American Supernatural Tales
8 best books like American Supernatural Tales (S.T. Joshi): Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, Arthurian Romances, Shiver: Selected Stories, The White People and Other Weird Stories, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories, American Gods, Volume 1: Shadows, Dark Tales, The Body Snatcher
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
| Author | Thomas Ligotti |
| ISBN | 0143107763 |
Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post)
Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced...
| Author | Chrétien de Troyes |
| ISBN | 0140445218 |
Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chrétien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of the Cart is the first telling of the adulterous relationship between Lancelot and Arthur's Queen...
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 1421596938 |
A best-of story selection by the master of horror manga.
This volume includes nine of Junji Ito’s best short stories, as selected by the author himself and presented with accompanying notes and commentary. An arm peppered with tiny holes dangles from a sick girl’s window… After an idol...
| Author | Arthur Machen |
| ISBN | 0143105590 |
Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales, The White People and Other Weird Stories is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction. The title story "The White People" is...
The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories
| Author | John Gregory Betancourt |
This volume assembles no less than 40 stories set in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Ranging from Lovecraft's own tales (including classics such as the novel At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and The Colour Out of Space) to works by his friends and contemporaries (Clark Ashton...
American Gods, Volume 1: Shadows
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1506703860 |
Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard--thrusting Shadow into a deadly world where ghosts of the past come back from the dead, and a god war is imminent.
Collecting...
| Author | Shirley Jackson |
| ISBN | 0241295424 |
The perfect read for Hallowe'en, this new hardback volume of Jackson's finest stories reveals the queen of American gothic at her unsettling, mesmerising best
There's something nasty in suburbia. In these deliciously dark tales, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and...
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| ISBN | 1860920012 |
”To bodies that had been laid in earth, in joyful expectation of a far different awakening, there came that hasty, lamplit, terror-haunted resurrection of the spade and mattock.”
A group of friends have a habit of getting together in a hotel tavern to drink and tell tall tales,...
