The 10th Victim
10 best books like The 10th Victim (Robert Sheckley): Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings, Novecento. Un monologo, The Invention of Morel, The Hellbound Heart, The Time of Feasting, Our Lady of Darkness, Triplanetary, X'ed Out, The Hive, The Changing Land
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
| Author | Jorge Luis Borges |
| ISBN | 0811200124 |
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original and significant figures in modern literature. In his preface, Andre Maurois writes: "Borges is a great writer who has composed only...
| Author | Alessandro Baricco |
| ISBN | 8807813025 |
Il Virginian era un piroscafo. Negli anni tra le due guerre faceva la spola tra Europa e America, con il suo carico di miliardari, di emigranti e di gente qualsiasi. Dicono che sul Virginian si esibisse ogni sera un pianista straordinario, dalla tecnica strabiliante, capace di suonare una musica mai...
| Author | Adolfo Bioy Casares |
| ISBN | 1590170571 |
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. This fantastic exploration of realities also bears comparison with the sharpest work of Philip K. Dick. It is both a story of suspense and a bizarre romance,...
| Author | Clive Barker |
| ISBN | 0061002828 |
Clive Barker is widely acknowledged as the master of nerve-shattering horror. The Hellbound Heart is one of his best, one of the most dead-frightening stories you are likely to ever read, a story of the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within. It was also the book behind the cult horror...
A colony of vampires lives unrevealed in New York City. But now the Time of Feasting is at hand, when they must make the warm kill and drink living blood. Renquist, the centuries-old colony Master is beset from within by the young ones who, contemptuous of humanity, are tired of living in hiding, and from...
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 0441644171 |
Middle-aged San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen is rediscovering ordinary life following a long alcoholic binge. Then one day, peering at his apartment window from atop a nearby hill, he sees a pale brown thing lean out his window…and wave.
This encounter sends Westen on a quest through...
| Author | E.E. "Doc" Smith |
| ISBN | 1882968093 |
From the atomic age in Atlantis to a world remote in space and time, two incredible ancient races, the Arisians and the Eddorians, are in the midst of an interstellar war with Earth as the prize. The Arisians, using advanced mental technology, have foreseen the invasion of their galaxy by the corrupt...
| Author | Charles Burns |
| ISBN | 0307379132 |
Doug is having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and there, across the room, next to a huge hole torn out of the bricks, sits his beloved cat, Inky. Who died years ago. But who’s nonetheless slinking out through the hole, beckoning Doug to follow.
What’s...
| Author | Charles Burns |
| ISBN | 0307907880 |
Much has happened since we last saw Doug, the Tintin-like hero from X'ed Out. Confessing his past to an unidentified woman, Doug struggles to recall the mysterious incident that left his life shattered, an incident that may have involved his disturbed and now-absent girlfriend, Sarah, and her menacing...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0934438463 |
This book has the grandest theme & the most strangely-named demon. The name is Melbriniononsadsazzersteldregandishfeltselior.
Zelazny includes a touching love story between Queen Semirama & a tentacled semi-elder-god who lives in a cesspit below Castle Timeless. The Queen is hard...
| Author | Clark Ashton Smith |
| ISBN | 0586039643 |
Explore the most eerie lands in adult fantasy - The Lost Worlds of Clark Ashton Smith
The Contents:
ZOTHIQUE
The Empire of the Necromancers
The Isle of the Torturers
Necromancy in Naat
Xeethra
AVEROIGNE
The Holiness of Azedarac
The Beast of Averoigne
OTHERS
The...
Boy in Darkness and Other Stories
The main story in this volume is the novella, Boy in Darkness, about Titus Groan. I’ve reviewed that separately HERE.
Like the main Gormenghast books, these stories are hard to categorise, but all feature subtle (and sometimes unsubtle menace) and wonderfully vivid descriptions, including...
