Last Days
10 best books like Last Days (Brian Evenson): Growing Things and Other Stories, North American Lake Monsters, Come Closer, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, The Fisherman, Sefira and Other Betrayals, Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
Growing Things and Other Stories
| Author | Paul Tremblay |
| ISBN | 0062679147 |
A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.
A masterful anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing Things is an exciting...
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 | Sara Gran |
| ISBN | 0425210316 |
this is short and anything but sweet, somehow managing to pack a whole lot of creepiness into just under 200 pages.
it’s a story of a woman’s disintegration as she is invaded by a demonic presence that insinuates itself into her body and mind, slowly and irrevocably supplanting her free...
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
| Author | Laird Barron |
| ISBN | 1597800880 |
There is a great deal about Laird Barron's writing that I like very much. Unlike Stephen King (whose descriptive passages often resemble an exhaustive catalog of the contents of someone's pockets or purse), Barron has a poet's eye for detail and the knack for choosing the right phrase in order to...
| Author | Thomas Ligotti |
| ISBN | 0881847216 |
Songs of a Dreamer was Thomas Ligotti’s first collection of supernatural horror stories. When originally published in 1985 by Harry Morris’s Silver Scarab Press, the book was hardly noticed. In 1989, an expanded version appeared that garnered accolades from several quarters. Writing in the...
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...
Sefira and Other Betrayals
| Author | John Langan |
| ISBN | 1614981922 |
John Langan’s new book is certain to solidify his place among the strongest voices in modern literary horror. Placed together within the same cover for the first time, a theme emerges from the tales that binds and unites them–and it is signaled in the title of the book.
“These are stories...
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...
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,...
| Author | Nathan Ballingrud |
| ISBN | 0957548192 |
When Will discovers a cell phone after a violent brawl his life descends into a nightmare.
Affable, charismatic and a little shallow, he’s been skating across the surface of life in a state of carefully maintained contentment. He decides to keep the cell phone just until the owner returns...
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 | Adam Nevill |
| ISBN | 1250018188 |
Last Days (winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel of the Year) by Adam Nevill is a Blair Witch style novel in which a documentary film-maker undertakes the investigation of a dangerous cult—with creepy consequences
When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is...
Isaiah Coleridge is a mob enforcer in Alaska--he's tough, seen a lot, and dished out more. But when he forcibly ends the moneymaking scheme of a made man, he gets in the kind of trouble that can lead to a bullet behind the ear. Saved by the grace of his boss and exiled to upstate New York, Isaiah begins a new...
