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- City at the End of Time
Greg Bearstandalone novel2008
similar bycosmic horrorparallel universe
City at the End of Time is a 2008 science fiction novel by American writer Greg Bear. It was published in August 2008 by Del Rey in the United States, and Gollancz in the United Kingdom. The story follows three drifters in present-day Seattle who are tormented by strange dreams of the Kalpa, a city one hundred trillion years in the future. The Kalpa is attempting to ward off the Typhon, an inexplicable entity that has consumed the rest of the ancient universe and broken down the laws of physics.
- John and Dave
series4 books2007
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Jason Pargin, writing as David Wong, began the John Dies at the End series as a free horror-comedy webserial in 2001 before print publication turned it into a franchise. The Lovecraftian adventures of narrator John and his friend Dave continue across This Book Is Full of Spiders, What the Hell Did I Just Read, and If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe, and the original novel was adapted into a 2012 film.
- Laundry Files
series22 books2004
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The Laundry Files is a series of novels by British writer Charles Stross. They mix the genres of Lovecraftian horror, spy thriller, science fiction, and workplace humour. Their main character for the first five novels is "Bob Howard", a one-time I.T. consultant turned occult field agent. Howard is recruited to work for the Q-Division of SOE, otherwise known as "the Laundry", the British government agency which deals with occult threats. "Magic" is described as being a branch of applied computation (mathematics), therefore computers and equations are just as useful as, and perhaps more potent than, classical spellbooks, pentagrams, and sigils for the purpose of influencing ancient powers and opening gates to other dimensions. These occult struggles happen largely out of view of the public, as the Laundry seeks to keep the methods for contacting such powers under wraps. There are also elements of dry humour and satirisation of bureaucracy.
- Dream Cycle
series26 books1919
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The Dream Cycle is a series of short stories and novellas by author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937). Written between 1918 and 1932, they are about the "Dreamlands", a vast alternate dimension that can only be entered via dreams. The Dreamlands are described as lying deeper than space, matter and time, and are a "limitless vacua beyond all thought and entity".
- Revival
Stephen Kingstandalone novel2014
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The protagonist details how his life keeps intersecting with that of the man he first met as the pastor of his church in childhood, whose experiments with electricity lead to mastery of a cosmic power which he uses to help people, until his obsession leads to physical and spiritual disaster for all.
- Lovecraft Country
series2 books2016
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Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country follows Atticus Turner, a Black Korean War veteran and science-fiction fan, and his extended family as they navigate both cosmic horror and the everyday terror of Jim Crow-era America in the 1950s. Structured as eight interlinked stories rather than one continuous plot, it moves between sorcerous lodges, haunted houses, and cursed heirlooms, all set in motion by the manipulative occultist Caleb Braithwhite. A 2023 sequel novel, The Destroyer of Worlds, returns to the same characters.
- The Hungry Moon
Ramsey Campbellstandalone novel1986
similar bycosmic horror
The Hungry Moon is a novel by Ramsey Campbell published in 1986.
- The Philosopher's Stone
Colin Wilsonstandalone novel1969
similar bycosmic horror
The Philosopher's Stone is a 1969 horror novel by the English writer Colin Wilson. It tells the story of two researchers who find a way to reach a higher state of consciousness, which leads to frightening revelations about humanity's distant history. Like Wilson's 1967 novel The Mind Parasites, The Philosopher's Stone uses motifs from H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
- Midnight Sun
Ramsey Campbellstandalone novel1990
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Las viejas leyendas de los pueblos de las llanuras árticas refieren la necesidad de evitar que desaparezca el sol de medianoche, esa pálida luz que mantiene dormidos al os espíritus maléficos del frío. Un frío que en esos parajes sombríos es implacable, letal, en el que se ocultan misterios insondables. Ben, biznieto del folclorista Edward Sterling, empezó a sentirse atraído por el misterio del niño. Y la fascinación se reavivó cuando, de adulto, decidió irse a vivir con su familia al mismo caserón en que había pasado su infancia. Un lugar demasiado cercano al cementerio; demasiado cercano al bosque plantado en memoria de su bisabuelo; en el que no hay ninguna puerta que impida que responda a laimperiosa llamada que surge de la espesura, sobre todo cuando el frío se hace insoportable… Ramsey Cambell es uno de los pocos autores de novelas de terror que consiguen que las más escalofriantes pesadillas abandonen el territorio de lo soñado y asalten la vigilia del lector.
- Crooked
Austin Grossmanstandalone novel2015
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Crooked is a novel by author Austin Grossman, published in 2015 by Mulholland Books. It is a cosmic horror fantasy and secret history of the Cold War and the Watergate scandal, narrated by a fictional version of Richard Nixon.
- Fraternity
Andy Mientusstandalone novel2022
similar bycosmic horror
In the fall of 1991, Zooey Orson transfers to the Blackfriars School for Boys hoping for a fresh start following a scandal at his last school. However, he quickly learns that he isn’t the only student keeping a secret. Before he knows it, he’s fallen in with a group of boys who all share the same secret, one which they can only express openly within the safety of the clandestine gatherings of the Vicious Circle––the covert club for gay students going back decades. But when the boys unwittingly happen upon the headmaster’s copy of an arcane occult text, they unleash an eldritch secret so terrible, it threatens to consume them all.
- Fungi from Yuggoth
series1 book1943
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Fungi from Yuggoth is a sequence of 36 sonnets by cosmic horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Most of the sonnets were written between 27 December 1929 – 4 January 1930; thereafter individual sonnets appeared in Weird Tales and other genre magazines. The sequence was published complete in Beyond the Wall of Sleep and The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft. Ballantine Books' mass paperback edition, Fungi From Yuggoth & Other Poems included other poetic works.
- I Am Providence
Nick Mamatasstandalone novel2016
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I Am Providence is a 2016 murder mystery novel by American author Nick Mamatas. It was first published in paperback on August 9, 2016 through Night Shade Books in the United States and United Kingdom. The work alternately follows two writers both before and after one of them is murdered.
- The Tel Aviv Dossier
Lavie Tidhar & Nir Yanivstandalone novel2009
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Through a city torn apart by a violence they cannot comprehend, three disparate people—a documentary film-maker, a yeshiva student, and a psychotic fireman—must try to survive, and try to find meaning: even if it means being lost themselves. As Tel Aviv is consumed, a strange mountain rises at the heart of the city, and shows the outline of what may be another, alien world beyond. Can there be redemption there? Can the fevered rumours of a coming messiah be true? As the city loses contact with the outside world and closes in on itself, as the few surviving children play and scavenge in the ruins, can innocence survive, and is it possible for hope to spring amid such chaos? A potent mixture of biblical allusions, Lovecraftian echoes, and contemporary culture, The Tel Aviv Dossier is part supernatural thriller, part meditation on the nature of belief—an original and involving novel painted on a vast canvas in which, beneath the despair, humour is never absent. Experience the last days of Tel Aviv...
- Dagon
Fred Chappellstandalone novel1968
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Dagon is a novel by author Fred Chappell published in 1968. The novel is a psychological thriller with supernatural elements, attempting to tell a Cthulhu Mythos story as a psychologically realistic Southern Gothic novel. It was awarded the Best Foreign Book of the Year prize by the French Academy in 1972.
