Worlds of Ruin
By: B.R. Yeager
3.89
Format: 32 pages, ebook
2015 Five Quarterly e-Chapbook Contest winner. "When one plays a game, they inhabit what Johan H…
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1. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
By: William Gibson
3.89
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more
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"Boy, I was daid."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"Things aren't different. Things are things."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
2. Nausea
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth
3.94
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more
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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
3. Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
By: Jeff VanderMeer
3.64
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, reb… read more
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"What does the border look like?"-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
"I hope to find Area X in Area X."-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
"The time for expeditions was over."-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
"Was this first contact, or last contact?"-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
4. Occultation and Other Stories
By: Laird Barron
4.08
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, … read more
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5. X's For Eyes
By: Laird Barron
3.62
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Brothers Macbeth and Drederick Tooms should have it made as fair-haired scions of an impossibly ric… read more
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"Presumption is a leading cause of death."-Laird Barron, X's For Eyes
"The universe and its design is often one of arbitrary horror."-Laird Barron, X's For Eyes
"Arthur said, “Let’s be cool and not get busted. I advise rest and relaxation, and definitely a bath. You guys smell like booze and cheap whores."-Laird Barron, X's For Eyes
"I am abroad in the night with my servants. We come to smoke the northern lights, to rape the Wendigo, to melt igloos with streams of hot, bloody piss. To see and see."-Laird Barron, X's For Eyes
6. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
By: Arthur Machen
3.69
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more
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"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
7. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more
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8. Uzumaki
By: Junji Ito , Yuji Oniki
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the… read more
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9. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
By: Laird Barron
3.98
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Lai… read more
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"After years in the wilderness, he usually talked to himself."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"Actually, coyotes are much scarier than wolves. Sneaky, sneaky little suckers. Eat you up. Lick the blood all up."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"I hate puppets. Hate them. They descend from a demonic line parallel to mimes and clowns and are wholly of the devil, especially the lifelike variety."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"I was accustomed to liars, bold-faced or wide-eyed, silver tongued or pleading, often with the barrel of my gun directed at them as they babbled their last prayers to an indifferent god, squirted the…"-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
10. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
By: André Maurois , Jorge Luis Borges , James E. Irby , Donald A. Yates
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges … read more
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11. Sour Candy
By: Kealan Patrick Burke
3.65
Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition
At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different … read more
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"Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton's teeth fell out."-Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy
12. Last Days
By: Brian Evenson , Peter Straub
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Intense and profoundly unsettling, Brian Evenson's Last Daysis a down-the-rabbit-hole detective nov… read more
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13. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
By: Edgar Allan Poe
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. In… read more
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14. Martian Time-Slip
By: Philip K. Dick
4.09
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophre… read more
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15. The Croning
By: Laird Barron
3.73
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyon… read more
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"The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did."-Laird Barron, The Croning
"Ramirez walked ahead with a torch he'd fashioned from a stick and some rags and by that queer and reddish light, devils, or the shadows of devils hooked to the shoes of the men and capered across the…"-Laird Barron, The Croning
"They would, according to his experience of their traditions, suspect he was a demon, or demon-inhabited. Considering the volume of alcohol saturating his liver, that ancient gateway of spirits, of co…"-Laird Barron, The Croning
"The light in the gallery changed subtly and he whirled and saw someone approaching him from between the exhibit cases. The individual moved with alarming speed, bent low to the floor, but straighteni…"-Laird Barron, The Croning
16. 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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"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
17. The Fall of the House of Usher
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.87
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more
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"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
18. Dark Awakenings
By: Matt Cardin , Jason Van Hollander , None
4.32
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From its earliest origins, the human religious impulse has been fundamentally bound up with an expe… read more
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19. My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror
By: Thomas Ligotti , None
3.87
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
When junior manager Frank Dominio is suddenly demoted and then sacked it seems there was more than … read more
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"Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew."-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror
"Generally speaking: Expect nothing but nightmarish obscenities to be born when human heads come together in intercourse."-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror
"Every milestone in the history of the company, even when forecast with heaps of hoopla, was ultimately played out according to some secret timeline of geologic tedium, so that it was drained of all i…"-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror
"It all seemed so enticing, but like every other attraction along the world’s midway the greatest part of its appeal lay in those moments of anticipation. And after it was all over, the particular att…"-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror
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21. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
22. Man with No Name
By: Laird Barron
4.17
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
Nanashi was born into a life of violence. Delivered from the mean streets by the Heron Clan, he mas… read more
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23. The Only Good Indians
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.70
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
The creeping horror of Paul Tremblay meets Tommy Orange’s There There in a dark novel of revenge, c… read more
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"Names are stupid, though. Pretty soon he won't even need his."-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
"Lewis finds the fourteen-foot aluminum ladder under boxes in the garage, Three Stooges in into the backyard..."-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
"Dealing with cops is like being around a skittish horse: No sudden movements, nothing shiny or loud. Zero jokes."-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
"An elk mother, cornered, will slash with her hooves and tear with her mouth and even offer the hope of her own hamstrings, and if none of that works, she'll rise again years and years later, because …"-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
24. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
By: Eric LaRocca
2.96
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet… read more
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25. 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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" 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
26. The Test
By: Sylvain Neuvel
3.83
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test. He wants his f… read more
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27. My Annihilation
By: Fuminori Nakamura
3.34
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn this … read more
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"Aristotle, the scholar from ancient times, supposedly said "Even gods cannot change the past." In which case, the gods are useless."-Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation
"Take a look around the internet. The ditches into which all evil is eventually swept. People hide their faces and type away without a care, no self-awareness for how their words will be picked up by …"-Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation
28. To Rouse Leviathan
By: Matt Cardin
4.04
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Matt Cardin has distinguished himself by writing weird … read more
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29. The Monster of Elendhaven
By: Jennifer Giesbrecht
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, s… read more
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"Johann grinned. "Right. So what's the prognosis, sweetheart?"-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven
"Monster was the best, his favorite word. The first half was a kiss, the second a hiss."-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven
"Unwise to dream of death in a world where someone has the power to make those dreams come true."-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven
"If Johann was going to be a Thing with a name, then from now on he would be a Thing with power, too."-Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven
30. Worlds of Ruin
By: B.R. Yeager
3.89
Format: 32 pages, ebook
2015 Five Quarterly e-Chapbook Contest winner. "When one plays a game, they inhabit what Johan H… read more
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