18 must-read horror books like Hymns of Abomination by Justin A. Burnett

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Hymns of Abomination

By: Justin A. Burnett

4.43

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to Hymns of Abomination: Secret Songs of Leeds, an anthology of fiction compiled to celebra…

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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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  • anthologies
  • 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. Books of Blood: Volume Two (Books of Blood #2)

By: Clive Barker

4.09

Format: 116 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition of ISBN 9780425087398 To a surgeon, cutting into the human body is an art. … read more

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  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius by John Joseph Adams, Carrie Vaughn, Seanan McGuire, Jeffrey Ford, L.A. Banks, L.E. Modesitt Jr., Harry Turtledove, Naomi Novik, Alan Dean Foster, Genevieve Valentine, Mary Robinette Kowal, Marjorie M. Liu, Laird Barron, Diana Gabaldon, David Farland, Daniel H. Wilson, None, David D. Levine, Grady Hendrix, Theodora Goss, Austin Grossman, Ben H. Winters, None

3. The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius

By: John Joseph Adams , Carrie Vaughn , Seanan McGuire , Jeffrey Ford , L.A. Banks , L.E. Modesitt Jr. , Harry Turtledove , Naomi Novik , Alan Dean Foster , Genevieve Valentine , Mary Robinette Kowal , Marjorie M. Liu , Laird Barron , Diana Gabaldon , David Farland , Daniel H. Wilson , None , David D. Levine , Grady Hendrix , Theodora Goss , Austin Grossman , Ben H. Winters , None

3.87

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

From Victor Frankenstein to Lex Luthor, from Dr. Moreau to Dr. Doom, readers have long been fascina… read more

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  • anthologies
  • horror
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4. 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

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  • 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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5. Experimental Film

By: Gemma Files

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Experimental Film is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois … read more

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"Because stories lie hidden inside other stories, and we always know more about any given thing than we think we do, even if the only thing we think we know is nothing."

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"You could argue—as I have more than enough times, as part of my Film History lecture—that, no matter its actual narrative content, every movie is a ghost story. A film's production forms a time capsu…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in s…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"We're storytelling creatures. Give us a bunch of seemingly random images and we will try to organize them into a linear progression: tree, apple, head, bruise, gravity . . . a man sat under a tree, a…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

6. Ghost Story

By: Peter Straub

4.09

Format: 372 pages,

In life, not every sin goes unpunished. GHOST STORY For four aging men in the terror-stricken town … read more

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7. Deadman's Road

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Deadwoodmeets Cthulhu in this wild and profane Western romp featuring zombies, werewolves, evil spi… read more

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8. The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)

By: Agatha Christie

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dus… read more

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9. The Lake of the Dead

By: André Bjerke

3.82

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

Deep in the darkest part of the Norwegian woods stands Dead Man's Cabin, the site of tragedy a cent… read more

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  • horror
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10. Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign

By: James Chambers

3.82

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

In this anthology of weird fiction, twenty-two authors who found the Yellow Sign share their harrow… read more

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  • anthologies
  • horror
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11. Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

By: Brian Evenson

3.89

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome le… read more

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  • horror
" The world is a strange place , thought Haupt, alone in the dark, almost unbearably so. And yet, it is the only place I have. And I'm not even entirely sure I have it. "

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

"We did speak, occasionally, but gestured more often than moved our lips, and in general lived in that brusque and silent accord enjoyed, if enjoyed is the right word, by certain long-married couples."

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

"And there's another one, where you look yourself in the mirror and keep looking until you can see through your skin, and then you draw your own heart and send the drawing in a letter to someone else.…"

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

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12. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

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  • horror
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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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"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 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 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'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

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14. The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

By: Brian Evenson

4.10

Format: 254 pages, ebook

“Here is how monstrous humans are.” A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurkin… read more

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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
  • horror
"Soul searching pairs seductively with large quantities of liquor."

-Ellen Datlow, When Things Get Dark

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16. Spectral Evidence

By: Gemma Files

3.81

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

For almost thirty years, Shirley Jackson Award-winning horror author Gemma Files has consistently s… read more

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17. The Cursed Among Us

By: John Durgin

3.93

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

It has been twenty years since the serial killer known as The Black Heart Killer terrorized the tow… read more

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18. The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Thirteen

By: Ellen Datlow

3.95

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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  • horror
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19. The Senior Girls Bayonet Drill Team and Other Stories

By: Joe R. Lansdale

4.36

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

Find out what sort of game the Senior Girls Bayonet Drill Team play. Discover haunted toilets, stra… read more

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20. The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Vol. 2

By: James D. Jenkins

4.31

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Critics called the first Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories "groundbreaking" (Publishers Weekl… read more

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  • horror
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21. Hymns of Abomination

By: Justin A. Burnett

4.43

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to Hymns of Abomination: Secret Songs of Leeds, an anthology of fiction compiled to celebra… read more

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  • horror

9 Top anthologies books like Hymns of Abomination by Justin A. Burnett

Transform Your Habits

The Secret of Ventriloquism

Jon Padgett

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Books of Blood: Volume Two (Books of Blood #2)

Clive Barker

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius

John Joseph Adams , Carrie Vaughn , Seanan McGuire , Jeffrey Ford , L.A. Banks , L.E. Modesitt Jr. , Harry Turtledove , Naomi Novik , Alan Dean Foster , Genevieve Valentine , Mary Robinette Kowal , Marjorie M. Liu , Laird Barron , Diana Gabaldon , David Farland , Daniel H. Wilson , None , David D. Levine , Grady Hendrix , Theodora Goss , Austin Grossman , Ben H. Winters , None

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign

James Chambers

3.82

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15 must-read fiction books like The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Vol. 2 by James D. Jenkins

Transform Your Habits

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Laird Barron

3.98

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five

Jeffrey Ford , Duane Swierczynski , Gemma Files , Ramsey Campbell , Lucy A. Snyder , Megan Arkenberg , Gary McMahon , Ellen Datlow , Priya Sharma , Terry Dowling , Laird Barron , Margo Lanagan , Dan Chaon , Kij Johnson , Bruce McAllister , Nathan Ballingrud , Claire Massey , Stephen Bacon , Lucy Taylor , Conrad Williams , Jay Wilburn , Adam L.G. Nevill , Amber Sparks , Richard Gavin , Ian Rogers , Tamsyn Muir , Kevin McCann , Sandi Leibowitz , None

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories

Stephen King , Haruki Murakami , Jeff VanderMeer , George R.R. Martin , William Gibson , Kelly Link , Neil Gaiman , Mervyn Peake , Franz Kafka , Ann VanderMeer , Michael Chabon , Bob Leman

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Cook

Harry Kressing

3.76

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