18 best-selling fantasy books like Big Dark Hole: Stories by Jeffrey Ford

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Big Dark Hole: Stories

By: Jeffrey Ford

3.93

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Jeffrey Ford's stories often start out as seemingly everyday realist and then the weird comes crash…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Big Dark Hole: Stories by Jeffrey Ford , here is a list of 18 books like this:

1. Children of the New World

By: None

3.93

Format: None pages, ebook

AN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH-SAVV… read more

Similar categories in None's Children of the New World book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

2. A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark

By: Harry Connolly

3.80

Format: None pages, ebook

A MYSTERIOUS KILLING After years of waging a secret war against the supernatural, Marley Jacobs put… read more

Similar categories in Harry Connolly's A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

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3. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

Similar categories in Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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4. The Road to Roswell

By: Connie Willis

3.74

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are … read more

Similar categories in Connie Willis's The Road to Roswell book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. The Pallbearers Club

By: Paul Tremblay

3.10

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable—and unsettling—friendship, with blo… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Pallbearers Club book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline

By: Loretta Lynn

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust shares the never-before-told complete story of the remarkable relationsh… read more

Similar categories in Loretta Lynn's Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • adult
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7. Rose/House

By: Arkady Martine

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Dust jacket illustration by David Curtis. Arkady Martine, the acclaimed author of the Teixcalaan… read more

Similar categories in Arkady Martine's Rose/House book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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8. Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology

By: Ellen Datlow

3.65

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horro… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Datlow's Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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9. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Dreadful

By: Caitlin Rozakis

3.72

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

A sharp-witted, high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, evil wizards and… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Gug." Ah, monosyllables, his old friend. They would always be there, even when all other concepts of fundamental liguistics deserted him."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

"It occured to him that a spell to make one's enemies into idiots via the power of breasts might be immensely helpful. Then again, it might not be a spell. It might have only been the breasts."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

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11. Wonderland

By: Zoje Stage

3.11

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

If Shirley Jackson wrote The Shining, it might look like this deliciously unsettling horror novel f… read more

Similar categories in Zoje Stage's Wonderland book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"That sometimes when you're out in the world - he meant the mountains, the forests; he'd always lived here- you recognize the other parts of your soul"

-Zoje Stage, Wonderland

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12. Red Rabbit

By: Alex Grecian

4.18

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

A folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by d… read more

Similar categories in Alex Grecian's Red Rabbit book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

Similar categories in Anne de Marcken's It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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14. Never Have I Ever

By: Isabel Yap

3.99

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

“Am I dead?” Mebuyen sighs. She was hoping the girl would not ask. Spells and stories, urban … read more

Similar categories in Isabel Yap's Never Have I Ever book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"I don’t see how nightmares is your reward for something good. Where is your mercy? Where is your sense of doing what’s right—what one human would do? I am not human, and even I know."

-Isabel Yap, Never Have I Ever

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15. Organ Meats

By: K-Ming Chang

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two girls are bound by red string and canine heritage in this vivid tale about female companionship… read more

Similar categories in K-Ming Chang's Organ Meats book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. No Flight Without the Shatter

By: Brooke Bolander

3.76

Format: 32 pages, ebook

From the wondrous mind of Brooke Bolander, the author of The Only Harmless Great Thing, who "shares… read more

Similar categories in Brooke Bolander's No Flight Without the Shatter book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • short stories
"Hatching is not the end of what lies inside the egg, only the end of the shell around it. There’s no flight without the shatter, and no flock without the flight. What we’re made of will go on. A fled…"

-Brooke Bolander, No Flight Without the Shatter

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17. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

Similar categories in Keanu Reeves's The Book of Elsewhere book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • weird fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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18. When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

By: Julie Satow

4.06

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A glittering, glamorous portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visio… read more

Similar categories in Julie Satow's When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

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19. The Book of Witches

By: Jonathan Strahan

3.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

With a breathtaking array of original stories from around the world, P. Djèlí Clark, Amal El Mohtar… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Strahan's The Book of Witches book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0) by Christopher Buehlman

20. The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Enter the fray in this luminous new adventure from Christopher Buehlman, set during the war-torn, g… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Buehlman's The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0) book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"To be loved by a man is to be issued a decree as written in advance and as presented to others. To receive a woman's love is to have a very personal letter written on one's body."

-Christopher Buehlman, The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)

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21. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

Similar categories in Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection: Fiction book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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22. Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten

By: Ellen Datlow

3.82

Format: 432 pages, ebook

“Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year series is one of the best investments you can make in short f… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of The Devil By Name (Fever House, #2) by Keith Rosson

23. The Devil By Name (Fever House, #2)

By: Keith Rosson

4.55

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

No one expected the apocalypse would be broadcast via phone call. But in this chilling sequel to Fe… read more

Similar categories in Keith Rosson's The Devil By Name (Fever House, #2) book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enríquez

24. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

Similar categories in Mariana Enríquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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25. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

By: Olga Tokarczuk

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors… read more

Similar categories in Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • fiction
  • horror
"mitologię, jako zbiór pouczających opowieści, które pomagają żyć"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"Ojciec często powtarzał mu (...) że kobiety są z natury swojej zdradliwe i chwiejne. Rozmazane."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"To proste - myślał Mieczyś Wojnicz, łykając łzy, które mieszały się z krwią zwierzęcia w jego wątłym ciele - być mężczyzną to nauczyć się ignorować to, co sprawia kłopot. Oto cała tajemnica."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"Wojnicz już zauważył, że każda dyskusja, czy szło o demokrację, czy o piąty wymiar, czy o rolę religii socjalizm, Europę, wreszcie sztukę nowoczesną, wszystko w końcu sprowadzało się do kobiet"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

Cover of The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

26. The Seventh Veil of Salome

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine — but the real drama … read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Seventh Veil of Salome book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) by Nathan Ballingrud

27. Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into th… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Absolution (Southern Reach, #4) by Jeff VanderMeer

28. Absolution (Southern Reach, #4)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

4.00

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Ten years after the publication of Annihilation, the surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s bl… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's Absolution (Southern Reach, #4) book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • new weird
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Big Dark Hole: Stories by Jeffrey Ford

29. Big Dark Hole: Stories

By: Jeffrey Ford

3.93

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Jeffrey Ford's stories often start out as seemingly everyday realist and then the weird comes crash… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • short story collection
  • new weird
  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Good Night, Sleep Tight by Brian Evenson

30. Good Night, Sleep Tight

By: Brian Evenson

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“PERHAPS TOMORROW I WILL WAKE UP ANOTHER PERSON. PERHAPS TOMORROW I WILL WAKE UP NOT A PERSON AT AL… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's Good Night, Sleep Tight book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Where You Linger & Other Stories by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

31. Where You Linger & Other Stories

By: Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

4.20

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Bones of extinct species wander a campground, stalking a group of friends in love with the same wo… read more

Similar categories in Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam's Where You Linger & Other Stories book and Jeffrey Ford's Big Dark Hole: Stories

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror

25 best-selling fiction books like Big Dark Hole: Stories by Jeffrey Ford

Transform Your Habits

The Road to Roswell

Connie Willis

3.74

Transform Your Habits

The Pallbearers Club

Paul Tremblay

3.10

Transform Your Habits

Rose/House

Arkady Martine

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology

Ellen Datlow

3.65

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17 Top fiction books like Good Night, Sleep Tight by Brian Evenson

Transform Your Habits

North American Lake Monsters

Nathan Ballingrud

3.97

Transform Your Habits

My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

Thomas Ligotti , None

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

Nathan Ballingrud

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Fever House (Fever House, #1)

Keith Rosson

4.03

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