gods are useless."

-Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation

"Take a look around the internet. The ditches into which all evil is eventually swept. People hide their faces and type away without a care, no self-awareness for how their words will be picked up by …"

-Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation

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24. Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2)

By: Emily Tesh

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This second volume of the Greenhollow duology once again invites readers to lose themselves in the … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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25. The Night Guest

By: Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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26. 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

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. Sing Your Sadness Deep

By: Laura Mauro

4.32

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

British Fantasy Award-winning author, and Shirley Jackson Award finalist Laura Mauro, a leading voi… read more

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  • dark fantasy
  • lgbt
  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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28. 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
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) by Nathan Ballingrud

29. Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into th… read more

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  • dark fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Good Night, Sleep Tight by Brian Evenson

30. Good Night, Sleep Tight

By: Brian Evenson

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“PERHAPS TOMORROW I WILL WAKE UP ANOTHER PERSON. PERHAPS TOMORROW I WILL WAKE UP NOT A PERSON AT AL… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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31. The Bog Wife

By: Kay Chronister

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this atmospheric Appalachian gothic, the Haddesley siblings of West Virginia must unearth long-b… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

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