21 best-selling fiction books like The Haunter of the Dark by H.P. Lovecraft

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The Haunter of the Dark

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.68

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

The Haunter of the Dark H. P. Lovecraft - "The Haunter of the Dark" is a horror short story by Amer…

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1. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.95

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more

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  • fiction
"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

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2. The Return Of The Sorcerer: The Best Of Clark Ashton Smith

By: Gene Wolfe , Clark Ashton Smith , None

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

This work offers both readers and scholars a collection of short fiction and short novels by Clark … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"In a less scientific age he would have been a devil-worshiper, a partaker in the abominations of the Black Mass; or he would have given himself to the study and practice of sorcery. His was a religio…"

-Gene Wolfe, The Return Of The Sorcerer: The Best Of Clark Ashton Smith

"It is regrettable," resumed Azédarac, "that any question of my holiness and devotional probity should have been raised among the clergy of Averoigne. But I suppose it was inevitable sooner or later— …"

-Gene Wolfe, The Return Of The Sorcerer: The Best Of Clark Ashton Smith

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3. Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.41

Format: 394 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put… read more

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  • fiction
"Ahh! They're all just pins!"

-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)

"I commend my soul to any god that can find it."

-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)

"Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar."

-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)

"Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?"

-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)

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4. Mirror, Mirror (The Dresden Files, #17)

By: Jim Butcher

3.87

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

"The next book after this one (, DragonCon 2015. read more

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  • fiction
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5. The Black Stone

By: Robert E. Howard

4.17

Format: None pages,

A marvelous rendition of the short story the Black Stone by Conan author Robert E. Howard. You can … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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7. From Hell

By: Alan Moore , Eddie Campbell , Pete Mullins

4.19

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

"I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"It would seem we are to suffer an apocalypse of cockatoos - William Gull"

-Alan Moore, From Hell

"I am not man so much as syndrome; as a voice that bellows in the human heart. I am rain. I cannot be contained"

-Alan Moore, From Hell

"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."

-Alan Moore, From Hell

"Where comes this dullness in your eyes? How has your century numbed you so? Shall man be given marvels only when he is beyond all wonder?"

-Alan Moore, From Hell

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8. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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9. The Vampyre; A Tale

By: John William Polidori

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

10. Harrison Bergeron

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.93

Format: None pages, ebook

It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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11. The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None

4.24

Format: 31 pages, Library Binding

A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"would a madman have been so wise as this?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

12. The White People

By: Arthur Machen

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Men at Arms (Discworld, #15; City Watch #2)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A Young Dwarf's Dream Corporal Carrot has been promoted! He's now in charge of the new recruits gua… read more

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  • fiction

14. Feet of Clay (Discworld, #19; City Watch, #3)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Sorry?' said Carrot. If it's just a thing, how can it commit murder? A sword is a thing' - he drew… read more

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  • fiction

15. The Salem Horror

By: Henry Kuttner

4.10

Format: 9 pages, ebook

When Carson first noticed the sounds in his cellar, he ascribed them to the rats. Later he began to… read more

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16. 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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  • 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

17. The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril, has returned to the noble household he once served as pag… read more

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18. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

By: John Le Carré

4.06

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more

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  • fiction
"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

19. Eleonora

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.46

Format: 170 pages,

Eleonorais a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842 in Philadelphia in the literar… read more

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20. Christine

By: Stephen King , None

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

"This is the story of a lover's triangle...It was bad from the start. And it got worse in a hurry."… read more

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21. The Cask of Amontillado

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.08

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"For the love of God, Montresor!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

22. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Richard Kopley

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This rousing sea adventure follows a New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with it… read more

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23. Beyond the Black River

By: Robert E. Howard

3.16

Format: 192 pages,

Conan the Barbarian is employed by one of the civilized countries to help in it's push to claim lan… read more

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24. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

By: Albert Camus

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on … read more

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25. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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26. The Stand

By: Stephen King

4.35

Format: None pages, Audiobook

First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams. Dark dreams that warned of the coming of t… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"A person can't change all at once."

-Stephen King, The Stand

"HEY, BOBBY TERRY, YOU SCROOOOWED IT UP!"

-Stephen King, The Stand

"Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up."

-Stephen King, The Stand

"His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere."

-Stephen King, The Stand

Cover of Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir by Werner Herzog

27. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

By: Werner Herzog

4.25

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more

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28. Cataclysm (Star Wars: The High Republic)

By: Lydia Kang

4.18

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

After the thrilling events of The High Republic: Convergence, the Jedi race to confront the Path of… read more

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  • fiction
"There is something more powerful in this galaxy than money. More powerful than weapons, or cunning. It's love. You know what the most dangerous thing in the world is? To love someone. Because you han…"

-Lydia Kang, Cataclysm (Star Wars: The High Republic)

Cover of Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America by Abraham Riesman

29. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America

By: Abraham Riesman

3.75

Format: 464 pages, ebook

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganl… read more

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30. The Shambler from the Stars

By: Robert Bloch

3.65

Format: 5 pages, None

The Shambler from the Stars is a horror short story written by Robert Bloch and first published in … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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31. The Haunter of the Dark

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.68

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

The Haunter of the Dark H. P. Lovecraft - "The Haunter of the Dark" is a horror short story by Amer… read more

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Gene Wolfe , Clark Ashton Smith , None

4.15

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Robert E. Howard

4.17

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Herman Melville

3.93

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John William Polidori

4.00

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The Centaur

Algernon Blackwood

3.46

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Collected Ghost Stories

M.R. James

4.14

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Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

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Robert Louis Stevenson

2.70

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