The Devil You Know
10 best books like The Devil You Know (Poppy Z. Brite): Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?, Alabaster, Typhoon and Other Tales, The Ghosts of Blood and Innocence, Secret Life, Control Freak, Splatterpunks II: Over the Edge, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories, Extremities, Lord of Ravens
| Author | David Rutledge |
| ISBN | 0974199516 |
This beautifully designed hardcover book starts with a line of cars leaving the city ahead of Hurricane Katrina and ends in a mad Mardi Gras romp. The book winds through the streets of New Orleans toward a deeper understanding of just what this great, wounded city means to the United States. Many of the...
| Author | Caitlín R. Kiernan |
| ISBN | 1596060603 |
An albino girl wanders the sun-scorched backroads of a south Georgia summer, following the bidding of an angel - or perhaps only voices in her head - searching out and slaying ancient monsters who have hidden themselves away in the lonely places of the world. Caitlín R. Kiernan first introduced Dancy...
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| ISBN | 0192801732 |
This volume contains Typhoon, The Secret Sharer, Falk, and Amy Foster. Typhoon, a story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest, is a masterpiece of descriptive virtuosity and moral irony, while The Secret Sharer excels in symbolic ambiguity. Both stories vividly present Conrad's abiding preoccupation...
| Author | Storm Constantine |
| ISBN | 0765303485 |
Darquiel har Aralis lives among the hidden tribe of Olopade, in ignorance of his identity, and as he grows up, Darq realizes he is different from any other har. After a disastrous attempt to incept his closest friend, he attracts the attention of the mysterious Thiede, and learns that his origins are...
| Author | Jeff VanderMeer |
| ISBN | 0809556529 |
Secret Life is the definitive collection by a young writer widely regarded as one of the best fantasists in the world. Jeff VanderMeer has handpicked these 23 stories (three written exclusively for this collection), which reflect a diversity of approaches to key questions about the human condition:...
| Author | Christa Faust |
| ISBN | 1930235143 |
An erotic horror novel. A grisly murder in New York City's downtown meat packing district leads hardboiled crime writer Caitlin McCullough into the depths of a secret sadomasochistic underground. A perverse playground for the rich and twisted where anything goes and nothing is taboo. Here, Caitlin...
| Author | Paul M. Sammon |
| ISBN | 0312857861 |
Reach beyond the limits of convention and rationality and into the darkest corners of the human soul in this new volume of taboo-shattering short fiction.
Reviewers called Splatterpunks: Extreme Horror "a forceful anthology-cum-manifesto of splatterpunk [that] makes a strong case for splatterpunk...
| Author | Tim Powers |
| ISBN | 1616960477 |
Gathering darkly fantastic short fiction previously available only in limited editions, this collection explores the mysteries of souls—whether they are sacrificed on the pinnacle of Mount Parnassus or lodged in a television cable box. In a Kabbalistic tale of transformation, the executor...
| Author | Kathe Koja |
| ISBN | 1568581505 |
In the 16 stories of Extremities, Kathe Koja enters the lives of ordinary people caught in extraordinary and often disturbing situations. In "Bird Superior," for example, a plane-crash survivor trades his memory of the crash for the ability to fly. "Angels in Love" is the story of Lurleen, a washed-out...
Lover. Predator. Killer.
Laurence Riley’s inheritance comes with a price - one he's not at all sure he can pay. When his urge to hunt grows out of control, he sends a desperate prayer to his ancestor for guidance. But he never expected that Herne the Hunter would answer.
Scion....
John Kessel's latest collection — which includes the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Award winner "Pride and Prometheus" — is a long-awaited road map to the fantastic where Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O'Connor intersect. Kessel's four-story modern classic...
| Author | Doris Lessing |
| ISBN | 0394742494 |
This major collection contains all of Doris Lessing’s short fiction, other than the stories set in Africa, from the beginning of her career until now. Set in London, Paris, the south of France, the English countryside, these thirty-five stories reflect the themes that have always characterized...
| Author | Cherie Priest |
| ISBN | 0765313103 |
Down by the river, the first to go missing were not much lamented. Disappearances of homeless men foraging through trash or nuisance skater kids who rolled their boards along the planked piers at night were not noteworthy enough to delay the city's development projects.
But deep beneath the...
| Author | Paul Russell |
| ISBN | 0452268370 |
To begin with, this is a very difficult book to read. The subject matter is very controversial and gritty. Following the main character, Tony Blair, a teenager who is fustrated with his small town life in Kentucky, he runs away with a movie crew to New York City. Falling in love with the leader of the group,...
The book that introduced me to Kafka in high school. Man, I was such a tool in college that there are actually photographs of me holding the door open for friends to enter Denny's with one hand, and a copy of this book in the other (whilst wearing a fucking leather jacket. and a do-rag. and a goatee.)
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