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…
Want to Read $ 0.99"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"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
"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
If you liked the fantasy plot in The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers , here is a list of 13 books like this:
1. An Inhabitant of Carcosa
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.69
Format: 7 pages,
Written by Ambrose Bierce, this story concerns a man from the ancient city of Carcosa who awakens f… read more
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- classics
- weird fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"For there be divers sorts of death—some wherein the body remained; and in some it vanished quite away with the spirit."-Ambrose Bierce, An Inhabitant of Carcosa
"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks show…"-Ambrose Bierce, An Inhabitant of Carcosa
2. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
By: Arthur Machen
3.69
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more
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- gothic
- classics
- 19th century
- weird fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
3. The Color Out of Space
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.00
Format: None pages, ebook
Set in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, an unnamed narrator investigates a local area k… read more
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- classics
- lovecraftian
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
4. 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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- classics
- lovecraftian
- weird fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
5. 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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- lovecraftian
- weird fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
6. 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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- lovecraftian
- weird fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
7. The Shadow Over Innsmouth
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures rese… read more
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- classics
- lovecraftian
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
8. At the Mountains of Madness
By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more
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- classics
- lovecraftian
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
9. In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales
By: Lord Dunsany , S.T. Joshi
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
A new edition of the Fantasy Tales that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien and H.P. Lovecraft A pioneer in th… read more
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- classics
- weird fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
10. 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
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- 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
11. 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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12. 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
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- lovecraftian
- weird fiction
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- 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
13. 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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- gothic
- classics
- 19th century
- lovecraftian
- weird fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- 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
14. 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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15. The Hastur Cycle
By: Ambrose Bierce , H.P. Lovecraft , Ramsey Campbell , James Blish , Robert W. Chambers , Lin Carter , Richard A. Lupoff , Robert M. Price , Karl Edward Wagner , Arthur Machen , August Derleth , James Wade
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
The stories in this book evoke a tracery of evil rarely rivaled in horror writing. They represent t… read more
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16. Haïta the Shepherd
By: Ambrose Bierce
4.47
Format: 907 pages,
Haita is a naive shepherd who prays at the shrine of Hastur, god of shepherds, and knows nothing of… read more
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17. The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.00
Format: 18 pages,
The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBoo… read more
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18. The Call of Cthulhu
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more
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19. The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
By: S.T. Joshi , Clark Ashton Smith
4.11
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatu… read more
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20. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- horror
"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
21. The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories
By: Arthur Machen
3.89
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentac… read more
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- gothic
- classics
- 19th century
- weird fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"He could even talk about painting, and that's more than can be said of most painters."-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories
"Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures; we muddle through the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and, consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are al…"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories
