15 Top short stories books like Vastarien by Thomas Ligotti

Vastarien

By: Thomas Ligotti

3.93

Format: 16 pages, None

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Cover of An Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce

1. An Inhabitant of Carcosa

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.69

Format: 7 pages,

Written by Ambrose Bierce, this story concerns a man from the ancient city of Carcosa who awakens f… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"For there be divers sorts of death—some wherein the body remained; and in some it vanished quite away with the spirit."

-Ambrose Bierce, An Inhabitant of Carcosa

"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks show…"

-Ambrose Bierce, An Inhabitant of Carcosa

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2. Apt Pupil

By: Stephen King

3.92

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a dif… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"What does a good man fall back on when the situation is desperate? His faith, of course. The science of a new century. The love of his friends."

-Stephen King, Apt Pupil

"Your own politicians make our Dr. Goebbels look like a child playing with picture books in a kindergarten. They speak of morality while they douse screaming children and old women in burning napalm. …"

-Stephen King, Apt Pupil

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3. The Breathing Method

By: Stephen King , Frank Muller

3.64

Format: 3 pages, Audio CD

From the world's bestselling novelist comes the third tale in the Different Seasons collection. In … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"There is no comfort without pain; thus we define salvation through suffering"

-Stephen King, The Breathing Method

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4. The Mist

By: Stephen King

3.94

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

It's a hot, lazy day, perfect for a cookout, until you see those strange dark clouds. Suddenly a vi… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"¿Sabes qué es el talento? Es la maldición de ambicionar."

-Stephen King, The Mist

"Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself."

-Stephen King, The Mist

"Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges."

-Stephen King, The Mist

"...then went back to showing me how I could help my family most efficiently by dying young."

-Stephen King, The Mist

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5. The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None

4.24

Format: 31 pages, Library Binding

A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"would a madman have been so wise as this?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

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6. Skeleton Crew

By: Stephen King

3.15

Format: None pages,

Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book . In the intro… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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7. Gramma

By: Stephen King , Gale Garnett

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Audio Cassette

He had to stay at home and make sure Gramma didn't need anything while his mother was gone. Nothing… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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8. 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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  • short stories
  • horror
"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

9. Ghost Story

By: Peter Straub

4.09

Format: 372 pages,

In life, not every sin goes unpunished. GHOST STORY For four aging men in the terror-stricken town … read more

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10. 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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  • short stories
  • horror
"[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

Cover of The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3 by H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth

11. The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

By: H.P. Lovecraft , August Derleth

3.95

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

WARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF UTMOST TERROR When you open this book you wil… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told o…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

"And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of sheer darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

12. Different Seasons

By: Stephen King

4.21

Format: 391 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A "hypnotic" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas from Stephen King bound t… read more

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13. The Whisperer in Darkness

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Ar… read more

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14. American Supernatural Tales

By: Stephen King , Caitlín R. Kiernan , Henry James , Shirley Jackson , Joyce Carol Oates , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Washington Irving , Ambrose Bierce , Ray Bradbury , H.P. Lovecraft , Fritz Leiber , Edgar Allan Poe , David J. Schow , Robert Bloch , Richard Matheson , S.T. Joshi , Charles Beaumont , Robert E. Howard , Robert W. Chambers , Thomas Ligotti , Norman Partridge , Dennis Etchison , Clark Ashton Smith , Karl Edward Wagner , T.E.D. Klein , Fitz-James O'Brien , None

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

As Stephen King will attest , the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown si… read more

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15. 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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16. Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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17. Hex

By: Thomas Olde Heuvelt

3.73

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The English language debut of the bestselling Dutch novel, Hex, from Thomas Olde Heuvelt--a Hugo an… read more

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  • horror
"A magia existe nas mentes daqueles que acreditam nela, não em sua verdadeira influência sobre a realidade."

-Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Hex

"This is all it takes for people to plunge into insanity: one night alone with themselves and what they fear the most."

-Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Hex

"People desperately resisted the idea of their own death by looking away for as long as they could and avoiding the subject."

-Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Hex

"The events of the past days began to come back to him now, slow and fragmented, like pieces of driftwood washing ashore in the aftermath of a shipwreck."

-Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Hex

Cover of Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories by Andrew Cull

18. Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories

By: Andrew Cull

3.95

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Between April and August 2021 eighteen horror writers disappeared. Gathered together for the first … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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19. The Body

By: Stephen King

4.02

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s… read more

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  • horror
"Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."

-Stephen King, The Body

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?"

-Stephen King, The Body

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"

-Stephen King, The Body

"Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words, can close those lovebites. It's the other way around, that's the joke."

-Stephen King, The Body

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20. The Jaunt

By: Stephen King

4.18

Format: 25 pages, None

"The Jaunt" is a horror short story by Stephen King first published in The Twilight Zone Magazine i… read more

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  • horror

21. Vastarien

By: Thomas Ligotti

3.93

Format: 16 pages, None

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  • horror

16 best-selling horror books like Vastarien by Thomas Ligotti

Transform Your Habits

An Inhabitant of Carcosa

Ambrose Bierce

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Apt Pupil

Stephen King

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Breathing Method

Stephen King , Frank Muller

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Mist

Stephen King

3.94

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Transform Your Habits

The Breathing Method

Stephen King , John Escott

3.94

Transform Your Habits

UnBound

Neal Shusterman , Michelle Knowlden , None , None , Jarrod Shusterman

3.77

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The Regulators

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.72

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Gramma

Stephen King , Gale Garnett

3.91

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