9 must-read fantasy books like Symposium of the Gorgon by Clark Ashton Smith

Symposium of the Gorgon

By: Clark Ashton Smith

3.63

Format: None pages, None

A mysterious traveller follows Pegasus only to end up stuck on a dangerous island…. First publishe…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Symposium of the Gorgon by Clark Ashton Smith , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Necronomicon by Peter Levenda, Simon, Abdul Alhazred

1. The Necronomicon

By: Peter Levenda , Simon , Abdul Alhazred

3.20

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Simon Necronomicon is a purported grimoire written by an unknown author, with an introduction b… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror
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2. The Overcoat

By: Nikolai Gogol

4.15

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

The Overcoat which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg st… read more

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"In the department of...but it would be better not to say in which department."

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"وخلت بطرسبرغ من أكاكيڤيتش وكأنما لم يكن موجودًا فيها أبدًا، اختفى وغاب ذلك المخلوق الذي لم يكن له من يحميه، والذي لم يكن عزيزًا على أحد ولا شيقًا بالنسبة لأحد."

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"Así desapareció un ser humano a quien nadie defendió, a quien nadie había querido, por quien nadie se interesó… Fue un ser que soportó humildemente las burlas de sus colegas y que bajó a la tumba sin…"

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were being flung out of it: hence he always bore about on his hat scraps of…"

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

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3. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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  • horror
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4. The Golgotha Dancers

By: Manly Wade Wellman

3.84

Format: 135 pages,

"Hold on, there!" came a sharp challenge from the stairs behind and below me. "What are you doing? … read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror

5. The Golden Man

By: Philip K. Dick

4.29

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Comprising: - The Golden Man(1954) - Return Match(1967) - The King of the Elves(1953) - The Mold of… read more

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  • fantasy
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6. Out of the Aeons

By: H.P. Lovecraft , Hazel Heald

4.01

Format: 30 pages,

"Out of the Aeons" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, a writer from Somerville, M… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror
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7. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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8. Metzengerstein

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.04

Format: None pages,

The story takes place in Hungary, between two rival families: the Metzengersteins and the Berlifitz… read more

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  • horror

9. The Analects

By: Confucius , D.C. Lau

3.20

Format: 168 pages,

This lively new translation with clear explanatory notes by one of the foremost scholars of classic… read more

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10. Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

By: Christiane V. Felscherinow , Horst Rieck , Kai Hermann

4.48

Format: 192 pages,

Sie ist heute sechzehn, kam mit zwolf in einem evangelischen Jugendheim zum Haschisch, mit dreizehn… read more

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11. The Devil

By: Leo Tolstoy

3.43

Format: 42 pages,

After talking to Samokhin, Eugene returned to the house as depressed as if he had committed a crime… read more

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12. The Damned Thing

By: Ambrose Bierce , None

3.87

Format: 144 pages, kindle

This engrossing tale presents as its central theme the ultimately unknowable - and untameable - ess… read more

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13. The New Mother

By: None

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

The writings of Lucy lane Clifford (who also wrote as Mrs W K Clifford) were for almost a century c… read more

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14. The Hounds of Tindalos

By: Frank Belknap Long

3.19

Format: None pages,

Frank Belknap Long wrote a number of early Cthulhu Mythos stories. These included "The Hounds of Ti… read more

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15. The Most Dangerous Game

By: Richard Connell

3.94

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isol… read more

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  • horror
"But you can’t mean—"

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

"The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees."

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

"Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have."

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

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16. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.17

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications of this discovery that for th… read more

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  • fantasy
"My God -- it's full of stars! -Dave Bowman."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

". . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

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17. The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

By: H.P. Lovecraft , August Derleth

3.95

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

WARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF UTMOST TERROR When you open this book you wil… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror
"Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told o…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

"And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of sheer darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

18. The Queen of Spades

By: Alexander Pushkin , None

2.18

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The Queen of Spades(Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about … read more

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19. The Wreck of the Golden Mary

By: Charles Dickens

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870), also known as "Boz," was the foremost English novelist of … read more

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20. The Magic Shop

By: H.G. Wells , François Roca

4.00

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Out for a walk in London one day, Gip and his father happen upon a magic shop. At Gip's urging, the… read more

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21. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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22. 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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  • fantasy
  • 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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23. Smee: A Short Story

By: A.M. Burrage

3.76

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Smee is a crackling ghost story about a guest in a haunted house telling other visitors of the deat… read more

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  • horror
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24. A Terribly Strange Bed

By: Wilkie Collins

3.58

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

""A Terribly Strange Bed"" is a short story by the renowned English author, Wilkie Collins. The sto… read more

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  • horror
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25. Albert

By: Leo Tolstoy

3.63

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

"Albert" is a short story by Leo Tolstoy. It was originally published in 1858. The lead character, … read more

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26. Between the Lights

By: E.F. Benson

2.83

Format: 12 pages, Kindle Edition

Between the Lights is a short horror story published in 1912. Between the Lights is a part of a sho… read more

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  • horror
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27. The Dark Man

By: Robert E. Howard

3.79

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

"The Dark Man" is a short story by Robert Ervin Howard. Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 - Jun… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of The Recurring Doom: Tales of Mystery and Horror by S.T. Joshi

28. The Recurring Doom: Tales of Mystery and Horror

By: S.T. Joshi

4.38

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

Although best known as a biographer, critic, and editor, S. T. Joshi has devoted a portion of his c… read more

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  • horror
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29. Loveday Brooke: The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step

By: Catherine Louisa Pirkis

3.30

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

London, 1894. Meet Loveday Brooke, the first female professional detective. Craigen Court is bur… read more

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30. Symposium of the Gorgon

By: Clark Ashton Smith

3.63

Format: None pages, None

A mysterious traveller follows Pegasus only to end up stuck on a dangerous island…. First publishe… read more

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  • horror
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31. The Dwellers Under the Tomb

By: Robert E. Howard

3.95

Format: None pages, None

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Peter Levenda , Simon , Abdul Alhazred

3.20

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Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

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Manly Wade Wellman

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Out of the Aeons

H.P. Lovecraft , Hazel Heald

4.01

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3.51

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3.42

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3.43

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