Rag: Stories
By: Maryse Meijer
3.80
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
One of Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Tor.com's Books to Read in February From the author of Heartbreaker, a d…
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1. Nijigahara Holograph
By: Inio Asano , Rachel Balzora Thorn
3.69
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Butterflies ominously proliferate as children whisper rumors of a mysterious creature lurking in th… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"Of course. I have seen this scene before. Earlier than that. My family and the red sun. I was here."-Inio Asano, Nijigahara Holograph
"...he didn't know if he was Chuang Tzu who dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu."-Inio Asano, Nijigahara Holograph
"No matter how awful the world is... you must be strong of will. The direction your life takes... is for you alone to decide."-Inio Asano, Nijigahara Holograph
2. 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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3. Consumed
By: David Cronenberg
4.23
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The exhilarating debut novel by iconic filmmaker David Cronenberg: the story of two journalists who… read more
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4. The Cipher
By: Kathe Koja
3.54
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blo… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
5. The Face of Another
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis,this classic of postwar Japanese literat… read more
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7. Dark Property
By: Brian Evenson
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A woman carries a dying baby across a desert waste, moving toward a fortress harboring a mysterious… read more
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8. Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection
By: Junji Ito
4.11
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A collection full of grotesque imagination and surreal urban legends. Every night, a young man hea… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
9. Earth Angel
By: Madeline Cash
4.05
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more
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- short story collection
- collections
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
10. Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection
By: Junji Ito
4.23
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
FRESH NIGHTMARES BROUGHT TO YOU BY HORROR MASTER JUNJI ITO. Countless tombstones stand in rows, … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
11. Burn You the Fuck Alive
By: B.R. Yeager
4.01
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
She asks for a light. You reach in your pocket and dig out your Bic, strike the flint, and touch th… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- dark
- fiction
- horror
12. 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 story collection
- collections
- short stories
- dark
- fiction
- horror
13. Negative Space
By: B.R. Yeager
3.72
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more
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- dark
- horror
- fiction
- contemporary
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
14. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
By: Gloria Dickie
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more
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- adult
"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
15. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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- adult
16. Amygdalatropolis
By: B.R. Yeager
3.69
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
Amygdalatropolis is a work of brilliant neurorealism in which the city is a Computer, a libidinal p… read more
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- dark
- fiction
- horror
"/1404er/ was born from video. His way into the threads. His eyes translating light from a stream. Before his eyes translated light from a stream he was only a person. Before the stream was a stream, …"-B.R. Yeager, Amygdalatropolis
17. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
By: Laura van den Berg
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and unsettling collection of women on the verge from Laura van den Berg, author of The Th… read more
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- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
"She was always telling people to shut the fuck up . It was a term of endearment."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"...this is the problem with translating experience into fiction, the way certain truths read like lies."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"I was an attentive child; the world seemed like a bewildering place and I wanted all the knowledge I could come by."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
"Margot has always wanted to be the kind of person who can become too distraught to eat, but the truth is funerals make her hungry."-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
18. The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen
By: Ellen Datlow
4.07
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
From Ellen Datlow (“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” (New York Times) comes a new entry i… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
19. Space Struck
By: Paige Lewis
4.07
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Consider this glowing debut from Paige Lewis a menagerie of near-extinction. Space Struck explores … read more
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- adult
"A miracle is anything that God forgot to forbid."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"On this planet, you have to be useful to be kept around"-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"I’m the vice president of panic, and the president is missing."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
"I might ask you one day to go camping, and if you have the desire to dance."-Paige Lewis, Space Struck
20. The Forgotten Island
By: David Sodergren
3.90
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
When Ana Logan agrees to go on holiday to Thailand with her estranged sister Rachel, she hopes it w… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- horror
21. A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems
By: Emily Jungmin Yoon
4.22
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender, race, and violence from a sensational new ta… read more
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- contemporary
22. The Doloriad
By: Missouri Williams
3.14
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the M… read more
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- horror
- fiction
- contemporary
"...the story of the city was always a story of disintegration."-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
"...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and then the Matriarch would finally be free of it—the past and its language."-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
"...the way that the words hung together to produce meaning had a logic that he could not follow, and sometimes he thought that this was because they spoke in images, immediate, sensuous images, that …"-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad
23. Daughter
By: Claudia Dey
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In Claudia Dey’s Daughter, a woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life—and art—o… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
24. The Besieged City
By: Clarice Lispector
3.71
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel―the story of a girl a… read more
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- fiction
"But without anyone's having forced her to choose the sacrifice, was she losing right then her youth through the symbol of youth? and life through the shape of life, her single hand pointing."-Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City
"The girl and a horse represented the two races of builders that had initiated the tradition of the future metropolis, both could figure on its coat of arms. The measly function of the girl in her tim…"-Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City
"The struggle to reach reality—that’s the main objective of this creature who tries, in every way, to cling to whatever exists by means of a total vision of things. I meant to make clear too the way v…"-Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City
"Upon the rubble horses would reappear announcing the rebirth of the old reality, their backs without riders. Because thus it had always been. Until a few men would tie them to wagons, once again erec…"-Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City
25. Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories
By: Sarah Coolidge
4.01
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist… A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brin… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- adult
26. The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen
By: Ellen Datlow
3.85
Format: 428 pages, Paperback
From Ellen Datlow— “the venerable queen of horror anthologies” per the New York Times —comes a new … read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
- horror
27. So Beautiful and Elastic
By: Gary J. Shipley
4.58
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
"Gary J. Shipley's So Beautiful and Elastic entwines elegant prose, blistering suspense, and art cr… read more
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- fiction
- horror
28. Crushing Snails
By: Emma E. Murray
4.67
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Winnie Campbell is sixteen and a burgeoning serial killer. Her father blames her for her mother’s d… read more
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- horror
29. Are Your Parents Home?
By: Jon Athan
4.97
Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition
While her parents attend a work party, eighteen-year-old Ella Romero is left in charge of her two s… read more
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- horror
30. Rag: Stories
By: Maryse Meijer
3.80
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
One of Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Tor.com's Books to Read in February From the author of Heartbreaker, a d… read more
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- adult fiction
- short story collection
- collections
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- dark
- horror
- adult
31. Good Night, Sleep Tight
By: Brian Evenson
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
“PERHAPS TOMORROW I WILL WAKE UP ANOTHER PERSON. PERHAPS TOMORROW I WILL WAKE UP NOT A PERSON AT AL… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fiction
- horror
