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  • August 26, 2023
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#3

Books of Blood: Volume I

#1 of 6 in Books of Blood

Books of Blood: Volume I
ByClive Barker

1984 • 133 Readers • 210 pages • 3.9

#10

The Lottery and Other Stories

The Lottery and Other Stories
ByShirley Jackson

1948 • 201 Readers • 366 pages • 3.9

#79

Zero-Sum: Stories

Zero-Sum: Stories
ByJoyce Carol Oates

6 Readers • 3.5

#80

DEATH NOTE短編集

#0 of 13 in Death Note

DEATH NOTE短編集
ByTsugumi Ohba

2021 • 7 Readers • 226 pages • 4

#81

Wounds

Wounds
ByNathan Ballingrud

53 Readers • 9h 6m • 3.7

#82

Howls from the Dark Ages

Howls from the Dark Ages
ByBrian Evenson,Hailey Piper,+16 more

2022 • 26 Readers • 352 pages • 4.3

#83

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
ByLorrie Moore

1994 • 22 Readers • 160 pages • 4.3

#84

The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales

The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales
ByAttila Veres,Luca Karafiáth(Translator)

2022 • 4 Readers • 310 pages

#85

Gateways to Abomination: Collected Short Fiction

Gateways to Abomination: Collected Short Fiction
ByMatthew M. Bartlett

2014 • 10 Readers • 158 pages • 3.5

#86

Halloween Fiend

Halloween Fiend
ByC. V. Hunt

2019 • 26 Readers • 112 pages • 3.2

#87

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Pornography for the End of the World
ByBrendan Vidito

2022 • 4 Readers • 153 pages

#88

No One Will Come Back For Us and Other Stories

No One Will Come Back For Us and Other Stories
ByPremee Mohamed

2023 • 16 Readers • 286 pages • 2.5

#89

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Houses Under the Sea
ByCaitlín R. Kiernan

2019 • 6 Readers • 548 pages

#90

Not a Speck of Light

Not a Speck of Light
ByLaird Barron

2024 • 10 Readers

#92

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Bezoar
ByGuadalupe Nettel,Suzanne Jill Levine(Translator)

2008 • 3 Readers • 96 pages • 4

#93

You Like It Darker

You Like It Darker
ByStephen King

2024 • 288 Readers • 512 pages • 4.1

#94

Where Furnaces Burn

Where Furnaces Burn
ByJoel Lane

2012 • 4 Readers • 296 pages

#1

Pretty Monsters: Stories

Pretty Monsters: Stories
ByKelly Link

2008 • 41 Readers • 389 pages • 3.9

#1

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
ByMariana Enriquez

2009 • 324 Readers • 209 pages • 3.9

#1

Out There

Out There
ByKate Folk

2022 • 98 Readers • 273 pages • 4.1

#1

Dangerous Visions

Dangerous Visions
ByHarlan Ellison

62 Readers • 4.2

#1

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

#1 of 2 in The Tales of Dunk and Egg: The Graphic Novels

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
ByGeorge R.R. Martin

1998 • 369 Readers • 355 pages • 4.2

#1

Cinema Panopticum

Cinema Panopticum
ByThomas Ott

2005 • 22 Readers • 112 pages • 3.9

#1

Snow, Glass, Apples

Snow, Glass, Apples
ByNeil Gaiman

1995 • 123 Readers • 25 pages • 4.1

#1

Friday Black

Friday Black
ByNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

2018 • 138 Readers • 4.1

#1

Deathbird Stories

Deathbird Stories
ByHarlan Ellison

1975 • 31 Readers • 346 pages • 3.8

#1

Dark Gods

Dark Gods
ByT.E.D. Klein

1979 • 18 Readers • 259 pages • 3

#1

Little Black Book of Stories

Little Black Book of Stories
ByA.S. Byatt

2003 • 2 Readers • 256 pages

#1

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Burnt Black Suns
BySimon Strantzas

2014 • 4 Readers • 308 pages

#1

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
ByLaird Barron

2013 • 43 Readers • 280 pages • 3.3

#1

Ambergris

#1-3 of 3 in Ambergris

Ambergris
ByJeff VanderMeer

2002 • 134 Readers • 882 pages • 3.7

#1

Exhalation

Exhalation
ByTed Chiang

2008 • 954 Readers • 208 pages • 4.3

#1

A Lush and Seething Hell

A Lush and Seething Hell
ByJohn Hornor Jacobs

2019 • 50 Readers • 384 pages • 4

#1

Mouthful of Birds

Mouthful of Birds
BySamanta Schweblin,Megan McDowell(Translator)

2009 • 74 Readers • 240 pages • 3.4

#1

Smashed

Smashed
ByJunji Ito,Jocelyne Allen(Translator)

86 Readers • 4.1

#1

Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment

Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment
ByCory Doctorow

2019 • 100 Readers • 305 pages • 4.1

#1

Things We Say in the Dark

Things We Say in the Dark
ByKirsty Logan

2020 • 60 Readers • 192 pages • 3.7

#1

Teatro Grottesco

Teatro Grottesco
ByThomas Ligotti

2006 • 64 Readers • 290 pages • 4.3

#1

The love we share without knowing

The love we share without knowing
ByChristopher Barzak

4 Readers • 3.5

#1

The Hellbound Heart

#1 of 3 in Hellraiser

The Hellbound Heart
ByClive Barker

1986 • 242 Readers • 176 pages • 3.9

#1

Sing Your Sadness Deep

Sing Your Sadness Deep
ByLaura Mauro

2019 • 8 Readers • 236 pages

#1

The Grownup

The Grownup
ByGillian Flynn

2014 • 333 Readers • 66 pages • 3.5

#1

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
ByKaren Russell

2005 • 60 Readers • 208 pages • 3.2

#1

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Horrible Imaginings
ByFritz Leiber

2004 • 2 Readers • 246 pages

#1

Venus in the Blind Spot

Venus in the Blind Spot
ByJunji Ito

2019 • 79 Readers • 272 pages • 4

#1

Cold Hand In Mine: Strange Stories

Cold Hand In Mine: Strange Stories
ByRobert Aickman

1975 • 19 Readers • 252 pages • 3

#1

Magic for Beginners

Magic for Beginners
ByKelly Link

2005 • 84 Readers • 324 pages • 3.4

#1

Behind You

Behind You
ByBrian Coldrick

2017 • 5 Readers • 172 pages

#1

Black Thorn, White Rose

Black Thorn, White Rose
ByEllen Datlow

11 Readers • 2.5

#1

Through the Woods

Through the Woods
ByEmily Carroll

2014 • 322 Readers • 208 pages • 4

#1

Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror

#1 of 3 in Tales of Terror

Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror
ByChris Priestley

2007 • 26 Readers • 241 pages • 4.1

#1

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

#3 of 3 in Hogwarts Library

The Tales of Beedle the Bard
ByJ. K. Rowling

1994 • 739 Readers • 3.9

#1

The Worthing Saga

#1-3 of 3 in Worthing

The Worthing Saga
ByOrson Scott Card

1979 • 33 Readers • 463 pages • 3.6

#1

The Tangleroot Palace: Stories

The Tangleroot Palace: Stories
ByMarjorie M. Liu

2021 • 41 Readers • 256 pages • 3.7

#1

Night Music

#2 of 2 in Nocturnes

Night Music
ByJohn Connolly

2015 • 6 Readers • 464 pages • 4

#1

The Atrocity Exhibition

The Atrocity Exhibition
ByJ.G. Ballard

1970 • 72 Readers • 136 pages • 3.6

#1

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#1 of 3 in The Wasteland Saga

The Old Man and the Wasteland
ByNick Cole

2011 • 21 Readers • 125 pages • 3.6

#1

The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
ByJohn Langan

2013 • 61 Readers • 324 pages • 4.2

#1

The Devil You Know

#2 of 3 in Saloninus

The Devil You Know
ByK.J. Parker

2016 • 11 Readers • 124 pages • 3.8

#1

The Bone Key

Kyle Murchison Booth

The Bone Key
BySarah Monette

2007 • 22 Readers • 248 pages • 3.6

#1

Pretty Little Dead Girls

Pretty Little Dead Girls
ByMercedes M. Yardley

2014 • 10 Readers • 280 pages • 4

#1

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The Screwfly Solution
ByRaccoona Sheldon,James Tiptree Jr.

1977 • 4 Readers • 22 pages • 5

#1

A Collapse of Horses

A Collapse of Horses
ByBrian Evenson

48 Readers • 4.1

#1

Wolves

#1 of 3 in By Chance or Providence

Wolves
ByBecky Cloonan

2011 • 2 Readers • 26 pages

#1

North American Lake Monsters

North American Lake Monsters
ByNathan Ballingrud

2013 • 72 Readers • 205 pages • 4.1

#1

In the Night Garden

#1 of 2 in The Orphan's Tales

In the Night Garden
ByCatherynne M. Valente

2006 • 111 Readers • 496 pages • 4.3

#1

Children of Lovecraft

Children of Lovecraft
ByEllen Datlow(Editor),Siobhan Carroll(Contributor)

2016 • 7 Readers • 336 pages • 4

#1

Nocturnes

#4.5 of 21 in Charlie Parker

Nocturnes
ByJohn Connolly

2004 • 30 Readers • 496 pages • 4.1

#1

Books of Blood, Volumes 1-3

#1-3 of 6 in Books of Blood

Books of Blood, Volumes 1-3
ByClive Barker

1984 • 47 Readers • 481 pages • 3.5

#1

Quiet Houses

Quiet Houses
BySimon Kurt Unsworth

2011 • 3 Readers • 212 pages

#1

Snow White, Blood Red

Snow White, Blood Red
ByEllen Datlow(Editor),Terri Windling(Editor)

1993 • 43 Readers • 251 pages • 3.4

#1

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Antisocieties
ByMichael Cisco

2021 • 8 Readers • 154 pages

#1

Black Heart, Ivory Bones

Black Heart, Ivory Bones
ByBrian M. Stableford(Contributor),Ellen Datlow(Editor)

2000 • 9 Readers • 368 pages • 3.5

#1

The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
ByWilliam Sloane

1964 • 10 Readers • 464 pages

#1

The Autopsy and Other Tales

The Autopsy and Other Tales
ByMichael Shea

2008 • 4 Readers • 590 pages

#1

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

#1.5 of 1 in Strange & Norrell

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
BySusanna Clarke

2004 • 161 Readers • 256 pages • 3.6

#1

Junji Ito: Frankenstein

Junji Ito: Frankenstein
ByJunji Ito

1999 • 28 Readers • 192 pages • 3.5

#1

The Complete Grimms' Fairy Tales

The Complete Grimms' Fairy Tales
ByGrimm

1812 • 199 Readers • 863 pages • 4.1

#1

The Summer People

The Summer People
ByShirley Jackson

1970 • 7 Readers • 36 pages • 4

#1

Stories of Your Life and Others

Stories of Your Life and Others
ByTed Chiang

2002 • 917 Readers • 281 pages • 4.3

#1

The October Game

The October Game
ByRay Bradbury

3 Readers • 5 pages • 4

#1

City

City
ByClifford D. Simak

1944 • 125 Readers • 255 pages • 4.1

#1

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Glitch
ByHugh Howey

2014 • 25 Readers • 3.6

#1

The Illustrated Man

The Illustrated Man
ByRay Bradbury

1901 • 383 Readers • 244 pages • 4

#1

Her Body and Other Parties

Her Body and Other Parties
ByCarmen Maria Machado

2017 • 600 Readers • 245 pages • 3.8

#1

The King in Yellow

Steve Grayce

The King in Yellow
ByRobert W. Chambers

1895 • 220 Readers • 224 pages • 3.2

#1

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
ByKij Johnson

2016 • 56 Readers • 166 pages • 3.9

#1

Dead Relatives

Dead Relatives
ByLucie McKnight Hardy

2021 • 10 Readers • 224 pages

#1

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
ByLaird Barron

2007 • 61 Readers • 249 pages • 3.4

#1

Silver birch, blood moon

Silver birch, blood moon
ByEllen Datlow

15 Readers • 3.5

#1

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
ByCharlotte Perkins Gilman

1995 • 257 Readers • 83 pages • 3.9

#1

Full Dark, No Stars

Full Dark, No Stars
ByStephen King

2010 • 262 Readers • 544 pages • 3.8

#1

Black swan, white raven

Black swan, white raven
ByEllen Datlow

6 Readers • 3

#1

Things We Lost in the Fire

Things We Lost in the Fire
ByMegan McDowell(Translator),Mariana Enriquez

2016 • 300 Readers • 210 pages • 3.8