10 Top anthologies books like The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due

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The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

By: Tananarive Due

4.04

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

American Book Award–winning author Tananarive Due’s second collection of stories includes offerings…

"All were eager to go home, happy and smiling, except when they saw her. Noticing brown or black skin was a favorite sport in the States, so most stared at her."

-Tananarive Due, The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

"All were eager to go home, happy and smiling, except when they saw her. Noticing brown or black skin was a favorite sport in the States, so most stared at her."

-Tananarive Due, The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

"...dim light bled through the threadbare curtains she recognized in the window, the ones with patterns of fish Mom had found at a garage sale with Joy a million years ago. Or yesterday. Time was a mystery and a lie since Mom had died."

-Tananarive Due, The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

"...dim light bled through the threadbare curtains she recognized in the window, the ones with patterns of fish Mom had found at a garage sale with Joy a million years ago. Or yesterday. Time was a mystery and a lie since Mom had died."

-Tananarive Due, The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

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1. After the People Lights Have Gone Off

By: Joe R. Lansdale , Stephen Graham Jones , None

3.68

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

This collection of fifteen stories taps into the horrors and fears of the supernatural as well as t… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's After the People Lights Have Gone Off book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Each moment, the world washes its hands of you, starts all over again. Easy as that. Wonderful as that."

-Joe R. Lansdale, After the People Lights Have Gone Off

"Thinking the bad instead of the good, defaulting to disaster instead of joy, letting the world infect you. And you know better. That's no way to live."

-Joe R. Lansdale, After the People Lights Have Gone Off

"That had been his secret Indian Trick to hunting, back then: to not hunt. The same way you never find your wallet when you're actually looking for it. Just, keep a rifle with you."

-Joe R. Lansdale, After the People Lights Have Gone Off

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2. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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3. Apex Magazine, Issue 120 May 2019

By: Jason Sizemore

3.59

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

Apex Magazine is an award-winning digital genre zine of short fiction. EDITORIAL Our Audacity by M… read more

Similar categories in Jason Sizemore's Apex Magazine, Issue 120 May 2019 book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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4. The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

By: Tananarive Due

4.04

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

American Book Award–winning author Tananarive Due’s second collection of stories includes offerings… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • short story collection
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"All were eager to go home, happy and smiling, except when they saw her. Noticing brown or black skin was a favorite sport in the States, so most stared at her."

-Tananarive Due, The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

"...dim light bled through the threadbare curtains she recognized in the window, the ones with patterns of fish Mom had found at a garage sale with Joy a million years ago. Or yesterday. Time was a my…"

-Tananarive Due, The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

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5. 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 Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk

6. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

Similar categories in Shane Hawk's Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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7. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Lone Women

By: Victor LaValle

3.72

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more

Similar categories in Victor LaValle's Lone Women book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

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9. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Peele's Out There Screaming book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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10. The Beast You Are: Stories

By: Paul Tremblay

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of  The Pallbearers Club ,  A He… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Beast You Are: Stories book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • short story collection
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. Wild Spaces

By: S.L. Coney

3.51

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life meets H. P. Lovecraft in Wild Spaces, a foreboding, sensual coming-… read more

Similar categories in S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"As funny as he thinks a fish would look, he wonders how the sea felt when her inhabitants started walking away. He wonders if maybe that’s why she keeps eating away at the land, trying to take back w…"

-S.L. Coney, Wild Spaces

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13. Spin a Black Yarn

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the singular mind of the New York Ti… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Spin a Black Yarn book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
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14. All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology

By: Circe Moskowitz

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the Dark. We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, … read more

Similar categories in Circe Moskowitz's All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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15. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • science fiction
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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16. The Black Girl Survives in This One

By: Desiree S. Evans

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one. Celebrating a new generation of bes… read more

Similar categories in Desiree S. Evans's The Black Girl Survives in This One book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. Wilderness Reform

By: Matt Query

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The authors of the “impossible to put down” (The Guardian) thriller Old Country return with a terri… read more

Similar categories in Matt Query's Wilderness Reform book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Incomplete Solutions

By: Wole Talabi

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An elderly woman in early 22nd century Lagos is called in to help test the artificial intelligence … read more

Similar categories in Wole Talabi's Incomplete Solutions book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. Tía Abuela’s Face, Ten Ways

By: Lisa M. Bradley

3.53

Format: None pages, Podcast

Episode 110 of LeVar Burton Reads An anthropologist copes with the passing of her beloved tía ab… read more

Similar categories in Lisa M. Bradley's Tía Abuela’s Face, Ten Ways book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Court Magician

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.94

Format: 1 pages, Audiobook

A young magician is given the opportunity to learn real magic, but it comes with consequences. This… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pinsker's The Court Magician book and Tananarive Due's The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook

21 must-read fiction books like The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due

Transform Your Habits

After the People Lights Have Gone Off

Joe R. Lansdale , Stephen Graham Jones , None

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Apex Magazine, Issue 120 May 2019

Jason Sizemore

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

Tananarive Due

4.04

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21 must-read fiction books like All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology by Circe Moskowitz

Transform Your Habits

The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

Tananarive Due

4.04

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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

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Out There Screaming

Jordan Peele

3.79

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Liselle Sambury

3.90

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