13 Best horror books like Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse) by Rachel Swirsky

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Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse)

By: Rachel Swirsky

2.83

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

From Nebula Award-winning author Rachel Swirsky comes a time traveling adventure Placed into Abyss …

If you liked the horror plot in Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse) by Rachel Swirsky , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Fevre Dream

By: George R.R. Martin

3.89

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy arist… read more

Similar categories in George R.R. Martin's Fevre Dream book and Rachel Swirsky's Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse)

  • fiction
  • horror
"Some mate," Karl Framm said with contempt. "Hell, that little stern-wheeler we're chasin' don't draw nothin'. After a good rain, she could steam halfway across the city of N'Orleans without ever noti…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

"Sometimes I think … the humanity of him is all hollow, a mask … he is only an old animal, so ancient it has lost even the taste for food, but it hunts on nonetheless, because that is all it remembers…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

"You know I never held much with slavery, even if I never done much against it neither. I would of, but those damned abolitionists were such Bible-thumpers. Only I been thinkin', and it seems to me ma…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

"ABNER Marsh had a mind that was not unlike his body. It was big all around, ample in size and capacity, and he crammed all sorts of things into it. It was strong as well; when Abner Marsh took someth…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

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2. Heir to Sevenwaters (Sevenwaters, #4)

By: Juliet Marillier

4.23

Format: 395 pages, Hardcover

A brand new novel in the beloved world of Sevenwaters, a fantasy series that should appeal to "Lord… read more

Similar categories in Juliet Marillier's Heir to Sevenwaters (Sevenwaters, #4) book and Rachel Swirsky's Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse)

  • fiction
"His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body."

-Juliet Marillier, Heir to Sevenwaters (Sevenwaters, #4)

"I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm."

-Juliet Marillier, Heir to Sevenwaters (Sevenwaters, #4)

"If she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me to let her breathe. I'd kiss her so hard she'd plead for mercy. I'd unfasten her clothing and lie …"

-Juliet Marillier, Heir to Sevenwaters (Sevenwaters, #4)

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3. The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, #8)

By: Robert Jordan

3.93

Format: 685 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Seanchan invasion force is in possession of Ebou Dar. Nynaeve, Elayne, and Aviendha head for Ca… read more

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  • fiction
"Under the Light,"

-Robert Jordan, The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, #8)

"I am Elayne Trakand,"

-Robert Jordan, The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, #8)

"A secret spoken finds wings."

-Robert Jordan, The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, #8)

"I would not mind you in my head, if you were not so clearly mad."

-Robert Jordan, The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, #8)

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4. Dark Warm Heart

By: Rich Larson , Samuel Araya

3.63

Format: 371 pages, ebook

Original Fiction, Short Story, Horror || "Dark Warm Heart" by Rich Larson is a horror story about a… read more

Similar categories in Rich Larson's Dark Warm Heart book and Rachel Swirsky's Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

5. These Deathless Bones: A Tor.com Original

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.82

Format: 3 pages,

A horror tale about the Witch Bride, second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her you… read more

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6. Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.85

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West… read more

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  • novella
  • fiction
"I’m not stupid, I just don’t know stuff,"

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"I’m not really into cremating my cookies."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"So please, can we go and tell her to stop? I need to exist. It’s important."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"That's why people shouldn't get too hung up on labels. Sometimes I think that's part of what we do wrong. We try to make things make sense, even when they're never going to."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

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7. Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1)

By: Lavie Tidhar

4.02

Format: 32 pages, ebook

No vampire is ever innocent… The wandering Judge Dee serves as judge, jury, and executioner for … read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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9. The Little Witch

By: M. Rickert

3.59

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Every Halloween, an elderly woman hands out candy to a young trick-or-treater who's dressed as a wi… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.16

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather … read more

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  • novella
  • fiction
"No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

"She was ordinary. She was remarkable. Of such commonplace contradictions are weapons made."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

"If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

"There is wanting and there is needing, and when you want, you can make good choices, but when you need, it’s important the people around you not be looking to take advantage."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

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11. Open House on Haunted Hill

By: John Wiswell

4.14

Format: 13 pages, ebook

Author’s Note: At the World Fantasy Convention in 2018, I went to dinner with some lovely people wh… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Open House on Haunted Hill book and Rachel Swirsky's Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse)

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. Solution

By: Brian Evenson

3.62

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

As climate change wreaks havoc on the earth and the fate of humanity grows dire, a scientist makes … read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
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13. The Night Sun

By: Zin E. Rocklyn

3.40

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

Zin E. Rocklyn's "The Night Sun" speaks to the darkness that manifests around us and in ourselves —… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Any Way the Wind Blows

By: Seanan McGuire

3.70

Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition

In the original Tor.com story Any Way the Wind Blows, New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGu… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Any Way the Wind Blows book and Rachel Swirsky's Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse)

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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15. Of Roses and Kings

By: Melissa Marr

3.33

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

In this dark, skewed take on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice is now the Red Queen, and her … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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16. As the Last I May Know

By: S.L. Huang

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

An alternate history short story looking at decisions and consequences, and what it takes to pull t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. Pretty Good Neighbor

By: Jeffrey Ford

3.22

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

There are worse things than a local gangster’s cronies lurking in New Jersey’s wetlands... At th… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Everything's Fine

By: Matthew Pridham

4.01

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

Matthew Pridham's dark fantasy tale "Everything's Fine," a Tor.com Original Eric’s day is off to a … read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
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19. The Case of the Somewhat Mythic Sword

By: Garth Nix

3.74

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

Sir Magnus Holmes, cousin to the more famous Sherlock, is asked to investigate the appearance of an… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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20. Dislocation Space

By: Garth Nix

3.91

Format: 42 pages, Kindle Edition

A Soviet political prisoner is ordered to use her unique talents to explore a strange scientific ph… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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21. Yellow and the Perception of Reality

By: Maureen F. McHugh

3.75

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

"Yellow and the Perception of Reality" by Maureen McHugh is a science fiction story about a woman w… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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22. The Night Soil Salvagers

By: Gregory Norman Bossert

2.61

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

A Tor.com original story from World Fantasy Award-winning author Gregory Norman Bossert. The Nig… read more

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  • short stories
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23. The Vetting

By: Michael Cassutt

3.14

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

A suspenseful near-future story from Michael Cassutt about what happens during the vetting process … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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24. Painless

By: Rich Larson

4.06

Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition

A man who can't feel pain has been bio-engineered to be a killing machine, but he refuses to give i… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • horror
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25. The New Prometheus (The Mongolian Wizard, #9)

By: Michael Swanwick

3.81

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

The New Prometheus is the ninth story in the Mongolian Wizard universe. Hugo and Nebula Award-winni… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers by Jeremy Packert Burke

26. The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

By: Jeremy Packert Burke

3.05

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers is a Tor.com original science fiction story from Jeremy … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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27. For Every Jack

By: R.K. Duncan

None

Format: 16 pages, Kindle Edition

Humanity has settled space and left Earth to its destruction. Connor and Ines have traveled back to… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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28. The Hundredth House Had No Walls

By: Laurie Penny

3.58

Format: 22 pages, Kindle Edition

Laurie Penny is an award-winning author, journalist, screenwriter, essayist, public speaker and act… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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29. Beyond the El

By: John Chu

3.34

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

Connor is a food crafter just getting back into the business after his mother’s death. To cope with… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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30. Mama Bruise

By: Jonathan Carroll

3.33

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

Dark fantasy about a couple and their dog, a dog that behaves increasingly bizarrely, much to their… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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31. Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse)

By: Rachel Swirsky

2.83

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

From Nebula Award-winning author Rachel Swirsky comes a time traveling adventure Placed into Abyss … read more

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  • time travel
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction

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Fevre Dream

George R.R. Martin

3.89

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Juliet Marillier

4.23

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3.93

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Naomi Kritzer

4.03

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Sarah Pinsker

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