The Divinity Student
10 best books like The Divinity Student (Michael Cisco): The Willows, The Three Impostors, City of Saints and Madmen, Embassytown, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, Song for the Unraveling of the World, The Vorrh, Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies, Compulsory Games
| Author | Algernon Blackwood |
| ISBN | 1587156520 |
Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment—river, sun, wind—and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately threatening character. Most ominous are the masses of dense, desultory, menacing willows,...
| Author | Arthur Machen |
| ISBN | 1598184377 |
"It is all more strange than I fancied," he said at last. "It was queer enough what I saw; a man is sauntering along a quiet, sober, everyday London street, a street of grey houses and blank walls and there, for a moment, a veil seems drawn aside and the very fume of the pit steams up through the flagstones,...
City of Saints and Madmen
| Author | Jeff VanderMeer |
| ISBN | 0553383574 |
In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited–an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.
City of elegance and squalor....
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 0345524497 |
In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space...
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
| Author | Thomas Ligotti |
| ISBN | 0143107763 |
Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post)
Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced...
Song for the Unraveling of the World
| Author | Brian Evenson |
| ISBN | 1566895480 |
A newborn's absent face appears on the back of someone else's head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he's after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia,...
| Author | Brian Catling |
| ISBN | 0957142714 |
Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of The Vorrh, a daring debut that Alan Moore has called “a phosphorescent masterpiece” and “the current century's first landmark work of fantasy.”
Next to the colonial town of Essenwald sits the Vorrh, a vast—perhaps...
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...
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
| Author | John Langan |
| ISBN | 1614980543 |
John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemporary horror literature. Gifted with a supple and mellifluous prose style, an imagination that can conjure up clutching terrors with seeming effortlessness, and a thorough knowledge of the rich heritage...
| Author | Robert Aickman |
| ISBN | 1681371898 |
Cross Henry James with M.R. James and you might end up with a writer like Robert Aickman, though his self-described “strange stories” remain confoundingly and uniquely his own. Aickman’s superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but through a radical overturning of...
| Author | Robert Aickman |
| ISBN | 1905784325 |
Sewn signatures, printed on 110gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in bergundy wibalin cloth stamped in gilt and silver, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 350 copies.
(Out of print).
Contents:
"Introduction by Glen Cavaliero, "The School Friend", "Ringing...
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5 Stars for the wonderful opening story "The Repairer of Reputations".
although i wonder if 'wonderful' is the correct word. after all, this is a story that opens with a bizarre, sometimes dire alterna-history leading up to a 1920s America where on-lookers gather to contemplate...
