12 must-read fantasy books like Spectral Evidence by Gemma Files

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Spectral Evidence

By: Gemma Files

3.81

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

For almost thirty years, Shirley Jackson Award-winning horror author Gemma Files has consistently s…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Spectral Evidence by Gemma Files , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Swift to Chase by Laird Barron, Paul Tremblay

1. Swift to Chase

By: Laird Barron , Paul Tremblay

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Laird Barron’s fourth collection gathers a dozen stories set against the backdrops of the Alaskan w… read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's Swift to Chase book and Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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2. Wylding Hall

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.80

Format: 176 pages, ebook

When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their u… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hand's Wylding Hall book and Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
"But mostly I'm just respectful of old ways. I believe things for a reason, and in the old days they did things for a reason. And if you don't understand why—well, you might end up opening a few doors…"

-Elizabeth Hand, Wylding Hall

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3. They Lurk

By: Ronald Malfi

3.79

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

COME CLOSER . . . Five terrifying collected horror novellas newly reissued from the "modern-day … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's They Lurk book and Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural

4. Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s

By: Grady Hendrix

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of the 1970s and '80s . . . if you dare. Page throu… read more

Similar categories in Grady Hendrix's Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s book and Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

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5. The Cipher

By: Kathe Koja

3.54

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blo… read more

Similar categories in Kathe Koja's The Cipher book and Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

  • weird fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

6. Koko

By: Peter Straub

4.29

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

KOKO. Only four men knew what it meant. Now they must stop it. They are Vietnam vets a doctor, a la… read more

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7. 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 Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

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

8. 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 Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
"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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9. Death in the Spires

By: K.J. Charles

4.42

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

The newspapers called us the Seven Wonders. We were a group of friends, that’s all, and then Toby d… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's Death in the Spires book and Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

  • fiction
Cover of The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales by Attila Veres

10. The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales

By: Attila Veres

4.17

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Every so often a new horror writer bursts onto the scene with a book that is so dazzlingly original… read more

Similar categories in Attila Veres's The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales book and Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

  • short story collection
  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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11. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange book and Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Wind Began to Howl (Isaiah Coleridge, #3.5) by Laird Barron

12. The Wind Began to Howl (Isaiah Coleridge, #3.5)

By: Laird Barron

4.31

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Laird Barron's acclaimed crime saga makes a triumphant return in The Wind Began to Howl, an all-new… read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's The Wind Began to Howl (Isaiah Coleridge, #3.5) book and Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

  • weird fiction
  • supernatural
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. 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 Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

  • fiction
  • horror
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14. The Butcher of the Forest

By: Premee Mohamed

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest book and Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. 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 Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

  • short story collection
  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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16. When Things Get Dark

By: Ellen Datlow

3.90

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary editor, Ellen Datlow, collects today’s best horror writers in tribute to the genius of Sh… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Datlow's When Things Get Dark book and Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Soul searching pairs seductively with large quantities of liquor."

-Ellen Datlow, When Things Get Dark

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17. Spectral Evidence

By: Gemma Files

3.81

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

For almost thirty years, Shirley Jackson Award-winning horror author Gemma Files has consistently s… read more

Similar categories in Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence book and Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

  • short story collection
  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
Cover of We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe

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

Similar categories in Paula D. Ashe's We Are Here to Hurt Each Other book and Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima

19. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Joren Falls: A Short Horror Story (Come Join Us By The Fire, Volume 2) by Laird Barron

20. Joren Falls: A Short Horror Story (Come Join Us By The Fire, Volume 2)

By: Laird Barron

3.90

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

For one retiree, the past can never be packed away."Joren Falls" by Laird Barron is one of 27 short… read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's Joren Falls: A Short Horror Story (Come Join Us By The Fire, Volume 2) book and Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library by Darrell Schweitzer

21. The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library

By: Darrell Schweitzer

4.08

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Miskatonic University, in fabled Arkham Massachusetts, has long been described in the fiction of H.… read more

Similar categories in Darrell Schweitzer's The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library book and Gemma Files's Spectral Evidence

  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy

18 Best fiction books like Spectral Evidence by Gemma Files

Transform Your Habits

Swift to Chase

Laird Barron , Paul Tremblay

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Wylding Hall

Elizabeth Hand

3.80

Transform Your Habits

They Lurk

Ronald Malfi

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Cipher

Kathe Koja

3.54

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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

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Laird Barron

3.73

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