15 must-read fantasy books like Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias

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Coyote Songs

By: Gabino Iglesias

4.18

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

In Gabino Iglesias’ second novel, ghosts and old gods guide the hands of those caught up in a viole…

"Facts are harder to swallow than rocks, but just as solid."

-Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

"The amount of pity you generate in others diminishes with every birthday."

-Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

"Fishing… is like life: mostly about deception, waiting, luck, and going home empty-handed."

-Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

"However, the man was wrong. It wasn’t a hundred coyotes with bullhorns howling at once and it wasn’t the Devil himself. The things that had screamed that night was the soul of a shattered, hurt mother facing the loss of everything she loved, and that is something even the Devil should fear."

-Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

If you liked the fantasy plot in Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. After the People Lights Have Gone Off

By: Joe R. Lansdale , Stephen Graham Jones , None

3.68

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

This collection of fifteen stories taps into the horrors and fears of the supernatural as well as t… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's After the People Lights Have Gone Off book and Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Each moment, the world washes its hands of you, starts all over again. Easy as that. Wonderful as that."

-Joe R. Lansdale, After the People Lights Have Gone Off

"Thinking the bad instead of the good, defaulting to disaster instead of joy, letting the world infect you. And you know better. That's no way to live."

-Joe R. Lansdale, After the People Lights Have Gone Off

"That had been his secret Indian Trick to hunting, back then: to not hunt. The same way you never find your wallet when you're actually looking for it. Just, keep a rifle with you."

-Joe R. Lansdale, After the People Lights Have Gone Off

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2. The Good House

By: Tananarive Due

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

The home that belonged to Angela Toussaint's late grandmother is so beloved that townspeople in Sac… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's The Good House book and Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
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3. 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 Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
" 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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4. 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 Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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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5. Fever House (Fever House, #1)

By: Keith Rosson

4.03

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose … read more

Similar categories in Keith Rosson's Fever House (Fever House, #1) book and Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • crime
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
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6. Goddess of Filth

By: V. Castro

3.63

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

“Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash som… read more

Similar categories in V. Castro's Goddess of Filth book and Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Why the black lipstick? Is this goddess a Goth?"

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

"I have traveled a long way through light and volatile stardust. The stars in the night sky are moth holes in space-time and the bodies of the larvae between each hole are the means of travel"

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

"Be smart, but not too smart. Be beautiful, but not so pretty as to make other females mad. Be successful, but not bossy or overly ambitious. Nobody likes a mouthy brown woman. Be a declawed kitten."

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

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7. Piñata

By: Leopoldo Gout

3.67

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

A Head Full of Ghosts meets Hereditary in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist… read more

Similar categories in Leopoldo Gout's Piñata book and Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
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8. The Queen of the Cicadas

By: V. Castro

3.73

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

2018: Belinda Alvarez has returned to Texas for the wedding of her best friend Veronica. The farm i… read more

Similar categories in V. Castro's The Queen of the Cicadas book and Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Peele's Out There Screaming book and Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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10. The Babysitter Lives

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.62

Format: 8 pages, Audiobook

Only on Audio! A new horror novel from the bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Babysitter Lives book and Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
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11. 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 Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • crime
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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12. 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 Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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13. This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

By: Eric LaRocca

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram St… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances book and Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"The worst thing a person can do to you after they've hurt you is let you live."

-Eric LaRocca, This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

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14. Coyote Songs

By: Gabino Iglesias

4.18

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

In Gabino Iglesias’ second novel, ghosts and old gods guide the hands of those caught up in a viole… read more

Similar categories in Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs book and Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • novella
  • crime
  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Facts are harder to swallow than rocks, but just as solid."

-Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

"The amount of pity you generate in others diminishes with every birthday."

-Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

"Fishing… is like life: mostly about deception, waiting, luck, and going home empty-handed."

-Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

"However, the man was wrong. It wasn’t a hundred coyotes with bullhorns howling at once and it wasn’t the Devil himself. The things that had screamed that night was the soul of a shattered, hurt mothe…"

-Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

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15. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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16. 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 Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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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 Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • crime
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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18. 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 Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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19. Forgotten Sisters

By: Cynthia Pelayo

3.50

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

A city’s haunted history and fairy-tale horrors converge for two women in an addictive novel of psy… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Pelayo's Forgotten Sisters book and Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • crime
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
"I can't speak. I can't think. words are water and everything melds into a sea of suffering."

-Cynthia Pelayo, Forgotten Sisters

"Some memories are far too painful to resuscitate, and so they remain floating somewhere in the depths of our hearts."

-Cynthia Pelayo, Forgotten Sisters

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20. Smothermoss

By: Alisa Alering

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that… read more

Similar categories in Alisa Alering's Smothermoss book and Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
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21. The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and u… read more

Similar categories in Leslie J. Anderson's The Unmothers book and Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy

21 Best fiction books like Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias

Transform Your Habits

After the People Lights Have Gone Off

Joe R. Lansdale , Stephen Graham Jones , None

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Good House

Tananarive Due

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

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21 Best adult books like Goddess of Filth by V. Castro

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Come Closer

Sara Gran

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

Transform Your Habits

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Eric LaRocca

2.78

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