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Books like Black Water: 9 series to read next

Black Water is literary & general, set in our world, eerie in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Black Water is 4 books, 1922–1990.

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Twilight Zone
Borne
Collected Fiction (Arthur Machen)
The Golden Age of Weird Fiction Megapack
Weird Tales magazine reissues
Empire of the Sun
Penguin Classics Lovecraft
The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson
Green Town

Twilight ZoneUniverse

universe40 books1960

Science fiction.

“Picture, if you will, an ordinary person on an ordinary afternoon: a tired salesman, a frightened child, a man who wants only to be left alone.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Stories from the Twilight Zone →

BorneSeries

seriesJeff VanderMeer3 books2017

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, about genetic engineering, set in near future.

“Jeff VanderMeer's series continues with the related novels The Strange Bird and Dead Astronauts, set in the same devastated world.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Borne →

Collected Fiction (Arthur Machen)Series

seriesArthur Machen5 books1907

Weird fiction, set in british isles.

Start with The Hill of Dreams →

The Golden Age of Weird Fiction MegapackSeries

seriesFrank Belknap Long, Manly Banister, Henry S. Whitehead, Clark Ashton Smith, David H. Keller, M.D., Emil Petaja, George T. Wetzel & Nictzin Dyalhis13 books1931

Horror and weird fiction.

Start with The Golden Age of Weird Fiction Megapack: Volume 1 →

Weird Tales magazine reissuesSeries

seriesFarnsworth Wright, Edwin Baird, Ann VanderMeer, Darrell Schweitzer, George H. Scithers, Greye La Spina, Arlton Eadie, Edmond Hamilton, Eli Colter, Otis Adelbert Kline, Thomas P. Kelley, Arthur William Bernal, B. Wallis, Joel Martin Nichols, Jr., John Martin Leahy, Paul Ernst, Seabury Quinn, W. Elwyn Backus, Alexandre Dumas, Austin Hall, Bertram Russell, Culpeper Chunn, David H. Keller, M.D., Francis Stevens, Frank A. Mochnant, Frank Belknap Long, Gaston Leroux, Geo. C. Wallis, G. R. Malloch, H. F. Arnold, Hugh Jeffries, Jack Williamson, John Gregory Betancourt, J. Paul Suter, Lady Anne Bonny, Laurie McClintock, Lon Dexter, Murray Leinster, Petterson Marzoni, Ralph Milne Farley, Stephen Bagby, Sybla Ramus, uncredited & Victor Rousseau132 books1857

Start with Weird Tales, March 1923 →

Empire of the SunSeries

seriesJ. G. Ballard2 books1984

Historical fiction, about coming of age, set in east asia.

“J. G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun draws on his own childhood to follow Jim, a British boy separated from his parents in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II and interned in a civilian camp for the rest of the war.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Empire of the Sun →

Penguin Classics LovecraftSeries

seriesH. P. Lovecraft3 books1999

Cosmic horror, about madness, set in north america.

“The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is Penguin Classics' first omnibus edition of works by seminal 20th-century American author H. P. Lovecraft.”
from the catalogue description of The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

Start with The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories →

The Collected Fiction of William Hope HodgsonSeries

seriesWilliam Hope Hodgson6 books1907

About survival, set in at sea.

Start with The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures →

Green TownSeries

seriesRay Bradbury31 books1946

About coming of age, set in north america and small town.

“Written more than four decades apart, the two novels share Bradbury's recurring setting and nostalgic, myth-making tone rather than a single continuous plot.”
from the catalogue description

Start with End of Summer →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Black Water?: Twilight Zone — the closest match to Black Water on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Black Water?: Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Black Water.
How big is Black Water?: Black Water is 4 books, 1922–1990.

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