The Ultimate Weird Tales Collection - 133 stories - Clark Ashton Smith (Trilogus Classics)
10 best books like The Ultimate Weird Tales Collection - 133 stories - Clark Ashton Smith (Trilogus Classics) (Clark Ashton Smith): The Andromeda Strain, Desperation, Carrion Comfort, The Day of the Triffids, The Dog Stars, The Little Friend, The Shining Girls, Alone With the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction, 1961-1991, Eaters of the Dead, The Inheritors
| Author | Michael Crichton |
| ISBN | 0060541814 |
The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the...
**4.5-stars rounded up**
A bizarrely assembled cast of characters come together to fight an evil, older and more powerful than they ever could have imagined.
That would be my single-sentence synopsis if someone were to ask me what Desperation is about.
If you have...
| Author | Dan Simmons |
| ISBN | 0446359203 |
THE PAST... Caught behind the lines of Hitler’s Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazi’s themselves...
THE...
| Author | John Wyndham |
| ISBN | 0812967127 |
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.”
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded...
| Author | Peter Heller |
| ISBN | 0307959945 |
Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley.
But when a random transmission beams through...
| Author | Donna Tartt |
| ISBN | 1400031699 |
Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil.
The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve...
| Author | Lauren Beukes |
| ISBN | 0316216852 |
In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining girls: bright young women, burning with potential. Curtis stalks them through their lives across different eras until, in 1989, one of his victims, Kirby Mazrachi,...
| 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...
| Author | Michael Crichton |
| ISBN | 0060891564 |
It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs—the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape...
| Author | William Golding |
| ISBN | 0156443791 |
When the spring came the people - what was left of them - moved back by the old paths from the sea. But this year strange things were happening, terrifying things that had never happened before. Inexplicable sounds and smells; new, unimaginable creatures half glimpsed through the leaves. What the people...
The Best of Cemetery Dance. Volume 1 & 2 Omnibus
| Author | Richard Chizmar |
| ISBN | 1881475247 |
11 • Introduction (The Best of Cemetery Dance) • essay by Richard Chizmar
29 • Chattery Teeth • (1992) • novelette by Stephen King
61 • The Box • (1994) • short story by Jack Ketchum
73 • Haceldama • (1993) • novelette by Gary A. Braunbeck
109 • The Pig Man • (1993)...
| Author | Simon Clark |
| ISBN | 0340766018 |
At the end of The Day of the Triffids, the hero, Bill Masen, his wife, and four-year-old son leave the British mainland to join a new colony on the Isle of Wight. The Night of the Triffids takes up the story 25 years later. David Masen, the now grown-up son of Bill, is a pilot, still searching for a method...
| Author | Carlton Mellick III |
| ISBN | 1621052796 |
For almost 20 years, Carlton Mellick III has been writing some of the strangest and most compelling novels the bizarro fiction genre has to offer. Described as one of the top 40 science-fiction writers under the age of 40 by The Guardian and "one of the most original novelists working today" by extreme...
He has a mouth in his gut. An obnoxious, toothy, foul-mouthed, pig of a mouth. Luckily, his girlfriend doesn't seem to mind. Marie, the one-legged stripper and cyber-prostitute love of his life is very accepting of it. And then a little too accepting. What would you do if your girlfriend cheated on you...
| Author | Jeff Strand |
| ISBN | 1934546127 |
Everybody in here is deliriously incompetent. Q: It wasn't like they'd failed repeatedly. Well, it was like they'd failed repeatedly, but not at this particular task. (c)
I don't know what to grade it. It's frigging hilarious! And stupid.
Q:
"Look at those tentacles! I've got Chthulu...
| Author | Greg F. Gifune |
| ISBN | 1934546801 |
Who is the Judas Goat?
It had been twenty years since Lenny Cates had seen or heard from his old college flame Sheena. Theirs had been a brief and tumultuous relationship that ended badly, so when Lenny is notified that Sheena has died in a freak accident and has left her entire estate to him, he...
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Haunted Forest Tour! Sit back and enjoy a smooth ride in air-conditioned comfort as your heavily armored tram takes you through nature's most astonishing creation. The forest is packed to capacity with dangerous and terrifying creatures of all shapes, sizes,...
Slasher Camp for Nerd Dorks
| Author | Christoph Paul |
| ISBN | 1621051994 |
Freddy versus Jason Meets Wet Hot American Summer. Nuff Said.
Jason Voorheesberg has struggled to become the great slasher his mom believes he can be and has as bad case of Slasher Anxiety. He is sent to one of the worse ranked camps for young slashers: Slasher Camp for Nebulous Youth #987.When...
