18 books like At Dark, I Become Loathsome
H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
A collection of Lovecraft's published works written between 1917 and 1935. Also includes an introduction, juvenilia, and an essay on the genre.
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Whisper Down the Lane
In the 1980s, Sean was five years old when his mother unwittingly led him to tell a lie about his teacher. When school administrators, cops, and therapists questioned him, he told another. And another. And another. Each was more outlandish than the last—and fueled a moral panic that engulfed the nation and destroyed the lives of everyone around him.
Now, thirty years later, someone is here to…
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Come With Me
A masterful, heart-palpitating novel of small-town horror and psychological dread from a Bram Stoker nominee."Malfi is a modern-day Algernon Blackwood... I'm gonna be talking about this book for years"JOSH MALERMAN, author of Bird Box Aaron Decker's life changes one December morning when his wife Allison is killed. Haunted by her absence—and her ghost—Aaron goes through her belongings, where…
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The Cipher
Kathe Koja's classic, award-winning horror novel is finally available as an ebook.
Nicholas, a would-be poet, and Nakota, his feral lover, discover a strange hole in the storage room floor down the hall - "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." It begins with curiosity, a joke - the Funhole down the…
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Fever House
When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find stashed in the client’s refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness: Anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces are set…
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Immaculate Conception
“A superb work of fiction.”—New York Times Book ReviewWhat if you could enter the mind of the person you love the most? Enka meets Mathilde in art school and is instantly drawn to her. Mathilde makes art that feels truly original, and Enka—trying hard to prove herself in this fiercely competitive world—pours everything into their friendship. But when Mathilde’s fame and success cause her to begin…
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The Damned
The Damned is a chilling tale of supernatural horror from one of the great masters of horror fiction, Algernon Blackwood.
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Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
This book is about stories that encounters with the ghosts of the dead and dying. The spirits of the dead reach out to the living, to pass on a message or to pursue a killer.
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Darkness Comes
A blizzard brings a city to a standstill-and ushers in an evil that defies imagination.
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The Manitou
It only grows at night. Karen Tandy was a sweet and unassuming girl until she discovers the mysterious lump growing underneath her skin. As the doctors and specialists are puzzling over the growth, Karen's personality is beginning to drastically change. The doctors decide there is only one thing to do, cut out the lump. But then it moved. Now a chain reaction has begun and everyone who comes…
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Captain quad
A tragic accident leaves Peter Gardner paralyzed from the neck down. The former prodigy of music, sports, and flying is confined to his hospital bed. As rage and hatred intensify, he fantasizes about leaving his broken body and traveling anywhere. Then, one day... he can! But by then he is a Frankenstein monster -- breaking all the rules of morality.
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Eden's eyes
Karen Lockhart has been blind all her life. Now she can see with a dead man's eyes but with her new blessing come an even greater curse: terror. Karen's world had grown dark until a vicious punk named Eden Crowell is killed one night in a barroom brawl and doctors salvage what they can from his ruined body. His heart goest to an old drunk, his kidney to a young girl, and his silver blue eyes…
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Austin And His Friends
The old-fashioned ghost-story was always terrifying and ghastly; something that made people afraid to go to bed, or to look over their shoulders, or to enter a room in the dark. It dealt with apparitions in a white sheet, and clanking chains, and dreadful faces that peered out from behind the window curtains in a haunted chamber. And the more blood-curdling it was, the more keenly people enjoyed…
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The Dorians
The USA TODAY bestselling novel of terror from “one of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop follows five elderly volunteers in an aging-reversal experiment where an ancient biological agent unleashes a terrifying fight for survival!On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life…
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Our Share of Night
Our Share of Night () is a 2019 horror novel by Argentine author Mariana Enriquez. Set between 1960 and 1997, the story follows the Peterson family as they fight against an occult society in Argentina. The novel received positive reviews, and won the Premio Herralde in 2019. An English translation by Megan McDowell was published in 2023.
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Them
Them is a third-person plural or singular accusative personal pronoun.
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Passing Through Veils
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
In 1912 a strange confession is given, over several nights, to a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunted the fields of the Blackfeet reservation, looking for justice.
A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran Pastor is discovered within a wall and what it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to two hundred and seventeen Blackfeet dead in the snow.…
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