Unsettling Fictions: Short Stories that Live Beneath the Skin

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Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories
Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories 3.89 avg rating — 4,225 ratings
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories 3.82 avg rating — 102,311 ratings
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Heathen's Barrow: My Evil
Heathen's Barrow: My Evil 4.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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A Collapse of Horses
A Collapse of Horses 4.02 avg rating — 2,775 ratings
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Jesus’ Son
Jesus’ Son 4.13 avg rating — 39,235 ratings
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Cold Hand in Mine
Cold Hand in Mine 3.96 avg rating — 3,420 ratings
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The Secret of Ventriloquism
The Secret of Ventriloquism 3.89 avg rating — 2,226 ratings
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Harrison Bergeron
Harrison Bergeron 4.14 avg rating — 21,949 ratings
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Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories
Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories 3.68 avg rating — 23,815 ratings
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A Short Stay in Hell
A Short Stay in Hell 4.17 avg rating — 44,412 ratings
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories 4.17 avg rating — 48,600 ratings
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Selected Stories
Selected Stories 4.27 avg rating — 7,179 ratings
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories 4.02 avg rating — 115,387 ratings
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Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying
Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying 3.72 avg rating — 47 ratings
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North American Lake Monsters
North American Lake Monsters 3.95 avg rating — 6,159 ratings
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Runaway: Stories
Runaway: Stories 3.97 avg rating — 27,363 ratings
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Thus Were Their Faces
Thus Were Their Faces 3.89 avg rating — 1,141 ratings
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings 4.44 avg rating — 33,252 ratings
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Teatro Grottesco
Teatro Grottesco 4.10 avg rating — 5,665 ratings
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The Open Window and Other Short Stories
The Open Window and Other Short Stories
by: Saki
3.95 avg rating — 2,033 ratings
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Fen
Fen 3.64 avg rating — 4,047 ratings
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories 3.91 avg rating — 63,237 ratings
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The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq
The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq 3.82 avg rating — 2,512 ratings
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Cathedral
Cathedral 4.24 avg rating — 38,961 ratings
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Twenty-One Stories
Twenty-One Stories 3.77 avg rating — 1,488 ratings
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Complete Short Stories
Complete Short Stories 4.18 avg rating — 1,236 ratings
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Tales of Ordinary Madness
Tales of Ordinary Madness 3.85 avg rating — 30,139 ratings
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32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics
32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics 4.07 avg rating — 6,073 ratings
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The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard 4.12 avg rating — 2,941 ratings
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In Ghostly Japan: Spooky Stories with the Folklore, Superstitions and Traditions of Old Japan
In Ghostly Japan: Spooky Stories with the Folklore, Superstitions and Traditions of Old Japan 3.64 avg rating — 1,932 ratings
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Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner
Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner 4.15 avg rating — 344 ratings
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Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories
Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories 3.85 avg rating — 686 ratings
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The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies 4.14 avg rating — 1,654 ratings
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The Complete Cosmicomics
The Complete Cosmicomics 4.11 avg rating — 4,632 ratings
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Twisted Times
Twisted Times 3.74 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Veil Here Is Thumbprint Thin: Poems and Tales from the In-Between
The Veil Here Is Thumbprint Thin: Poems and Tales from the In-Between really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances 3.91 avg rating — 62,823 ratings
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The Girl Who Was Plugged In
The Girl Who Was Plugged In 3.55 avg rating — 2,306 ratings
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Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works 4.49 avg rating — 3,440 ratings
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Stay Awake
Stay Awake
by: Dan Chaon
3.67 avg rating — 2,807 ratings
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Worlds Enough...and Time
Worlds Enough...and Time 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Aleph and Other Stories
The Aleph and Other Stories 4.33 avg rating — 46,740 ratings
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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders 3.95 avg rating — 71,649 ratings
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Open Secrets
Open Secrets 4.03 avg rating — 6,539 ratings
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Turn Loose Our Death Rays and Kill Them All!: The Complete Works of Fletcher Hanks
Turn Loose Our Death Rays and Kill Them All!: The Complete Works of Fletcher Hanks 4.29 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions 4.01 avg rating — 73,249 ratings
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Creeping Death from Neptune: Horror and Science Fiction Comics
Creeping Death from Neptune: Horror and Science Fiction Comics 4.31 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Short Cuts: Selected Stories
Short Cuts: Selected Stories 4.10 avg rating — 6,807 ratings
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Borges: A Reader
Borges: A Reader 4.39 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories 4.41 avg rating — 22,206 ratings
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Personal Anthology
Personal Anthology 4.36 avg rating — 730 ratings
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Little Black Book of Stories
Little Black Book of Stories 3.79 avg rating — 2,796 ratings
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Borderlands
Borderlands really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 813 ratings
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The Night in Question
The Night in Question 4.16 avg rating — 5,919 ratings
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Death Stand and Other Stories
Death Stand and Other Stories 4.12 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? 4.19 avg rating — 19,017 ratings
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The Barracks Thief and Selected Stories
The Barracks Thief and Selected Stories 4.13 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The EC Archives: The Vault of Horror, Vol. 1
The EC Archives: The Vault of Horror, Vol. 1 4.20 avg rating — 531 ratings
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Back in the World: Stories
Back in the World: Stories 4.07 avg rating — 1,237 ratings
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The EC Archives: Crime Suspenstories Volume 3
The EC Archives: Crime Suspenstories Volume 3 4.48 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Controlled Burn: Stories of Prison, Crime, and Men
Controlled Burn: Stories of Prison, Crime, and Men 4.19 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Tomorrow Midnight
Tomorrow Midnight 3.98 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The EC Archives: Crime SuspenStories, Vol. 1
The EC Archives: Crime SuspenStories, Vol. 1 4.26 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories
Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories 4.24 avg rating — 218 ratings
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A Deep Horror That Was Very Nearly Awe
A Deep Horror That Was Very Nearly Awe 4.26 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Blazing Combat
Blazing Combat 4.12 avg rating — 265 ratings
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The Nameless Dark: A Collection
The Nameless Dark: A Collection
by: T.E. Grau
4.04 avg rating — 582 ratings
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Shocking Futures (Best of 2000 A.D.)
Shocking Futures (Best of 2000 A.D.) 3.81 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Fearful Symmetries
Fearful Symmetries 3.72 avg rating — 682 ratings
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
Everything That Rises Must Converge 4.22 avg rating — 21,772 ratings
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The Strange World of Your Dreams: Comics Meet Dali & Freud!
The Strange World of Your Dreams: Comics Meet Dali & Freud! 3.78 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Strange Tales From CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Strange Tales From CBS Radio Mystery Theater 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Strange Sports Stories
Strange Sports Stories 2.78 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Mummy's Curse: 101 of the World's Strangest Mysteries
The Mummy's Curse: 101 of the World's Strangest Mysteries 3.86 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Steve Ditko Archives, Volume 1: Strange Suspense
The Steve Ditko Archives, Volume 1: Strange Suspense 3.91 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Showcase Presents: Strange Adventures, Vol. 1
Showcase Presents: Strange Adventures, Vol. 1 3.51 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Showcase Presents: Strange Adventures, Vol. 2
Showcase Presents: Strange Adventures, Vol. 2
by: Various
3.91 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Big Book O'Ditko
Big Book O'Ditko 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Steve Ditko Archives, Volume 4: Impossible Tales
The Steve Ditko Archives, Volume 4: Impossible Tales 4.21 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Steve Ditko Archives Volume 6: Outer Limits
The Steve Ditko Archives Volume 6: Outer Limits really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Joe Kubert War Collection
The Joe Kubert War Collection 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Showcase Presents: Our Army at War, Vol. 1
Showcase Presents: Our Army at War, Vol. 1 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Master Race and Other Stories
Master Race and Other Stories 4.22 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Graham Ingels' EC Stories: Artist's Edition
Graham Ingels' EC Stories: Artist's Edition it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Sucker Bait and Other Stories
Sucker Bait and Other Stories 4.31 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories
Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories 4.15 avg rating — 1,979 ratings
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Vintage Munro: Nobel Prize Edition
Vintage Munro: Nobel Prize Edition 4.12 avg rating — 948 ratings
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories 4.02 avg rating — 22,467 ratings
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American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar 3.99 avg rating — 390 ratings
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The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford and Other Classic Stories (The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. 1)
The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford and Other Classic Stories (The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. 1) 4.16 avg rating — 9,476 ratings
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American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar 4.03 avg rating — 6,939 ratings
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The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories
The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories 3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Tales of Japan: Traditional Stories of Monsters and Magic
Tales of Japan: Traditional Stories of Monsters and Magic 3.86 avg rating — 1,171 ratings
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The Moth Presents: Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible
The Moth Presents: Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible 4.39 avg rating — 3,341 ratings
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The Martian Monster and Other Stories
The Martian Monster and Other Stories 3.76 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Stories of Ray Bradbury
The Stories of Ray Bradbury 4.43 avg rating — 5,413 ratings
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Sweet Land Stories
Sweet Land Stories 3.89 avg rating — 999 ratings
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Moebius 2: Arzach and Other Fantasy Stories (The Collected Fantasies of Jean Giraud, #2)
Moebius 2: Arzach and Other Fantasy Stories (The Collected Fantasies of Jean Giraud, #2) 4.24 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
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Came the Dawn and Other Stories
Came the Dawn and Other Stories 4.16 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Isolation and Illusion: Collected Short Stories 1977-1997
Isolation and Illusion: Collected Short Stories 1977-1997 3.68 avg rating — 81 ratings
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