9 must-read short story collection books like Beneath a Pale Sky by Philip Fracassi

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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…

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1. 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

Similar categories in Laird Barron's The Imago Sequence and Other Stories book and Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • short story collection
  • lovecraftian
  • collections
  • 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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2. 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

Similar categories in Gemma Files's Experimental Film book and Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • audiobook
  • 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

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3. 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

Similar categories in John Langan's The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies book and Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • lovecraftian
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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4. 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 Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • short story collection
  • collections
  • 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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5. They Lurk

By: Ronald Malfi

3.79

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

COME CLOSER . . . Five terrifying collected horror novellas newly reissued from the "modern-day … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's They Lurk book and Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • short story collection
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook

6. Greener Pastures

By: Michael Wehunt , Michael Bukowski

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

*Shirley Jackson Award Finalist, Single-Author Collection* *Shortlisted for the Crawford Award* *Ru… read more

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7. 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 Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • lovecraftian
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. 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 Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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9. Her Heart Beats for Ancient Beasts

By: Calvin Demmer

4.55

Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition

Ancient beings, merciless monsters, unearthly creatures, and other beasts roam these pages. A sh… read more

Similar categories in Calvin Demmer's Her Heart Beats for Ancient Beasts book and Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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10. Through the Ravenous Night We Ride

By: Calvin Demmer

4.50

Format: 117 pages, Kindle Edition

Secret societies, serial killers, malevolent criminals, and other evils stalk these pages. A sho… read more

Similar categories in Calvin Demmer's Through the Ravenous Night We Ride book and Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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11. 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

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell book and Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • short story collection
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Beneath a Pale Sky by Philip Fracassi

12. 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 Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • short story collection
  • lovecraftian
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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13. Black Mouth

By: Ronald Malfi

3.96

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

For nearly two decades, Jamie Warren has been running from darkness. He's haunted by a traumatic ch… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Black Mouth book and Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. 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 Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • short story collection
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. Palmetto

By: Ania Ahlborn

3.72

Format: 101 pages, Paperback

Kim Devland nearly has it all. A great marriage. A baby on the way. All that's missing is a house--… read more

Similar categories in Ania Ahlborn's Palmetto book and Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. 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 Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. 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 Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies by John  Langan

18. 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 Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • short story collection
  • lovecraftian
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories

By: Bernardo Esquinca

4.14

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Bernardo Esquinca's haunting tale "Señor Ligotti" represented Mexico in the acclaimed The Valancour… read more

Similar categories in Bernardo Esquinca's The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories book and Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • short story collection
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Sooner or later', she said,' our true nature separates us from the person we love. Losing one's shadow shouldn't be a tragedy but a goal. It's the only way of finding out who we really are."

-Bernardo Esquinca, The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories

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20. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House book and Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Curse of the Reaper

By: Brian McAuley

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Scream meets The Shining in this page-turning horror tale about an aging actor haunted by the slash… read more

Similar categories in Brian McAuley's Curse of the Reaper book and Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror

19 Best fiction books like Beneath a Pale Sky by Philip Fracassi

Transform Your Habits

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Experimental Film

Gemma Files

3.56

Transform Your Habits

The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

John Langan

4.06

Transform Your Habits

North American Lake Monsters

Nathan Ballingrud

3.97

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16 best-selling fiction books like North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud

Transform Your Habits

The Secret of Ventriloquism

Jon Padgett

3.90

Transform Your Habits

A Collapse of Horses

Brian Evenson

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Occultation and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Laird Barron

3.98

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