5 Top horror books like The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

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The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales

By: Arthur Quiller-Couch

3.24

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch - who published much of his fiction under the pseudonym 'Q' - was born in …

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1. The Elementals

By: Michael McDowell

4.01

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

On a split of land cut off by the Gulf, three Victorian summer houses stand against the encroaching… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's The Elementals book and Arthur Quiller-Couch's The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales

  • fiction
  • horror
"Savage mothers eat their children!"

-Michael McDowell, The Elementals

"There's no point in advertising a circus when everybody hates the clown."

-Michael McDowell, The Elementals

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2. The Hellbound Heart

By: Clive Barker

4.07

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. … read more

Similar categories in Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart book and Arthur Quiller-Couch's The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales

  • fiction
  • horror
"She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas"

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

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3. The Room in the Tower

By: E.F. Benson

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

E.F. Benson (1867-1940) fue, junto con M.R. James, uno de los maestros victorianos de la <>, un ter… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide, #2) by Douglas Adams

4. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide, #2)

By: Douglas Adams

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea.… read more

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  • fiction
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5. 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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  • fiction
  • horror
"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

6. Distant Star

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Staris Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pil… read more

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7. Gulliver’s Travels

By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.

3.58

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more

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  • fiction
"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

8. Respiración artificial

By: Ricardo Piglia

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Respiracion artificialse trata no solo del unico libro memorable publicado durante el periodo de la… read more

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9. The Sheltering Sky

By: Paul Bowles

3.89

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans appr… read more

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  • fiction
"When I was young"

-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

"The soul is the weariest part of the body."

-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

"She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze."

-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

"La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ¿Qué interés puede tener para nadie?"

-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

10. The Wendigo

By: Algernon Blackwood

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Algernon Blackwood's classic tale, The Wendigo. An influential novella by one of the most best-know… read more

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11. Lud-in-the-Mist

By: Neil Gaiman , Hope Mirrlees , Douglas A. Anderson

4.43

Format: 269 pages,

Lud-in-the-Mist, the capital city of the small country Dorimare, is a port at the confluence of two… read more

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12. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Cover of The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

13. The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales

By: Arthur Quiller-Couch

3.24

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch - who published much of his fiction under the pseudonym 'Q' - was born in … read more

Similar categories in Arthur Quiller-Couch's The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales book and Arthur Quiller-Couch's The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales

  • fiction
  • horror

8 Best fiction books like The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

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The Elementals

Michael McDowell

4.01

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The Hellbound Heart

Clive Barker

4.07

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The Room in the Tower

E.F. Benson

3.97

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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide, #2)

Douglas Adams

3.71

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Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

Riley Black

3.95

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The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

Adam Nicolson

3.51

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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Steve Brusatte

4.38

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