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Books like Stories
A genre-defying collection of imaginative tales that uses flashes of magic to reveal the unsettling truths hidden in the everyday. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Stories.
- unsettling
- magical
- shadowy
- 01
Get in Trouble
Kelly Link
A darkly playful plunge into a world where suburban anxieties and teenage sleepovers collide with ghosts, superheroes, and the uncanny.
- 02
Fragile Things
Neil Gaiman
A cabinet of curiosities where every drawer opens into a dark, dreamlike fairy tale.
- 03
The Sandman - Book of Dreams
Neil Gaiman · 1996
A shadowy, hallucinatory descent into the realm of human consciousness and myth.
- 04
Bradbury Stories
Ray Bradbury
A kaleidoscopic journey through twilight midwestern towns and distant Martian landscapes, fueled by poetic wonder and creeping dread.
- 05
The Weird
Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
A massive, labyrinthine cabinet of curiosities that will permanently tilt your perception of reality.
- 06
Magic for beginners
Kelly Link
A surreal, pop-culture-infused fever dream where the mundane and the magical bleed seamlessly into one another.
- 07
20th Century Ghosts
Joe Hill · 2007
A masterful blend of nostalgic Americana and creeping dread that finds the monstrous in the mundane and the heartbreaking in the horrific.
- 08
Welcome to Bordertown
Holly Black and Ellen Kushner
An electric, bohemian anthology where gritty street life collides with wild elfin magic.
- 09
Oblivion
David Foster Wallace · 2004
A dizzying, darkly hilarious plunge into the hyper-articulate and deeply lonely labyrinths of the modern human mind.
- 10
Pastoralia
George Saunders · 2000
A hilarious, heartbreaking funhouse mirror reflecting the soul-crushing absurdities of modern work and life.
- 11
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace · 2001
A dizzying, darkly hilarious plunge into the neurotic, self-justifying minds of profoundly alienated people.
- 12
The October Country
Ray Bradbury
A poetic descent into the shadows of autumn, where everyday fears are transformed into beautiful, lingering nightmares.
