13 Top horror books like Not Forever, But For Now by Chuck Palahniuk

Not Forever, But For Now

By: Chuck Palahniuk

2.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire about a family of profess…

"We're bright young things, and no bright young thing wants to squander his life as a custodian to the dead."
-Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now
"The predators must prey. The prey must be predated. They only wish to be preyed upon by someone who'll do the job properly."
-Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now
"Religion ... is merely what people invent when they wake late at night filled with ancient terror of being found out in their little nest of grasses and torn to shreds by the inevitable."
-Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

If you liked the horror plot in Not Forever, But For Now by Chuck Palahniuk , here is a list of 13 books like this:

1. The Elephant Tree

By: R.D. Ronald

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

Mark Fallon is an overworked detective investigating a spate of attacks at a string of high profile… read more

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fiction
contemporary
mystery
thriller
novels
crime

2. 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

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contemporary
mystery
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horror

"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)

3. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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mystery
thriller
fiction
horror

4. No One Can Know

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.68

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

The author of What Lies in the Woods returns with a novel about three sisters, two murders, and too… read more

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mystery thriller
psychological thriller
fiction
contemporary
mystery
thriller
horror

"A pregnancy wasn’t a promise."
-Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

5. Those Empty Eyes

By: Charlie Donlea

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Alex Armstrong has changed everything about herself—her name, her appearance, her backstory. She’s … read more

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mystery thriller
fiction
contemporary
mystery
thriller
novels
crime

6. Think Twice (Myron Bolitar, #12)

By: Harlan Coben

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

9 hours, 41 minutes Myron Bolitar and Windsor Horne Lockwood III reunite to find a dead man co… read more

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mystery thriller
psychological thriller
fiction
contemporary
mystery
thriller
crime

7. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

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mystery thriller
fiction
contemporary
mystery
thriller
horror
crime

"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."
-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"
-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"
-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

8. Local Woman Missing

By: Mary Kubica

4.14

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

People don’t just disappear without a trace.... Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not lon… read more

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mystery thriller
psychological thriller
fiction
contemporary
mystery
thriller
crime

9. What Lies in the Woods

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.96

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy an… read more

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mystery thriller
fiction
contemporary
mystery
thriller
horror
crime

"Nothing good comes from digging up old trouble."
-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
"But why should she be able to leave the woods, when I never had?"
-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
"Don't worry. She does this. She likes to go out to the woods to think."
-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods
"When it comes to relationships, if you could take it or leave it, leaving is always the right choice"
-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

10. The Roommate

By: Kiersten Modglin

3.89

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

He thought his life couldn’t get any worse… Wesley Gates is down on his luck. He’s drowning in… read more

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mystery thriller
psychological thriller
fiction
dark
mystery
thriller
crime

11. The Girl Who Was Taken

By: Charlie Donlea

4.20

Format: 449 pages, Kindle Edition

Two abducted girls—one who returns, one who doesn’t. The night they go missing, high school sen… read more

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mystery thriller
psychological thriller
fiction
contemporary
mystery
thriller
crime

"A life might end, but sometimes their case lives forever."
-Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken
"You go through life doing all the things everyone else wants you to do, and you'll wake up one day realizing your life's passed you by and you've got a list of stuff you've never gotten to do."
-Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken
"Yeah, the club was dark but so's the whole country. When someone important goes missing, or the case is interesting enough, everybody has the same fetish. Whole world, really. No one admits it, but i…"
-Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken
"If she were a broken girl whose life was a wreck and would never be the same, their vigor for her story would simply be unacceptable. They couldn't allow themselves to be so attracted to her narrativ…"
-Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken

12. 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

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thriller
fiction
horror

13. Head Like a Hole

By: Andrew Van Wey

3.85

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

When you bury your past make sure that it’s dead. It’s the mid-nineties. Grunge and flannel are … read more

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mystery thriller
fiction
horror
mystery
thriller
novels
crime
dark

14. Becoming the Boogeyman

By: Richard Chizmar

4.13

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, haunting sequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller Chasing the Boogeyman—a tale… read more

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fiction
horror
mystery
thriller
crime

15. Hidden Pictures

By: Jason Rekulak

4.16

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, about a woman working as a nanny for a young … read more

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mystery thriller
fiction
horror
mystery
thriller

16. 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

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mystery thriller
fiction
contemporary
mystery
thriller
horror

17. Not Forever, But For Now

By: Chuck Palahniuk

2.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire about a family of profess… read more

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mystery thriller
novels
psychological thriller
fiction
contemporary
mystery
thriller
horror
crime
dark

"We're bright young things, and no bright young thing wants to squander his life as a custodian to the dead."
-Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now
"The predators must prey. The prey must be predated. They only wish to be preyed upon by someone who'll do the job properly."
-Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now
"Religion ... is merely what people invent when they wake late at night filled with ancient terror of being found out in their little nest of grasses and torn to shreds by the inevitable."
-Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

18. Look Closer

By: David Ellis

4.21

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

"Simon and Vicky couldn't seem more a wealthy Chicago couple with a stable, if unexciting, marriag… read more

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mystery thriller
psychological thriller
fiction
contemporary
mystery
thriller
crime

"The brilliance of the law is that it's not concerned with one person but with a system applicable to all. It protects the guilty so it can protect the innocent."
-David Ellis, Look Closer

19. Gray After Dark

By: Noelle W. Ihli

4.26

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

A merciless wilderness. A harrowing attack. A desperate escape. When a tragic accident sidelines… read more

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mystery thriller
psychological thriller
fiction
horror
mystery
thriller
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crime

20. The Club

By: Ellery Lloyd

3.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062997425. From the author of People Like Her comes a smart … read more

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mystery thriller
fiction
contemporary
mystery
thriller
crime

"That there was some sort of justice involved, in watching some of these people- these terrible fucking human beings, these terrible fucking men- beg, grovel, face for the first time ever the conseque…"
-Ellery Lloyd, The Club

21. Ask for Andrea

By: Noelle W. Ihli

4.10

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Meghan, Brecia, and Skye have just one thing in common. They were all murdered by the same man. … read more

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mystery
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crime