19 best-selling fantasy books like The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 4 (Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 4) by Paula Guran

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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 4 (Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 4)

By: Paula Guran

3.70

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series returns with a splendidly startling fourth volume! Fr…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 4 (Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 4) by Paula Guran , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of The Ones That Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones, Laird Barron

1. The Ones That Got Away

By: Stephen Graham Jones , Laird Barron

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out. A boy's summer romance doesn't end in that go… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of A Night in the Lonesome October by Gahan Wilson, Roger Zelazny, James Warhola

2. A Night in the Lonesome October

By: Gahan Wilson , Roger Zelazny , James Warhola

4.18

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

All is not what it seems… In the murky London gloom, a knife-wielding gentleman named Jack prowl… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

3. The Cellar

By: Richard Laymon

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Visitors flock to see the Beast House with its blood-soaked corridors and creaky doors. Armed with … read more

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4. Death Note, Vol. 2: Confluence (Death Note, #2)

By: Takeshi Obata , Tsugumi Ohba

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Light thinks he's put an end to his troubles with the FBI--by using the Death Note to kill off the … read more

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5. Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s

By: Grady Hendrix

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of the 1970s and '80s . . . if you dare. Page throu… read more

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6. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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7. Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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8. We Need to Do Something

By: Max Booth III

3.42

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM IFC … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. All Hallows

By: Christopher Golden

3.55

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

With the 80's nostalgia of Stranger Things, this horror drama from NYT bestselling author Christoph… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Bloody Summer

By: Carmen Maria Machado

3.70

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

What do children know that adults can’t begin to believe? The answer is hidden in plain sight in th… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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12. The Human Target: Volume 2

By: Tom King

4.36

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Christopher Chance has 12 days to solve his own murder! Superstar writer Tom King and acclaimed art… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Greatest Hits

By: Harlan Ellison

4.18

Format: 468 pages, Paperback

How to summarize the psychedelic, witty, helter-skelter mind of Harlan Ellison? A mind that refu… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of The Department of Truth, Vol. 4: The Ministry of Lies by James Tynion IV

15. The Department of Truth, Vol. 4: The Ministry of Lies

By: James Tynion IV

4.24

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

For decades the Department of Truth battled a secret war against its Soviet counterpart the Ministr… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Nothing in this world exists on principle. We know for a fact that the world is messy, that people believe in messy things. There aren't rules. What does it do for your life to rip out the ground ben…"

-James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol. 4: The Ministry of Lies

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16. 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

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  • fiction
  • horror
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17. The Pale House Devil

By: Richard Kadrey

3.67

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, snappy creature feature from the master of horror noir about two detectives—one dead, o… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

By: John Langan

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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19. Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror

By: Ellen Datlow

3.75

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Bestselling editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft's Monsters) presents body horror at its most wide-rangin… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous by Ellen Datlow

20. Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous

By: Ellen Datlow

3.67

Format: 479 pages, Hardcover

A bone-chilling anthology from legendary horror editor, Ellen Datlow, Screams from the Dark contain… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

21. 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

By: Sadie Hartmann

4.43

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

The Ultimate List of Must-Read Horror! Curious readers and fans of monsters and the macabre, get re… read more

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  • anthologies
  • horror
"I love a good story about everyone dying."

-Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

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22. No One Will Come Back For Us and Other Stories

By: Premee Mohamed

4.00

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

A collection of short fiction by award-winning author Premee Mohamed. read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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23. The Ghost Sequences

By: A.C. Wise

3.98

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

From A.C. Wise, the acclaimed author of Wendy, Darling, comes a brand new collection of horror stor… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Ghost Virus (Patel & Pardoe, #1) by Graham Masterton

24. Ghost Virus (Patel & Pardoe, #1)

By: Graham Masterton

3.49

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

THE MUST-READ HORROR NOVEL FROM THE MILLION-COPY-SELLING GRAHAM MASTERTON. A RASH OF MURDERS A youn… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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25. The Backbone of the World

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.93

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

An American Indian woman’s past and future collide in unthinkable ways in this richly imagined shor… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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26. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

By: R.F. Kuang

3.68

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy writing selected by New York Times best… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"The truce was over; the walls were up; they had reminded her why she'd abandoned them, which was that she could never really, properly, be one of them. And Letty, if she could not belong to a place, …"

-R.F. Kuang, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

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27. The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen

By: Ellen Datlow

3.85

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

From Ellen Datlow— “the venerable queen of horror anthologies” per the New York Times —comes a new … read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of Crooked Antlers: A Collection of Short Horror Stories (Where Nightmares Dwell) by J.G. Martin

28. Crooked Antlers: A Collection of Short Horror Stories (Where Nightmares Dwell)

By: J.G. Martin

4.23

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

Popular Reddit NoSleep author J.G. Martin invites you into his skewed world…A government agent sear… read more

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

29. 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

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 4 (Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 4) by Paula Guran

30. The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 4 (Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 4)

By: Paula Guran

3.70

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series returns with a splendidly startling fourth volume! Fr… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of The Last Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison

31. The Last Dangerous Visions

By: Harlan Ellison

4.00

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and fi… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies

26 must-read fiction books like The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 4 (Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 4) by Paula Guran

Transform Your Habits

The Ones That Got Away

Stephen Graham Jones , Laird Barron

3.71

Transform Your Habits

A Night in the Lonesome October

Gahan Wilson , Roger Zelazny , James Warhola

4.18

Transform Your Habits

You Like It Darker

Stephen King

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

Nathan Ballingrud

4.09

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31 Top horror books like Crooked Antlers: A Collection of Short Horror Stories (Where Nightmares Dwell) by J.G. Martin

Transform Your Habits

Creep: 21 Tales of Terror (Nights of Madness Book 2)

Kevin Bachar

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Don't Look: 30 Tales of Terror

Blair Daniels

4.18

Transform Your Habits

You Can't Hide: 30 Tales of Terror

Blair Daniels

4.14

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Under Your Bed: 13 Tales to Terrify

Blair Daniels

4.17

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