30 Best horror books like Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story by M. Rickert

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Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

By: M. Rickert

3.39

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Ro, a struggling writer, knows all too well the pain and solitude that holiday festivities can awak…

If you liked the horror plot in Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story by M. Rickert , here is a list of 30 books like this:

1. Dead of Winter

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

3.62

Format: 176 pages, ebook

A boy becomes convinced that there is something not right about the snowmen in his yard...A man tak… read more

Similar categories in Kealan Patrick Burke's Dead of Winter book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

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2. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

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3. Such Sharp Teeth

By: Rachel Harrison

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young woman in need of a transformation finds herself in touch with the animal inside in this gri… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's Such Sharp Teeth book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. The Spite House

By: Johnny Compton

3.53

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife,… read more

Similar categories in Johnny Compton's The Spite House book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. The Vessel

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.73

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

'A watcher may remark that after sleeping for so long, the building appears to have been roused.' … read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Vessel book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of Hark! the Herald Angels Scream by Christopher Golden

6. Hark! the Herald Angels Scream

By: Christopher Golden

3.70

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

Eighteen stories of Christmas horror from bestselling, acclaimed authors including Scott Smith, Sea… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Golden's Hark! the Herald Angels Scream book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • holiday
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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7. Black Tide

By: K.C. Jones

3.59

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

A story with a cinematic feel, Black Tide is Cujo meets A Quiet Place. It was just another day a… read more

Similar categories in K.C. Jones's Black Tide book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"We're alive. And we have hope. I say, no matter what, we're heading in the right direction."

-K.C. Jones, Black Tide

"Stories explained the unknowable before the advent of science. What happens when science is left shrugging its shoulders?"

-K.C. Jones, Black Tide

"I'm a liar, but I'm telling you the truth about this: I want to stay on the road. I want to go as far as these wheels and gears can take me."

-K.C. Jones, Black Tide

"My dad always used to say it's important that people never stop appreciating sunsets. As long as we can still be stopped in our tracks and remember what a big deal it is that we're even here, there's…"

-K.C. Jones, Black Tide

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8. The Day of the Door

By: Laurel Hightower

4.13

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Once there were four Lasco siblings banded together against a world that failed to protect them. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's The Day of the Door book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. Palmetto

By: Ania Ahlborn

3.72

Format: 101 pages, Paperback

Kim Devland nearly has it all. A great marriage. A baby on the way. All that's missing is a house--… read more

Similar categories in Ania Ahlborn's Palmetto book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

By: M. Rickert

3.39

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Ro, a struggling writer, knows all too well the pain and solitude that holiday festivities can awak… read more

Similar categories in M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • adult fiction
  • novella
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
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11. Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology

By: Ellen Datlow

3.65

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horro… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Datlow's Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • holiday
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
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12. Wild Spaces

By: S.L. Coney

3.51

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life meets H. P. Lovecraft in Wild Spaces, a foreboding, sensual coming-… read more

Similar categories in S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"As funny as he thinks a fish would look, he wonders how the sea felt when her inhabitants started walking away. He wonders if maybe that’s why she keeps eating away at the land, trying to take back w…"

-S.L. Coney, Wild Spaces

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13. White Horse

By: Erika T. Wurth

3.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face … read more

Similar categories in Erika T. Wurth's White Horse book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
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14. The Bedmakers

By: Chad Lutzke

4.08

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

After two elderly men tire of their homelessness in downtown Chicago 1979, they hop a train in sear… read more

Similar categories in Chad Lutzke's The Bedmakers book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • fiction
  • horror
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15. 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

By: Sadie Hartmann

4.43

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

The Ultimate List of Must-Read Horror! Curious readers and fans of monsters and the macabre, get re… read more

Similar categories in Sadie Hartmann's 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • adult
  • horror
"I love a good story about everyone dying."

-Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

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16. Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2)

By: Brian McAuley

4.12

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Oh what fun it is to DIE! When Austin’s parents drag him and his little sister Fiona to a remote… read more

Similar categories in Brian McAuley's Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2) book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • adult fiction
  • novella
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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17. Secret Santa

By: Andrew Shaffer

3.46

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

The Office meets Stephen King, dressed up in holiday tinsel, in this fun, festive, and frightening … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Shaffer's Secret Santa book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
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18. Shooting Star

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.78

Format: 43 pages, Paperback

John Shaw just wanted to go fishing and live off the land—now he is one of only a few survivors inv… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's Shooting Star book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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19. The Visitor

By: Sergio Gomez

3.34

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

On Christmas, during one of the worst snowstorms Indiana has ever seen, five strangers are forced t… read more

Similar categories in Sergio Gomez's The Visitor book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • novella
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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20. Anybody Home?

By: Michael J. Seidlinger

3.17

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

What came first, the home or the desire to invade? A seasoned invader with multiple home invasi… read more

Similar categories in Michael J. Seidlinger's Anybody Home? book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
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21. Heads Will Roll

By: Josh Winning

3.69

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Willow’s worst nightmare was being cancelled. But the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more tha… read more

Similar categories in Josh Winning's Heads Will Roll book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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22. Festival

By: Christopher Golden

3.37

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling horror writers Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon create a music festival… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Golden's Festival book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • adult fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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23. Stargazers

By: L.P. Hernandez

4.20

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Don’t read with the lights on…this is My Dark Library. A collection of novellas curated by Sadie… read more

Similar categories in L.P. Hernandez's Stargazers book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
Cover of Full Immersion by Gemma Amor

24. Full Immersion

By: Gemma Amor

3.77

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

A traumatised woman with amnesia finds her own dead body and sets out to uncover the truth of her d… read more

Similar categories in Gemma Amor's Full Immersion book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
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25. Forgotten Sisters

By: Cynthia Pelayo

3.50

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

A city’s haunted history and fairy-tale horrors converge for two women in an addictive novel of psy… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Pelayo's Forgotten Sisters book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
"I can't speak. I can't think. words are water and everything melds into a sea of suffering."

-Cynthia Pelayo, Forgotten Sisters

"Some memories are far too painful to resuscitate, and so they remain floating somewhere in the depths of our hearts."

-Cynthia Pelayo, Forgotten Sisters

Cover of Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies by E. M. Roy

26. Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies

By: E. M. Roy

3.73

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

In the small town of Eston, Maine . . . weird things happen sometimes.Leo Bates knows what’s behind… read more

Similar categories in E. M. Roy's Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Return of the Living Elves by Brian Asman

27. Return of the Living Elves

By: Brian Asman

3.97

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

When Christmas supply warehouse manager Jimmy tries to help new employee Tommy find a last-minute g… read more

Similar categories in Brian Asman's Return of the Living Elves book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • novella
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Rootwork (Conjure #1) by Tracy  Cross

28. Rootwork (Conjure #1)

By: Tracy Cross

3.97

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Set in a small parish in Louisiana in 1889, Rootwork follows sisters, Betty, Ann and Pee Wee. When … read more

Similar categories in Tracy Cross's Rootwork (Conjure #1) book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • adult fiction
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of All These Subtle Deceits by C.S. Humble

29. All These Subtle Deceits

By: C.S. Humble

4.09

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Lauren Saunders moved to Black Wells, Colorado to escape a toxic relationship that stole three year… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Humble's All These Subtle Deceits book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • adult fiction
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) by Nathan Ballingrud

30. Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into th… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology by Sadie Hartmann

31. Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology

By: Sadie Hartmann

4.22

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

Bram Stoker Awards® nominee for Superior Achievement in an Anthology (2022) 35 BRAND NEW TALES OF … read more

Similar categories in Sadie Hartmann's Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology book and M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

  • adult fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult

29 must-read fiction books like Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story by M. Rickert

Transform Your Habits

The Haunting of Velkwood

Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Such Sharp Teeth

Rachel Harrison

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Spite House

Johnny Compton

3.53

Transform Your Habits

The Vessel

Adam L.G. Nevill

3.73

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Transform Your Habits

This Is Where We Talk Things Out

Caitlin Marceau

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology

Vince A. Liaguno

3.55

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The Vessel

Adam L.G. Nevill

3.73

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Black Tide

K.C. Jones

3.59

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