The Hill of Dreams
By: Arthur Machen
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lucian Taylor is damned, either through contact with an erotically pagan faerie world or through so…
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1. Fancies and Goodnights
By: Ray Bradbury , John Collier
4.05
Format: 418 pages, Paperback
John Collier's edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. … read more
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- classics
- fantasy
- fiction
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"Poets can dodge. ("Evening Primrose")"-Ray Bradbury, Fancies and Goodnights
"Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers."-Ray Bradbury, Fancies and Goodnights
"Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish."-Ray Bradbury, Fancies and Goodnights
"I am never repelled or chilled, as many people are, by the cheerless self-centeredness of the nervous or the unhappy."-Ray Bradbury, Fancies and Goodnights
2. The Famished Road
By: Ben Okri
3.73
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A modern classic that reveals the tension between the land of the living, wit… read more
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- classics
- fantasy
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"He danced there like an overturned centipede."-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
"It is not death that human beings are most afraid of, it is love."-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
"We must take an interest in politics. We must become spies on behalf of justice."-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
"I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of his face was squ…"-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
3. Auto-da-Fé
By: Elias Canetti , Τζένη Μαστοράκη , C.V. Wedgwood
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
"Auto-da-Fé" is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive sinologist living in Vienna bet… read more
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- fiction
"Since the death of his daughter, a consumptive, he had not thrashed a woman; he lived alone."-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
"Wenn man Bücher bei sich trug, waren Handgreiflichkeiten zu vermeiden. Er trug immer Bücher bei sich."-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
"The business friend did not recognize the sewerman, which was not surprising as the man's face was no more than a shining turd."-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
"She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her."-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
4. The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
3.18
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more
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- gothic
- classics
- british literature
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"This life is but a pilgrimage."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
5. Flaubert's Parrot
By: Julian Barnes
3.65
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and … read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
"How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns?"-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
"Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all."-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
"Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar."-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
"Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity."-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
6. Hell Screen
By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.20
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
"There can be no doubt that Akutagawa had more individuality than any other writer of his time and… read more
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- weird fiction
- classics
- fiction
- horror
"He was said to have survived starvation by eating human flesh, after which he had the strength to tear out the antlers of a living stag with his bare hands."-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"People used to say that on moonless nights Her Ladyship's broad-skirted scarlet trousers would glide eerily along the outdoor corridor, never touching the floor."-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy b…"-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"Still more horrible was the color of the flames that licked the latticed cabin vents before shooting skyward, as though - might I say? - the sun itself had crashed to earth, spewing its heavenly fire…"-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
7. Against Nature
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness
3.87
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
With a title translated either as Against Natureor as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-d… read more
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- classics
- fiction
8. Là-Bas
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , None
3.73
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
At the novel's center is Durtal, a writer obsessed with the life of one of the blackest figures in … read more
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- gothic
- classics
- fiction
- horror
9. Grimscribe: His Lives and Works
By: Thomas Ligotti
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Seeking deadly justice when she and her invalid father receive next to nothing in a lawsuit settlem… read more
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- gothic
- weird fiction
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
10. The Other Side
By: Alfred Kubin , Mike Mitchell
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The Other Sidetells of a dream kingdom which becomes a nightmare, of a journey to Pearl, a mysterio… read more
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- weird fiction
- fiction
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- fantasy
11. 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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- weird fiction
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
12. Paris Spleen
By: Charles Baudelaire , Louise Varèse
3.89
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of t… read more
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- classics
- fiction
13. Gifts (Annals of the Western Shore, #1)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the a… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
14. Undine
By: Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué , None , Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Most artistic of all the continental weird tales is the German classic Undine (1814), by Friedrich… read more
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- classics
- fantasy
- fiction
15. The White Guard
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Michael Glenny
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
The White Guardis less famous than Mikhail Bulgakov's comic hit, The Master and Margarita, but it i… read more
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- classics
- fiction
16. The Course of the Heart
By: M. John Harrison
3.32
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
John M. Harrison delivers an extraordinary, genre-bending novel that weaves together mythology, sex… read more
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- weird fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
17. The Hill of Dreams
By: Arthur Machen
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lucian Taylor is damned, either through contact with an erotically pagan faerie world or through so… read more
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- gothic
- classics
- british literature
- weird fiction
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
18. Red Harvest
By: Dashiell Hammett
4.12
Format: 652 pages, ebook
The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also… read more
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19. Supernatural Horror in Literature
By: H.P. Lovecraft , E.F. Bleiler , Theodore Menten
4.36
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), the most important American supernaturalist since Poe, has had an incal… read more
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20. 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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- classics
- weird fiction
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"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
21. 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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22. Nowhere to Be Found
By: Bae Suah , Sora Kim-Russell
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A nameless narrator passes through her life, searching for meaning and connection in experiences sh… read more
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23. Iphigenie auf Tauris
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
Da sie Diana ihr Leben verdankt, dient Iphigenie der Gottin auf der Insel Tauris als Priesterin, ob… read more
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24. The House on the Borderland
By: William Hope Hodgson
5.00
Format: 32 pages,
A manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the s… read more
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25. The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
By: H.P. Lovecraft , August Derleth
3.95
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
WARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF UTMOST TERROR When you open this book you wil… read more
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- weird fiction
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told o…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
"And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of sheer darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
26. Star Maker
By: Olaf Stapledon
4.33
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Star Makeris a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, published in 1937. The book describes a his… read more
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27. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
By: M.R. James , James McBride , E.F. Bleiler
4.34
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
Eight classics by great Edwardian scholar and storyteller. "Number Thirteen," "The Mezzotint," "Can… read more
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28. City Life
By: Donald Barthelme
4.79
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Barthelme's third collection of short stories, including: Views of my father weeping.--Paraguay.--T… read more
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29. A Trick of the Shadow
By: R. Ostermeier
4.62
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
R. Ostermeier lives and works on the peninsula. This first collection of strange tales draws predom… read more
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- fiction
- horror
30. El Asilo y otros relatos de lo extraño
By: Robert Aickman
3.65
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Las autodenominadas «historias extrañas» de Robert Aickman son desconcertantemente únicas. Su prosa… read more
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31. Waystations of the Deep Night
By: Marcel Brion
4.27
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
First published in France in the dark year of 1942, the story collection Waystations of the Deep Ni… read more
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- horror
