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Across Anthologies (multiple authors), Occult & Supernatural, and Horror — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as When Things Get Dark by Joyce Carol Oates.

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Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

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Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

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Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

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Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

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Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

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Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

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Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

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Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

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Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories — Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science)

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Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

This Side of the Divide: New Lore of the American West — Willy Vlautin

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Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

The Ghastling Book Thirteen — Rebecca Parfitt

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Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

Tales of Yog-Sothoth — C. T. Phipps

Tales of Yog-Sothoth

Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

Azathoth Ordo Ab Chao — Aaron J. French

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Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

Corporate Cthulhu: Lovecraftian Tales of Bureaucratic Nightmare — Edward Stasheff

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Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

Arthur Machen Horror Stories — Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen Horror Stories

Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

Nightshade 20th Century Ghost Stories — Robert Phillips

Nightshade 20th Century Ghost Stories

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Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

Christmas Gothic Short Stories — Jerrold E. Hogle

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Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

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Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

Read Us or Die — Nicholas Grabowsky

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Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

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Circles of Stone Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites

Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

Spirits & Ghouls Short Stories — Ahmed Al-Rawi

Spirits & Ghouls Short Stories

Themes: Anthologies (multiple authors) • Occult & Supernatural • Horror

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