5 Top novels books like The Divinity Student by Michael Cisco, Harry O. Morris

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The Divinity Student

By: Michael Cisco , Harry O. Morris

4.10

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Short but powerful, this neo-gothic novel, which is illustrated by Harry O. Morris, uses the crisp …

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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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  • gothic
  • new weird
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"I was seven years old the first time my brother tried to kill me."

-Jon Padgett, The Secret of Ventriloquism

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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
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

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3. Ice

By: Anna Kavan

3.67

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more

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  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

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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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  • weird fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. The Scar (Bas-Lag, #2)

By: China Miéville

3.80

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque … read more

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  • new weird
  • weird fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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6. The Killer Inside Me

By: Jim Thompson

3.60

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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7. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories

By: William H. Gass

4.07

Format: 242 pages,

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  • fiction
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8. 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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  • weird fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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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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  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • novels
  • fantasy
"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

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10. 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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  • weird fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

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11. The Divinity Student

By: Michael Cisco , Harry O. Morris

4.10

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Short but powerful, this neo-gothic novel, which is illustrated by Harry O. Morris, uses the crisp … read more

Similar categories in Michael Cisco's The Divinity Student book and Michael Cisco's The Divinity Student

  • gothic
  • new weird
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • novels
  • fantasy

12. Gateways to Abomination: Collected Short Fiction

By: Matthew M. Bartlett

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Bizarre radio broadcasts luring dissolute souls into the dark woods of Western Massachusetts. Sinis… read more

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13. Light (Kefahuchi Tract, #1)

By: M. John Harrison

3.61

Format: 310 pages, Trade Paperback

In M. John Harrison’s dangerously illuminating new novel, three quantum outlaws face a universe of … read more

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  • new weird
  • fiction
  • horror
  • novels
  • fantasy
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14. The Cipher

By: Kathe Koja

3.54

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blo… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • novels
  • fantasy

15. Universal Harvester

By: John Darnielle

4.04

Format: None pages,

Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at… read more

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16. Man with No Name

By: Laird Barron

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

Nanashi was born into a life of violence. Delivered from the mean streets by the Heron Clan, he mas… read more

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17. There Is No Antimemetics Division

By: qntm

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, disc… read more

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  • new weird
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day."

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending."

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine, to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two…"

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"We don't have an Antimemetics Division," Clay says. "Yes, you do. We do." O5-8 says, "We have a Memetics Division, a Telekontainment Division, Fire Services, Ops-A, Ops-B, Personnel, D-personnel and …"

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

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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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  • weird fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
" 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

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19. 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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  • weird fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)

By: Hailey Piper

3.75

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

New York City, 1990: When you slip through the cracks, no one is there to catch you. Monique learns… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"She’s part of the nothing now."

-Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)

"I think death is what happens when anyone meets a god."

-Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)

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21. A ambos lados del espejo

By: Iván Ledesma

3.96

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

La suerte no siempre está echada a este lado del espejo El día en el que su pareja, Roger, final… read more

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17 best-selling fiction books like The Divinity Student by Michael Cisco, Harry O. Morris

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The Secret of Ventriloquism

Jon Padgett

3.90

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A Collapse of Horses

Brian Evenson

4.02

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Ice

Anna Kavan

3.67

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Occultation and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.08

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21 must-read fiction books like The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1) by Hailey Piper

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The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

3.85

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Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

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Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

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Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

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