Liane the Wayfarer
By: Jack Vance
3.78
Format: None pages, None
A vain, overconfident, utterly amoral adventurer who calls himself Liane the Wayfarer embarks on a …
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1. Spiderlight
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.12
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
The Church of Armes of the Light has battled the forces of Darkness for as long as anyone can remem… read more
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"Like a bloody cave,"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Spiderlight
"What was building a web but a gustatory expression of hope?"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Spiderlight
"Were all beings just a thin skin of volition floating on a sea of drives and directives they could not control?"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Spiderlight
2. Scanners Live in Vain
By: Cordwainer Smith
3.98
Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition
Man has conquered space, but not without costs. To maintain the space lanes, Scanners have to under… read more
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3. Suttree
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.20
Format: 471 pages, Paperback
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disi… read more
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"Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchednes."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
4. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.37
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more
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"Would you walk away from Omelas?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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6. The Orchard Keeper
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, "The O… read more
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"See the hand that nursed the serpent."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"The old man remembered it now with dim regret, and remembered such nights when the air was warm as a breath and the moon no dead thing."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and n…"-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
7. The Room in the Tower
By: E.F. Benson
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
E.F. Benson (1867-1940) fue, junto con M.R. James, uno de los maestros victorianos de la <>, un ter… read more
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8. Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction (Hellboy, #1)
By: Mike Mignola , John Byrne
3.64
Format: 264 pages,
Hellboyis one of the most celebrated comics series in recent years. The ultimate artists' artist an… read more
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9. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
The sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost… read more
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10. Pickman's Model
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.49
Format: 288 pages, ebook
"Pickman's Model" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in September 1926 and first publishe… read more
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11. The Repairer of Reputations: Magical Antiquarian, a Weiser Books Collection
By: Robert W. Chambers , Lon Milo DuQuette
4.27
Format: 412 pages, ebook
Master of modern occultism, Lon Milo DuQuette, (author of "Enochian Vision Magick" and "The Magick … read more
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12. The Truth (Discworld, #25)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.70
Format: 84 pages, Mass Market Paperback
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. Now he must cope with… read more
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13. La música de Erich Zann
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.00
Format: 16 pages, ebook
"The Music of Erich Zann" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December … read more
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14. The Rats in the Walls
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.55
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Written in August-September 1923, it wa… read more
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16. The Night Before Christmas
By: Nikolai Gogol , Anna Summers , None , None , None
4.07
Format: None pages,
Gogol's classic, uproarious folktale, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving… read more
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18. The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences.… read more
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19. The Call of Cthulhu
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more
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20. Outer Dark
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he… read more
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21. Crouch End: Story aus Albträume
By: Stephen King
3.59
Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition
In Crouch End geschehen von Zeit zu Zeit merkwürdige Dinge. Bekanntlich kann man sich in dem eher r… read more
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22. The Jaunt
By: Stephen King
4.18
Format: 25 pages, None
"The Jaunt" is a horror short story by Stephen King first published in The Twilight Zone Magazine i… read more
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23. Number 13
By: M.R. James
3.59
Format: None pages, ebook
M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not p… read more
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24. With The Beatles
By: Haruki Murakami
3.66
Format: 65 pages, Hardcover
‘With the Beatles’ van Haruki Murakami gaat over een naamloze, oudere verteller die terug denkt aan… read more
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"The death of a dream can be, in a way, sadder than that of a living being."-Haruki Murakami, With The Beatles
25. Why Don't You Dance?
By: Raymond Carver
3.65
Format: None pages, None
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26. Red Star, Winter Orbit
By: William Gibson
3.79
Format: None pages, None
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27. The Great Sermon Handicap, Volume 4
By: P.G. Wodehouse
3.91
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
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28. Liane the Wayfarer
By: Jack Vance
3.78
Format: None pages, None
A vain, overconfident, utterly amoral adventurer who calls himself Liane the Wayfarer embarks on a … read more
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29. Thurlow's Christmas Story
By: John Kendrick Bangs
3.68
Format: 13 pages, None
A famous short story, first published in Harper's Weekly on December 8, 1894 read more
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30. Gibbet Hill
By: Bram Stoker
3.70
Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition
As if by the irony of fate, there, beside me, was a grim memorial of man’s wickedness and lust for … read more
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31. Tomorrow
By: Eugene O'Neill
3.56
Format: None pages, website
http://www.eoneill.com/library/newsletter/vii_3/vii-3b.htm O'Neill's only published short story.… read more
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