5 Best short stories books like Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4 by Michael Kelly

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Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4

By: Michael Kelly

3.63

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

Showcasing the finest weird fiction published 2016, volume 4 of the Year's Best Weird Fiction is ou…

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Cover of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron

1. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

By: Laird Barron

3.98

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Lai… read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All book and Michael Kelly's Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"After years in the wilderness, he usually talked to himself."

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"Actually, coyotes are much scarier than wolves. Sneaky, sneaky little suckers. Eat you up. Lick the blood all up."

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"I hate puppets. Hate them. They descend from a demonic line parallel to mimes and clowns and are wholly of the devil, especially the lifelike variety."

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"I was accustomed to liars, bold-faced or wide-eyed, silver tongued or pleading, often with the barrel of my gun directed at them as they babbled their last prayers to an indifferent god, squirted the…"

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Cover of Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume Three by Ramsey Campbell, Lynda E. Rucker, Brian Evenson, Genevieve Valentine, Tim Lebbon, Reggie Oliver, Robert Aickman, Robert Shearman, Simon Strantzas, None

2. Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume Three

By: Ramsey Campbell , Lynda E. Rucker , Brian Evenson , Genevieve Valentine , Tim Lebbon , Reggie Oliver , Robert Aickman , Robert Shearman , Simon Strantzas , None

3.77

Format: 341 pages,

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Similar categories in Ramsey Campbell's Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume Three book and Michael Kelly's Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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3. 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

Similar categories in John Langan's The Fisherman book and Michael Kelly's Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4

  • fantasy
  • 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

4. Ararat

By: Christopher Golden

3.31

Format: 180 pages,

When a newly engaged couple climbs Mount Ararat in Turkey, an avalanche forces them to seek shelter… read more

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5. The Silent Companions

By: Laura Purcell

4.46

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country e… read more

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6. The Haar

By: David Sodergren

4.17

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's The Haar book and Michael Kelly's Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Elder Race

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.11

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the local… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

By: A.M. Shine

3.93

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Every grudge, if it is to stand the test of time, relies on the certainty of a selective memory."

-A.M. Shine, The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

Cover of What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) by T. Kingfisher

9. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

3.89

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

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10. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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11. Earthlings

By: Sayaka Murata

3.60

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witc… read more

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Earthlings book and Michael Kelly's Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Sobreviver, haja o que houver."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"O senso comum é uma doença contagiosa e é difícil manter a infecção sozinho."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"I thought that when I grew up society would brainwash me, but it didn't work."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"Até quando eu teria de sobreviver? Será que algum dia poderia apenas viver e não sobreviver?"

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

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12. Dead Silence

By: S.A. Barnes

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."

-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

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13. Sundial

By: Catriona Ward

3.80

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Sundial is a new, twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, internationally bestselling… read more

Similar categories in Catriona Ward's Sundial book and Michael Kelly's Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4

  • fiction
  • horror
"I don't know what it's like for other people, but love and nausea are often indistinguishable to me"

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Gdy coś ci zagraża, możesz zrobić trzy rzeczy: uciekać, walczyć albo spróbować się z tym zaprzyjaźnić."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Rozłąka z dzieckiem to doznanie niepodobne do żadnego innego. Człowiek ma wrażenie, że jest pusty w środku."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Dorosłe życie to bagno, w którym człowiek tkwi po uszy, gobelin wzajemnych pretensji tkany tak ciasno, że nie sposób go rozplątać."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

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14. A Good House for Children

By: Kate Collins

3.60

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when he… read more

Similar categories in Kate Collins's A Good House for Children book and Michael Kelly's Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4

  • fiction
  • horror
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15. When Things Get Dark

By: Ellen Datlow

3.90

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary editor, Ellen Datlow, collects today’s best horror writers in tribute to the genius of Sh… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Soul searching pairs seductively with large quantities of liquor."

-Ellen Datlow, When Things Get Dark

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16. All the White Spaces

By: Ally Wilkes

3.58

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determin… read more

Similar categories in Ally Wilkes's All the White Spaces book and Michael Kelly's Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4 by Michael  Kelly

17. Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4

By: Michael Kelly

3.63

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

Showcasing the finest weird fiction published 2016, volume 4 of the Year's Best Weird Fiction is ou… read more

Similar categories in Michael Kelly's Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4 book and Michael Kelly's Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4

  • literature
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy

15 must-read fiction books like Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4 by Michael Kelly

Transform Your Habits

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Laird Barron

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume Three

Ramsey Campbell , Lynda E. Rucker , Brian Evenson , Genevieve Valentine , Tim Lebbon , Reggie Oliver , Robert Aickman , Robert Shearman , Simon Strantzas , None

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Fisherman

John Langan

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Haar

David Sodergren

4.17

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19 Top fiction books like Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Transform Your Habits

A Short Stay in Hell

Steven L. Peck

4.22

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I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Tender Is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica

3.79

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Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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