16 Top horror books like The Essential Robert Bloch by Robert Bloch

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The Essential Robert Bloch

By: Robert Bloch

4.15

Format: 527 pages, Kindle Edition

25 stories from the legendary author of Psycho, Robert Bloch. Also known for three classic Star Tre…

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1. Congo

By: Michael Crichton

3.62

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition o… read more

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  • science fiction
  • horror
"No one escapes from life alive."

-Michael Crichton, Congo

"It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important."

-Michael Crichton, Congo

"His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success--or the most to lose from failure."

-Michael Crichton, Congo

"The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch wi…"

-Michael Crichton, Congo

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2. They Twinkled Like Jewels

By: Philip José Farmer

3.43

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Jack Crane lay all morning in the vacant lot. Now and then he moved a little to quiet the protest o… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • horror
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3. Now You See It . . .

By: Richard Matheson

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Maximillian Delacorte was once the world's greatest stage magician. Now a recluse, suffering from a… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen by David J. Skal

4. Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen

By: David J. Skal

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern i… read more

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  • horror
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5. The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu

By: Sax Rohmer

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

London, 1913--the era of Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, and the Invisible Man. A time of shadows, secret… read more

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6. Chills

By: Mary SanGiovanni

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

It begins with a freak snowstorm in May. Hit hardest is the rural town of Colby, Connecticut. Schoo… read more

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  • horror
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7. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film

By: Carol J. Clover

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film … read more

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  • horror
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8. Our Lady Of Darkness

By: Fritz Leiber

3.65

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Middle-aged San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen is rediscovering ordinary life following a lon… read more

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  • science fiction
  • horror
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9. Wolverine

By: Chris Claremont , Frank Miller , Paul Smith

4.04

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The master of mutants joins the master of ninjas in Wolverine's first solo series - replete with ro… read more

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  • science fiction
"The better to slay me?! Mt healing factors make me a mutant. Lacing my bones with adamantium and giving me these claws, that was done to me. but, you asked to be changed. You did this to yourself. Th…"

-Chris Claremont, Wolverine

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10. The Jugger (Parker, #6)

By: Richard Stark

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Not many men knew what Parker did for a living, because what he did was steal. But Joe Sheer, a ret… read more

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"Well, it just figures," Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The technicians worked around him now as though they expected to launch him into space."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The room was full of law. Apparently somebody on Younger’s force had invited the state police to attend after all; the pack of technical men, with their cameras and chalk, powders and notebooks and l…"

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

11. Kissing Carrion

By: Gemma Files

4.03

Format: 606 pages, Paperback

In this first published collection of short stories from one of Canada's most talented rising stars… read more

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12. The Complete Poetry

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Jay Parini

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe remain among the most brilliant, enduring, and influencial works… read more

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13. Conjure Wife

By: Fritz Leiber

4.05

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Norman Saylor considered witchcraft nothing but quaint superstition until he learned his own wife w… read more

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14. Quarry's Cut (Quarry, #4)

By: Max Allan Collins

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

When a hitman shows up at retired gunman Quarry's refuge, who is the target? Is it Quarry? Or is th… read more

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15. The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Archibald Dortmunder is the thief whose capers never quite come off. Here, the released convic… read more

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16. The Most Dangerous Game

By: Richard Connell

3.94

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isol… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"But you can’t mean—"

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

"The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees."

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

"Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have."

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

17. In a Lonely Place

By: Karl Edward Wagner

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: xi * Introduction * Peter Straub * in 1 * Prologue to In the Pines ["Lonely Places"] * vi… read more

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18. The Score (Parker, #5)

By: Richard Stark

3.93

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

It was an impossible crime: knock off a huge plant payroll, all the banks, and all the stores in on… read more

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19. The Cthulhu Casebooks - Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows

By: James Lovegrove

3.50

Format: None pages, ebook

In the stews of London's East End, an outbreak of insanity sees ordinary men and women reduced to g… read more

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20. Vengeance Is Mine (Mike Hammer, #3)

By: Mickey Spillane

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

He was a nice guy. Now he's dead. That's all Hammer knows about the stiff in the hotel room. But th… read more

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21. Pop. 1280

By: Jim Thompson

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest cri… read more

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22. Fearful Symmetries

By: Ellen Datlow

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

**Winner of the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited Anthology** Edited by Hugo award-winning… read more

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23. Touch

By: Elmore Leonard

4.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

Touchis sensational suspense from the master of crime fiction, New York Times bestselling author El… read more

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24. Big Bad

By: Chandler Baker

3.77

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

For a family trying to make an isolated farmhouse into a home, fear and rage are getting harder to … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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25. It Waits in the Woods

By: Josh Malerman

3.72

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

Some chilling campfire tales ring too true to ignore. For one young woman, an urban legend calls he… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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26. Seven Sins

By: Miguel Estrada

3.82

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. Several individu… read more

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  • horror
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27. Beyond the Veil

By: Mark Morris

3.92

Format: 390 pages, Kindle Edition

Beyond the Veil is the second volume in an annual, non-themed horror series of entirely original st… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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28. Marvel Horror: The Magazine Collection

By: Chris Claremont

3.60

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

Collects material from Marvel Preview #3, 7-8, 12, 16; Haunt of Horror (1974) #1-2; Monsters Unleas… read more

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  • horror
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29. Between

By: Russell C. Connor

4.18

Format: None pages, ebook

As president of the Homeowner’s Association, Mitch Flynn expected a long night of settling petty di… read more

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  • horror
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30. The Essential Robert Bloch

By: Robert Bloch

4.15

Format: 527 pages, Kindle Edition

25 stories from the legendary author of Psycho, Robert Bloch. Also known for three classic Star Tre… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • horror
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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
  • horror

7 Top short stories books like The Essential Robert Bloch by Robert Bloch

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They Twinkled Like Jewels

Philip José Farmer

3.43

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The Most Dangerous Game

Richard Connell

3.94

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Big Bad

Chandler Baker

3.77

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It Waits in the Woods

Josh Malerman

3.72

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The Lady or the Tiger? And, the Discourager of Hesitancy

Frank R. Stockton

3.94

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Lamb to the Slaughter

Roald Dahl

3.84

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Shirley Jackson

4.05

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.93

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