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10 best books like The Wine-Dark Sea (Robert Aickman): The Willows, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, The Offing, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, Song for the Unraveling of the World, Dark Gods, Teatro Grottesco, The Three Impostors and Other Stories, Grimscribe: His Lives and Works

The Willows
AuthorAlgernon Blackwood
ISBN1587156520
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,...
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
AuthorThomas Ligotti
His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it...
The Offing
AuthorBenjamin Myers
ISBN1526611317
After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that it brings with it. Poetry, perhaps, and a good glass of wine. A nice meal. Nature. Love, if you're lucky.

One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from his Durham...
Songs of a Dead Dreamer
AuthorThomas Ligotti
ISBN0881847216
Songs of a Dreamer was Thomas Ligotti’s first collection of supernatural horror stories. When originally published in 1985 by Harry Morris’s Silver Scarab Press, the book was hardly noticed. In 1989, an expanded version appeared that garnered accolades from several quarters. Writing in the...
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
AuthorThomas Ligotti
ISBN0143107763
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
AuthorBrian Evenson
ISBN1566895480
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,...
Dark Gods
AuthorT.E.D. Klein
T.E.D. Klein's highly acclaimed first novel The Ceremonies - which Stephen King called "the most exciting novel in my field to come along since Straub's Ghost Story - established him in the top rank of horror writers. Now, with the four novellas gathered here, Klein proves himself to be a master of this...
Teatro Grottesco
AuthorThomas Ligotti
ISBN0978991176
This collection features tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns, as well as in dark sectors frequented by sinister and often blackly comical eccentrics. The cycle of narratives that includes the title work of this collection, for instance, introduces readers to...
The Three Impostors and Other Stories
AuthorArthur Machen
ISBN1568821328
Some of the finest horror stories ever written. Arthur Machen had a profound impact upon H.P. Lovecraft and the group of stories that would later become known as the Cthulhu Mythos. This first volume of Chaosium's Arthur Machen collection begins with the chilling "The Three Impostors" in its complete...
Grimscribe: His Lives and Works
AuthorThomas Ligotti
ISBN0515114715
Grimscribe: His Lives and Works is Thomas Ligotti's second collection of short tales.

The voice of the damned : The last feast of Harlequin --
The spectacles in the drawer --
flowers of the abyss --
Nethescurial --
The voice of the demon : The dreaming in Nortown --
The mystics...
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