At Fear's Altar
9 best books like At Fear's Altar (Richard Gavin): North American Lake Monsters, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, The Fisherman, The Nameless Dark: A Collection, Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell, Grimscribe: His Lives and Works, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies, Gateways to Abomination: Collected Short Fiction, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
North American Lake Monsters
| Author | Nathan Ballingrud |
| ISBN | 1618730592 |
Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous experience not to be missed by those who love to explore the darker parts of the human psyche. Monsters, real and imagined, external and internal, are the subject. They are us and we are them and Ballingrud's...
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 | John Langan |
| ISBN | 1939905214 |
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other’s...
| Author | T.E. Grau |
| ISBN | 1590214633 |
The Nameless Dark: A Collection is the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated debut of a major new voice in contemporary Weird fiction. Within these pages, you’ll find whispers of the familiar ghosts of the classic pulps - Lovecraft, Bradbury, Smith - blended with Grau’s uniquely macabre, witty storytelling,...
Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell
| Author | Nathan Ballingrud |
| ISBN | 1534449922 |
A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis for the upcoming major motion picture—by Shirley Jackson Award–winning author Nathan Ballingrud, hailed as a major new voice by Jeff VanderMeer, Paul Tremblay, and Carmen Maria Machado—“one...
| Author | Thomas Ligotti |
| ISBN | 0515114715 |
Grimscribe: His Lives and Works is Thomas Ligotti's second collection of short tales.
The voice of the damned : The last feast of Harlequin --
The spectacles in the drawer --
flowers of the abyss --
Nethescurial --
The voice of the demon : The dreaming in Nortown --
The mystics...
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 | Matthew M. Bartlett |
| ISBN | 1500346721 |
Bizarre radio broadcasts luring dissolute souls into the dark woods of Western Massachusetts. Sinister old men in topcoats gathered at corners and in playgrounds. A long-dead sorcerer returning to obscene life in the form of an old buck goat. Welcome to Leeds, Massachusetts, where the drowned walk,...
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...
