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Books like Occult / Occult Shorts: 9 series to read next

Occult / Occult Shorts is horror and weird fiction, set in our world and mid 20th century, eerie in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Occult / Occult Shorts is 2 books, 1945–1946.

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Twilight Zone
Penguin Classics Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus
Richard Matheson: Collected Stories
The Grin of the Dark
Southern Reach Trilogy
H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction Omnibus Collection
Sinister Supernatural Stories
Borderlands (Monteleone anthologies)

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 →

Penguin Classics LovecraftSeries

seriesH. P. Lovecraft3 books1999

Cosmic horror, set in early 20th century and 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 →

H. P. Lovecraft OmnibusSeries

seriesH. P. Lovecraft2 books1985

Cosmic horror, set in early 20th century.

Start with The H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus 2: Dagon and Other Macabre Tales →

Richard Matheson: Collected StoriesSeries

seriesRichard Matheson4 books1989

Science fiction.

Start with Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Volume One →

The Grin of the DarkSeries

seriesRamsey Campbell2 books2007

Psychological horror, about art and artists, set in contemporary.

“Once upon a time Tubby Thackeray's silent comedies were hailed as the equal of Chaplin's and Keaton's, but now his name has been deleted from the history of the cinema.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Grin of the Dark →

Southern Reach TrilogySeries

seriesJeff VanderMeer4 books2014

Science fiction, set in contemporary.

“In 2013, Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights for the series, and a film adaptation of Annihilation was made with Alex Garland as writer-director.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Annihilation →

H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction Omnibus CollectionSeries

seriesH. P. Lovecraft4 books2016

Cosmic horror, set in early 20th century.

Start with H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Omnibus, Volume I: 1917-1926 →

Sinister Supernatural StoriesSeries

seriesR. E. Sargent & Steven Pajak1 book2022

About undead, set in contemporary.

Start with Screaming in the Night →

Borderlands (Monteleone anthologies)Series

seriesThomas F. Monteleone, Elizabeth E. Monteleone & Olivia F. Monteleone7 books1990

Set in contemporary.

Start with Borderlands →

Why these

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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 Occult / Occult Shorts?: Twilight Zone — the closest match to Occult / Occult Shorts on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Occult / Occult Shorts?: Occult: A Collection of Stories of the Supernatural. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Occult / Occult Shorts.
How big is Occult / Occult Shorts?: Occult / Occult Shorts is 2 books, 1945–1946.

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