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The Fisherman The Fisherman (Paperback)
by (shelved 252 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 54,532 ratings — published 2016
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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1) Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 204 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 339,716 ratings — published 2014
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The Ballad of Black Tom The Ballad of Black Tom (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 38,252 ratings — published 2016
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The Call of Cthulhu The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 148 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 112,983 ratings — published 1928
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There Is No Antimemetics Division There Is No Antimemetics Division (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 138 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.97 — 71,954 ratings — published 2020
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At the Mountains of Madness At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 69,238 ratings — published 1936
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The King in Yellow The King in Yellow (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.50 — 34,563 ratings — published 1895
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The Croning The Croning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,867 ratings — published 2012
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The Colour Out of Space The Colour Out of Space (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 23,532 ratings — published 1927
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Authority (Southern Reach, #2) Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
by (shelved 76 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.55 — 116,187 ratings — published 2014
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The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1) The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,490 ratings — published 2020
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The House on the Borderland The House on the Borderland (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.57 — 12,458 ratings — published 1908
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Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1) Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 4.01 — 51,130 ratings — published 2016
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The Shadow over Innsmouth The Shadow over Innsmouth (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 30,789 ratings — published 1936
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The Imago Sequence and Other Stories The Imago Sequence and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,203 ratings — published 2007
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The Hollow Places The Hollow Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 63,361 ratings — published 2020
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The Willows The Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 20,451 ratings — published 1907
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Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3) Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
by (shelved 69 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,403 ratings — published 2014
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The Deep The Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.40 — 47,826 ratings — published 2015
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The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 4.34 — 38,062 ratings — published 2020
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Uzumaki Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 4.45 — 96,815 ratings — published 1998
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A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,683 ratings — published 2019
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The Immaculate Void The Immaculate Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.88 — 920 ratings — published 2018
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House of Leaves House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 216,995 ratings — published 2000
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Occultation and Other Stories Occultation and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,246 ratings — published 2010
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Agents of Dreamland (Tinfoil Dossier, #1) Agents of Dreamland (Tinfoil Dossier, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.61 — 5,176 ratings — published 2017
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It It (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,334,637 ratings — published 1986
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Sister, Maiden, Monster (Apocalypse Apocrypha, 1) Sister, Maiden, Monster (Apocalypse Apocrypha, 1)
by (shelved 47 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.52 — 8,935 ratings — published 2023
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The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,262 ratings — published 2013
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14 (Threshold, #1) 14 (Threshold, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.97 — 41,030 ratings — published 2012
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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,819 ratings — published 2013
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Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,728 ratings — published 2015
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The Gone World The Gone World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 34,976 ratings — published 2018
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This Thing Between Us This Thing Between Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.67 — 46,826 ratings — published 2021
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Revival Revival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 147,429 ratings — published 2014
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John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1) John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 88,324 ratings — published 2007
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Dagon Dagon (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.68 — 14,405 ratings — published 1917
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Ring Shout Ring Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 71,196 ratings — published 2020
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The Cipher The Cipher (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.51 — 8,820 ratings — published 1991
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Remina Remina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.72 — 23,062 ratings — published 2005
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The Dunwich Horror The Dunwich Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 17,203 ratings — published 1928
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Meddling Kids Meddling Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.50 — 39,083 ratings — published 2017
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The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1) The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.59 — 8,556 ratings — published 2023
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Hammers on Bone (Persons Non Grata, #1) Hammers on Bone (Persons Non Grata, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.60 — 5,238 ratings — published 2016
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The Library at Mount Char The Library at Mount Char (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 4.05 — 91,681 ratings — published 2015
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American Elsewhere American Elsewhere (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 9,156 ratings — published 2013
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Absolution (Southern Reach #4) Absolution (Southern Reach #4)
by (shelved 31 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.57 — 15,082 ratings — published 2024
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The City We Became (Great Cities, #1) The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 81,484 ratings — published 2020
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,337 ratings — published 1941
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Blindsight (Firefall, #1) Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as cosmic-horror)
avg rating 4.00 — 60,389 ratings — published 2006
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“Can I smoke?”

This time the receptionist narrows her eyes at Marion. “No,” she says. “You— No, you can’t smoke anywhere on Site 200. Just because it’s an administration building doesn’t mean we don’t have lungs. Or labor law.”

Marion notices the exasperation on the young woman’s face. “I’ve asked you that before, haven’t I?”

“Twice in the last quarter-hour,” the receptionist says. “You must really need a smoke.” She’s genuinely puzzled at the repeated question, and she’s doing a bad job of concealing her puzzlement.

“You think this is like Memento, don’t you?” Marion offers, charitably. “You think I have no long-term memory, and if I stay in one place for too long I forget why I’m there.”

The receptionist is only just old enough to remember that film. “I… guess?”
― qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

T.W. Grim
“Reality was a tapestry of immeasurable proportions, sewn together by the dimensional threads of height, length, width, and time. It was the cosmic spider-silk that forever
spins away into the horizon of the future.”
― T.W. Grim

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