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…
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1. Last Days
By: Brian Evenson , Peter Straub
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Intense and profoundly unsettling, Brian Evenson's Last Daysis a down-the-rabbit-hole detective nov… read more
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- thriller
- fiction
- horror
2. Come Closer
By: Sara Gran
3.65
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."-Sara Gran, Come Closer
"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."-Sara Gran, Come Closer
3. 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
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
4. 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
5. 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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- lovecraftian
- weird fiction
- fiction
- horror
- novels
- adult
- 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
6. 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
- thriller
- novels
- 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
7. Exquisite Corpse
By: Poppy Z. Brite
4.00
Format: 208 pages,
To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own de… read more
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8. 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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- lovecraftian
- weird fiction
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- thriller
- novels
- adult
- splatterpunk
- fantasy
9. A Short Stay in Hell
By: Steven L. Peck
4.22
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- novels
- adult
- fantasy
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
10. Maeve Fly
By: C.J. Leede
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more
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- splatterpunk
- fiction
- thriller
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly
"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly
"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly
11. The Haar
By: David Sodergren
4.17
Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition
“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
12. 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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- lovecraftian
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- thriller
- adult
13. 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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- weird fiction
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
14. Helpmeet
By: Naben Ruthnum
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband from Manhattan to the upstate orchard estate… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
"This isn’t like the nose. That came off, like it was being picked at, pulled, tugged like taffy. This is from the inside. I can feel it when I’m going to sleep. Through the optic nerves. Drinking, ge…"-Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet
15. Burn You the Fuck Alive
By: B.R. Yeager
4.01
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
She asks for a light. You reach in your pocket and dig out your Bic, strike the flint, and touch th… read more
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- fiction
- horror
16. Negative Space
By: B.R. Yeager
3.72
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more
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- lovecraftian
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- fantasy
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
17. Amygdalatropolis
By: B.R. Yeager
3.69
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
Amygdalatropolis is a work of brilliant neurorealism in which the city is a Computer, a libidinal p… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- horror
"/1404er/ was born from video. His way into the threads. His eyes translating light from a stream. Before his eyes translated light from a stream he was only a person. Before the stream was a stream, …"-B.R. Yeager, Amygdalatropolis
18. Scanlines
By: Todd Keisling
3.83
Format: 83 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1987, Congressman Benjamin Hardy III died by suicide on live television amidst accusations of po… read more
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- thriller
- adult
- fiction
- horror
19. 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
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- lovecraftian
- weird fiction
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
20. Abnormal Statistics
By: Max Booth III
3.99
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Suburban decay, familial horror, bleak lullabies. Abnormal Statistics is the debut story collection… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"There are always concerns. Eating holes in your stomach. Scrambling your brain. Making your skin itch and itch and itch. Sometimes it feels like too much for a kid your age to handle. Sometimes it fe…"-Max Booth III, Abnormal Statistics
21. The Immaculate Void
By: Brian Hodge
4.04
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
"You wouldn't think events happening years apart, at points in the solar system hundreds of million… read more
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- lovecraftian
- weird fiction
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- novels
- fantasy
