18 best-selling horror books like The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1) by Michael Rutger

Cover of The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1) by Michael Rutger

The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

By: Michael Rutger

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Not all secrets are meant to be found.If Indiana Jones lived in the X-Files era, he might bear at l…

"The past is full of if-onlys and they're all bullshit."

-Michael Rutger, The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

"...aliens are never the answer to any sensible question."

-Michael Rutger, The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

"Time may help you turn a blind eye, but guilt is the stain that never goes away."

-Michael Rutger, The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

"Whose side are you on? The side of not getting killed. For future reference, that's the side I'm always on."

-Michael Rutger, The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

If you liked the horror plot in The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1) by Michael Rutger , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Straw Men

By: Michael Marshall

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Who are they? What do they want? Why do they kill? Can they be stopped? You know who they are . . .… read more

Similar categories in Michael Marshall's The Straw Men book and Michael Rutger's The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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2. The Ruins

By: Scott Smith

3.68

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything th… read more

Similar categories in Scott Smith's The Ruins book and Michael Rutger's The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The Greek pissed and pissed and pissed."

-Scott Smith, The Ruins

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3. Dead Sea

By: Tim Curran

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

THE SEA NEVER GIVES UP HER DEAD Take a journey into a place unknown to humanity. A space between sp… read more

Similar categories in Tim Curran's Dead Sea book and Michael Rutger's The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • mystery
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • science fiction

4. The Descent

By: Jeff Long

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Mass Market Paperback

We are not alone...In a cave in the Himalayas, a guide discovers a self-mutilated body with the war… read more

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5. The White Road

By: Sarah Lotz

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A cutting-edge thriller about one man's quest to discover horror lurking at the top of the world. D… read more

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6. Ararat

By: Christopher Golden

3.31

Format: 180 pages,

When a newly engaged couple climbs Mount Ararat in Turkey, an avalanche forces them to seek shelter… read more

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7. Last Days

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.75

Format: 531 pages, Paperback

When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult know… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's Last Days book and Michael Rutger's The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me ."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at Alexandria."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

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8. Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

3.53

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's Episode Thirteen book and Michael Rutger's The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of The Watchers (The Watchers, #1) by A.M. Shine

9. The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

By: A.M. Shine

3.93

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different… read more

Similar categories in A.M. Shine's The Watchers (The Watchers, #1) book and Michael Rutger's The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Every grudge, if it is to stand the test of time, relies on the certainty of a selective memory."

-A.M. Shine, The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

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10. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley book and Michael Rutger's The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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11. Dead Silence

By: S.A. Barnes

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more

Similar categories in S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence book and Michael Rutger's The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."

-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

Cover of The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1) by Michael Rutger

12. The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

By: Michael Rutger

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Not all secrets are meant to be found.If Indiana Jones lived in the X-Files era, he might bear at l… read more

Similar categories in Michael Rutger's The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1) book and Michael Rutger's The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"The past is full of if-onlys and they're all bullshit."

-Michael Rutger, The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

"...aliens are never the answer to any sensible question."

-Michael Rutger, The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

"Time may help you turn a blind eye, but guilt is the stain that never goes away."

-Michael Rutger, The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

"Whose side are you on? The side of not getting killed. For future reference, that's the side I'm always on."

-Michael Rutger, The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

Cover of From Below by Darcy Coates

13. From Below

By: Darcy Coates

4.02

Format: 469 pages, Paperback

No light. No air. No escape. Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits... … read more

Similar categories in Darcy Coates's From Below book and Michael Rutger's The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"The human mind couldn't cope with looking at nothing for very long and, in sufficient darkness, quickly began to create its own images of what it thought belonged there."

-Darcy Coates, From Below

"Humans were never intended to reach the depths they were seeking. The only way they had was through a century of trial and error, of pushing the limits, of countless deaths in search of a way down. C…"

-Darcy Coates, From Below

Cover of The Creeper by A.M. Shine

14. The Creeper

By: A.M. Shine

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Superstitions only survive if people believe in them... Renowned academic Dr Sparling seeks help… read more

Similar categories in A.M. Shine's The Creeper book and Michael Rutger's The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Reddening by Adam L.G. Nevill

15. The Reddening

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.62

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

One million years of evolution didn't change our nature. Nor did it bury the horrors predating civi… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Reddening book and Michael Rutger's The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

16. 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 Michael Rutger's The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Briardark (Briardark, #1) by S.A. Harian

17. Briardark (Briardark, #1)

By: S.A. Harian

3.80

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

Survival and cosmic horror collide in this new series, perfect for fans of LOST and House of Leaves… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Harian's Briardark (Briardark, #1) book and Michael Rutger's The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of The Pandora Room (Ben Walker, #2) by Christopher Golden

18. The Pandora Room (Ben Walker, #2)

By: Christopher Golden

3.40

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

When what appears to be the original Pandora's Box is discovered in an ancient city, neighboring co… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Golden's The Pandora Room (Ben Walker, #2) book and Michael Rutger's The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

  • adventure
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

19. 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 Michael Rutger's The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cavern by Alister Hodge

20. The Cavern

By: Alister Hodge

3.46

Format: 185 pages, Kindle Edition

When a sink hole opens up near the Australian outback town of Pintalba, it uncovers a pristine cave… read more

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  • adventure
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Drowning House by Cherie Priest

21. The Drowning House

By: Cherie Priest

3.55

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

A violent storm washes a mysterious house onto a rural Pacific Northwest beach, stopping the heart … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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David Sodergren

4.17

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4.18

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