7 Top short stories books like The Red Tower by Thomas Ligotti

The Red Tower

By: Thomas Ligotti

3.83

Format: None pages, None

Winner of 1996 Bram Stoker Award for Long Fiction

If you liked the short stories plot in The Red Tower by Thomas Ligotti , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of L'Œuvre au noir by Marguerite Yourcenar

1. L'Œuvre au noir

By: Marguerite Yourcenar

4.03

Format: 480 pages, Mass Market Paperback

En créant le personnage de Zénon, alchimiste et médecin du XVIe siècle, Marguerite Yourcenar, l'aut… read more

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"une once d'inertie pèse plus qu'un boisseau de sagesse (La conversation à Innsbruck)"

-Marguerite Yourcenar, L'Œuvre au noir

"On n'est bien que libre, et cacher ses opinions est encore plus gênant que de couvrir sa peau. (La conversation à Innsbruck)"

-Marguerite Yourcenar, L'Œuvre au noir

"Le souvenir n'est qu'un regard posé de temps en temps sur des êtres devenus intérieurs,mais qui ne dépendent pas de la mémoire pour continuer d'exister."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, L'Œuvre au noir

"L'homme est une entreprise qui a contre elle le temps, la nécessité, la fortune, et l'imbécile et toujours croissante primauté du nombre, dit plus posément le philosophe. Les hommes tueront l'homme. …"

-Marguerite Yourcenar, L'Œuvre au noir

Cover of The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, Mark Treharne

2. The Guermantes Way

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , Mark Treharne

4.27

Format: 619 pages, Paperback

After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way … read more

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"She was not yet dead. But I was already alone."

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"و خواندن کتاب تو را خوش می‌آید، چون تخیل با توست"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"گاهی آدم چیزهای دور را بهتر از چیزهای نزدیک می‌شناسد"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

Cover of The Color Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft

3. The Color Out of Space

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Set in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, an unnamed narrator investigates a local area k… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates

4. Black Water

By: Joyce Carol Oates

4.08

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

The scene is Grayling Island off the coast of Maine, where a young woman meets a Senator at a Fourt… read more

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5. The Lottery

By: Shirley Jackson

4.05

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

Cover of The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

6. The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

7. Lessico famigliare

By: Natalia Ginzburg , Cesare Garboli

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Lessico famigliaree la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge … read more

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8. Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore

By: Valerio Evangelisti

4.50

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nella collana Urania nel 1994, Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitoresegna l'esordio nella narrat… read more

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9. Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me

By: Javier Marías , Margaret Jull Costa

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

"No one ever suspects," begins Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me, "that they might one day find th… read more

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10. Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)

By: Clive Barker

4.04

Format: 210 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that h… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Logic is the last refuge of a coward."

-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)

"Es war ekelerregend, es war sauberste Arbeit, und es verwirrte zutiefst."

-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)

"En el mundo hay algo peor que el Terror... Hay sueños que se vuelven realidad."

-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)

"I don't want to see another church; the smell of the places makes me sick. Stale incense, old sweat, and lies... "In the Hills, the Cities"

-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)

11. Mockingbird

By: Walter Tevis

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Mockingbird is a powerful novel of a future world where humans are dying. Those that survive spend … read more

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12. The Misty Harbour (Maigret, #15)

By: Georges Simenon , Linda Coverdale

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A new translation of Georges Simenon's gripping tale of lost identity. Book sixteen in the new Peng… read more

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Cover of Água Viva by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Stefan Tobler

13. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

14. 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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15. Un'estate con la Strega dell'Ovest

By: Kaho Nashiki

3.74

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Mai ha tredici anni e non vuole più andare a scuola. La madre, preoccupata, decide di mandarla a st… read more

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"I desideri giusti, quelli che sono in linea con il corso delle cose, ti fanno da guida e si trasformano in realtà."

-Kaho Nashiki, Un'estate con la Strega dell'Ovest

"["What happens to people when they die?" When she heard that, her grandmother made a sound that was not like a voice but a moan. And with a deep breath, she replied, "I don't know. To tell you the tr…"

-Kaho Nashiki, Un'estate con la Strega dell'Ovest

"Devi ripeterti che, qualunque cosa accada, 'non è una ferita mortale'. In questo modo, anche se in quel momento non ti sembrerà, da qualche parte nel tuo corpo e nella tua mente nascerà il seme di un…"

-Kaho Nashiki, Un'estate con la Strega dell'Ovest

"Ascolta. Questa è la lezione più importante dell'addestramento da strega. Una strega deve fare affidamento sul proprio intuito, però non deve lasciare che questo abbia il sopravvento. Quando succede,…"

-Kaho Nashiki, Un'estate con la Strega dell'Ovest

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16. Ohio

By: Stephen Markley

3.87

Format: 484 pages, Hardcover

One sweltering night in 2013, four former high school classmates converge on their hometown in nort… read more

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"New Canaan had this look, like a magazine after it’s tossed on the fire, the way the pages blacken and curl as they begin to burn, but just before the flames take over."

-Stephen Markley, Ohio

"You make someone your devil for long enough, and you want to hold onto that. There's something rapturous about hating another person, especially if you have a goddamned good reason."

-Stephen Markley, Ohio

"What an important lesson for every young person to learn: If you defy the collective psychosis of nationalism, of imperial war, you will pay for it. And the people in your community, your home, who y…"

-Stephen Markley, Ohio

"Like MacMillan and the clique of teachers and the coaches who all went to the same church and barbecued at one another's houses, much of the country's small-bore civil servants were itching to do som…"

-Stephen Markley, Ohio

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17. Marschlande

By: Jarka Kubsova

4.21

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

Zwei Frauen, die Jahrhunderte trennen – der Wunsch nach Selbstbestimmung, der sie verbindet »Marsch… read more

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18. L'Odissea: raccontata da Penelope, Circe, Calipso e le altre

By: Marilù Oliva

3.17

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

L’Odissea non è la storia del viaggio di un è la storia d’amore di molte donne.C’è Calipso, che, a… read more

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19. Laurie

By: Stephen King

3.67

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Short story about a widower and an unwanted dog, foisted on him by his sister. read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Puppies are God’s idea of a perfect workout program."

-Stephen King, Laurie

"Una persona en duelo necesita mantener la mente ocupada.."

-Stephen King, Laurie

"It was life, you were stuck with it, and all you could do was live it."

-Stephen King, Laurie

"Could you control how your mind sorted things? No more than you could control your dreams?"

-Stephen King, Laurie

Cover of Terror is Our Business: Dana Roberts' Casebook of Horrors by Joe R. Lansdale

20. Terror is Our Business: Dana Roberts' Casebook of Horrors

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.30

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author and “Champion Mojo Storyteller” Joe R. Lansdale (Hap & Leonard, Bubba Ho Tep) … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

21. The Red Tower

By: Thomas Ligotti

3.83

Format: None pages, None

Winner of 1996 Bram Stoker Award for Long Fiction read more

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