American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
10 best books like American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (Peter Straub): The Ballad of Black Tom, More Tales to Chill Your Bones, A Cosmology of Monsters, Esio Trot, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies, Murder Mysteries, A Study in Emerald, More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, The Lesser Dead
| Author | Victor LaValle |
| ISBN | 0765387867 |
People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.
Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case...
More Tales to Chill Your Bones
| Author | Alvin Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0439518326 |
Storytellers know — just as they have for hundreds and hundreds of years — that everyone enjoys a good, scary story!
Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories 3 joins his other popular collections of scary folklore, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark and More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, to give...
A tender and terrifying literary horror novel - the author's debut - that tells the story of a family (creators of a haunted house attraction called the Wandering Dark) and the hereditary monsters - both metaphorical and all-too-real - that haunt them.
Monsters both figurative and very literal...
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| ISBN | 0224064924 |
Mr. Hoppy is in love with Mrs. Silver, but her heart belongs to Alfie, her pet tortoise. Mr. Hoppy is too shy to approach Mrs. Silver, until one day he comes up with a brilliant idea to win her heart. If Mr. Hoppy's plan works, Mrs. Silver will certainly fall in love with him. But it's going to take one hundred...
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
| Author | John Langan |
| ISBN | 1614980543 |
John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemporary horror literature. Gifted with a supple and mellifluous prose style, an imagination that can conjure up clutching terrors with seeming effortlessness, and a thorough knowledge of the rich heritage...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1840235217 |
A lonely man in Los Angeles is told a unique tale - a passion play that sheds light on the events before the creation of the world! Constructing the Universe is a vast task - and up in Heaven, God has allocated roles to all of his angels, even if the roles of some are more ineffable than others. But when a murder...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1506703933 |
This supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos features a brilliant detective and his partner as they try to solve a horrific murder.
The complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to...
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
| Author | Alvin Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0397320825 |
All those who enjoyed shuddering their way through Alvin Schwartz's first volume of Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark will find a satisfyingly spooky sequel in this new collection of the macabre, the funny, and the fantastic.Is it possible to die -- and not know it? What if a person is buried too soon? What...
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
| Author | Laird Barron |
| ISBN | 1597804673 |
Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one of the strongest and most original literary voices in modern horror and the dark fantastic. Melding supernatural horror with hardboiled noir, espionage, and a scientific...
| Author | Christopher Buehlman |
| ISBN | 0425272613 |
The secret is, vampires are real and I am one.
The secret is, I’m stealing from you what is most truly yours and I’m not sorry—
New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live. And die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody—he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent...
I Hate Fairyland: Book One
| Author | Skottie Young |
| ISBN | 1534303804 |
From SKOTTIE YOUNG, New york Times Best Selling, Eisner Award winning cartoonist of the Wizard of OZ graphic Novels, Rocket Raccoon, and Fortunately, The Milk comes a satirical fairytale adventure that smashes it's cute little face against hilariously violent comedy that's definitely NOT bedtime...
Disney Dracula, Starring Mickey Mouse
| Author | Bruno Enna |
| ISBN | 1506712177 |
Enter a world where vampires rise up from the shadows in this adaptation of Bram Stocker's Dracula that stars Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and Goofy!
Jonathan Ratker (Mickey Mouse) receives a warm invitation from the mysterious Dracula, welcoming him to his castle in Beetsylvania. His objective...
