5 must-read supernatural books like Desperation by Stephen King

Cover of Desperation by Stephen        King

Desperation

By: Stephen King

3.94

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

There's a place along Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. It's known as Desp…

If you liked the supernatural plot in Desperation by Stephen King , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Blaze by Stephen        King, Richard Bachman

1. Blaze

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.76

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the Flap: The last of the Richard Bachman novels, recently recovered and published for the … read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Blaze book and Stephen King's Desperation

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • suspense
  • horror
"Blaze himself was pretty sure he himself was going to hell, as were most other people. It was a dirty world, and the longer you lived, the dirtier you got."

-Stephen King, Blaze

"Sometimes when he was in the country he would sleep in a barn and wake in the night and go out and look at the stars and there were so many, and he knew they were there before him, and they would be …"

-Stephen King, Blaze

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2. Rage

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.73

Format: 131 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A disturbed high-school student with authority problems kills one of his teachers and takes the res… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Rage book and Stephen King's Desperation

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • suspense
  • horror
"Be'…"

-Stephen King, Rage

"You’re on, Ted,"

-Stephen King, Rage

"That was Dad's life, and I was the birdshit on his windshield."

-Stephen King, Rage

"If I knew what was making me do it, I probably wouldn't have to."

-Stephen King, Rage

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3. Roadwork

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Barton Dawes’ unremarkable but comfortable existence suddenly takes a turn for the worst. Highway c… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Roadwork book and Stephen King's Desperation

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • suspense
  • horror
"Wimmern war die letzte Zuflucht unbedeutender Männer."

-Stephen King, Roadwork

"The fucking you got was never worth the screwing you took."

-Stephen King, Roadwork

"Das Leben schien nur eine Vorbereitung auf die Hölle zu sein."

-Stephen King, Roadwork

"Haben Sie in meiner Nase gebohrt, als ich nicht hingesehen habe?"

-Stephen King, Roadwork

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4. The Bachman Books

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

4.14

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

Four novels from the inimitable - and unmistakable - master of terror and suspense... RAGE A h… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's The Bachman Books book and Stephen King's Desperation

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
"I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much."

-Stephen King, The Bachman Books

"A nice street, Fred. A nice neighborhood. Oh, I know how the intellectuals sneer at suburbia - it's not as romantic as the rat-infested tenements or the hale-and-hearty back-to-the-land stuff. There …"

-Stephen King, The Bachman Books

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5. NOS4A2

By: Joe Hill

4.08

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New Y… read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's NOS4A2 book and Stephen King's Desperation

  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"Everyone lives in two worlds,"

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"And he paddled away in his douche canoe."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"Sooner or later a black car came for everyone."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

Cover of Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

6. Heart-Shaped Box

By: Joe Hill

3.84

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An aging death-metal rock god, Judas Coyne, is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals… read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box book and Stephen King's Desperation

  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"The dead pull the living down."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"You're a sympathetic sonofabitch, you know that?". "You want sympathy, go fuck James Taylor."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

Cover of Stephen King The Stand: Captain Trips #1 (of 5) by Stephen        King, Mike Perkins, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

7. Stephen King The Stand: Captain Trips #1 (of 5)

By: Stephen King , Mike Perkins , Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

4.62

Format: None pages, Comic

It begins here: the apocalyptic epic battle between good and evil based on the classic bestseller b… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Stephen King The Stand: Captain Trips #1 (of 5) book and Stephen King's Desperation

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Desperation by Stephen        King

8. Desperation

By: Stephen King

3.94

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

There's a place along Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. It's known as Desp… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Desperation book and Stephen King's Desperation

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
Cover of The Regulators by Stephen        King, Richard Bachman

9. The Regulators

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.72

Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There's a place in Wentworth, Ohio, where summer is in full swing. It's called Poplar Street. Up un… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's The Regulators book and Stephen King's Desperation

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"Brad looked at his wife with that expression of love that is the sole property of people who have been married over ten years."

-Stephen King, The Regulators

Cover of The Long Walk by Stephen        King, Richard Bachman

10. The Long Walk

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

4.08

Format: 370 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual gr… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's The Long Walk book and Stephen King's Desperation

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
"Love is a fake!"

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

"Another time, another place."

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

"Better to be dirty than dead."

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

"His eyes were as blank and bright as doorknobs."

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

Cover of The Running Man by Stephen        King, Richard Bachman

11. The Running Man

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.90

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives... Ben Richard… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's The Running Man book and Stephen King's Desperation

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
"Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"...sie würden Christus persönlich überfallen, um ein Pfund Salami zu ergattern."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

Cover of Thinner by Stephen        King, Richard Bachman

12. Thinner

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wastin… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Thinner book and Stephen King's Desperation

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"Purpurfargade ansiktet"

-Stephen King, Thinner

"It's the people who aren't scared who die young."

-Stephen King, Thinner

"Things hurt more when you were alone, that was all."

-Stephen King, Thinner

"The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing."

-Stephen King, Thinner

Cover of Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2) by Richard  Chizmar

13. Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2)

By: Richard Chizmar

3.78

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

Something evil has swept into the small western Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the lates… read more

Similar categories in Richard Chizmar's Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2) book and Stephen King's Desperation

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • paranormal

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Blaze

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3.76

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Rage

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.73

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3.60

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4.14

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Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

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The Eyes of the Dragon

Stephen King

3.94

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Stephen King

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