American Gothic
8 best books like American Gothic (Robert Bloch): Selected Tales, Full Throttle, Capturing the Devil, The Breaking Point: Stories, Acolytes of Cthulhu, Don't Look Now and Other Stories, Blood Heritage, Twilight of the Idols
Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
ISBN | 0140621164 |
The undisputed master of terror and mystery, Edgar Allan Poe was a unique inventor in fiction.
In 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Black Cat' he wrote the first and best tales of terror; with 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and his fictional detective M. Dupin he invented the detective...
Author | Joe Hill |
ISBN | 0062200674 |
In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including “In The Tall Grass,” one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.
A little...
Author | Kerri Maniscalco |
ISBN | 0316485543 |
In the shocking finale to the bestselling series that began with Stalking Jack the Ripper, Audrey Rose and Thomas are on the hunt for the depraved, elusive killer known as the White City Devil. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse has them fighting to stay one step ahead of the brilliant serial killer---or...
Author | Daphne du Maurier |
ISBN | 0316253596 |
"The appeal of romance and the clash of highly-charged emotions." --New York Herald-Tribune
In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination. Her...
Tentacular fiction abounds in Bob Price's new mythos anthology Acolytes of Cthulhu. The anthology assembles twenty-five rare mythos tales, dating from the Thirties through the Nineties, from writers as diverse as Jorges Luis Borges, Gustav Meyrink, Manly Wade Wellman, and Neil Gaiman. Gahan Wilson...
Don't Look Now and Other Stories
Author | Daphne du Maurier |
ISBN | 0316253642 |
A married couple on holiday in Venice are caught up in a sinister series of events. A lonely schoolmaster is impelled to investigate a mysterious American couple. A young woman loses her cool when she confronts her father's old friend on a lonely island. A party of British pilgrims meet strange phenomena...
Author | Sheri S. Tepper |
ISBN | 0812526236 |
I found this novel, the first of Tepper's I've come across that I would classify as horror or dark fantasy, a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, I liked the focus on female characters, especially Molly the farmer's wife who turns out to be a lot more, and also the eccentric Professor with his dogs named after...
Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
ISBN | 0872203549 |
Twilight of the Idols presents a vivid, compressed overview of many of Nietzsche’s mature ideas, including his attack on Plato’s Socrates and on the Platonic legacy in Western philosophy and culture. Polt provides a trustworthy rendering of Nietzsche’s text in contemporary American English,...