18 books like Cabal

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Books of Blood Volume One Clive Barker · 1985 · ★ 4.0 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate With the publication of Books of Blood, Clive Barker became an overnight literary sensation. His tour de force collection of brilliantly disturbing tales demonstrated a genius for dark invention that rivaled Poe and Sade. He was hailed by Stephen King as "the future of horror", and won both the British and World Fantasy Awards. Clive Barker's Books of Blood marked the beginning of a career that… Shares English Horror tales, Short Stories, Horror

Poe's Children

Poe's Children Peter Straub · 2008 · ★ 3.9 · 534p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Shares English Horror tales, Horror with this book.

The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories Algernon Blackwood · 1906 · ★ 3.7 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Collection of short fiction horror stories by the weird fiction writer Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951). Shares Short Stories, Horror

Never Whistle at Night

Never Whistle at Night Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. · 2023 · ★ 3.8 · 444p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes many forms: for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai’po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuza, a witch that can transform into an owl. But what all these legends hold in common is the certainty that whistling at night can cause evil spirits to appear—and… Shares Short Stories, Horror

Ancient Sorceries Algernon Blackwood · 1906 · ★ 3.7 · 227p · ≈ 7h · Moderate By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work-including "The Willows,"… Shares English Horror tales, Short Stories, Horror

Desperation

Desperation Stephen King “The terror is relentless” (Publishers Weekly) in Stephen King’s #1 national bestseller about a little mining town, Desperation, that many will enter on their way to somewhere else. But getting out is not easy as it would seem…Located off a desolate stretch of Interstate 50, Desperation, Nevada, has few connections with the rest of the world. It is a place, though, where the seams between worlds… Shares Horror

Basilosaurus Rising

Basilosaurus Rising Jonathan Kessler Shares Horror with this book.

How to Survive Camping: The Ancient Things

How to Survive Camping: The Ancient Things Bonnie Quinn Shares Horror with this book.

If You Could See Me Now

If You Could See Me Now Peter Straub & Jennifer McMahon Shares Horror with this book.

The Haunting of Hill House

The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson & Laura Miller The greatest haunted house story ever written—the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series!One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an… Shares Horror

Bone of My Bone

Bone of My Bone Johanna van Veen Shares Horror with this book.

The Night Guest

The Night Guest Hildur Knútsdóttir & Mary Robinette Kowal Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that’s sure to keep you awake at night.Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something's not right, but practitioners dismiss her symptoms and blood tests haven't revealed any cause.When she talks to friends and family about it, the refrain is the… Shares Horror

The No-End House

The No-End House Jeremy Bates Shares Horror with this book.

Mary

Mary Nat Cassidy · 2022 · ★ 4.0 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invisible. Unknown even to herself. But lately, things have been changing inside Mary. Along with the hot flashes and body aches, she can’t look in a mirror without passing out, and the voices in her head have been urging her to do unspeakable things. Fired from her job in New York, she moves back… Shares Horror

Weird Horror 13

Weird Horror 13 Undertow Publications Shares Horror with this book.

The Time Travel MEGAPACK ®

The Time Travel MEGAPACK ® Edward M. Lerner, Richard A. Lupoff, Clifford D. Simak, Damien Broderick, Reginald Bretnor, William F. Nolan, John Gregory Betancourt, James H. Schmitz, C.J. Henderson & Darrell Schweitzer · 2013 · 505p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Time travel is one of the staples of science fiction, right up there with aliens, space opera, and robots. Most science fiction authors have written at least one time travel story. This collection samples some of the best. TIME OUT, by Edward M. Lerner THESE STONES WILL REMEMBER, by Reginald Bretnor PROJECT MASTODON, by Clifford D. Simak 12:01 P.M., by Richard A. Lupoff TIME CONSIDERED AS A… Shares Horror

The Greatest Gothic Classics of All Time

The Greatest Gothic Classics of All Time H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Theophile Gautier, Richard Marsh, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles Dickens, Fitz-James O'Brien, Horace Walpole, William Thomas Beckford, Eliza Parsons, William Godwin, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Charles Brockden Brown, Jane Austen, Thomas Love Peacock, John William Polidori, Washington Irving, Charles Robert Maturin, James Hogg, Victor Hugo, Frederick Marryat, Nikolai Gogol, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Bronte, James Malcolm Rymer, Thomas Peckett Prest, George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Anna Katharine Green, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, George MacDonald, John Meade Falkner, H.G. Wells, W. W. Jacobs, Robert Hugh Benson & Gaston Leroux Shares Horror with this book.

Revival

Revival Stephen King Stephen King presents “a fresh adrenaline rush of terror” (People) in this electrifying #1 New York Times bestseller!The new minister came to Harlow, Maine, when Jamie Morton was a boy doing battle with his toy army men on the front lawn. The young Reverend Charles Jacobs and his beautiful wife brought new life to the local church and captivated their congregation. But with Jamie, he shares a… Shares Horror

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