A Spectral Hue
By: Craig Laurance Gidney
3.98
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
For generations, the marsh-surrounded town of Shimmer, Maryland has played host to a loose movement…
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1. Mapping the Interior
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.79
Format: 131 pages, ebook
Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping t… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"I'm all right," I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too."-Stephen Graham Jones, Mapping the Interior
2. Devil in the Dollhouse (Sandman Slim, #3.5)
By: Richard Kadrey
3.88
Format: 40 pages, ebook
James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim, has a new job, but being the new Lucifer in town gives fresh mean… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
3. The Ballad of Black Tom
By: Victor LaValle
3.85
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"I wish I’d been more like my father,"-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
4. Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim, #1)
By: Richard Kadrey
3.91
Format: 360 pages,
Supernatural fantasy has a new antihero in Sandman Slim, star of this gripping, gritty new series b… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
5. Orleans
By: Sherri L. Smith
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
First came the storms. Then came the Fever. And the Wall. After a string of devastating hurricanes … read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
6. Kill the Dead (Sandman Slim, #2)
By: Richard Kadrey
3.68
Format: 593 pages, Hardcover
What do you do after you've crawled out of Hell to wreak bloody revenge? If you're Stark you turn t… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
7. 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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- 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
8. The Lathe of Heaven
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more
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9. The Devourers
By: Indra Das
2.62
Format: None pages,
On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of traveling musi… read more
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10. Aloha from Hell (Sandman Slim, #3)
By: Richard Kadrey
4.15
Format: None pages,
All hail Sandman Slim, author Richard Kadrey's ultra-extreme anti-hero and recent escapee from Luci… read more
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11. Barbara the Slut and Other People
By: Lauren Holmes
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, honest, and darkly funny debut collection about family, friends, and lovers, and the flaws… read more
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12. Devil Said Bang (Sandman Slim, #4)
By: Richard Kadrey
4.17
Format: 427 pages, Hardcover
Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim--aka James Stark--is, quite simply, one of the most outrageous uber-a… read more
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13. Spellbound (Magic in Manhattan, #1)
By: Allie Therin
4.02
Format: 275 pages, ebook
To save Manhattan, they’ll have to save each other first…New York, 1925Arthur Kenzie’s life’s work … read more
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- queer
- fantasy
- lgbt
14. Sorrowland
By: Rivers Solomon
3.83
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was ra… read more
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- gothic
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
"The United States was a catalogue of known wrongs."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"It only ever took a moment for life to break apart at the seams."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"Defiance would always be Vern’s purest and most plentiful resource."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"In the woods, where animals ruled with teeth and claws, such things mattered not a lick."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
15. Salt Slow
By: Julia Armfield
3.99
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more
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- magical realism
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
"She was a gentle sort of horror,"-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
16. Black Mouth
By: Ronald Malfi
3.96
Format: 436 pages, Paperback
For nearly two decades, Jamie Warren has been running from darkness. He's haunted by a traumatic ch… read more
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- fiction
- horror
17. The Hourglass Throne (The Tarot Sequence, #3)
By: K.D. Edwards
4.57
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
As Rune Saint John grapples with the challenges of assuming the Sun Throne, a powerful barrier appe… read more
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- queer
- fantasy
- fiction
- lgbt
"Can you smash a bottle with the power of your mind?" Anna said. Brand looked around him and spotted an empty glass iced tea bottle on the arm of a lawn chair. He went over, picked it up, and smashed …"-K.D. Edwards, The Hourglass Throne (The Tarot Sequence, #3)
18. The Hanged Man (The Tarot Sequence, #2)
By: K.D. Edwards
4.54
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
The last member of a murdered House tries to protect his ward from forced marriage to a monster whi… read more
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- queer
- fantasy
- fiction
- lgbt
"Brand said, fiercely, in a breaking voice, "You're my boy. You can do anything. Anything."-K.D. Edwards, The Hanged Man (The Tarot Sequence, #2)
19. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
20. Flyaway
By: Kathleen Jennings
3.56
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
In a small Western Queensland town, a reserved young woman receives a note from one of her vanished… read more
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- gothic
- magical realism
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"Strange, what chooses to flourish here. Which plants. Which stories."-Kathleen Jennings, Flyaway
21. Mobility
By: Lydia Kiesling
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive novel about class, power, politics, and desire by the celebrated author of The Golden … read more
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- fiction
22. 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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- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
23. Zombie Bake-Off
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.50
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
It's time for the annual Recipe Days bake-off in Lubbock, Texas. Soccer moms and grandmothers gathe… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"If there's any better place to get stoned than a rolling box full of pastry, then they didn't have the keys for it, anyway."-Stephen Graham Jones, Zombie Bake-Off
24. Ito Junji's Cat Diary
By: Junji Ito
4.24
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
The representative of Japanese horror comics, Junji Ito = horror manga author J. J, a dog person, w… read more
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- horror
"The road to cat wand mastery is long and treacherous indeed!"-Junji Ito, Ito Junji's Cat Diary
25. The Rust Maidens
By: Gwendolyn Kiste
3.72
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Something’s happening to the girls on Denton Street. It’s the summer of 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio,… read more
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- gothic
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"It was the most beautiful and horrible thing I’d ever seen, watching her become all that she was meant to be."-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Rust Maidens
"He’s almost sixty, practically an old man, his eyes crinkled at the edges and his hair faded to gray. Yet nothing about him feels old to me. He feels exactly the same. I shouldn’t still want him. Aft…"-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Rust Maidens
26. Search History
By: Eugene Lim
4.08
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Search History oscillates between a wild cyberdog chase and lunch-date monologues as Eugene Lim dec… read more
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- speculative fiction
- fiction
27. Red X
By: David Demchuk
3.77
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A hunted community. A haunted author. A horror that spans centuries. Men are disappearing from T… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
28. Wrath Goddess Sing
By: Maya Deane
3.49
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on ancient texts and modern archeology to reveal the trans woman's story hidden underneath … read more
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- queer
- fantasy
- fiction
- lgbt
"And it would be death -- the death of her self, the inexorable corrosion of her soul, until even her name was forgotten and nothing was left but the shell of a man she never was."-Maya Deane, Wrath Goddess Sing
"She loved Patroklos, she loved Meryapi, and it had nothing to do with desire, only joy—to see them was joy; to breathe with them was joy; to ride with Patroklos on a cattle raid was joy; scanning the…"-Maya Deane, Wrath Goddess Sing
29. A Spectral Hue
By: Craig Laurance Gidney
3.98
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
For generations, the marsh-surrounded town of Shimmer, Maryland has played host to a loose movement… read more
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- gothic
- magical realism
- gay
- lgbt
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- horror
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- queer
30. The City in Glass
By: Nghi Vo
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this new standalone, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in th… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
- queer
31. Everything the Darkness Eats
By: Eric LaRocca
2.77
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. A haunting… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
