Ominous Realities: The Anthology of Dark Speculative Horrors

7 best books like Ominous Realities: The Anthology of Dark Speculative Horrors (Anthony Rivera): Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories, The Deep, Ark, Butcher's Crossing, Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell, Emergency Skin, Wraiths of the Broken Land

Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories

Author	Vandana Singh
ISBN	1618731432

I recently had something of a revelation about myself that's going to sound silly, but which has reframed the way I think about books and other media I consume: I don't actually care that much about plot.

I care about ideas. I care about characters. I care about theme and atmosphere. I care about...

The Deep

Author	Rivers Solomon
ISBN	1534439862

Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding...

Ark

Author

Veronica Roth

On the eve of Earth’s destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a story of cataclysm and hope by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent trilogy.

It’s only two weeks before an asteroid turns home to dust. Though most of Earth has already...

Butcher's Crossing

Author	John Williams
ISBN	1590171985

In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.

It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up...

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...

Emergency Skin

Author

N.K. Jemisin

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award–winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy.

An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others...

Wraiths of the Broken Land

Author

S. Craig Zahler

A brutal and unflinching tale that takes many of its cues from both cinema and pulp horror, Wraiths of the Broken Land is like no Western you've ever seen or read. Desperate to reclaim two kidnapped sisters who were forced into prostitution, the Plugfords storm across the badlands and blast their way...