14 Best paranormal books like Horrid by Katrina Leno

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Horrid

By: Katrina Leno

3.56

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the author of You Must Not Miss comes a haunting contemporary horror novel that explores theme…

"The combined smell of coffee and used books felt like the intersection of all things good and necessary."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"The combined smell of coffee and used books felt like the intersection of all things good and necessary, as far as Jane was concerned."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"... her ears were overcome by the sound of her own blood sloshing angrily through her veins, the sound of crashing waves, persistent and loud."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"Her head was on fire, pounding. She felt like she was on a boat like the bed was gently rocking back and forth, tossed among huge rolling waves."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

If you liked the paranormal plot in Horrid by Katrina Leno , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Sawkill Girls

By: Claire Legrand

3.67

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep. He’ll follow you home, and he won’t let you sleep. … read more

Similar categories in Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane"

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane."

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep. He'll follow you home and won't let you sleep"

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"Beware the woods and the dark, dank, deep. He'll follow you home, and he won't let you sleep."

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

Cover of What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) by T. Kingfisher

2. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

3.89

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

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3. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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4. Clown in a Cornfield (Clown in a Cornfield, #1)

By: Adam Cesare

3.74

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Quinn Maybrook just wants to make it until graduation. She might not make it to morning. Quinn a… read more

Similar categories in Adam Cesare's Clown in a Cornfield (Clown in a Cornfield, #1) book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
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5. Nothing But Blackened Teeth

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.66

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in … read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Every religion is a one-way relationship."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"The dead miss the sun. It's dark down there."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

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6. The Invocations

By: Krystal Sutherland

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . . Zara Jones believes in magic because the… read more

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"What if Savannah had found whatever it was she sold a piece of her soul to go looking for."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?" "Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. Th…"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going …"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

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7. The Honeys

By: Ryan La Sala

3.81

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

From Ryan La Sala, the wildly popular author of Reverie, comes a twisted and tantalizing horror nov… read more

Similar categories in Ryan La Sala's The Honeys book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I will be a ruin to consume."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

"Contentedness is a party I leave early every time."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

"Is everything an act to you?" "Everything is an act to everybody."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

"We came as one and left as many. We came with nothing and left with everything."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

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8. All the Dead Lie Down

By: Kyrie McCauley

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Haunting of Bly Manor meets House of Salt and Sorrows in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s … read more

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's All the Dead Lie Down book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • young adult
  • paranormal
  • mystery
  • horror
  • fantasy
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9. What Big Teeth

By: Rose Szabo

3.37

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

Rose Szabo's thrilling debut is a dark and thrilling novel about a teen girl who returns home to he… read more

Similar categories in Rose Szabo's What Big Teeth book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"My younger self can't see it from here, but I can; how charity can be just another form of spite."

-Rose Szabo, What Big Teeth

"It is madness to love someone: there is no greater feeling of estrangement that the ways in which they are different from you."

-Rose Szabo, What Big Teeth

"Somewhere, two stories up, was my childhood bedroom, and maybe if I could make it in there, I would be transformed back into someone who belonged here."

-Rose Szabo, What Big Teeth

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10. She Is a Haunting

By: Trang Thanh Tran

3.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A house with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for f… read more

Similar categories in Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Who am I but someone others define? It's easier to be a stereotype. It hurts when you are yourself."

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"Revenge has always been easy to understand, but hunger implies that something can be filled. What is a ghost's limit when they have no real body?"

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"Blood slides from the sill and onto the wall, where it inches toward the floor. I'll let it stain, because it's exactly what he wanted: a mark on Vietnam."

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"My heart is here, the Lady of Many Tongues had said days before. Here, where I see how beautiful Đà Lạt is. I had thought the same of Saigon, despite the smoke and lights and buildings—how it could'v…"

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

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11. You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.59

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

At Camp Mirror Lake, terror is the name of the game . . . but can you survive the night?This heart-… read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
"I turn my Black ass right around and book it back to my cabin, where I close and lock the door."

-Kalynn Bayron, You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

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12. White Smoke

By: Tiffany D. Jackson

3.82

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

The Haunting of Hill House meets Get Out in this chilling YA psychological thriller and modern take… read more

Similar categories in Tiffany D. Jackson's White Smoke book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of Horrid by Katrina Leno

13. Horrid

By: Katrina Leno

3.56

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the author of You Must Not Miss comes a haunting contemporary horror novel that explores theme… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Leno's Horrid book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"The combined smell of coffee and used books felt like the intersection of all things good and necessary."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"The combined smell of coffee and used books felt like the intersection of all things good and necessary, as far as Jane was concerned."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"... her ears were overcome by the sound of her own blood sloshing angrily through her veins, the sound of crashing waves, persistent and loud."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"Her head was on fire, pounding. She felt like she was on a boat like the bed was gently rocking back and forth, tossed among huge rolling waves."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

Cover of Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power

14. Burn Our Bodies Down

By: Rory Power

3.51

Format: 352 pages, ebook

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Wilder Girls comes a new twisty thriller about a g… read more

Similar categories in Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
"Keep a fire burning; a fire is what saves you."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

"(...) if understanding a person meant I had to forgive them."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

"I don't think the past ever really leaves, in Phalene. It breathes. It holds on."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

"And maybe it's spite or maybe it's love but I can't really tell them apart anymore."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

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15. The Bad Ones

By: Melissa Albert

3.66

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Goddess, goddess, count to five In the morning, who’s alive? In the course of a single winter’s… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Albert's The Bad Ones book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Let's say your the girl who saved your best friends life. The person who apparently kept her alive With your love and your constancey. With your steadfast disregard for the worser parts of her nature…"

-Melissa Albert, The Bad Ones

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16. House of Hollow

By: Krystal Sutherland

4.03

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older… read more

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's House of Hollow book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"What if we were the monsters?"

-Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

"She would bewitch everyone to make her lie the truth"

-Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

"She moved through the world like no other woman I knew."

-Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

"What you don't understand is that I am the thing in the dark"

-Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

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17. Don't Tell a Soul

By: Kirsten Miller

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A story about a new girl in an old town filled with dark secrets . . . that might just kill her. … read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Miller's Don't Tell a Soul book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • paranormal
"You sure you won’t get lost?"

-Kirsten Miller, Don't Tell a Soul

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18. The Depths

By: Nicole Lesperance

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A tropical island full of secrets. Two Victorian ghosts, trapped for eternity. And a seventeen-year… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Lesperance's The Depths book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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19. All That Consumes Us

By: Erica Waters

3.75

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Ninth House meets The Dead and the Dark in this gothic dark academia novel that delves into the hum… read more

Similar categories in Erica Waters's All That Consumes Us book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
"We are like a mockery to the dead-so young and so alive, our blood beating hot and excited in our veins. If the roles were reversed and it were me who lay beneath the earth, beneath this thoughtless …"

-Erica Waters, All That Consumes Us

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20. Where Darkness Blooms

By: Andrea Hannah

3.48

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Andrea Hannah's Where Darkness Blooms is a supernatural thriller about an eerie town where the sunf… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Hannah's Where Darkness Blooms book and Katrina Leno's Horrid

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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