6 Best weird fiction books like An Emporium of Automata by D.P. Watt

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An Emporium of Automata

By: D.P. Watt

4.36

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

An Emporium of Automata is a sewn hardcover book of 222 pages with dust-jacket, silk ribbon, endpap…

If you liked the weird fiction plot in An Emporium of Automata by D.P. Watt , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Erstwhile

By: Brian Catling

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Erstwhilebrings readers back to the singular world and mind of B. Catling, continuing the groun… read more

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  • fiction
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2. Books of Blood: Volume Three (Books of Blood #3)

By: Clive Barker

3.50

Format: None pages,

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN 9780425093474 To a mortician, the preparation of a corpse is an ar… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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3. The Colour Out of Space

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.03

Format: 78 pages, Mass Market Paperback

'It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies … read more

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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws."

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space

"West of Arkham the hills rise wild and there are valleys with deep woods that no ax has ever cut. There are dark, narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, where thin brooklets trickle withou…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space

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4. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. The Inhuman Condition (Books of Blood, #4)

By: Clive Barker

4.06

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

A master storyteller and unrivaled visionary, Clive Barker has mixed the real and unreal with the h… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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6. North American Lake Monsters

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.97

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous exp… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"He imagined the room bathed in blood, himself striding through it, a raven amongst the carcasses. Strutting like any carrion king."

-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

"A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost end…"

-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

"Sounds rose from the earth. New sounds: cobwebs of exhalations, pauses of the heart, the monastic work of the worms translating flesh to soil, the slow crawl of rock. There was another kind of indust…"

-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

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7. Between Two Fires

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village… read more

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  • fiction
"The only thing I say to God is my daughter's names; and it is not a prayer, it's a rebuke."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"He was being kissed now by his own mouth, not as lovers kiss, with tongues, but as true lovers kiss, sharing breath."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"A dark-haired little boy just in pants stood bewildered near the blaze, saying, as if there had been some mistake, "We live here. We live here."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death…"

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

8. The Vorrh

By: Alan Moore , Brian Catling

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of The Vorrh, a daring debut that Alan Moor… read more

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9. Poor Things

By: Alasdair Gray

3.94

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more

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  • fiction
"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

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10. The King in Yellow

By: Robert W. Chambers

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

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11. 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
  • fiction
"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)

12. The House on the Borderland

By: William Hope Hodgson

5.00

Format: 32 pages,

A manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the s… read more

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13. 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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14. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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15. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

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  • fiction
"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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16. Negative Space

By: B.R. Yeager

3.72

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more

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  • fiction
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

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17. Ghostwritten

By: Ronald Malfi

4.12

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

Four brand-new horror novellas from “a modern-day Algernon Blackwood” all about books, stories, man… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"myself asks am i here? i've lost myself i fear"

-Ronald Malfi, Ghostwritten

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18. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

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  • fiction
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19. Cruise of Shadows: Haunted Stories of Land and Sea

By: Jean Ray

4.04

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Footsteps in an abandoned holiday resort as the cold weather settles in; a door that opens in an em… read more

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  • literature
  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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20. The Cloven (The Vorrh Trilogy, #3)

By: Brian Catling

4.04

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

In the stunning conclusion to Brian Catling's Vorrh trilogy, the colonial city of Essenwald gives u… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • fiction
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21. An Emporium of Automata

By: D.P. Watt

4.36

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

An Emporium of Automata is a sewn hardcover book of 222 pages with dust-jacket, silk ribbon, endpap… read more

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H.P. Lovecraft

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