19 Best horror books like The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny by Sarban

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The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny

By: Sarban

4.10

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

Described by no less an authority than E.F. Bleiler as 'excellent', 'The Doll Maker' is the story o…

If you liked the horror plot in The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny by Sarban , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Bran Mak Morn: The Last King

By: Robert E. Howard , Gary Gianni

4.03

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

From Robert E. Howard’s fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s greatest heroes, including Con… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit; the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint …"

-Robert E. Howard, Bran Mak Morn: The Last King

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2. Wylding Hall

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.80

Format: 176 pages, ebook

When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their u… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"But mostly I'm just respectful of old ways. I believe things for a reason, and in the old days they did things for a reason. And if you don't understand why—well, you might end up opening a few doors…"

-Elizabeth Hand, Wylding Hall

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3. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" (TheWashington Pos… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe book and Sarban's The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny

  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. The Irregular Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

By: Ron Weighell

3.50

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

Sherlock Holmes, wrote his friend and chronicler John H. Watson, was an 'unofficial adviser and hel… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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5. The Face of Twilight

By: Mark Samuels , Mark Morris

4.71

Format: 595 pages, Paperback

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  • weird fiction
  • horror
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6. The Course of the Heart

By: M. John Harrison

3.32

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

John M. Harrison delivers an extraordinary, genre-bending novel that weaves together mythology, sex… read more

Similar categories in M. John Harrison's The Course of the Heart book and Sarban's The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny

  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror

7. 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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  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror

8. The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales

By: Mark Samuels

4.36

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Cryptic and potent languages, bizarre cults, mysteries that span the gulf between life and death, o… read more

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9. Dark Entries

By: Robert Aickman

3.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sewn signatures, printed on 110gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in bergundy wibalin cloth … read more

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10. Malpertuis

By: Iain White , Jean Ray , John Flanders

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

A manuscript stolen from a monastery, the ancient stone house of a sea-trading dynasty, which may b… read more

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11. A Haunting on the Hill

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.35

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hand's A Haunting on the Hill book and Sarban's The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny

  • fiction
  • horror
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12. Cunning Folk

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Money's tight and their new home is a fixer-upper. Deep in rural South West England, with an ancien… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's Cunning Folk book and Sarban's The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny

  • fiction
  • horror
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13. The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories

By: Amelia B. Edwards

3.77

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Amelia B. Edwards is acknowledged as one of the best Victorian ghost story writers. She was one of … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"The circumstances I am about to relate to you have truth to recommend them."

-Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories

"All tradition,’ said the Professor, ‘is a type of spiritual truth. The superstitions of the East, and the mythologies of the North—the beautiful Fables of old Greece, and the bold investigations of m…"

-Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories

"The world,’ he said, ‘grows hourly more and more sceptical of all that lies beyond its own narrow radius; and our men of science foster the fatal tendency. They condemn as fable all that resists expe…"

-Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories

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14. The World Below

By: David Peak

3.98

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Witches, LSD psychosis, and the slippery nature of truth. The World Below is about the limitless ho… read more

Similar categories in David Peak's The World Below book and Sarban's The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny

  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Swedish Cults

By: Anders Fager

3.47

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Forget everything you think you know about Sweden. In Anders Fager’s stories, Sweden is revealed as… read more

Similar categories in Anders Fager's Swedish Cults book and Sarban's The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny

  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories

By: Bernardo Esquinca

4.14

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Bernardo Esquinca's haunting tale "Señor Ligotti" represented Mexico in the acclaimed The Valancour… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Sooner or later', she said,' our true nature separates us from the person we love. Losing one's shadow shouldn't be a tragedy but a goal. It's the only way of finding out who we really are."

-Bernardo Esquinca, The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories

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17. Neo-Decadence Evangelion

By: Justin Isis

4.79

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

The Neo-Decadents, those Post-Naturalist culture sluts of the 21st Century Empire of Ruins, present… read more

Similar categories in Justin Isis's Neo-Decadence Evangelion book and Sarban's The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny

  • short stories
  • fiction
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18. Nocebo

By: R. Ostermeier

4.80

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

R. Ostermeier's new collection comprises four longer tales of peninsula folklore and history. Noceb… read more

Similar categories in R. Ostermeier's Nocebo book and Sarban's The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny

  • fiction
  • horror
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19. The Fig Garden and Other Stories

By: Mark Valentine

4.65

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

This new collection of short and some longer stories by Mark Valentine explores ‘the Real Map of En… read more

Similar categories in Mark Valentine's The Fig Garden and Other Stories book and Sarban's The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny

  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Rumsy Schoolchildren

By: R. Ostermeier

4.80

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

“There’s evidence childhood games mimic desired behaviour of fairness. The Opies found there were c… read more

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21. Wild Marjoram Tea

By: Sylvia Littlegood-Briggs

4.45

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

May your pockets be deep in dust, for each mote is a star, little one, and your right pocket hold… read more

Similar categories in Sylvia Littlegood-Briggs's Wild Marjoram Tea book and Sarban's The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny

  • fiction
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22. Lost Estates

By: Mark Valentine

4.27

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

“I am, and ever have been, a great reader . . . a library cormorant. I am deep in all out of the wa… read more

Similar categories in Mark Valentine's Lost Estates book and Sarban's The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny

  • fiction
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23. Hauntings

By: Peter Bell

4.38

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

Peter Bell in these ten stories presents an intriguing gallery of people and places that are in var… read more

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24. King Satyr

By: Ron Weighell

4.38

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

Nearly twenty-five years in the making, Sarob Press is absolutely honoured and thrilled to, at long… read more

Similar categories in Ron Weighell's King Satyr book and Sarban's The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny

  • horror
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25. 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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26. The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny

By: Sarban

4.10

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

Described by no less an authority than E.F. Bleiler as 'excellent', 'The Doll Maker' is the story o… read more

Similar categories in Sarban's The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny book and Sarban's The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny

  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. Prisms of the Oneiroi

By: Martin Locker

4.50

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

A compendium of short stories focussing on surreal and dreamlike encounters with folklore, archaeol… read more

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28. The Baron's Coffin and Other Disquieting Tales

By: Ada Buisson

4.00

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Ada Buisson (1839-1866) put but one novel before the public during her lifetime, the rest of her wo… read more

Similar categories in Ada Buisson's The Baron's Coffin and Other Disquieting Tales book and Sarban's The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny

  • horror
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29. The Night of Turns

By: Edita Bikker

4.67

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Once upon a time, you died. I put this mark on your skin so I’d know you on returning. You were … read more

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  • horror
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30. Singing and Sighing, Collected Stories, Volume I

By: D.P. Watt

4.67

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

I love how short all these stories are, how succinctly Dan always moves towards his point. Despite … read more

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31. The Inhuman Ladder

By: Karim Ghahwagi

4.33

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

Collected for the first time and arranged into a chronological sequence which spans over 600 years … read more

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Bran Mak Morn: The Last King

Robert E. Howard , Gary Gianni

4.03

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Wylding Hall

Elizabeth Hand

3.80

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Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

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The Irregular Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

Ron Weighell

3.50

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Fancies and Goodnights

Ray Bradbury , John Collier

4.05

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The Famished Road

Ben Okri

3.73

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Auto-da-Fé

Elias Canetti , Τζένη Μαστοράκη , C.V. Wedgwood

4.02

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Horace Walpole

3.18

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