7 Top short stories books like The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications by D.P. Watt

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The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications

By: D.P. Watt

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications is D. P. Watt’s wonder cabinet of obsessive,…

If you liked the short stories plot in The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications by D.P. Watt , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Fever Dream

By: Samanta Schweblin , Megan McDowell , Ruth Sepp

3.72

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream… A young woman named Amanda lies dyin… read more

Similar categories in Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream book and D.P. Watt's The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications

  • fiction
  • horror
"There’s only so much searching you can do, either a horse is there or it’s not."

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

"I’m just tired, that’s what I tell myself, and sometimes I’m afraid when I think that everyday problems might be a little more terrible for me than for other people."

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

"But I’m going to die in a few hours. That’s going to happen, isn’t it? It’s strange how calm I am. Because even though you haven’t told me, I know. And still, it’s an impossible thing to tell yoursel…"

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

"My mother always said something bad would happen. My mother was sure that sooner or later something bad would happen and now I can see it with total clarity, I can feel it coming toward us like a tan…"

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

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2. Austerlitz

By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more

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  • fiction
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3. Honeysuckle Cottage

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.50

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Hardboiled crime writer James Rodman assumes his luck is in when he inherits Honeysuckle Cottage. B… read more

Similar categories in P.G. Wodehouse's Honeysuckle Cottage book and D.P. Watt's The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

4. Strange Epiphanies

By: None

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

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5. Gyo, Vol. 2

By: Junji Ito

4.17

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Horrifying Conclusion... Trapped on an island filled with the stench of mutating bodies, can t… read more

Similar categories in Junji Ito's Gyo, Vol. 2 book and D.P. Watt's The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

6. The Rings of Saturn

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more

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7. The Glamour

By: Christopher Priest

3.73

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Cameraman Richard Grey's memory has blanked out the few weeks before he was injured in a car bomb e… read more

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8. Seven Empty Houses

By: Samanta Schweblin

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. Negative Space

By: B.R. Yeager

3.72

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more

Similar categories in B.R. Yeager's Negative Space book and D.P. Watt's The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications

  • fiction
  • horror
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

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10. Ghostwritten

By: Ronald Malfi

4.12

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

Four brand-new horror novellas from “a modern-day Algernon Blackwood” all about books, stories, man… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"myself asks am i here? i've lost myself i fear"

-Ronald Malfi, Ghostwritten

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11. 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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12. The Nightfarers

By: Mark Valentine

4.61

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

Sewn hardcover, limited to 300 copies, 191pp with end papers and an original frontispiece. To fi… read more

Similar categories in Mark Valentine's The Nightfarers book and D.P. Watt's The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications

  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Cruise of Shadows: Haunted Stories of Land and Sea

By: Jean Ray

4.04

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Footsteps in an abandoned holiday resort as the cold weather settles in; a door that opens in an em… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Witch-Cult Abbey

By: Mark Samuels

4.15

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

During the height of the London Blitz, book-cataloguer Saul Prior is offered work in the recondite … read more

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  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. The Fig Garden and Other Stories

By: Mark Valentine

4.65

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

This new collection of short and some longer stories by Mark Valentine explores ‘the Real Map of En… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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16. The Peacock Escritoire with At Dusk

By: Mark Valentine

4.46

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The Peacock Escritoire A stranger returns a silver coin; a dream museum releases its dreams; a dyi… read more

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17. The Settlements

By: O. Jamie Walsh

4.48

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Set in a community where people live according to their creative drives, this “endlessly surprising… read more

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18. The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications

By: D.P. Watt

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications is D. P. Watt’s wonder cabinet of obsessive,… read more

Similar categories in D.P. Watt's The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications book and D.P. Watt's The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications

  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

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Transform Your Habits

Fever Dream

Samanta Schweblin , Megan McDowell , Ruth Sepp

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Austerlitz

Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald

4.67

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Honeysuckle Cottage

P.G. Wodehouse

4.50

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Gyo, Vol. 2

Junji Ito

4.17

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Berserk, Vol. 4 (Berserk, #4)

Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

4.59

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Berserk, Vol. 8 (Berserk, #8)

Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

4.69

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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

J.R.R. Tolkien , Roger Garland

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Demian

Hermann Hesse

4.14

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