The Two Sams
9 best books like The Two Sams (Glen Hirshberg): Full Throttle, The Ghost Bride, Alone With the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction, 1961-1991, The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures, As You Like It, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition, Stirring the Sheets, The Box, An Octoroon
| Author | Joe Hill |
| ISBN | 0062200674 |
In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including “In The Tall Grass,” one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.
A little...
| Author | Yangsze Choo |
| ISBN | 0062227327 |
"One evening, my father asked me if I would like to become a ghost bride..."
Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling to ancient customs. And in the sleepy port town of Malacca, ghosts and superstitions abound.
Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but...
| Author | Ramsey Campbell |
| ISBN | 0765307677 |
Ramsey Campbell is perhaps the world's most decorated author of horror fiction. He has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Three decades into his career, Campbell paused...
The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures
| Author | Aaron Mahnke |
| ISBN | 1524797960 |
A fascinating, beautifully illustrated guide to the monsters that are part of our collective psyche, from the host of the hit podcast Lore, soon to be an online streaming series.
They live in shadows--deep in the forest, late in the night, in the dark recesses of our minds. They're spoken of...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
Readers and audiences have long greeted As You Like It with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after Rosalind and Orlando meet and fall in love, the princesses and Touchstone go into exile in the...
| Author | Paula Guran |
| ISBN | 1607012812 |
This incomparable annual compilation of the best short fiction and novellas features an unmatched variety of the quietly weird, the merely eerie, high fantasy, modern Lovecraftian horror, nightmarish near-future scenarios, the darkly humorous, the supernatural, and the monstrously mundane...
STIRRING THE SHEETS is the first novella I have read by author Chad Lutzke. After finishing this one in a single sitting, I am so glad I already have two additional books of his in my TBR pile to read next!
I'll admit, I've seen a lot of great reviews for various works by this author, but nothing prepared...
Ten pages. You never know with a short story though because the length doesn't often matter, and Ketchum wastes no time. The box is before the reader on the first page, a red present sitting on the lap of a stranger, nondescript, but closely guarded. Therefore I was apprehensive, and yet I was inquisitive,...
| Author | Branden Jacobs-Jenkins |
Winner of the 2014 OBIE Award for Best New American Play.
Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M’Closky has other...
