The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
By: John Langan
4.06
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
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1. The Secret of Ventriloquism
By: Jon Padgett
3.90
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
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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. Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors
By: Adam L.G. Nevill
3.82
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
A bestial face appears at windows in the night. In the big white house on the hill angels are said … read more
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"The world’s refusal to leave me out of its activities made me consider its destruction. Bring on the wave. Please, the asteroid."-Adam L.G. Nevill, Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors
"I thought to myself: this is how civilisation ends. Standards decline, accountability ends, the rule of law is impotent, the thugs take over and do what they will. And those of us softened by convent…"-Adam L.G. Nevill, Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors
4. Occultation and Other Stories
By: Laird Barron
4.08
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, … read more
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5. X's For Eyes
By: Laird Barron
3.62
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Brothers Macbeth and Drederick Tooms should have it made as fair-haired scions of an impossibly ric… read more
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"Presumption is a leading cause of death."-Laird Barron, X's For Eyes
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"I am abroad in the night with my servants. We come to smoke the northern lights, to rape the Wendigo, to melt igloos with streams of hot, bloody piss. To see and see."-Laird Barron, X's For Eyes
6. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
By: Laird Barron
3.98
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Lai… read more
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"After years in the wilderness, he usually talked to himself."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"Actually, coyotes are much scarier than wolves. Sneaky, sneaky little suckers. Eat you up. Lick the blood all up."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
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"I was accustomed to liars, bold-faced or wide-eyed, silver tongued or pleading, often with the barrel of my gun directed at them as they babbled their last prayers to an indifferent god, squirted the…"-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
7. 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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8. 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
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"Wisdom devours the weak."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
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"...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
9. 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
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"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
10. 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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11. 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
12. Greener Pastures
By: Michael Wehunt , Michael Bukowski
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
*Shirley Jackson Award Finalist, Single-Author Collection* *Shortlisted for the Crawford Award* *Ru… read more
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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. Blood Standard (Isaiah Coleridge, #1)
By: Laird Barron
3.95
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
Isaiah Coleridge is a mob enforcer in Alaska--he's tough, seen a lot, and dished out more. But when… read more
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18. 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
19. The Reddening
By: Adam L.G. Nevill
3.62
Format: 415 pages, Hardcover
One million years of evolution didn't change our nature. Nor did it bury the horrors predating civi… read more
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20. Wyrd and Other Derelictions
By: Adam L.G. Nevill
3.81
Format: 106 pages, ebook
Derelictions are horror stories told in ways you may not have encountered before. Something is m… 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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