Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur
By: August Derleth
3.73
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
This anthology of horror stories was first published in 1944. Includes stories, by authors includin…
Want to Read"He had, he said, floated off from a very ordinary series of dream-pictures into a scene whose strangeness was related to nothing he had ever read. It was of this world, and yet not of it—a shadowy geometrical confusion in which could be seen elements of familiar things in most unfamiliar and perturbing combinations. There was a suggestion of queerly disordered pictures superimposed one upon another; an arrangement in which the essentials of time as well as of space seemed dissolved and mixed in the most illogical fashion. In this kaleidoscopic vortex of phantasmal images were occasional snapshots, if one might use the term, of singular clearness but unaccountable heterogeneity. Once my uncle thought he lay in a carelessly dug open pit, with a crowd of angry faces framed by straggling locks and three-cornered hats frowning down on him. Again he seemed to be in the interior of a house—an old house, apparently—but the details and inhabitants were constantly changing, and he could never be certain of the faces or the furniture, or even of the room itself, since doors and windows seemed in just as great a state of flux as the more presumably mobile objects. It was queer—damnably queer—and my uncle spoke almost sheepishly, as if half expecting not to be believed, when he declared that of the strange faces many had unmistakably borne the features of the Harris family. And all the while there was a personal sensation of choking, as if some pervasive presence had spread itself through his body and sought to possess itself of his vital processes."-August Derleth, Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur
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1. The Horror in the Museum
By: H.P. Lovecraft , Stephen Jones
4.02
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Some tales in this collection were inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, others he revised, two he co-author… read more
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2. The Beasts of Tarzan (Tarzan, #3)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Not long after Tarzan claims his hereditary title of Lord Greystoke and marries Jane, their infant … read more
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3. The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere
By: John Chu
3.81
Format: 22 pages, ebook
In the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential fl… read more
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4. High-Rise
By: J.G. Ballard
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more
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"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
5. The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard , Algernon Blackwood , J. Sheridan Le Fanu , D.H. Lawrence , William Hope Hodgson , Robert Aickman , Marjorie Bowen , Richard Barham Middleton , L.P. Hartley , Walter de la Mare
3.94
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
7 * Introduction (The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories) * (1964) * essay by Robert Aickman 11 * … read more
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6. The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories
By: Robert Aickman
3.94
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Contents 7 * Introduction (The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories) * (1967) * essay by Robe… read more
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8. The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt
By: Lotte H. Eisner
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Golden Age of German cinema began at the end of the First World War and ended shortly after the… read more
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9. John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
By: David Wong
3.88
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too … read more
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"When a man plans, a woman laughs."-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
"John, let me make one thing clear,"-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
"My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy"-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
"No. We talked about this. I’m going home to eat a pie."-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
10. Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit
By: Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark
3.50
Format: 519 pages,
After he evens the score with those who betrayed him and recovers the money he was cheated out of f… read more
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11. 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
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12. Wilson
By: Daniel Clowes
3.67
Format: 499 pages, Hardcover
AN ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM THE OSCAR-NOMINATED SCREENWRITER AND AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST Meet W… read more
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13. Dracula's Guest
By: Bram Stoker
4.36
Format: 39 pages,
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14. The Complete Works
By: William Shakespeare
4.28
Format: None pages, Leather Bound
The tempest -- Two gentlemen of Verona -- Merry wives of Windsor -- Twelfth night, or, What you wil… read more
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15. Apartment 16
By: Adam L.G. Nevill
4.18
Format: 578 pages, Paperback
Some doors are better left closed--a spine-chilling horror novel from a new talent In Barrington Ho… read more
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16. All Hallows
By: Christopher Golden
3.55
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
With the 80's nostalgia of Stranger Things, this horror drama from NYT bestselling author Christoph… read more
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17. Lone Women
By: Victor LaValle
3.72
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more
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"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
18. Dead Silence
By: S.A. Barnes
3.80
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more
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"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence
19. The Beast You Are: Stories
By: Paul Tremblay
3.34
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club , A He… read more
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20. The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories
By: Robert Aickman
3.89
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
* Robert Aickman "Introduction" * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "Playing With Fire" * Edith Nesbit "Man-… read more
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21. The Eighth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories
By: Robert Aickman
3.40
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Contents: 7 • Introduction (The Eighth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories) • (1972) • essay by Ro… read more
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22. The Seventh Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories
By: Robert Aickman
3.80
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Contents: 7 • Introduction (The Seventh Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories) • (1971) • essay by R… read more
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23. Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur
By: August Derleth
3.73
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
This anthology of horror stories was first published in 1944. Includes stories, by authors includin… read more
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"He had, he said, floated off from a very ordinary series of dream-pictures into a scene whose strangeness was related to nothing he had ever read. It was of this world, and yet not of it—a shadowy ge…"-August Derleth, Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur
24. KONG: An Original Screenplay by Edgar Wallace (English and Russian Edition)
By: Edgar Wallace
4.58
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
ABOUT THIS BOOK 90 YEARS AGO, the classic Hollywood monster movie King Kong was released. What most… read more
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