5 best-selling gothic books like Revelator by Daryl Gregory

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Revelator

By: Daryl Gregory

3.98

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders comes the gripping tale of a family's mysterious religion…

"That was the thing about the funeral process; by the time you buried someone, days after their death, the body looked so little like the person you knew that it had become something else: remains. It was a gift, really. A necessary distancing. It felt immoral to put a loved one underground, but to bury some husk they’d left behind? No problem. It’s easy to throw out leftovers."

-Daryl Gregory, Revelator

"That was the thing about the funeral process; by the time you buried someone, days after their death, the body looked so little like the person you knew that it had become something else: remains. It was a gift, really. A necessary distancing. It felt immoral to put a loved one underground, but to bury some husk they’d left behind? No problem. It’s easy to throw out leftovers."

-Daryl Gregory, Revelator

If you liked the gothic plot in Revelator by Daryl Gregory , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. 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 Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • historical fiction
  • 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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2. All the Fiends of Hell

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the mor… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's All the Fiends of Hell book and Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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 Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • 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 Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"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. Little Eve

By: Catriona Ward

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

A heart-pounding tale of faith and family, with a devastating twist“A great day is upon us. He is c… read more

Similar categories in Catriona Ward's Little Eve book and Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"It is a kind of privilege, to witness the darkness."

-Catriona Ward, Little Eve

"I don't know which is worse - suffering or the memory of it. Memory, perhaps, because it does not end."

-Catriona Ward, Little Eve

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6. The Reformatory

By: Tananarive Due

4.47

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sen… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's The Reformatory book and Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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7. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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8. 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 Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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9. Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

By: Brom

4.29

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only… read more

Similar categories in Brom's Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery book and Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"You will think me foolish. But I wanted to be a fairy queen, to run barefoot through the woods, to sing like a bird and fly through the trees." She smiled. "To be able to talk to the animals."

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

"He stared up into the trees, watched them sway in the soft breeze, watched the sun drift slowly across the sky, hour after hour, until it began to sink from view, trying to let go, to let his mind dr…"

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

"Buzzing filled his ears, and he watched several bumblebees bounce from flower to flower. He found their hum soothing, and there, at the moment, felt he could watch them forever. He drank in the scent…"

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

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10. 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 Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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11. The Hollow Kind

By: Andy Davidson

3.59

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Andy Davidson's epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by a… read more

Similar categories in Andy Davidson's The Hollow Kind book and Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • southern gothic
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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12. Ghost Station

By: S.A. Barnes

3.57

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Barnes's Ghost Station book and Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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13. Sundial

By: Catriona Ward

3.80

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Sundial is a new, twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, internationally bestselling… read more

Similar categories in Catriona Ward's Sundial book and Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"I don't know what it's like for other people, but love and nausea are often indistinguishable to me"

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Gdy coś ci zagraża, możesz zrobić trzy rzeczy: uciekać, walczyć albo spróbować się z tym zaprzyjaźnić."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Rozłąka z dzieckiem to doznanie niepodobne do żadnego innego. Człowiek ma wrażenie, że jest pusty w środku."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Dorosłe życie to bagno, w którym człowiek tkwi po uszy, gobelin wzajemnych pretensji tkany tak ciasno, że nie sposób go rozplątać."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

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14. Small Town Horror

By: Ronald Malfi

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Small Town Horror book and Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. 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 Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. 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 Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of Revelator by Daryl Gregory

17. Revelator

By: Daryl Gregory

3.98

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders comes the gripping tale of a family's mysterious religion… read more

Similar categories in Daryl Gregory's Revelator book and Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • gothic
  • horror
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • southern gothic
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"That was the thing about the funeral process; by the time you buried someone, days after their death, the body looked so little like the person you knew that it had become something else: remains. It…"

-Daryl Gregory, Revelator

Cover of Briardark (Briardark, #1) by S.A. Harian

18. Briardark (Briardark, #1)

By: S.A. Harian

3.80

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

Survival and cosmic horror collide in this new series, perfect for fans of LOST and House of Leaves… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Harian's Briardark (Briardark, #1) book and Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House book and Daryl Gregory's Revelator

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

20. 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 Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Waywarden (Briardark, #2) by S.A. Harian

21. Waywarden (Briardark, #2)

By: S.A. Harian

4.41

Format: None pages, None

In the thrilling second installment of the Briardark series, three paths diverge, uncovering revela… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Harian's Waywarden (Briardark, #2) book and Daryl Gregory's Revelator

  • fiction
  • horror

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