The White People
By: Arthur Machen
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal …
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1. The Centaur
By: Algernon Blackwood
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
On a cruise through the Greek islands, a man encounters a handsome father and his son. He is strang… read more
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2. Collected Ghost Stories
By: M.R. James
4.14
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
M. R. James is widely regarded as the father of the modern ghost story, and his tales have influenc… read more
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"The door was opening again. The seer does not like to dwell upon what he saw entering the room: he says it might be described as a frog - the size of a man - but it had scanty white hair about its he…"-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
"Those that spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pa…"-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
"But it was in the life-saving competition that Stanley Judkins's conduct was most blameable and had the most far-reaching effects. The practice, as you know, was to throw a selected lower boy, of sui…"-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
3. 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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4. The Suicide Club
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
2.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Short story trilogy involving a club for people who wish to end their lives. The "Story of the Youn… read more
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5. The Complete John Silence Stories
By: Algernon Blackwood , S.T. Joshi
4.50
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
One of the foremost British writers of supernatural tales in the twentieth century, Algernon Blackw… read more
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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. Remainder
By: Tom McCarthy
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensatio… read more
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8. The Croning
By: Laird Barron
3.73
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyon… read more
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"The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did."-Laird Barron, The Croning
"Ramirez walked ahead with a torch he'd fashioned from a stick and some rags and by that queer and reddish light, devils, or the shadows of devils hooked to the shoes of the men and capered across the…"-Laird Barron, The Croning
"The light in the gallery changed subtly and he whirled and saw someone approaching him from between the exhibit cases. The individual moved with alarming speed, bent low to the floor, but straighteni…"-Laird Barron, The Croning
"They would, according to his experience of their traditions, suspect he was a demon, or demon-inhabited. Considering the volume of alcohol saturating his liver, that ancient gateway of spirits, of co…"-Laird Barron, The Croning
9. Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
By: Raymond Carver
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the greate… read more
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10. The White People and Other Weird Stories
By: Guillermo del Toro , S.T. Joshi , Arthur Machen
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduc… read more
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11. The Willows
By: Algernon Blackwood
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood person… read more
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12. Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories
By: Algernon Blackwood , S.T. Joshi
3.82
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Spine-tingling supernatural tales from "the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmospher… read more
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13. The Ark Sakura
By: Kōbō Abe , Juliet Winters Carpenter
4.09
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Tells of a fat hermit whose fears of a nuclear disaster lead him to build a shelter inside a mounta… read more
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14. The King in Yellow
By: Robert W. Chambers
3.55
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more
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"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
15. The Mezzotint
By: M.R. James
5.00
Format: 646 pages,
This short story of the supernatural was originally published in 1904. It concerns a university don… read more
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16. The Wendigo
By: Algernon Blackwood
4.50
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Algernon Blackwood's classic tale, The Wendigo. An influential novella by one of the most best-know… read more
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18. 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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19. The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
By: S.T. Joshi , Clark Ashton Smith
4.11
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatu… read more
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20. The Vessel
By: Adam L.G. Nevill
3.73
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
'A watcher may remark that after sleeping for so long, the building appears to have been roused.' … read more
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21. The Death of Francis Bacon
By: Max Porter
3.14
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed, synapses firing, writhing a… read more
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