Mr Pye

6 best books like Mr Pye (Mervyn Peake): The Other, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies, Blood and Water and Other Tales, Sledgehammer 44

The Other

Author	Thomas Tryon
ISBN	0440167361

Entranced and terrified, the reader of The Other is swept up in the life of a Connecticut country town in the thirties—and in the fearful mysteries that slowly darken and overwhelm it.

Originally published in 1971, The Other is one of the most influential horror novels ever written. Its impeccable...

Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

Author	James Hilton
ISBN	0316010138

Mr. Hilton's classic story of an English schoolmaster.

Mr. Chipping, the classics master at Brookfield School since 1870, takes readers on a beguiling journey through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sometimes Chips, as he is affectionately known, is an old man who dreams by the fire;...

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

Author	Alan Garner
ISBN	0152017666

When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights. But the heart of the magic that binds them - Firefrost, also known as the Weirdstone...

The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies

Author	Clark Ashton Smith
ISBN	0143107380

A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural

Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him "perhaps unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living” or compel Fritz Lieber...

Blood and Water and Other Tales

Author	Patrick McGrath
ISBN	0140157999

Dark, unnerving and wickedly funny, Patrick McGrath's acclaimed short stories deal in the bizarre, the erotic and the unexpected. A failed writer meets an ageing gin-queen who claims he was once visited by an angel; a little girl finds a delirious, dying explorer from the Congo at the bottom of her back...

Sledgehammer 44

Author	Mike Mignola
ISBN	1616553952

A powerful new Allied weapon enters the closing stages of World War 2: Sledgehammer 44, a robot imbued with supernatural Vril power. But during a mission to retrieve a prisoner and experimental plane, Sledgehammer 44 comes up against a formidable Nazi figure: the Black Flame!

Though Sledgehammer...