13 must-read thriller books like Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons

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Carrion Comfort

By: Dan Simmons

4.23

Format: None pages,

THE PAST... Caught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes…

If you liked the thriller plot in Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Darkness on the Edge of Town

By: Brian Keene

3.66

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

One morning the residents of Walden, Virginia, woke up to find the rest of the world gone. Just . .… read more

Similar categories in Brian Keene's Darkness on the Edge of Town book and Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • paranormal
"We're all scared. Might as well be scared together."

-Brian Keene, Darkness on the Edge of Town

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2. Carrion Comfort

By: Dan Simmons

4.23

Format: None pages,

THE PAST... Caught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes… read more

Similar categories in Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort book and Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort

  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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3. The Hellbound Heart

By: Clive Barker

4.07

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. … read more

Similar categories in Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart book and Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort

  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
"She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas"

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

4. Little Heaven

By: Nick Cutter

3.85

Format: None pages,

An all-new epic tale of terror and redemption set in the hinterlands of midcentury New Mexico from … read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's Little Heaven book and Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. They Thirst

By: Robert McCammon

4.38

Format: None pages,

A MASS MURDER. A DISAPPEARANCE. A CEMETERY RANSACKED. It looked like another ordinary day in Los An… read more

Similar categories in Robert McCammon's They Thirst book and Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort

  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • paranormal
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6. Swan Song

By: Robert McCammon

4.10

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth'… read more

Similar categories in Robert McCammon's Swan Song book and Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Keep (Adversary Cycle, #1) by F. Paul Wilson

7. The Keep (Adversary Cycle, #1)

By: F. Paul Wilson

3.61

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

"Something is murdering my men." Thus reads the message received from a Nazi commander stationed in… read more

Similar categories in F. Paul Wilson's The Keep (Adversary Cycle, #1) book and Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort

  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
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8. Between Two Fires

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires book and Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort

  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
"The only thing I say to God is my daughter's names; and it is not a prayer, it's a rebuke."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"He was being kissed now by his own mouth, not as lovers kiss, with tongues, but as true lovers kiss, sharing breath."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"A dark-haired little boy just in pants stood bewildered near the blaze, saying, as if there had been some mistake, "We live here. We live here."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death…"

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

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9. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's The Fisherman book and Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort

  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

10. Ghost Story

By: Peter Straub

4.09

Format: 372 pages,

In life, not every sin goes unpunished. GHOST STORY For four aging men in the terror-stricken town … read more

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11. Mine

By: Robert McCammon

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Adrift in the 1980s and slowly losing her mind, a heavily armed former '60s radical kidnaps a baby … read more

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12. The Troop

By: Nick Cutter

3.84

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

Once a year, scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a three-d… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Troop book and Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"Soldering iron, Max."

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"You’ve never heard of the tapeworm diet?"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"I been to hell ... I ain't afraid to go back"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"His fear was whetted to such a fine edge that he could actually feel it now: a disembodied ball of baby fingers inside his stomach, tickling him from the inside. That's what mortal terror felt like, …"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

13. Hell House

By: Richard Matheson

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Can any soul survive? Regarded as the Mount Everest of haunted houses, Belasco House has witnessed … read more

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14. Usher's Passing

By: Robert McCammon

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this most gothic of Robert McCammon's novels, setting is key: the continuing saga of the Usher f… read more

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15. Those Across the River

By: Christopher Buehlman

3.71

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whit… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Buehlman's Those Across the River book and Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Violence like that is private, don't you think?"

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"That was a mean thought, and not funny at all. I let it turn to sand and blow out of my head."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"I mostly drink clear booze because the rest of it looks it's already been through a gentleman."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"But when I make a good [taxidermy] mount I feel like I beat God in a small way. As though the Almighty said, Let such critter be dead, and I said, 'Fuck You, he can still play the banjo."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

16. The Damnation Game

By: Clive Barker

3.95

Format: 132 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There are things worse than death. There are games so seductively evil, so wondrously vile, no gamb… read more

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17. Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Boys in the Valley book and Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

Cover of You Like It Darker by Stephen        King

18. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's You Like It Darker book and Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort

  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Boy's Life by Robert McCammon

19. Boy's Life

By: Robert McCammon

4.39

Format: 625 pages, Kindle Edition

An Alabama boy’s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the … read more

Similar categories in Robert McCammon's Boy's Life book and Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort

  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end."

-Robert McCammon, Boy's Life

"After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation."

-Robert McCammon, Boy's Life

"See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in …"

-Robert McCammon, Boy's Life

Cover of Fever House (Fever House, #1) by Keith Rosson

20. Fever House (Fever House, #1)

By: Keith Rosson

4.03

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose … read more

Similar categories in Keith Rosson's Fever House (Fever House, #1) book and Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Stinger by Robert McCammon

21. Stinger

By: Robert McCammon

3.90

Format: 542 pages, Kindle Edition

McCammon's novel "takes place during a single twenty-four hour period in Inferno, Texas. Inferno is… read more

Similar categories in Robert McCammon's Stinger book and Dan Simmons's Carrion Comfort

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy

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Michael Crichton

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