6 best-selling gothic books like Grey Dog by Elliott Gish

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Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu…

If you liked the gothic plot in Grey Dog by Elliott Gish , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne

1. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. A Botanical Daughter

By: Noah Medlock

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty… read more

Similar categories in Noah Medlock's A Botanical Daughter book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"Grief can be a kind of exhaustion, after all."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Gregor now knew in his soul that greatness came at a price, and true greatness is paid for by the hour."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"He had tried sculpting in other materials - in clay, marble, wood, and bronze - but corpses were the only medium that really sang under his fingers."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Simon, what do you understand to be the nature of a soul?" he said suddenly. Simon was staring darkly into the endless distance. He didn't refocus his gaze to reply. "That part of us which cannot be …"

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

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3. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

Similar categories in Johanna van Veen's My Darling Dreadful Thing book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • lesbian
  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

Cover of Grey Dog by Elliott  Gish

4. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

Similar categories in Elliott Gish's Grey Dog book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • lesbian
  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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5. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

Similar categories in E.K. Sathue's youthjuice book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. The Woods All Black

By: Lee Mandelo

3.81

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's The Woods All Black book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

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8. Eynhallow

By: Tim McGregor

4.29

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 – Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island… read more

Similar categories in Tim McGregor's Eynhallow book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir

9. The Night Guest

By: Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík … read more

Similar categories in Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Deliver Me by Elle Nash

10. 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

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Deliver Me book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"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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11. Rainbow Black

By: Maggie Thrash

3.96

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima

12. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

13. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

14. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

15. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Smothermoss by Alisa Alering

16. Smothermoss

By: Alisa Alering

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that… read more

Similar categories in Alisa Alering's Smothermoss book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson

17. The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and u… read more

Similar categories in Leslie J. Anderson's The Unmothers book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Withered by A.G.A. Wilmot

18. Withered

By: A.G.A. Wilmot

3.67

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

A queer paranormal psychological horror novel, in the style of showrunner Mike Flannagan, showing t… read more

Similar categories in A.G.A. Wilmot's Withered book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of The Deading by Nicholas Belardes

19. The Deading

By: Nicholas Belardes

2.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Stephen King’s Under the Dome meets The Last of Us in this harrowing dystopian novel about the down… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Belardes's The Deading book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of A Mask of Flies by Matthew Lyons

20. A Mask of Flies

By: Matthew Lyons

3.80

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A Mask of Flies by Matthew Lyons is a crime horror novel which blends It Follows and The Outsider, … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Lyons's A Mask of Flies book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedersen

21. Sacrificial Animals

By: Kailee Pedersen

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up … read more

Similar categories in Kailee Pedersen's Sacrificial Animals book and Elliott Gish's Grey Dog

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"Young and having barely grown his first pair of antlers he is innocent of this fatal desire to engrave himself into the body of another. Reworking and remaking the fabric of his destiny, skin against…"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? Wih the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's C…"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? With the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's …"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

21 best-selling fiction books like Grey Dog by Elliott Gish

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Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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Noah Medlock

3.72

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My Darling Dreadful Thing

Johanna van Veen

3.89

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Elliott Gish

3.96

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21 must-read fiction books like The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir

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The Stranger at the Wedding

A.E. Gauntlett

3.32

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The Night Guest

Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

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Heads Will Roll

Josh Winning

3.69

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So Thirsty

Rachel Harrison

4.03

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