19 Best fantasy books like The Nameless Dark: A Collection by T.E. Grau, Nathan Ballingrud

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The Nameless Dark: A Collection

By: T.E. Grau , Nathan Ballingrud

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

The Nameless Dark: A Collection is the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated debut of a major new voice i…

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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

Similar categories in Jon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • 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. The Sluts

By: Dennis Cooper

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's The Sluts book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • fiction
  • horror
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3. The Ballad of Black Tom

By: Victor LaValle

3.85

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I wish I’d been more like my father,"

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

Cover of Ring (Ring, #1) by Kōji Suzuki, Glynne Walley, Robert B. Rohmer

4. Ring (Ring, #1)

By: Kōji Suzuki , Glynne Walley , Robert B. Rohmer

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act… read more

Similar categories in Kōji Suzuki's Ring (Ring, #1) book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • fiction
  • horror
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5. The Between

By: Tananarive Due

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

When Hilton was just a boy, his aged grandmother saved him from drowning by pulling him out of a tr… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's The Between book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

6. The Spectral Link

By: Thomas Ligotti

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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7. 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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  • lovecraftian
  • 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

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8. American Elsewhere

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's American Elsewhere book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

9. 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 … read more

Similar categories in Arthur Machen's The White People book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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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

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's North American Lake Monsters book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"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. Hasty for the Dark

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Hardcover

These selected terrors range from the speculative to supernatural horror, encompass the infernal an… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. The Nameless Dark: A Collection

By: T.E. Grau , Nathan Ballingrud

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

The Nameless Dark: A Collection is the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated debut of a major new voice i… read more

Similar categories in T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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13. Between Two Fires

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"The only thing I say to God is my daughter's names; and it is not a prayer, it's a rebuke."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"He was being kissed now by his own mouth, not as lovers kiss, with tongues, but as true lovers kiss, sharing breath."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"A dark-haired little boy just in pants stood bewildered near the blaze, saying, as if there had been some mistake, "We live here. We live here."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death…"

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

14. 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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15. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's The Fisherman book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

16. Noctuary

By: Thomas Ligotti

4.23

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

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17. Sacculina

By: Philip Fracassi

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

When Jim's big brother Jack is released from prison, the brothers - along with their broken father … read more

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18. Father of Lies

By: Brian Evenson

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

At the urging of his wife, Provost Fochs reluctantly agrees to see a therapist, Dr. Feshtig. Throug… read more

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19. 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

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's All the Fiends of Hell book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's You Like It Darker book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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21. 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

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • lovecraftian
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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22. Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

By: Laird Barron

3.99

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Ex-mob enforcer Isaiah Coledrige has hung out a shingle as a private eye in New York's Hudson Valle… read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2) book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"God lit a candle and then made us. He was afraid of being alone in the dark."

-Laird Barron, Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

"I'm a wary believer in signs and portents. The universe is always muttering threats."

-Laird Barron, Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

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23. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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24. Small Town Horror

By: Ronald Malfi

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Small Town Horror book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • fiction
  • horror
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25. Artificial Wisdom

By: Thomas R. Weaver

4.09

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

It’s 2050, a decade after a heatwave that killed four hundred million across the Persian Gulf, incl… read more

Similar categories in Thomas R. Weaver's Artificial Wisdom book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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26. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • fiction
  • horror
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27. 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

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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28. Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

By: John Langan

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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29. To Rouse Leviathan

By: Matt Cardin

4.04

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Matt Cardin has distinguished himself by writing weird … read more

Similar categories in Matt Cardin's To Rouse Leviathan book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1) by Hailey Piper

30. 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

Similar categories in Hailey Piper's The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1) book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"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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31. No One is Safe!

By: Philip Fracassi

4.45

Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition

No One Is Safe! presents fourteen stories of macabre, pulpy terror; a book filled with futuristic n… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's No One is Safe! book and T.E. Grau's The Nameless Dark: A Collection

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

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Jon Padgett

3.90

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Dennis Cooper

3.79

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Victor LaValle

3.85

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Algernon Blackwood

3.46

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M.R. James

4.14

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