22 must-read horror books like Vastarien: Vol. 5, Issue 2 by Jon Padgett

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Vastarien: Vol. 5, Issue 2

By: Jon Padgett

4.23

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

A Literary Journal is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligo…

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1. Shiver: Selected Stories

By: Junji Ito

4.34

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A best-of story selection by the master of horror manga.This volume includes nine of Junji Ito’s be… read more

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2. The White Hands and Other Weird Tales

By: Mark Samuels

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

This is the first collection of strange stories by contemporary writer Mark Samuels. The themes tha… read more

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3. The Face of Twilight

By: Mark Samuels , Mark Morris

4.71

Format: 595 pages, Paperback

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4. Sklepy cynamonowe; Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą

By: Bruno Schulz

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

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5. Magic

By: William Goldman

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Starting out as a boy in the Catskills, Corky develops into a brilliant and famous magician whose l… read more

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6. The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.00

Format: 18 pages,

The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBoo… read more

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7. It Will Just Be Us

By: Jo Kaplan

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A terrifying new gothic horror novel about two sisters and a haunted house that never sleeps, perfe… read more

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"Is it fate that dictates what happens to us, or do we?"

-Jo Kaplan, It Will Just Be Us

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8. The Mysteries

By: Bill Watterson

3.76

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller. From Bill Watterson, bests… read more

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9. The Devil Takes You Home

By: Gabino Iglesias

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father despera… read more

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10. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

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11. The Wind Began to Howl (Isaiah Coleridge, #3.5)

By: Laird Barron

4.31

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Laird Barron's acclaimed crime saga makes a triumphant return in The Wind Began to Howl, an all-new… read more

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12. Reluctant Immortals

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.54

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes … read more

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"I don’t envy her for it. The thing about making it to old age is that not everyone else will. That means you get to sit back and watch the world slip away from you, one tragedy at a time."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, Reluctant Immortals

"The thing about making it to old age is that not everyone else will. That means you get to sit back and watch the world slip away from you, one tragedy at a time. First it was her friends, the Texan …"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, Reluctant Immortals

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13. The World Below

By: David Peak

3.98

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Witches, LSD psychosis, and the slippery nature of truth. The World Below is about the limitless ho… read more

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14. McSweeney's Issue 71 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Monstrous and the Terrible

By: Brian Evenson

4.04

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

Our first-ever issue-length foray into horror, and featuring one of our biggest lineups in some tim… read more

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15. The Puppet King and Other Atonements

By: Justin A. Burnett

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The Puppet King and Other Atonements conjures a horrific universe of puppets, labyrinths, and limin… read more

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16. We Are Here to Hurt Each Other

By: Paula D. Ashe

4.06

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

With these twelve stories Paula D. Ashe takes you into a dark and bloody world where nothing is sac… read more

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17. The Inconsolables

By: Michael Wehunt

4.24

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

In his first collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt introduced the world to his singular voic… read more

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"Well, my wife and child have moved out," Fulton told him, "and I've gotten back into vampires to fill the hole they left behind."

-Michael Wehunt, The Inconsolables

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18. The Sleep of the Assassins and Other Stories

By: Damian Murphy

4.86

Format: 61 pages, Hardcover

The Sleep of the Assassins and Other Stories is very much akin to a collection of b-sides and rarit… read more

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19. Pictures of Apocalypse

By: Thomas Ligotti

4.18

Format: 110 pages, Hardcover

Chiroptera Press is proud to publish Pictures of Apocalypse, a new work by horror legend Thomas Lig… read more

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20. Heqet

By: Brendan Connell

4.32

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

In the terrifying confession that makes up Heqet, the new and hypnotic novel by Brendan Connell, an… read more

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21. Hellebore #7: The Ritual Issue

By: Maria J. Pérez Cuervo

4.44

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Mummers with ill intentions, sacrificial May Queens, ecstatic trances. Folk horror is consistently … read more

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22. Not a Speck of Light: Stories

By: Laird Barron

4.16

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

It’s about to get very dark. Bram Stoker Award-winning author Laird Barron returns to the dark and … read more

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Cover of The Thirteen Ways We Turned Darryl Datson Into A Monster by Kurt Fawver

23. The Thirteen Ways We Turned Darryl Datson Into A Monster

By: Kurt Fawver

4.00

Format: 72 pages, None

A very dark story -- graphic bullying, body-shaming, and suicide are all on vivid display here, con… read more

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24. Weird Horror #5

By: Michael Kelly

4.53

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

Startling and provocative new horror fiction from Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe, J.T. Bundy, Zachariah Claypo… read more

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25. Vastarien: Vol. 5, Issue 2

By: Jon Padgett

4.23

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

A Literary Journal is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligo… read more

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26. Weird Fiction Review No. 12

By: John Pelan

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The Weird Fiction Review is an annual periodical devoted to the study of weird and supernatural fic… read more

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27. Only the Living Are Lost

By: Simon Strantzas

3.78

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Canadian writer Simon Strantzas has long been recognized as one of the most dynamic voices in conte… read more

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28. Looming Low: Volume II

By: Justin Steele

3.75

Format: 370 pages, Mass Market Paperback

LOOMING LOW VOLUME II presents 22 wondrous and unsettling tales that represent some of the best wri… read more

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29. Nightscript : Volume 8

By: C.M. Muller

4.32

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

An annual anthology of strange and darksome tales, which this year profiles the work of 18 contempo… read more

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30. Human, Too

By: J.M. Bédard

4.17

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

16 short pieces of dark surrealism and folk horror, many of which are being published here for the … read more

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31. Spiritus Ex Machina: Dark Tales of Creation

By: L.C. von Hessen

4.50

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Art and science were not always pitted against each other: they were once perceived as two sides of… read more

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21 Top fiction books like The World Below by David Peak

Transform Your Habits

Last Days

Brian Evenson , Peter Straub

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Visions

Troy James Weaver

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Cipher

Kathe Koja

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Everything the Darkness Eats

Eric LaRocca

2.78

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