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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAgents of Dreamland
Caitlin R. Kiernan · 126 pages
"A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman. In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptib
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy
Jeff VanderMeer · 608 pages
The Southern Reach trilogy is a Sci-Fi series written by Jeff VanderMeer in 2014. The series follows an event in which an area in the US is taken over by an alien presence that mutates and alters life inside the zone, known as Area X. The series follows multiple individuals as they seek to understand the cause and intent of Area X under the will of the secret government organization The Southern R
American Elsewhere
Robert Jackson Bennett · 681 pages
Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map: Wink, New Mexico. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she u
Perdido Street Station
China Mieville · 710 pages
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory
John Dies at the End
David Wong · 428 pages
This may be the story of John and David, a drug called soy sauce, and other-worldly beings invading the planet. Or, it may be the story of two beer-drinking friends who live in an unnamed Midwestern town and only think something horrific is going on. But the important thing is, according to the narrator, "None of this is my fault."
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Neil Gaiman · 400 pages
This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679359W.
The Croning
Laird Barron · 245 pages
"Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our firelight. Black magic, weird cults and worse things loom in the shadows. The Children of Old Leech have been with us from time immemorial. And they love us. Donald Miller, geologist and academic, has walked along the edge of a chasm for most of his nearly eighty years, leading a charmed life
Phantoms
Dean Koontz · 441 pages
After finding one hundred and fifty people grotesquely dead in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California, officials cannot imagine anything as gruesome as the real reason for their death.
Cthulhu 2000
Gahan Wilson, Bruce Sterling, T.E.D. Klein, Esther M. Friesner, Thomas Ligotti, James P. Blaylock, Gene Wolfe, Ramsey Campbell, Harlan Ellison, Roger Zelazny, F. Paul Wilson, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Basil Copper, Poppy Z. Brite, Fred Chappell, Michael Shea, Kim Newman, Joanna Russ · 416 pages
In Cthulhu 2000, a host of horror and fantasy's top authors captures the spirit of supreme supernatural storyteller H. P. Lovecraft--with eighteen chilling contemporary tales that would have made the master proud.- The Barrens by F. Paul Wilson: In a tangled wilderness, unearthly lights lead the way to a world no human was meant to see.- His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood by Poppy Z. Brite: Two dabb
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Volume 9
Eiji Otsuka · 216 pages
The End of the Story
Clark Ashton Smith · 284 pages
None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith. "In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer." H. P. Lovecraft Clark Ashton Smith, considered one of the greatest contributors to seminal pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, helped define and shape "weird fiction" in the early twentieth century, alongside contempo
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Peter Clines · 469 pages
Padlocked doors. Strange light fixtures. Mutant cockroaches. There are some odd things about Nate’s new apartment. Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his new home isn’t perfect, it’s livable. The rent is low, the property managers are friendly, and the odd little mysteries don’t nag at hi
Black Wings of Cthulhu: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror
S.T. Joshi · 507 pages
Uzumaki
Junji Ito · 653 pages
Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in everything from seashells and whirlpools in water to the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obs
Mysteries of the Worm: Twenty Cthulhu Mythos Tales by Robert Bloch
Robert Bloch · 296 pages
H.P. Lovecraft like his creation, Cthulhu never truly died. He and his influence live on, in the work of so many of us who were his friends and acolytes. Today we have reason for rejoycing in the widespread revival of his canon. If a volume such as this has any justification for its existence, it s because Lovecraft s readers continue to search out stories which reflect his contribution to the fie
Sphere
Michael Crichton · 384 pages
A group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the ocean floor in the middle of the South Pacific. What they find defines their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently, undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old
The Book of Cthulhu
Ross E. Lockhart · 529 pages
"The Cthulhu Mythos is one of the 20th century''s most singularly recognizable literary creations. Initially created by H. P. Lovecraft and a group of his amorphous contemporaries (the so-called "Lovecraft Circle"), The Cthulhu Mythos story cycle has taken on a convoluted, cyclopean life of its own. Some of the most prodigious writers of the 20th century, and some of the most astounding writers of