10 Top horror books like The Sect of the Idiot by Thomas Ligotti

The Sect of the Idiot

By: Thomas Ligotti

3.67

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1. The Secret of Ventriloquism

By: Jon Padgett

3.90

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Jon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism, named the Best Fiction Book of 2016 by Rue Morgue Magazi… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"I was seven years old the first time my brother tried to kill me."

-Jon Padgett, The Secret of Ventriloquism

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2. 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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3. Hypnos

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.42

Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition

interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed. One man with Oriental eyes has said that all time an… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Los sabios interpretan los sueños, y los dioses se ríen."

-H.P. Lovecraft, Hypnos

"Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed."

-H.P. Lovecraft, Hypnos

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4. The Dunwich Horror

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The story of Wilbur Whateley, son of a deformed albino mother and an unknown father, and the strang… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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5. Let the Right One In

By: John Ajvide Lindqvist

3.85

Format: None pages,

It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a tee… read more

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  • horror
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6. The Colour Out of Space

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.03

Format: 78 pages, Mass Market Paperback

'It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws."

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space

"West of Arkham the hills rise wild and there are valleys with deep woods that no ax has ever cut. There are dark, narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, where thin brooklets trickle withou…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space

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7. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • short stories
  • horror

8. The Outsider

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.10

Format: 290 pages,

"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March an… read more

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9. The Horror in the Museum

By: H.P. Lovecraft , Hazel Heald

3.38

Format: None pages,

Locked up for the night, a man will discover the difference between waxen grotesqueries and the rea… read more

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10. The Damned Thing

By: Ambrose Bierce , None

3.87

Format: 144 pages, kindle

This engrossing tale presents as its central theme the ultimately unknowable - and untameable - ess… read more

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11. The Infusorium

By: Jon Padgett

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dunnstown is in the midst of a strange season: the choking fogs of the "paper mill days" and the di… read more

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12. The Moon-Bog

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.80

Format: 8 pages,

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13. The Cats of Ulthar

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

"The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnam… read more

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14. 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

15. In the Penal Colony

By: Sadegh Hedayat , Franz Kafka , Hasan Ghaemian

3.92

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, and first … read more

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16. 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

17. Nyarlathotep

By: H.P. Lovecraft , Chuck BB

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Presents horror legend HP Lovecraft's short prose piece Nyarlathotep. This book presents Lovecraft'… read more

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18. Haïta the Shepherd

By: Ambrose Bierce

4.47

Format: 907 pages,

Haita is a naive shepherd who prays at the shrine of Hastur, god of shepherds, and knows nothing of… read more

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19. 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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20. Quitters, Inc

By: Stephen King , Eric Roberts

4.17

Format: 267 pages, ebook

Read by Eric Roberts. Dick Morrison's life has become a nightmare of addictions, filling his days w… read more

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21. The Sect of the Idiot

By: Thomas Ligotti

3.67

Format: None pages, None

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