5 Top short stories books like Among the Lilies by Daniel Mills

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Among the Lilies

By: Daniel Mills

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A collection of 12 grotesqueries inspired by the natural and psychological landscapes of New Englan…

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1. The Ballad of Black Tom

By: Victor LaValle

3.85

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"I wish I’d been more like my father,"

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

2. The Hill of Dreams

By: Arthur Machen

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lucian Taylor is damned, either through contact with an erotically pagan faerie world or through so… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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3. The Amulet

By: Michael McDowell

3.46

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

When a rifle range accident leaves Dean Howell disfigured and in a vegetative state, his wife Sarah… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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4. The King in Yellow

By: Robert W. Chambers

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

5. The Lottery and Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

4.32

Format: 480 pages,

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more

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6. The Face That Must Die

By: J.K. Potter , Ramsey Campbell , Poppy Z. Brite

3.74

Format: 646 pages, Paperback

Ramsey Campbell's daring look into the mind of a psychotic killer was published in truncated form i… read more

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7. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

3.85

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"

-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

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8. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. Slade House

By: David Mitchell

3.81

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British p… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Coffee’s the elixir of life."

-David Mitchell, Slade House

"In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows."

-David Mitchell, Slade House

"It takes more than holding hands and singing ‘Ebony and Ivory’."

-David Mitchell, Slade House

"Truth has this habit of changing after the fact, don't you find?"

-David Mitchell, Slade House

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10. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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11. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.89

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

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12. The Eater of Gods

By: Dan Franklin

3.84

Format: 154 pages, Hardcover

Nothing really dies if it's remembered, his wife had told him. In the dying village of Al Tarfuk… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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13. The Book of the Most Precious Substance

By: Sara Gran

3.57

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated new thriller from internationally renowned author Sara Gran, author of Come … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Book people aren't exactly silver-lining types."

-Sara Gran, The Book of the Most Precious Substance

"Books were a dirty job, one of the black arts, along with witchcraft and printing."

-Sara Gran, The Book of the Most Precious Substance

"I'd been so alone that I'd thought it was just the feeling of life when it went on too long."

-Sara Gran, The Book of the Most Precious Substance

"Books are heavy and dirty and messy and have strong smells and leave your skin dry and dusty."

-Sara Gran, The Book of the Most Precious Substance

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14. Fifty Forgotten Books

By: R.B. Russell

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-p… read more

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15. Therapeutic Tales

By: R. Ostermeier

4.52

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

“—it was then Doktor Gaitskill asked me the question that led to this book. Are we stranger than pe… read more

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16. I Would Haunt You If I Could

By: Seán Padraic Birnie

4.00

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

I would haunt you ... The debut short story collection from Seán Padraic Birnie does indeed haun… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Grotesqueries: A Tribute to the Tales of L.A. Lewis by Mark Valentine

17. Grotesqueries: A Tribute to the Tales of L.A. Lewis

By: Mark Valentine

4.10

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

New stories by Reggie Oliver, Mark Samuels, Rosalie Parker, Rebecca Lloyd, John Howard, Jane Jakema… read more

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18. Among the Lilies

By: Daniel Mills

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A collection of 12 grotesqueries inspired by the natural and psychological landscapes of New Englan… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mills's Among the Lilies book and Daniel Mills's Among the Lilies

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. The Settlements

By: O. Jamie Walsh

4.48

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Set in a community where people live according to their creative drives, this “endlessly surprising… read more

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20. Finding Yourself In The Dark

By: Steve Duffy

4.24

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Sarob Press is truly delighted to present a new collection of twelve dark and spectral tales by Int… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Grandfather

By: Avalon Brantley

4.00

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

They called him a dabbler, a charlatan, a fool, a devil. I called him Grandfather. In the Bostonia… read more

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Victor LaValle

3.85

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Arthur Machen

4.57

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Michael McDowell

3.46

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Robert W. Chambers

3.55

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4.05

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Ben Okri

3.73

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Elias Canetti , Τζένη Μαστοράκη , C.V. Wedgwood

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