The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
By: Stephen King , Haruki Murakami , Jeff VanderMeer , George R.R. Martin , William Gibson , Kelly Link , Neil Gaiman , Mervyn Peake , Franz Kafka , Ann VanderMeer , Michael Chabon , Bob Leman
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a co…
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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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- weird fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
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- horror
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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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- weird fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- fantasy
"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. Borne (Borne, #1)
By: Jeff VanderMeer
3.93
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger… read more
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- weird fiction
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- fantasy
"People with packs are people with purpose."-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)
"It's not being hurt that hurts,' Borne said."-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)
"The real reality is something we create every moment of every day, that realities spin off from our decisions in every second we've alive."-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)
"You forgive if you can forgive yourself. Or live with what you've done. If you cannot live with what you've done, you cannot live with what others have done either."-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)
4. Before You Wake: Three Horrors
By: Adam L.G. Nevill
3.75
Format: None pages,
A new trilogy of horror tales from the award-winning writer's second collection - HASTY FOR THE DAR… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
- horror
5. The Other Side of the Mountain
By: Michel Bernanos , Elaine P. Halperin
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Paperback
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- weird fiction
- short stories
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- horror
- science fiction
- fantasy
6. The House Next Door
By: Anne Rivers Siddons
3.88
Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Thirty-something Colquitt and Walter Kennedy live in a charming, peaceful suburb of the newly bustl… read more
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- fiction
- horror
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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- weird fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
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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- weird fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- 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
9. Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
By: Algernon Blackwood , E.F. Bleiler
3.97
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
"If a ghost is seen, what isit interests me less than than what seesit?" Thus Algernon Blackwood de… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
10. Experimental Film
By: Gemma Files
3.56
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Experimental Film is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois … read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"Because stories lie hidden inside other stories, and we always know more about any given thing than we think we do, even if the only thing we think we know is nothing."-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
"You could argue—as I have more than enough times, as part of my Film History lecture—that, no matter its actual narrative content, every movie is a ghost story. A film's production forms a time capsu…"-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
"What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in s…"-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
"We're storytelling creatures. Give us a bunch of seemingly random images and we will try to organize them into a linear progression: tree, apple, head, bruise, gravity . . . a man sat under a tree, a…"-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
11. Tainaron: Mail from Another City
By: Leena Krohn , Hildi Hawkins
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Consists of a series of letters sent beyond the sea from a city of insects. Nominated for the prest… read more
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- weird fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
12. 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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- weird fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"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
"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
"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
13. 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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- weird fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- fantasy
14. The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
By: Stephen King , Haruki Murakami , Jeff VanderMeer , George R.R. Martin , William Gibson , Kelly Link , Neil Gaiman , Mervyn Peake , Franz Kafka , Ann VanderMeer , Michael Chabon , Bob Leman
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a co… read more
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- weird fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- fantasy
15. Veniss Underground
By: Jeff VanderMeer
3.87
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
In his debut novel, literary alchemist Jeff VanderMeer takes us on an unforgettable journey, a triu… read more
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16. Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)
By: Clive Barker
4.04
Format: 210 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that h… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"Logic is the last refuge of a coward."-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)
"Es war ekelerregend, es war sauberste Arbeit, und es verwirrte zutiefst."-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)
"En el mundo hay algo peor que el Terror... Hay sueños que se vuelven realidad."-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)
"I don't want to see another church; the smell of the places makes me sick. Stale incense, old sweat, and lies... "In the Hills, the Cities"-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)
17. Songs of a Dead Dreamer
By: Thomas Ligotti
4.21
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
Songs of a Dreamerwas Thomas Ligotti's first collection of supernatural horror stories. When origin… read more
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18. The Night Land
By: William Hope Hodgson
3.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
"---this fantasy of a night-black, dead planet, with the remains of the human race concentrated in … read more
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19. 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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- weird fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- fantasy
" 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
20. The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales
By: Attila Veres
4.17
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Every so often a new horror writer bursts onto the scene with a book that is so dazzlingly original… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
21. A Song for a New Day
By: Sarah Pinsker
3.97
Format: 384 pages, ebook
In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illeg… read more
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- fiction
"She understood: sometimes the performance was the music, and vice versa, and the two couldn't be separated."-Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day
