The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
By: Laird Barron
4.00
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
To the long tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, P…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Wisdom devours the weak."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"...he was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
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1. The Secret of Ventriloquism
By: Jon Padgett
3.90
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Jon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism, named the Best Fiction Book of 2016 by Rue Morgue Magazi… read more
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"I was seven years old the first time my brother tried to kill me."-Jon Padgett, The Secret of Ventriloquism
2. A Collapse of Horses
By: Brian Evenson
4.02
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
A stuffed bear's heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby; Reno keeps receding to the east no mat… read more
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"Every time you think you have the world figured, trust me, that’s just when the world’s got you figured and is about to spring and break your back"-Brian Evenson, A Collapse of Horses
3. Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters
By: John Langan
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated profess… read more
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4. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
By: Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" (TheWashington Pos… read more
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5. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
By: Laird Barron
4.00
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
To the long tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, P… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Laird Barron's The Imago Sequence and Other Stories book and Laird Barron's The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
- short story collection
- lovecraftian
- weird fiction
- collections
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"Wisdom devours the weak."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"...he was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
6. Teatro Grottesco
By: Thomas Ligotti
4.29
Format: 128 pages,
This collection features tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns,… read more
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7. The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
By: John Langan
4.06
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemp… read more
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8. North American Lake Monsters
By: Nathan Ballingrud
3.97
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous exp… read more
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"He imagined the room bathed in blood, himself striding through it, a raven amongst the carcasses. Strutting like any carrion king."-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
"A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost end…"-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
"Sounds rose from the earth. New sounds: cobwebs of exhalations, pauses of the heart, the monastic work of the worms translating flesh to soil, the slow crawl of rock. There was another kind of indust…"-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
9. The Fisherman
By: John Langan
3.91
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more
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"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"-John Langan, The Fisherman
"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"-John Langan, The Fisherman
10. In a Lonely Place
By: Karl Edward Wagner
4.07
Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Contents: xi * Introduction * Peter Straub * in 1 * Prologue to In the Pines ["Lonely Places"] * vi… read more
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11. Behold the Void
By: Philip Fracassi
3.19
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
BEHOLD THE VOID Introduction by Laird Barron BEHOLD THE VOID is nine stories of terror that huddle … read more
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12. All the Fiends of Hell
By: Adam L.G. Nevill
4.01
Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition
The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the mor… read more
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13. Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell
By: Nathan Ballingrud
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis… read more
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14. Beneath a Pale Sky
By: Philip Fracassi
4.19
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Beneath a Pale Sky collects eight stories of horror, including two original novelettes, that will t… read more
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15. Sefira and Other Betrayals
By: John Langan
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN: 1614981922 (ISBN13: 9781614981923) John Langan’s new book is c… read more
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"The dread, blank as water, was that she had not yet heard the worst of Victoria's story, a groundless anxiety that, the instant she recognized it, she knew was true."-John Langan, Sefira and Other Betrayals
16. Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories
By: Brian Evenson
3.89
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome le… read more
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" The world is a strange place , thought Haupt, alone in the dark, almost unbearably so. And yet, it is the only place I have. And I'm not even entirely sure I have it. "-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories
"We did speak, occasionally, but gestured more often than moved our lips, and in general lived in that brusque and silent accord enjoyed, if enjoyed is the right word, by certain long-married couples."-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories
"And there's another one, where you look yourself in the mirror and keep looking until you can see through your skin, and then you draw your own heart and send the drawing in a letter to someone else.…"-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories
17. The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell
By: Brian Evenson
4.10
Format: 254 pages, ebook
“Here is how monstrous humans are.” A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurkin… read more
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18. Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies
By: John Langan
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’… read more
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19. Antisocieties
By: Michael Cisco
4.01
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
ANTISOCIETIES is a collection of ten stories about isolation - what it does to people, and what iso… read more
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20. Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies
By: John Langan
4.03
Format: 378 pages, Paperback
John Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with a new book o… read more
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21. A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
By: John Hornor Jacobs
3.82
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales—b… read more
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