7 must-read fantasy books like Elegy for the Undead by Matthew Vesely

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Elegy for the Undead

By: Matthew Vesely

3.91

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Jude and Lyle's newlywed life is shattered when a vicious attack leaves Lyle infected with a diseas…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Elegy for the Undead by Matthew Vesely , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Black Farm by Elias Witherow, Thought Catalog

1. The Black Farm

By: Elias Witherow , Thought Catalog

3.50

Format: 824 pages,

After the loss of a child along with a slew of agonizing misfortunes, Nick and Jess decide to end t… read more

Similar categories in Elias Witherow's The Black Farm book and Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede

2. Maeve Fly

By: C.J. Leede

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's Maeve Fly book and Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

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3. 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 Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste

4. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

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5. Crossroads

By: Laurel Hightower

3.91

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

How far would you go to bring back someone you love? When Chris's son dies in a tragic car cras… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's Crossroads book and Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Exhausted, but not tired enough to escape the torturous loop of pain that awaited her inactive brain..."

-Laurel Hightower, Crossroads

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6. The Laws of the Skies

By: Grégoire Courtois

3.39

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None o… read more

Similar categories in Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies book and Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"because it was him and him alone she didn't want to disappoint."

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"Was there nothing left in this world that was worth opening your eyes and fighting for?"

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"Even he who deserves to die, who deserves to be killed, doesn't deserve to be killed like that."

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"But she was in love, head over heels in love the way you are at age six, without knowing that this love would be as fleeting as it was powerful, and as powerful as it was secret, and misunderstood, a…"

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

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7. 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 Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Scanlines

By: Todd Keisling

3.83

Format: 83 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1987, Congressman Benjamin Hardy III died by suicide on live television amidst accusations of po… read more

Similar categories in Todd Keisling's Scanlines book and Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. Lovely, Dark & Deep

By: Megan Stockton

4.06

Format: 157 pages, Kindle Edition

Every year, Six Mile Island has a seasonal shutdown for serious weather. This year, the forecast is… read more

Similar categories in Megan Stockton's Lovely, Dark & Deep book and Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Bluejay

By: Megan Stockton

3.71

Format: None pages, ebook

Noah, Jack, and Phil are three average guys who collect horror memorabilia and have a running compe… read more

Similar categories in Megan Stockton's Bluejay book and Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Elegy for the Undead by Matthew Vesely

11. Elegy for the Undead

By: Matthew Vesely

3.91

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Jude and Lyle's newlywed life is shattered when a vicious attack leaves Lyle infected with a diseas… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead book and Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • romance
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • zombies
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
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12. We Used to Live Here

By: Marcus Kliewer

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Get Out meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original m… read more

Similar categories in Marcus Kliewer's We Used to Live Here book and Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • horror
  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Transmuted by Eve Harms

13. Transmuted

By: Eve Harms

3.45

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Her doctor is giving her the body of his dreams... and her nightmares. Isa is a micro-celebrity who… read more

Similar categories in Eve Harms's Transmuted book and Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning

14. Heads Will Roll

By: Josh Winning

3.69

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Willow’s worst nightmare was being cancelled. But the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more tha… read more

Similar categories in Josh Winning's Heads Will Roll book and Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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15. 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 Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Burner

By: Robert Ford

4.17

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

IRIS It’s terrifying how quickly everything can be taken away from you. Iris learns this agonizing… read more

Similar categories in Robert Ford's Burner book and Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Sawtooth

By: Steph Nelson

3.30

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Taryn planned for an easy out and back hike into the Sawtooth Mountains to scatter her wife's ashes… read more

Similar categories in Steph Nelson's Sawtooth book and Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

19. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Feed the Machine by Erica   Summers

20. Feed the Machine

By: Erica Summers

3.62

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

Anthony signs up to Beta-test a brand new horror game on a soon-to-be-launched Virtual Reality Syst… read more

Similar categories in Erica Summers's Feed the Machine book and Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Awake in the Night by Shauna Mc Eleney

21. Awake in the Night

By: Shauna Mc Eleney

4.17

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

Jessica and Nicole think they’ve finally found their dream house by the sea in the West of Ireland.… read more

Similar categories in Shauna Mc Eleney's Awake in the Night book and Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer

21 best-selling fiction books like Elegy for the Undead by Matthew Vesely

Transform Your Habits

The Black Farm

Elias Witherow , Thought Catalog

3.50

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Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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The Haunting of Velkwood

Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

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Ankle Snatcher

Grady Hendrix

3.74

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Blender Babies

Jon Athan

3.95

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2.78

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L.M. Kaplin

3.96

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