17 best-selling horror books like What Remains When The Stars Burn Out by P.L. McMillan

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What Remains When The Stars Burn Out

By: P.L. McMillan

4.13

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

"A gift of cosmic horror by someone who truly gets it. The imagination here runs the gauntlet acros…

If you liked the horror plot in What Remains When The Stars Burn Out by P.L. McMillan , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

By: John Langan

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated profess… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • collections
  • horror
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2. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

By: Laird Barron

3.98

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Lai… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • horror
"After years in the wilderness, he usually talked to himself."

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"Actually, coyotes are much scarier than wolves. Sneaky, sneaky little suckers. Eat you up. Lick the blood all up."

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"I hate puppets. Hate them. They descend from a demonic line parallel to mimes and clowns and are wholly of the devil, especially the lifelike variety."

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"I was accustomed to liars, bold-faced or wide-eyed, silver tongued or pleading, often with the barrel of my gun directed at them as they babbled their last prayers to an indifferent god, squirted the…"

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

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3. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

By: Laird Barron

4.00

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

To the long tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, P… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • horror
"Wisdom devours the weak."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

"Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

"I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

"...he was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

4. Lovecraft Unbound

By: Caitlín R. Kiernan , Joyce Carol Oates , Gemma Files , Joel Lane , Michael Chabon , Brian Evenson , Michael Shea , Nick Mamatas , Simon Kurt Unsworth , Lavie Tidhar , Ellen Datlow , Richard Bowes , Marc Laidlaw , Laird Barron , William Browning Spencer , Elizabeth Bear , Amanda Downum , Sarah Monette , Nathan Ballingrud , Holly Phillips , Michael Cisco , Dale Bailey , Anna Tambour

3.80

Format: 8 pages,

The stories are legendary, the characters unforgettable, the world horrible and disturbing. Howard … read more

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5. Reassuring Tales

By: T.E.D. Klein

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Meticulously crafted and highly memorable, T.E.D. Klein's work represents some of the best the horr… read more

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6. What the Hell Did I Just Read (John Dies at the End #3)

By: David Wong

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

NYT bestselling author Wong takes readers to a whole new level with his latest dark comic sci-fi th… read more

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7. In a Lonely Place

By: Karl Edward Wagner

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: xi * Introduction * Peter Straub * in 1 * Prologue to In the Pines ["Lonely Places"] * vi… read more

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8. The Haar

By: David Sodergren

4.17

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's The Haar book and P.L. McMillan's What Remains When The Stars Burn Out

  • science fiction
  • horror
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9. Echo

By: Thomas Olde Heuvelt

3.47

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

NATURE IS CALLING—but they shouldn't have answered. Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Greve… read more

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  • horror
"A good horror story didn't end with death, but with something worse."

-Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Echo

"But in this particular, untouched moment, all the things I suspected in his involvement in didn't matter, because only Nick and I existed, and I loved him as I had loved him ever since that improbabl…"

-Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Echo

"You know I enjoy our juxtapositions, our squabbles and edges, the fact that at first sight, our worlds seem so incompatible. If there's anything you can point to as to why we love each other, then it…"

-Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Echo

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10. Terminus (Threshold, #4)

By: Peter Clines

3.85

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Murdoch’s past has finally come crashing down on him. His former girlfriend. His Family. He’s been … read more

Similar categories in Peter Clines's Terminus (Threshold, #4) book and P.L. McMillan's What Remains When The Stars Burn Out

  • science fiction
  • lovecraftian
  • science fiction fantasy
  • horror
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11. Negative Space

By: B.R. Yeager

3.72

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • horror
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

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12. His Black Tongue

By: Mitchell Lüthi

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is no plague in Enfaire… Dead things have been found in the fields of Enfaire, a God-feari… read more

Similar categories in Mitchell Lüthi's His Black Tongue book and P.L. McMillan's What Remains When The Stars Burn Out

  • short stories
  • horror
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13. Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

By: John Langan

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies book and P.L. McMillan's What Remains When The Stars Burn Out

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • horror
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14. They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces

By: Eric LaRocca

3.59

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the viral sensation Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes They Were… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces book and P.L. McMillan's What Remains When The Stars Burn Out

  • short stories
  • horror
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15. What Remains When The Stars Burn Out

By: P.L. McMillan

4.13

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

"A gift of cosmic horror by someone who truly gets it. The imagination here runs the gauntlet acros… read more

Similar categories in P.L. McMillan's What Remains When The Stars Burn Out book and P.L. McMillan's What Remains When The Stars Burn Out

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • collections
  • short stories
  • horror
  • science fiction
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16. Abnormal Statistics

By: Max Booth III

3.99

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Suburban decay, familial horror, bleak lullabies. Abnormal Statistics is the debut story collection… read more

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  • short stories
  • collections
  • horror
"There are always concerns. Eating holes in your stomach. Scrambling your brain. Making your skin itch and itch and itch. Sometimes it feels like too much for a kid your age to handle. Sometimes it fe…"

-Max Booth III, Abnormal Statistics

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17. The Puppet King and Other Atonements

By: Justin A. Burnett

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The Puppet King and Other Atonements conjures a horrific universe of puppets, labyrinths, and limin… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • horror
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18. We Are Here to Hurt Each Other

By: Paula D. Ashe

4.06

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

With these twelve stories Paula D. Ashe takes you into a dark and bloody world where nothing is sac… read more

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  • short stories
  • collections
  • horror
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19. The Forgotten Island

By: David Sodergren

3.90

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

When Ana Logan agrees to go on holiday to Thailand with her estranged sister Rachel, she hopes it w… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • horror
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20. Alien Horrors

By: Tim Curran

4.20

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

In the deepest, darkest depths of space, the stars are cold, malevolent eyes looking across a vast … read more

Similar categories in Tim Curran's Alien Horrors book and P.L. McMillan's What Remains When The Stars Burn Out

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • horror
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21. The Inconsolables

By: Michael Wehunt

4.24

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

In his first collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt introduced the world to his singular voic… read more

Similar categories in Michael Wehunt's The Inconsolables book and P.L. McMillan's What Remains When The Stars Burn Out

  • short stories
  • collections
  • horror
"Well, my wife and child have moved out," Fulton told him, "and I've gotten back into vampires to fill the hole they left behind."

-Michael Wehunt, The Inconsolables

12 Best short stories books like What Remains When The Stars Burn Out by P.L. McMillan

Transform Your Habits

Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

John Langan

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Laird Barron

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.00

Transform Your Habits

His Black Tongue

Mitchell Lüthi

3.41

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18 Best fiction books like Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies by John Langan

Transform Your Habits

Occultation and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Laird Barron

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Croning

Laird Barron

3.73

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