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9 best books like Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance (Jason Hribal): I Am Legend and Other Stories, Jagannath, The Gates, The Violent Bear It Away, The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life, Suttree, The Philadelphia Experiment, A Study in Brimstone, The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep

I Am Legend and Other Stories

Author

Richard Matheson

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.

By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades...

Jagannath

Author

Karin Tidbeck

Enter the strange and wonderful world of Swedish sensation Karin Tidbeck with this feast of darkly fantastical stories. Whether through the falsified historical record of the uniquely weird Swedish creature known as the “Pyret” or the title story, “Jagannath,” about a biological ark in...

The Gates

Author	John Connolly
ISBN	0340995793

Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund, Boswell, are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they...

The Violent Bear It Away

Author	Flannery O'Connor
ISBN	0374505241

First published in 1960, The Violent Bear It Away is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are united in Flannery O'Conner's work. In it, the orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousins, the schoolteacher...

The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life

Author	Noah Lukeman
ISBN	0312309287

As a literary agent, Noah Lukeman hears thousands of book pitches a year. Often the stories sound great in concept, but never live up to their potential on the page. Lukeman shows beginning and advanced writers how to implement the fundamentals of successful plot development, such as character building...

Suttree

Author	Cormac McCarthy
ISBN	0679736328

This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above...

The Philadelphia Experiment

Author	Charles Frambach Berlitz
ISBN	0285629999

One day in 1943, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, something happened . . .
Suddenly the U.S.S. Eldridge, a fully manned destroyer escort, vanished into a green fog, within seconds appeared in Norfolk, Virginia, and then reappeared in Philadelphia!
For over thirty-six years officials have...

A Study in Brimstone

Author

G.S. Denning

Sherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius who uses the gift of deduction and reason to solve the most vexing of crimes.

Warlock Holmes, however, is an idiot. A good man, perhaps; a font of arcane power, certainly. But he’s brilliantly dim. Frankly, he couldn’t deduce his way out of...

The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep

Author	Guy Leschziner
ISBN	1250202701

For Dr. Guy Leschziner's patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and body. Insomnia, narcolepsy, night terrors, sleep apnea, and sleepwalking are just a sampling of conditions afflicting sufferers who cannot sleep--and their experiences in trying are the stuff of nightmares. Demoniac hallucinations...