6 must-read fantasy books like Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy by Mike Ashley

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Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy

By: Mike Ashley

3.78

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

“The events which I purpose detailing are of so extraordinary a character that I am quite prepared …

If you liked the fantasy plot in Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy by Mike Ashley , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Matthew Sweet

1. The Woman in White

By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet

4.01

Format: 672 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more

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  • gothic
  • literature
  • horror
"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

Cover of The October Faction, Vol. 2 by Steve Niles, Damien Worm

2. The October Faction, Vol. 2

By: Steve Niles , Damien Worm

3.79

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

The Allan family has inducted Dante, a.k.a. Robot Face, into the fold and Geoff and Vivian have beg… read more

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  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

3. Moll Flanders

By: Daniel Defoe

3.52

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781853260735. The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Fla… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm."

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

"I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over..."

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

"Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore."

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

"He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that th…"

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

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4. The Children of Jocasta

By: Natalie Haynes

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents... Jocasta is just… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

Cover of The October Faction, Vol. 4: Deadly Season by Steve Niles, Damien Worm

6. The October Faction, Vol. 4: Deadly Season

By: Steve Niles , Damien Worm

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Ghouls in the graveyard! Giant Monsters downtown! The Allan family comes face to face with a whole … read more

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  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. In Bitter Chill (DC Connie Childs, #1)

By: Sarah Ward

3.50

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

In 1978, a small town in Derbyshire, England is traumatised by the kidnapping of two young schoolgi… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The October Faction, Vol. 3 by Steve Niles, Damien Worm, Alyzia Zherno, Robbie Robbins, Shawn Lee, None

8. The October Faction, Vol. 3

By: Steve Niles , Damien Worm , Alyzia Zherno , Robbie Robbins , Shawn Lee , None

3.50

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Merle Cope and his frightful family have been destroyed and Fred Allan has been rescued. Now that t… read more

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  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination by Richard Mabey

9. The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination

By: Richard Mabey

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

The Cabaret of Plantsis a masterful, globe-trotting exploration of the relationship between humans … read more

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10. Cold Comfort Farm

By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more

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11. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

By: Laurence Sterne , Melvyn New

3.90

Format: 256 pages,

Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categoriz… read more

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12. H is for Hawk

By: Helen Macdonald

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more

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13. 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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14. The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown, #1)

By: G.K. Chesterton

0.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes a… read more

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15. The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)

By: Agatha Christie

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dus… read more

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16. The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)

By: James Ellroy

4.10

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Holl… read more

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17. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

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"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

Cover of Count Luna by Alexander Lernet-Holenia

18. Count Luna

By: Alexander Lernet-Holenia

3.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

At the start of WWII, Alexander Jessiersky, an Austrian aristocrat, heads a great Viennese shipping… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers, 1852-1923 by Lisa Morton

19. Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers, 1852-1923

By: Lisa Morton

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

While the nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley may be hailed as the first modern writer of horror, the su… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Morton's Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers, 1852-1923 book and Mike Ashley's Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy

  • gothic
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Slow Horses (Slough House, #1) by Mick Herron

20. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

By: Mick Herron

4.00

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"​This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

Cover of Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy by Mike Ashley

21. Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy

By: Mike Ashley

3.78

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

“The events which I purpose detailing are of so extraordinary a character that I am quite prepared … read more

Similar categories in Mike Ashley's Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy book and Mike Ashley's Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy

  • gothic
  • literature
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • paranormal

11 Top fiction books like Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy by Mike Ashley

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The October Faction, Vol. 2

Steve Niles , Damien Worm

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

3.52

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The Children of Jocasta

Natalie Haynes

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

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A Severed Head

Iris Murdoch

3.74

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Beware of Pity

Stefan Zweig , Phyllis Blewitt , Trevor Blewitt

4.67

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Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

4.17

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Inspector Imanishi Investigates

Seichō Matsumoto , Beth Cary

4.08

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