6 must-read novella books like Wild Spaces by S.L. Coney

Cover of Wild Spaces by S.L. Coney

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-…

"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 what it stole."

-S.L. Coney, Wild Spaces

If you liked the novella plot in Wild Spaces by S.L. Coney , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Woodwitch

By: Stephen Gregory

4.81

Format: 539 pages,

Andrew Pinkney is a young English solicitor's clerk with boyish good looks and a gentle manner. But… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Gregory's The Woodwitch book and S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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2. 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 S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • 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 The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) by Stephen Graham Jones

3. 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 S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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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4. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Nestlings book and S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

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5. 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 S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • audiobook
  • 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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6. 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 S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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7. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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8. Where the Dead Wait

By: Ally Wilkes

3.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate an… read more

Similar categories in Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait book and S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Why would I want to die last?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

"You make a god of the things you fear or love. What could be more natural than that?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

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9. Your Shadow Half Remains

By: Sunny Moraine

3.38

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

One look can kill. Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No fac… read more

Similar categories in Sunny Moraine's Your Shadow Half Remains book and S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. 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 S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. 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 S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"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 Wild Spaces by S.L. Coney

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 S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • magical realism
  • coming of age
  • lovecraftian
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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. Red Rabbit

By: Alex Grecian

4.18

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

A folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by d… read more

Similar categories in Alex Grecian's Red Rabbit book and S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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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 S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • 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 S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

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

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

Cover of Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2) by Brian  McAuley

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 S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. 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 S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
Cover of A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather

18. A Season of Monstrous Conceptions

By: Lina Rather

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, mon… read more

Similar categories in Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions book and S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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19. 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 S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies by E. M. Roy

20. 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 S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Root Rot & Other Grim Tales

By: Sarah Read

3.83

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

Walk into the woods. Dive into the water. Make a wish. Meet your fate. Within Root Rot and Other… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Read's Root Rot & Other Grim Tales book and S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

20 must-read fiction books like Wild Spaces by S.L. Coney

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The Woodwitch

Stephen Gregory

4.81

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Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

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

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Nestlings

Nat Cassidy

3.86

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20 best-selling fiction books like Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2) by Brian McAuley

Transform Your Habits

The Woodwitch

Stephen Gregory

4.81

Transform Your Habits

Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

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Nestlings

Nat Cassidy

3.86

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The Haunting of Velkwood

Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

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