6 Best lovecraftian books like The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library by Darrell Schweitzer

Cover of The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library by Darrell Schweitzer

The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library

By: Darrell Schweitzer

4.08

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Miskatonic University, in fabled Arkham Massachusetts, has long been described in the fiction of H.…

If you liked the lovecraftian plot in The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library by Darrell Schweitzer , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1) by China Miéville

1. Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)

By: China Miéville

3.80

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where th… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard

2. The Crystal World

By: J.G. Ballard

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

J. G. Ballard's fourth novel, which established his reputation as a writer of extraordinary talent … read more

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  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker

3. The Scarlet Gospels

By: Clive Barker

4.15

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

The Scarlet Gospelstakes readers back many years to the early days of two of Barker's most iconic c… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

4. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

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5. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy

6. The Nest

By: Gregory A. Douglas , None

3.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • horror

7. Bulfinch's Mythology

By: Thomas Bulfinch

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of… read more

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8. Kissing Carrion

By: Gemma Files

4.03

Format: 606 pages, Paperback

In this first published collection of short stories from one of Canada's most talented rising stars… read more

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9. Sklepy cynamonowe; Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą

By: Bruno Schulz

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

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10. Children of Lovecraft

By: John Langan , Caitlín R. Kiernan , Mike Mignola , Richard Kadrey , Gemma Files , Brian Evenson , Maria Dahvana Headley , Brian Hodge , Ellen Datlow , Stephen Graham Jones , Laird Barron , Orrin Grey , Livia Llewellyn , A.C. Wise , David Nickle , Siobhan Carroll

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Howard Phillips Lovecraft's stories shaped modern horror more than any other author's in the last t… read more

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11. 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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12. Elric of Melniboné (Elric, #1)

By: Michael Moorcock

3.90

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders i… read more

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13. The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.00

Format: 18 pages,

The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBoo… read more

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14. All the Fiends of Hell

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the mor… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories by Brian Evenson

15. 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

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  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
" 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

Cover of Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files, #6.5) by Charles Stross

16. Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files, #6.5)

By: Charles Stross

3.93

Format: 81 pages, Hardcover

Regular readers of Charles Stross's Laundry Files might have noticed Bob Howard's absence from the … read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"There's enough irony in my situation that a skilled blacksmith could turn it into a katana."

-Charles Stross, Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files, #6.5)

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17. 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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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Creep Out by Jeff Strand

18. Creep Out

By: Jeff Strand

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Ezra went home for his father’s funeral. He left with an unwanted ventriloquist dummy named Virgil… read more

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  • horror
Cover of The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson

19. The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

By: Brian Evenson

4.10

Format: 254 pages, ebook

“Here is how monstrous humans are.” A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurkin… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies by John  Langan

20. Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

By: John Langan

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of The Twice-Drowned Saint by C.S.E. Cooney

21. The Twice-Drowned Saint

By: C.S.E. Cooney

4.10

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

"World Fantasy Award winner Cooney imagines angels as Lovecraftian monsters . . . Plenty of charm!"… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Horror Collection: Topaz Edition by Lee Mountford

22. The Horror Collection: Topaz Edition

By: Lee Mountford

4.24

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

Book 19 in The Horror Collection series brings you a multiplicity of horror stories, written by som… read more

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  • horror
Cover of The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven by Ellen Datlow

23. The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven

By: Ellen Datlow

3.78

Format: 512 pages, ebook

For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most f… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten by Ellen Datlow

24. Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten

By: Ellen Datlow

3.82

Format: 432 pages, ebook

“Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year series is one of the best investments you can make in short f… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of The Body Library by Jeff Noon

25. The Body Library

By: Jeff Noon

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Jeff Noon returns with a staggering hallucinogenic sequel to A Man of Shadows, taking hapless inves… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera by Elizabeth Bear

26. On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.87

Format: 40 pages, ebook

An academic's whimsical decision to take a DNA test leads her into uncharted territory, where she d… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • cthulhu mythos
"You can’t avoid the sea forever,"

-Elizabeth Bear, On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

"You can’t win an argument with the sea."

-Elizabeth Bear, On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

"I guess interdimensional travel takes it out of you."

-Elizabeth Bear, On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

"If his tone were any more soaked in exasperation, it would be dripping."

-Elizabeth Bear, On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

Cover of The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library by Darrell Schweitzer

27. The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library

By: Darrell Schweitzer

4.08

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Miskatonic University, in fabled Arkham Massachusetts, has long been described in the fiction of H.… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • cthulhu mythos
  • books about books
Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) by Nathan Ballingrud

28. Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into th… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Not a Speck of Light: Stories by Laird Barron

29. Not a Speck of Light: Stories

By: Laird Barron

4.16

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

It’s about to get very dark. Bram Stoker Award-winning author Laird Barron returns to the dark and … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Write Like Hell: Dark Fantasy & Horror Anthology Vol. 1 by Mitchell Lüthi

30. Write Like Hell: Dark Fantasy & Horror Anthology Vol. 1

By: Mitchell Lüthi

3.97

Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition

Write Like Hell is the first horror and dark fantasy anthology released by Sentinel Creatives. Adap… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Corporate Cthulhu: Lovecraftian Tales of Bureaucratic Nightmare by Edward J. Stasheff

31. Corporate Cthulhu: Lovecraftian Tales of Bureaucratic Nightmare

By: Edward J. Stasheff

4.06

Format: 559 pages, ebook

YOUR CALL TO CTHULHU IS IMPORTANT TO US. PLEASE HOLD.Red tape. Catch-22s. Circular chains of comman… read more

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  • horror

20 Best fiction books like The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library by Darrell Schweitzer

Transform Your Habits

Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)

China Miéville

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Crystal World

J.G. Ballard

3.33

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The Scarlet Gospels

Clive Barker

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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Transform Your Habits

Dark Screams: Volume One

Stephen King , Kelley Armstrong , Brian James Freeman , Bill Pronzini , Ramsey Campbell , Simon Clark , Richard Chizmar

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Best New Horror 24 (The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #24)

Neil Gaiman , Steve Rasnic Tem , Gemma Files , Kim Newman , Stephen Jones , Joel Lane , Ramsey Campbell , Glen Hirshberg , Lynda E. Rucker , Joe R. Lansdale , Alison Littlewood , Simon Kurt Unsworth , Reggie Oliver , Thana Niveau , Terry Dowling , Robert Shearman , Michael Kelly , Stephen Volk , Dale Bailey , Mark Valentine , Helen Marshall , Evangeline Walton , None

3.68

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The Complete Poems

Walt Whitman , Francis Murphy

3.90

Transform Your Habits

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Gemma Files

3.56

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