15 books like The Mammoth Book of Werewolves

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Poe's Children Peter Straub · 2008 · ★ 3.5 · 534p · ≈ 17h · Moderate The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story—and 8-time Bram Stoker Award winner—gathers 24 bone-chilling, nail-biting, frightfully imaginative stories that represent the best of contemporary horror writing. “Revelatory.... A remarkably consistent, frequently unsettling book.” —The Washington Post“[Straub] collects the best scary short stories out there.” —TimeDan Chaon “The… Shares: English Horror tales, American Horror tales

Wolfsbane and Mistletoe Charlaine Harris · 2008 · ★ 3.8 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Lycanthropy is the theme of a special anthology of holiday tales featuring an outstanding collection of werewolf stories by Charlaine Harris, Simon R. Green, Keri Arthur, Dana Stabenow, Carrie Vaughn, Patricia Briggs, Rob Thurman, and others. Shares: American Horror tales, Werewolves, Fantasy fiction

Ancient Sorceries Algernon Blackwood · 1906 · ★ 3.7 · 227p · ≈ 7h · Challenging 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, Fantasy fiction

Fragile Things Neil Gaiman · 2006 · ★ 3.9 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679359W. Shares: English Horror tales, Fantasy fiction

The Dark Descent David G. Hartwell · 1987 · ★ 4.3 · 1011p · ≈ 33h · Challenging pt. 1. The color of evil. The reach / Stephen King -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The new mother / Lucy Clifford -- There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russell Kirk -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Mr. Justice… Shares: English Horror tales, American Horror tales

Tales of Terror [12 stories] Edgar Allan Poe · 1971 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Pit and the Pendulum Cask of Amontillado Fall of the House of Usher Tell-tale HeartMasque of the Red Death Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / by E.A. Poe -- The signal man / by C. Dickens -- The mummy's foot / by T. Gautier -- Markheim -- The body snatcher / by R.L. Stevenson -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / by A. Bierce -- What was it? / by F. O'Brien. Shares: English Horror tales, American Horror tales

The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole · 1764 · ★ 3.2 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Demanding This book is the earliest and most influential of the Gothic novels. First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the second edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern." He gives us a series of catastrophes, ghostly… Shares: English Horror tales, Fantasy fiction

The Cleft and Other Odd Tales Gahan Wilson · 1998 · ★ 4.0 · 333p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Collection of stories and drawings by Gahan Wilson. Shares: American Horror tales, Fantasy fiction

The Horror hall of fame Robert Silverberg · 1991 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares: English Horror tales, American Horror tales Shares: English Horror tales, American Horror tales

Bad moon rising Sherrilyn Kenyon · 2009 · ★ 4.3 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Fang Kattalakis isn't just a wolf. He is the brother of two of the most powerful members of the Omegrion: the ruling council that enforces the laws of the Were-Hunters. And when was erupts among the lycanthropes, sides must be chosen. Enemies are forced into shaky alliances. When Aimee, the woman Fang loves, is accused of betraying her people, her only hope is that Fang believes in her. Yet in… Shares: Werewolves, Fantasy fiction

Barking Tom Holt · 2007 · ★ 3.8 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Duncan's boss doesn't think he's cut out to be a lawyer. He isn't a pack animal. He lacks the killer instinct. But when his best friend from school barges his way back into Duncan's life, with a full supporting cast of lawyers, ex-wives, zombies, and snow-white unicorns, it's not long before things become distinctly unsettling. Hairy, even. Shares: Werewolves, Fantasy fiction

Midnight cravings Michele Hauf · 2009 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "Under the cover of night exists the dark and sensuous world of Midnight Cravings--a world conjured up in six seductive tales of paranormal passion..."--p.[4] of cover. Shares: Werewolves, Fantasy fiction

After dead Charlaine Harris · 2013 · ★ 3.1 · 195p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Dead Ever After marked the end of the Sookie Stackhouse novels--a series that garnered millions of fans and spawned the hit HBO television show True Blood. It also stoked a hunger that will never die...a hunger to know what happened next. With characters arranged alphabetically--from the Ancient Pythoness to Bethany Zanelli--bestselling author Charlaine Harris takes fans into the future of their… Shares: Werewolves, Fantasy fiction

Dead as a doornail Charlaine Harris · 2005 · ★ 4.3 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate When small-town cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees her brother Jason’s eyes start to change, she knows he’s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population, and Jason’s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who’s… Shares: Werewolves, Fantasy fiction

The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake) Laurell K. Hamilton · 1996 · ★ 4.2 · 369p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Anita Blake has fallen for the leader of a local pack of werewolves. She's survived a lot, but this love affair may kill her yet. Shares: Werewolves, Fantasy fiction

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