8 Best short stories books like Goblin by Josh Malerman

Cover of Goblin by Josh Malerman

Goblin

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie, a novella collection in which e…

"How can there be nothing?" he said, shaking his head. "Nothing doesn't make noise! Nothing doesn't wake you up! You know what does that?" he looked down the length of his booby-trapped rooms. "Something!"

-Josh Malerman, Goblin

"One night at closing time in his second week at his second week on the job, a possible explanation popped up, unasked for. They know I’m not where I am supposed to be. Up here- he tapped his head – I’m caged too."

-Josh Malerman, Goblin

If you liked the short stories plot in Goblin by Josh Malerman , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of They Lurk by Ronald Malfi

1. They Lurk

By: Ronald Malfi

3.79

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

COME CLOSER . . . Five terrifying collected horror novellas newly reissued from the "modern-day … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's They Lurk book and Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • audiobook

2. Dark Harvest

By: Norman Partridge

4.02

Format: 982 pages,

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, … read more

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3. Maeve Fly

By: C.J. Leede

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's Maeve Fly book and Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

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4. 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 Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
" 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

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5. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) book and Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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6. 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 Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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7. Her Heart Beats for Ancient Beasts

By: Calvin Demmer

4.55

Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition

Ancient beings, merciless monsters, unearthly creatures, and other beasts roam these pages. A sh… read more

Similar categories in Calvin Demmer's Her Heart Beats for Ancient Beasts book and Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Through the Ravenous Night We Ride by Calvin  Demmer

8. Through the Ravenous Night We Ride

By: Calvin Demmer

4.50

Format: 117 pages, Kindle Edition

Secret societies, serial killers, malevolent criminals, and other evils stalk these pages. A sho… read more

Similar categories in Calvin Demmer's Through the Ravenous Night We Ride book and Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • short stories
  • horror
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9. Dead Eleven

By: Jimmy Juliano

3.72

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, h… read more

Similar categories in Jimmy Juliano's Dead Eleven book and Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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10. Ankle Snatcher

By: Grady Hendrix

3.74

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Obey the rules. It’s the only way to survive the night in a short story about what hides in the dar… read more

Similar categories in Grady Hendrix's Ankle Snatcher book and Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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11. The House That Horror Built

By: Christina Henry

3.22

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifyi… read more

Similar categories in Christina Henry's The House That Horror Built book and Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. Mister Magic

By: Kiersten White

3.59

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and di… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Mister Magic book and Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Magic never forgets the taste of your friendship."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"This version of him isn't perfect. None of them are. New isn't the same as perfect. Growing up isn't inherently loss, it's just change."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"I think you've told me thank you more in the last day than anyone else has in years. It's like--when there's a stack of dishes, if my husband actually does them , I tell him thank you. But when I do …"

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

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13. 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 Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

14. The Pallbearers Club

By: Paul Tremblay

3.10

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable—and unsettling—friendship, with blo… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Pallbearers Club book and Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. The Beast You Are: Stories

By: Paul Tremblay

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of  The Pallbearers Club ,  A He… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Beast You Are: Stories book and Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. The Handyman Method

By: Nick Cutter

3.27

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror. When a y… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Handyman Method book and Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"When prey dies in fear, hunters will say the meat tastes bitter."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"What of happiness, then? May we speak of the taste of joyful meat?"

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"Old memories were like land mines: dormant, forgotten, but forever deadly."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

Cover of Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi

17. Ghostwritten

By: Ronald Malfi

4.12

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

Four brand-new horror novellas from “a modern-day Algernon Blackwood” all about books, stories, man… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Ghostwritten book and Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"myself asks am i here? i've lost myself i fear"

-Ronald Malfi, Ghostwritten

Cover of Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

18. 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 Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Goblin by Josh Malerman

19. Goblin

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie, a novella collection in which e… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Goblin book and Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"How can there be nothing?" he said, shaking his head. "Nothing doesn't make noise! Nothing doesn't wake you up! You know what does that?" he looked down the length of his booby-trapped rooms. "Someth…"

-Josh Malerman, Goblin

"One night at closing time in his second week at his second week on the job, a possible explanation popped up, unasked for. They know I’m not where I am supposed to be. Up here- he tapped his head – I…"

-Josh Malerman, Goblin

Cover of The Bedmakers by Chad Lutzke

20. 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 Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Stay on the Line by Clay McLeod Chapman

21. Stay on the Line

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

4.25

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

After a small coastal town is devastated by a hurricane, the survivors gravitate toward a long out-… read more

Similar categories in Clay McLeod Chapman's Stay on the Line book and Josh Malerman's Goblin

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • paranormal

18 Best fiction books like Goblin by Josh Malerman

Transform Your Habits

They Lurk

Ronald Malfi

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

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20 best-selling fiction books like Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede

Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

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