11 Best short stories books like Figures Unseen: Selected Stories by Steve Rasnic Tem

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Figures Unseen: Selected Stories

By: Steve Rasnic Tem

3.89

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

In the worlds of Steve Rasnic Tem a father takes his son “fishing” in the deepest part of downtown,…

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1. Cockfighter

By: Charles Willeford

4.13

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

The sport is cockfighting and Frank Mansfield is the cockfighter - a silent and fiercely contrary m… read more

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2. Ashenden

By: W. Somerset Maugham , None

3.87

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Maugham had the perfect cover for living… read more

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  • short stories
"-Hay cierta elegancia en malgastar el tiempo -repuso Ashenden-. Cualquier cretino es capaz de despilfarrar dinero, pero cuando uno gasta su propio tiempo tiene el placer de tirar una cosa que no tien…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

"Los hechos son narradores pobres. Empienzan la historia por azar, generalmente mucho antes del principio, divagan inconsecuentes y decaen, dejando posibles finales colgados y sin conclusión. Trabajan…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

"R. terminó su relato y miró a Ashenden, dejando escapar un relámpago por la ranura de sus ojos medio cerrados. -Es novelesco, ¿no le parece? -preguntó. -¿Y me dice usted que eso ha ocurrido hace poco…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

"I gather from what you have not said that he is an unmitigated scoundrel." R. smiled with his pale blue eyes. "I don't know that I'd go quite so far as that. He hasn't had the value of a public-schoo…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

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3. The Cormorant

By: Stephen Gregory

3.54

Format: 148 pages, Mass Market Paperback

For a young couple, the small cottage tucked away in a quiet village in the mountains of north Wale… read more

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  • audiobook
  • horror
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4. By Bizarre Hands

By: Joe R. Lansdale , Lewis Shiner , Mark A. Nelson , Joe R. Landsdale

4.21

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

WARNING: THIS BOOK MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR MENTAL HEALTH. But if you've got a taste for bone-chil… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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5. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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6. True Grit

By: Charles Portis

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more

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  • audiobook
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7. A Canticle for Leibowitz

By: Walter M. Miller Jr.

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more

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8. The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 3: Second Variety

By: John Brunner , Philip K. Dick

3.73

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. … read more

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9. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

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  • audiobook
  • horror
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

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10. Dark Gods

By: T.E.D. Klein

4.09

Format: 261 pages, Mass Market Paperback

T.E.D. Klein's highly acclaimed first novel The Ceremonies - which Stephen King called "the most ex… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

11. The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more

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12. 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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13. Night Shift

By: Stephen King , John D. MacDonald

4.04

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by th… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"She wasn't like a jukebox; you never had to put in a dime and she never came unplugged."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"If seven hundred monkeys typed for seven hundred years, one of them would turn out the works of Shakespeare,"

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"There are spiritually noxious places, buildings where the milk of the cosmos has become sour and rancid. This church is such a place; I would swear to it."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

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14. Maeve Fly

By: C.J. Leede

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more

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  • audiobook
  • horror
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

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15. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

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  • audiobook
  • horror
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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16. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

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  • audiobook
  • horror
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

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17. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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  • audiobook
"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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18. 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

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  • audiobook
  • horror
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19. Acting Class

By: Nick Drnaso

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant and suspenseful follow-up to the Booker-nominated graphic novel Sabrina."Every single p… read more

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  • short stories
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20. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

By: Eric LaRocca

3.22

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensati… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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21. A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune—An Oral History

By: Max Evry

4.17

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

LIMITED FIRST EDITION contains red foil gilded page edges and a black satin ribbon marker. As featu… read more

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22. Woom

By: Duncan Ralston

3.25

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

Warning: this book contains graphic violence and sexuality most readers will find offensive. "I… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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23. 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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  • audiobook
  • horror
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24. Mary

By: Nat Cassidy

3.80

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invis… read more

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  • audiobook
  • horror
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25. Terminal Park

By: Gary J. Shipley

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

“Shipley's Terminal Park pounds fiction into entirely new shapes. Disintegrating and blissful. High… read more

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  • horror
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26. 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

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  • short stories
  • 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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27. Crash Site

By: Nathan Cowdry

3.44

Format: 130 pages, Hardcover

A black comedy of high order, this debut graphic novel doubles as a psychological drama set in the … read more

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28. Along the Path of Torment

By: Chandler Morrison

3.79

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Ty Seward is a sick man. Anorexic, sexually aberrant, and haunted by a ghostly apparition residing … read more

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  • horror
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29. Convulsive

By: Joe Koch

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New museums birth atrocity in every flex: fifteen horror stories of religion, abuse, desire, and ge… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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30. Valerie and Other Stories

By: Colin Insole

4.48

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

With the nine stories of this collection, Colin Insole conducts a fantastic pavane that depicts hum… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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31. Figures Unseen: Selected Stories

By: Steve Rasnic Tem

3.89

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

In the worlds of Steve Rasnic Tem a father takes his son “fishing” in the deepest part of downtown,… read more

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  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • horror

11 Top audiobook books like Figures Unseen: Selected Stories by Steve Rasnic Tem

Transform Your Habits

The Cormorant

Stephen Gregory

3.54

Transform Your Habits

True Grit

Charles Portis

3.20

Transform Your Habits

The Fisherman

John Langan

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

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Cows

Matthew Stokoe

2.80

Transform Your Habits

Gone to See the River Man

Kristopher Triana

3.67

Transform Your Habits

The Slob

Aron Beauregard

3.38

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No One Rides For Free

Judith Sonnet

2.78

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