Thinking Persons Horror and Dark Fiction
Explore a curated list of dark fiction and horror books for thinking persons. Discover chilling, intellectually stimulating reads that blend terror with thought-provoking narratives.
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The Night Country
by Stewart O'Nan
A tragic car accident that kills three teens while leaving one hospitalized with brain damage and another suffering with guilt yields more pain one year …
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A Prayer for the Dying
by Stewart O'Nan
Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying tells of a horrible epidemic that has gripped the town in …
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The Speed Queen
by Stewart O'Nan
A drug-addled, bisexual Bonnie to her husband's Clyde--accompanied by her lover, Natalie--Marjorie Standiford winds up on death row despite her protestations of innocence, with a …
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner One of The …
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Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious …
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time). Selected by the Modern Library …
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Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut
“Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York Times …
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Kiss Me, Judas
by Will Christopher Baer
Don t worry, a voice whispers. You really only need one. Phineas Poe, disgraced cop turned psychiatric case, turned murder suspect, turned reluctant kidney donor, …
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The Stand
by Stephen King
June 16, 1985. That is when the horror began--the evil that started in a laboratory and took over America.
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Move Under Ground
by Nick Mamatas
"Those who appreciate sophisticated, progressive horror and fantasy fiction should eat [Move Under Ground] up."—Publishers Weekly The year is nineteen-sixty-something, and after endless millennia of …
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3000 Mph in Every Direction at Once: Stories and Essays
by Nick Mamatas
What if everyone actually was famous for exactly fifteen minutes? What if Joey Ramone could save the world? What if the spiritual enlightenment of saints …
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Punktown
by Jeffrey Thomas
Jeffrey Thomas' collection Punktown explored the streets and back alleys of a futuristic and nightmarish urbanscape in a series of unconnected short stories. In Punktown: …