19 must-read fiction books like Bedlam by Charlene Elsby

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Bedlam

By: Charlene Elsby

4.30

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

"One of my favorite contemporary writers. Each of these vicious little stories is a perfect articul…

If you liked the fiction plot in Bedlam by Charlene Elsby , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Visions

By: Troy James Weaver

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A hypnotic descent from childhood to adulthood. A boy sees angels, finds love, loses it, and become… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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2. Closer

By: Dennis Cooper

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind wit… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's Closer book and Charlene Elsby's Bedlam

  • fiction
  • horror
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3. The Cipher

By: Kathe Koja

3.54

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blo… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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4. Earth Angel

By: Madeline Cash

4.05

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more

Similar categories in Madeline Cash's Earth Angel book and Charlene Elsby's Bedlam

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Burn You the Fuck Alive by B.R. Yeager

5. Burn You the Fuck Alive

By: B.R. Yeager

4.01

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

She asks for a light. You reach in your pocket and dig out your Bic, strike the flint, and touch th… read more

Similar categories in B.R. Yeager's Burn You the Fuck Alive book and Charlene Elsby's Bedlam

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Bedlam by Charlene Elsby

6. Bedlam

By: Charlene Elsby

4.30

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

"One of my favorite contemporary writers. Each of these vicious little stories is a perfect articul… read more

Similar categories in Charlene Elsby's Bedlam book and Charlene Elsby's Bedlam

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Negative Space by B.R. Yeager

7. Negative Space

By: B.R. Yeager

3.72

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more

Similar categories in B.R. Yeager's Negative Space book and Charlene Elsby's Bedlam

  • fiction
  • horror
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

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8. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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9. Amygdalatropolis

By: B.R. Yeager

3.69

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Amygdalatropolis is a work of brilliant neurorealism in which the city is a Computer, a libidinal p… read more

Similar categories in B.R. Yeager's Amygdalatropolis book and Charlene Elsby's Bedlam

  • fiction
  • horror
"/1404er/ was born from video. His way into the threads. His eyes translating light from a stream. Before his eyes translated light from a stream he was only a person. Before the stream was a stream, …"

-B.R. Yeager, Amygdalatropolis

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10. Bonding

By: Maggie Siebert

4.13

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

"Maggie understands that splatter for splatter's sake is boring. Psychopathy is boring. Coldness is… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. Forever

By: Thomas Moore

4.44

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

SADNESS ALWAYS FINDS PEOPLE “I'm writing this instead of killing myself" states the narrator of … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Moore's Forever book and Charlene Elsby's Bedlam

  • fiction
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12. The World Below

By: David Peak

3.98

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Witches, LSD psychosis, and the slippery nature of truth. The World Below is about the limitless ho… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Abnormal Statistics

By: Max Booth III

3.99

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Suburban decay, familial horror, bleak lullabies. Abnormal Statistics is the debut story collection… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"There are always concerns. Eating holes in your stomach. Scrambling your brain. Making your skin itch and itch and itch. Sometimes it feels like too much for a kid your age to handle. Sometimes it fe…"

-Max Booth III, Abnormal Statistics

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14. Terminal Park

By: Gary J. Shipley

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

“Shipley's Terminal Park pounds fiction into entirely new shapes. Disintegrating and blissful. High… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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16. Poking Holes

By: Juan Valencia

4.07

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

People are holes waiting to be filled. People are sharp, nervous blades dancing across skin and bon… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. The Psychographist

By: Carson Winter

4.11

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

The Hoyers are an American family. Two parents, two kids, a house they can't afford, and a deep des… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Your Dreams by Thomas            Moore

18. Your Dreams

By: Thomas Moore

4.52

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

“I’m so close to falling apart. Fuck it. Who isn’t?” Thomas Moore’s latest novel Your Dreams, th… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Moore's Your Dreams book and Charlene Elsby's Bedlam

  • fiction
Cover of So Beautiful and Elastic by Gary J.  Shipley

19. So Beautiful and Elastic

By: Gary J. Shipley

4.58

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

"Gary J. Shipley's So Beautiful and Elastic entwines elegant prose, blistering suspense, and art cr… read more

Similar categories in Gary J. Shipley's So Beautiful and Elastic book and Charlene Elsby's Bedlam

  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Generation Bloodbath

By: Paul Curran

4.20

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

“It could actually be told in ten words. That is what makes it so awful.” —​Maurice Blanchot, Deat… read more

Similar categories in Paul Curran's Generation Bloodbath book and Charlene Elsby's Bedlam

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Creation: On Art and Unbecoming by Christopher Zeischegg

21. Creation: On Art and Unbecoming

By: Christopher Zeischegg

4.59

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"Creation is a stunning new collection by one of the most exciting living writers. Reading a Christ… read more

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4.01

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