15 Top anthologies books like The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Four by James D. Jenkins

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The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Four

By: James D. Jenkins

3.94

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Since 2005, Valancourt Books has unearthed and republished almost 500 lost and neglected works from…

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1. Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

By: John Langan

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated profess… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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2. Wylding Hall

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.80

Format: 176 pages, ebook

When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their u… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"But mostly I'm just respectful of old ways. I believe things for a reason, and in the old days they did things for a reason. And if you don't understand why—well, you might end up opening a few doors…"

-Elizabeth Hand, Wylding Hall

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3. Harvest Home

By: Thomas Tryon

3.82

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

It was almost as if time had not touched the village of Cornwall Coombe. The quiet, peaceful place … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"His heart's in the right place, but his tongue's an affliction."

-Thomas Tryon, Harvest Home

Cover of Before You Sleep: Three Horrors by Adam L.G. Nevill

4. Before You Sleep: Three Horrors

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.32

Format: 344 pages,

A trilogy of horror stories from the award-winning writer's first collection of short stories - SOM… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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5. Gyo

By: Junji Ito

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Something is rotten in Okinawa... The floating smell of death hangs over the island. What is it? A … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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6. No Transfer

By: Stephen Walton

4.16

Format: 422 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Walking After Midnight: Tales for Halloween

By: Evan Camby

3.81

Format: 225 pages,

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror

8. Hell! Said the Duchess: A Bedtime Story

By: Michael Arlen

3.66

Format: None pages,

A female killer stalks the streets of London, sleeping with young men before slashing their throats… read more

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9. The Best Horror of the Year Volume Four

By: Stephen King , John Langan , Chet Williamson , Glen Hirshberg , Peter Straub , Brian Hodge , Ellen Datlow , Priya Sharma , Laird Barron , Margo Lanagan , None , Terry Lamsley , Leah Bobet , Livia Llewellyn , A.C. Wise , None , David Nickle , Anna Taborska

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

The first three volumes of The Best Horror of the Year have been widely praised for their quality, … read more

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10. Fragments of Horror

By: Junji Ito

4.28

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

A new collection of delightfully macabre tales from a master of horror manga. An old wooden mansion… read more

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11. Burnt Offerings

By: Robert Marasco

3.74

Format: 646 pages, Hardcover

Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so… read more

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12. Boy's Life

By: Robert McCammon

4.39

Format: 625 pages, Kindle Edition

An Alabama boy’s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the … read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end."

-Robert McCammon, Boy's Life

"After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation."

-Robert McCammon, Boy's Life

"See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in …"

-Robert McCammon, Boy's Life

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13. Halloween Horrors: 13 Tales of Terror (Anthologies of Terror)

By: Blair Daniels

3.99

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

The same trick-or-treater keeps coming to my house. He's starting to scare me.There's a scarecrow s… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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14. The Lake of the Dead

By: André Bjerke

3.82

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

Deep in the darkest part of the Norwegian woods stands Dead Man's Cabin, the site of tragedy a cent… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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15. You Can't Hide: 30 Tales of Terror

By: Blair Daniels

4.14

Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition

I found a note I don't remember writing.It says 'Don't look under the bed.'"ATTENTION Please hide … read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of Under Your Bed: 13 Tales to Terrify by Blair Daniels

16. Under Your Bed: 13 Tales to Terrify

By: Blair Daniels

4.17

Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition

My husband insists on keeping this one painting of a woman. I listened to a true crime podcast… … read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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17. 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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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
" 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

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18. The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales

By: Attila Veres

4.17

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Every so often a new horror writer bursts onto the scene with a book that is so dazzlingly original… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. 1689 (The Haunting of Hadlow House, #1)

By: Amy Cross

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

All Richard Hadlow wants is a happy family and a peaceful home. Having built the perfect house deep… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Cursed

By: Marie O'Regan

3.55

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

Twenty curses, old and new, from bestselling fantasy authors such as Neil Gaiman, Karen Joy Fowler,… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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21. The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories

By: Bernardo Esquinca

4.14

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Bernardo Esquinca's haunting tale "Señor Ligotti" represented Mexico in the acclaimed The Valancour… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
"Sooner or later', she said,' our true nature separates us from the person we love. Losing one's shadow shouldn't be a tragedy but a goal. It's the only way of finding out who we really are."

-Bernardo Esquinca, The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories

Cover of A Different Darkness and Other Abominations by Luigi Musolino

22. A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

By: Luigi Musolino

4.23

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

This brilliant new collection showcases the best short stories and novellas of one of Italy's leadi… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of Howls from the Dark Ages by P.L. McMillan

23. Howls from the Dark Ages

By: P.L. McMillan

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Uncover the secret annals of untold history in these eighteen medieval manuscripts. Each tortured s… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
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24. The Saturday Night Ghost Club

By: Craig Davidson

3.85

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

A short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of "Stranger Things" and "S… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"You always fall hardest the first time, don’t you? There’s no bottom to it."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

"Our boy owes us nothing. No boy owes his parents. Parents owe their children everything, always and unconditionally, and that's just the way it goes."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

"Everybody could be doing something better without their lives. Name me one person who is doing the best, most righteous thing with their life this very minute."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

"As far as I was concerned, there was nothing wrong with being an odd duck. I figured some people have edges that don’t allow them to slot into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

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25. Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

By: Richard Wells

3.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Damnable Tales is an illustrated collection of classic short stories drawing upon the haunted lands… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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26. The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One

By: Paula Guran

3.74

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

Join twenty-five masterful authors and talented newcomers with more than 400 pages of the disturbin… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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27. The Dead Hours of Night

By: Lisa Tuttle

4.12

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

In a career spanning almost 50 years, Lisa Tuttle has proven herself a master of the weird tale, an… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of The Last Haunted House on Mars and Other Stories (The Short Story Collections) by Amy Cross

28. The Last Haunted House on Mars and Other Stories (The Short Story Collections)

By: Amy Cross

4.09

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

THE FIRST COLLECTION OF ALL-NEW AMY CROSS HORROR SHORT STORIES SINCE 2020!A woman tries to talk her… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Calamity Town / Dragon's teeth by Ellery Queen

29. Calamity Town / Dragon's teeth

By: Ellery Queen

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is said to be the best mystery profuced by Ellery Queen. read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Four by James D. Jenkins

30. The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Four

By: James D. Jenkins

3.94

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Since 2005, Valancourt Books has unearthed and republished almost 500 lost and neglected works from… read more

Similar categories in James D. Jenkins's The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Four book and James D. Jenkins's The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Four

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
Cover of Ushers: A Short Story by Joe Hill

31. Ushers: A Short Story

By: Joe Hill

4.31

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short sto… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

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Transform Your Habits

Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

John Langan

3.89

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Wylding Hall

Elizabeth Hand

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Harvest Home

Thomas Tryon

3.82

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Before You Sleep: Three Horrors

Adam L.G. Nevill

3.32

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Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)

Christina Henry

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Kitty Saves the World (Kitty Norville, #14)

Carrie Vaughn

3.72

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Troll Bridge

Neil Gaiman

3.96

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Christina Henry

4.04

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