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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.80 — 312,382 ratings — published 2014
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.91 — 302,698 ratings — published 1962
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.55 — 108,827 ratings — published 2014
The Uncanny (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.57 — 149 ratings — published 2003
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as uncanny)
avg rating 4.09 — 204,369 ratings — published 2000
The Uncanny (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,998 ratings — published 1919
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.45 — 342,738 ratings — published 2019
Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.67 — 82,283 ratings — published 2014
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,465,048 ratings — published 1915
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as uncanny)
avg rating 4.02 — 82,675 ratings — published 1949
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,194,870 ratings — published 1847
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as uncanny)
avg rating 4.11 — 556,618 ratings — published 2002
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.81 — 403,269 ratings — published 1959
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as uncanny)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,498,064 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,931,661 ratings — published 1818
The Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as uncanny)
avg rating 4.04 — 18,025 ratings — published 1907
Magic for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.80 — 10,252 ratings — published 2005
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as uncanny)
avg rating 4.13 — 789,390 ratings — published 2002
Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,576 ratings — published 1974
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as uncanny)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,438,632 ratings — published 1942
We Love You, Bunny (Bunny, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.48 — 14,449 ratings — published 2025
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.77 — 422,410 ratings — published 2017
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,561,031 ratings — published 1948
The Eyes Are the Best Part (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.79 — 56,340 ratings — published 2024
Absolution (Southern Reach, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.58 — 12,105 ratings — published 2024
Private Rites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.58 — 15,052 ratings — published 2024
American Elsewhere (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,536 ratings — published 2013
Let the Right One In (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 4.04 — 121,847 ratings — published 2004
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 4.08 — 542,900 ratings — published 1995
The Last House on Needless Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.81 — 152,753 ratings — published 2021
There Is No Antimemetics Division (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 4.10 — 29,415 ratings — published 2020
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 4.18 — 344,705 ratings — published 1995
Things We Lost in the Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 4.03 — 65,041 ratings — published 2016
Der Sandmann (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.56 — 28,527 ratings — published 1816
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.95 — 25,241 ratings — published 2010
Writing the Uncanny: Essays on Crafting Strange Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 4.07 — 189 ratings — published 2021
The Pisces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.30 — 39,526 ratings — published 2018
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.67 — 384,962 ratings — published 2016
Solaris (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.98 — 133,686 ratings — published 1961
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.80 — 368,694 ratings — published 1991
Can Such Things Be? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,180 ratings — published 1893
Revenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 4.01 — 30,963 ratings — published 1998
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.80 — 107,342 ratings — published 2017
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.94 — 848,473 ratings — published 2009
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 4.09 — 710,021 ratings — published 1983
City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.87 — 77,528 ratings — published 2018
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 4.40 — 297,721 ratings — published 1849
Fever Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.72 — 54,330 ratings — published 2014
Wylding Hall (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,319 ratings — published 2015
Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Edo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as uncanny)
avg rating 3.92 — 378 ratings — published 2000
“If I was kidnapped would you offer yourself in my place? If a double was here would you know it wasn't me? If I lost a limb would you cut off one of yours? There is only ever, of course, one answer. Yes, I say. I know I would.”
― Sisters
― Sisters
“From the earliest days of man there has endured the conviction that there is an order of existence which is entirely strange to him. It does indeed seem that the strict order of the visible world is only a semblance, one providing certain gross materials which become the basis for subtle improvisations of invisible powers. Hence, it may appear to some that a leafless tree is not a tree but a signpost to another realm; that an old house is not a house but a thing possessing a will of its own; that the dead may throw off that heavy blanket of earth to walk in their sleep, and in ours. And these are merely a few of the infinite variations on the themes of the natural order as it is usually conceived.
But is there really a strange world? Of course. Are there, then, two worlds? Not at all. There is only our own world and it alone is alien to us, intrinsically so by virtue of its lack of mysteries. If only it actually were deranged by invisible powers, if only it were susceptible to real strangeness, perhaps it would seem more like a home to us, and less like an empty room filled with the echoes of this dreadful improvising. To think that we might have found comfort in a world suited to our nature, only to end up in one so resoundingly strange!”
― The Nightmare Factory
But is there really a strange world? Of course. Are there, then, two worlds? Not at all. There is only our own world and it alone is alien to us, intrinsically so by virtue of its lack of mysteries. If only it actually were deranged by invisible powers, if only it were susceptible to real strangeness, perhaps it would seem more like a home to us, and less like an empty room filled with the echoes of this dreadful improvising. To think that we might have found comfort in a world suited to our nature, only to end up in one so resoundingly strange!”
― The Nightmare Factory
