11 Top short stories books like The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future by Christi Nogle

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The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

By: Christi Nogle

3.85

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future is whimsical and dreadful, verdant and sinister. Read…

If you liked the short stories plot in The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future by Christi Nogle , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. 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 Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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2. Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

Format: 457 pages, Hardcover

Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • fiction
  • horror
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3. This Is Where We Talk Things Out

By: Caitlin Marceau

3.77

Format: 93 pages, ebook

This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contempo… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Marceau's This Is Where We Talk Things Out book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. Little Eve

By: Catriona Ward

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

A heart-pounding tale of faith and family, with a devastating twist“A great day is upon us. He is c… read more

Similar categories in Catriona Ward's Little Eve book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"It is a kind of privilege, to witness the darkness."

-Catriona Ward, Little Eve

"I don't know which is worse - suffering or the memory of it. Memory, perhaps, because it does not end."

-Catriona Ward, Little Eve

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5. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. The Mysteries

By: Bill Watterson

3.76

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller. From Bill Watterson, bests… read more

Similar categories in Bill Watterson's The Mysteries book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. 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

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Vessel book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. 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

Similar categories in Jordan Peele's Out There Screaming book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

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

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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9. The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

3.85

Format: 192 pages, ebook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Tusks of Extinction book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

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10. The Devil Takes You Home

By: Gabino Iglesias

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father despera… read more

Similar categories in Gabino Iglesias's The Devil Takes You Home book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

By: Brian Evenson

3.89

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome le… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
" The world is a strange place , thought Haupt, alone in the dark, almost unbearably so. And yet, it is the only place I have. And I'm not even entirely sure I have it. "

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

"We did speak, occasionally, but gestured more often than moved our lips, and in general lived in that brusque and silent accord enjoyed, if enjoyed is the right word, by certain long-married couples."

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

"And there's another one, where you look yourself in the mirror and keep looking until you can see through your skin, and then you draw your own heart and send the drawing in a letter to someone else.…"

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

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12. Split Scream Volume One

By: Carson Winter

4.23

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Dread Stone Press presents SPLIT SCREAM, a new Horror Novelette Double Feature. This is Volume One.… read more

Similar categories in Carson Winter's Split Scream Volume One book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Linghun

By: Ai Jiang

3.96

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

WELCOME HOME. Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian… read more

Similar categories in Ai Jiang's Linghun book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"In HOME, Liam was a dream. Here, he's a flawed but beautiful reality. Whispers of our future together lull us both into a dreamless sleep. It's the first time we find such emptiness comforting."

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

"Feelings, emotions, experiences, are all part of humanity's shared language, and in Linghun, that shared language is grief. Grief is a language that tears us apart, but it is also what brings us toge…"

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

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14. The Marigold

By: Andrew F. Sullivan

3.32

Format: 360 pages, ebook

An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. In a near-future Toronto buffeted by environm… read more

Similar categories in Andrew F. Sullivan's The Marigold book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. AHH! That's What I Call Horror: An Anthology of '90s Horror

By: Chelsea Pumpkins

3.99

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

With fourteen horror stories set during the decade of flannel shirts and neon dolphin Trapper Keepe… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Pumpkins's AHH! That's What I Call Horror: An Anthology of '90s Horror book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. The Inconsolables

By: Michael Wehunt

4.24

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

In his first collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt introduced the world to his singular voic… read more

Similar categories in Michael Wehunt's The Inconsolables book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Well, my wife and child have moved out," Fulton told him, "and I've gotten back into vampires to fill the hole they left behind."

-Michael Wehunt, The Inconsolables

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17. Soft Targets

By: Carson Winter

4.32

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

You know that office bromance: two of a kind, always taking their lunch together, always wearing th… read more

Similar categories in Carson Winter's Soft Targets book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • fiction
  • horror
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18. I Am AI: A Novelette

By: Ai Jiang

4.11

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

If you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to su… read more

Similar categories in Ai Jiang's I Am AI: A Novelette book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Helicopter Parenting in the Age of Drone Warfare

By: Patrick Barb

4.57

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

In a near-future United States, surveillance technology's the hottest trend in high-tech parenting.… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Barb's Helicopter Parenting in the Age of Drone Warfare book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • horror
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20. The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

By: Christi Nogle

3.85

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future is whimsical and dreadful, verdant and sinister. Read… read more

Similar categories in Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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21. A Man Among Ghosts

By: Steven Hopstaken

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

You'll love this if you like the movie Jacob’s Ladder, Stephen King’s The Dead Zone or Shirley Jack… read more

Similar categories in Steven Hopstaken's A Man Among Ghosts book and Christi Nogle's The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

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