The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares

10 best books like The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (Joyce Carol Oates): Growing Things and Other Stories, Come Closer, Hauntings, Best Horror of the Year Volume 10, Selected Stories, Ungirls (Disorder collection), Intercepts, Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales, Header, House of Danger

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...

Come Closer

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...

Hauntings

Author	Ellen Datlow
ISBN	1616960884

The spookiest of specters inhabit this spine-tingling anthology—compiled by an acclaimed editor of the horror genre—that collects the most chilling ghost stories from the past 25 years. The human obsession with the mysteries of the afterlife is explored in these supernatural tales of haunted...

Best Horror of the Year Volume 10

Author	Ellen Datlow
ISBN	1597806315

“Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year series is one of the best investments you can make in short fiction. The current volume is no exception.” ? Adventures Fantastic  
 

For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening...

Selected Stories

Author	Theodore Sturgeon
ISBN	0375703756

Theodore Sturgeon was a genuine American master. Praised, revered, and even envied by the likes of Bradbury, Vonnegut, and King, his short stories contain some of his best work.

In "Thunder and Roses," soon after a nuclear Holocaust, a starlet gives one final performance during which she...

Ungirls (Disorder collection)

Author

Lauren Beukes

In the near future, lab-grown sex dolls are the pleasure toy of choice in this disturbing and provocative short story from Lauren Beukes, the bestselling author of The Shining Girls.Actor and sex worker Nats is experienced at putting on a show. However, her new gig supplying intimate whispers for growgirls...

Intercepts

Author

T.J. Payne

A fresh new take on the haunted house genre.
"Gruesome, gripping, and terrifyingly real."

Joe's teenage daughter is suddenly experiencing terrifying hallucinations. She sees a woman in a hospital gown in her bedroom, screaming and clawing the skin from her own face.

Either...

Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales

Author	Stephen King
ISBN	1587676796

Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new anthology, perfect for airport or airplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, along with brand new stories from Stephen King...

Header

Author

Edward Lee

Grandpappy, what's a header?

Header is a tale of consummate grotesquerie from the master of graphic horror -- the author of such books as: Succubi, Incubi and Creekers. It is a chapbook of the most extreme fiction you'll ever read! A horrific splatter mystery in the Joe R. Lansdale tradition......

House of Danger

Author	R.A. Montgomery
ISBN	1933390069

WILL THE HOUSE OF DANGER BE YOUR BIGGEST CASE EVER? OR WILL IT BE YOUR LAST? You are an accomplished young detective with several tough cases under your belt. Then comes a case that is as difficult as it is frightening. An anonymous caller begs for help. But before you can find out more, the line goes dead..."...