Dark Entries
10 best books like Dark Entries (Robert Aickman): The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, North American Lake Monsters, Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, Song for the Unraveling of the World, Teatro Grottesco, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies, The White People and Other Weird Stories, The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
| Author | Edith Wharton |
| ISBN | 0684842572 |
These 11 spine-tingling tales of the supernatural bring to light the author's interest in the traditional New England ghost story and her fascination with spirits, hauntings, and other phenomena. Fine line-drawings by Laszlo Kubinyi enhance the mysterious and sometimes chilling mood.
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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...
| Author | Shirley Jackson |
| ISBN | 0553378333 |
Acclaimed in her own time for her short story “The Lottery” and her novel The Haunting of Hill House—classics ranking with the work of Edgar Allan Poe—Shirley Jackson blazed a path for contemporary writers with her explorations of evil, madness, and cruelty. Soon after her untimely death...
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...
Song for the Unraveling of the World
| Author | Brian Evenson |
| ISBN | 1566895480 |
A newborn's absent face appears on the back of someone else's head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he's after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia,...
| Author | Thomas Ligotti |
| ISBN | 0978991176 |
This collection features tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns, as well as in dark sectors frequented by sinister and often blackly comical eccentrics. The cycle of narratives that includes the title work of this collection, for instance, introduces readers to...
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 | 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 Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
| Author | William Sloane |
| ISBN | 1590179064 |
In the 1930s, William Sloane wrote two brilliant novels that gave a whole new meaning to cosmic horror. In To Walk the Night, Bark Jones and his college buddy Jerry Lister, a science whiz, head back to their alma mater to visit a cherished professor of astronomy. They discover his body, consumed by fire,...
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 | Elizabeth Engstrom |
| ISBN | 0688041752 |
Sally Ann is a bright and bubbling farm girl, still caught in the thrill of a brand-new husband and a shining future ahead. When a careless exploration leaves her trapped underground, she learns to live again in the absence of everything she once knew. Even driven by love and light, Sally Ann finds the...
