Our Lady of Darkness
10 best books like Our Lady of Darkness (Fritz Leiber): A Night in the Lonesome October, The Great God Pan, A Case of Conscience, The Unsettled Dust, Nifft the Lean, Gloriana, Doctor Rat, Watchtower, Sefira and Other Betrayals, The White People and Other Weird Stories
A Night in the Lonesome October
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0380771411 |
Review updated yet again (and again) on November 1, 2018
A group read with some of my greatest friends: OhWell, Sarah, and Tadiana.
First a disclaimer: I lost count to the number of times I read the book. Seriously. I still find something new with each reread. I would also like to welcome...
| Author | Arthur Machen |
| ISBN | 1871592119 |
The Great God Pan" is a novella written by Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in the magazine Whirlwind in 1890, and Machen revised and extended it for its book publication (together with another story, "The Inmost Light") in 1894. On publication it was widely denounced by the press as...
| Author | James Blish |
| ISBN | 0345438353 |
Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance...
| Author | Robert Aickman |
| ISBN | 0571244262 |
Robert Aickman, the supreme master of the supernatural, brings together eight stories where strange things happen that the reader is unable to predict. His characters are often lonely and middle-aged but all have the same thing in common - they are all brought to the brink of an abyss that shows how terrifyingly...
| Author | Michael Shea |
| ISBN | 0879977833 |
Come then, Mortal. We Will Seek Her Soul:
At the behest of an apparition, Nifft and Haldar kidnap a disgraced warrior and take him to the land of the dead to be reunited with her in exchange for the Wizard's Key. Only things don't go as planned...
The first Nifft story was quite good, a trip to...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0446691402 |
A fable satirizing Spenser's "The Fairie Queen" and reflecting the real life of Elizabeth I, tells of a woman who ascends to the throne upon the death of her debauched and corrupted father, King Hern. Gloriana's reign brings the Empire of Albion into a Golden Age, but her oppressive responsibilities...
| Author | William Kotzwinkle |
| ISBN | 1569247145 |
This book has good gripping at the start with mad Doctor Rat as central character, then it has strong (view spoiler)[tragic (hide spoiler)].
| Author | Elizabeth A. Lynn |
| ISBN | 0743498097 |
Tornor Keep is the legendary tower that guards the winter end of a summer land. But when Tornor is overrun by raiders, a young prince is the tower's last hope-in an enchanting story of a time far removed from ours, and a land alive with warriors, lovers, war and honor. The Watchtower is the first in the memorable...
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...
| 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...
| Author | T.E.D. Klein |
| ISBN | 0553250558 |
Jeremy Freirs is a graduate student and teacher who decides to spend his summer working on his dissertation and preparing for the class he will be teaching in the fall on Gothic Literature; he thinks he has found the perfect place in Gilead, New Jersey, is a world all to its own, the home of a strict religious...
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...
