20 must-read horror books like A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by John Hornor Jacobs

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A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

By: John Hornor Jacobs

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales—b…

If you liked the horror plot in A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by John Hornor Jacobs , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. A Collapse of Horses

By: Brian Evenson

4.02

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

A stuffed bear's heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby; Reno keeps receding to the east no mat… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's A Collapse of Horses book and John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Every time you think you have the world figured, trust me, that’s just when the world’s got you figured and is about to spring and break your back"

-Brian Evenson, A Collapse of Horses

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2. Occultation and Other Stories

By: Laird Barron

4.08

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, … read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's Occultation and Other Stories book and John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • lovecraftian
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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3. 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

Similar categories in Laird Barron's The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All book and John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • lovecraftian
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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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4. 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

Similar categories in Laird Barron's The Imago Sequence and Other Stories book and John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • lovecraftian
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"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

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5. The Croning

By: Laird Barron

3.73

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyon… read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's The Croning book and John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did."

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"Ramirez walked ahead with a torch he'd fashioned from a stick and some rags and by that queer and reddish light, devils, or the shadows of devils hooked to the shoes of the men and capered across the…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"They would, according to his experience of their traditions, suspect he was a demon, or demon-inhabited. Considering the volume of alcohol saturating his liver, that ancient gateway of spirits, of co…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"The light in the gallery changed subtly and he whirled and saw someone approaching him from between the exhibit cases. The individual moved with alarming speed, bent low to the floor, but straighteni…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

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6. The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

By: John Langan

4.06

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemp… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies book and John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • lovecraftian
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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7. North American Lake Monsters

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.97

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous exp… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's North American Lake Monsters book and John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"He imagined the room bathed in blood, himself striding through it, a raven amongst the carcasses. Strutting like any carrion king."

-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

"A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost end…"

-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

"Sounds rose from the earth. New sounds: cobwebs of exhalations, pauses of the heart, the monastic work of the worms translating flesh to soil, the slow crawl of rock. There was another kind of indust…"

-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

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8. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's The Fisherman book and John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

9. 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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10. 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 John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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11. 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 John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
" 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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12. 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 John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • lovecraftian
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell book and John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. 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 John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. A Child Alone With Strangers

By: Philip Fracassi

4.28

Format: 575 pages, Hardcover

When the young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by mile… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's A Child Alone With Strangers book and John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. The Reddening

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.62

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

One million years of evolution didn't change our nature. Nor did it bury the horrors predating civi… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Reddening book and John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

By: Brian Evenson

4.10

Format: 254 pages, ebook

“Here is how monstrous humans are.” A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurkin… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell book and John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. 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 John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • lovecraftian
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. The Boatman's Daughter

By: Andy Davidson

3.50

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

Ever since her father was killed when she was just a child, Miranda Crabtree has kept her head down… read more

Similar categories in Andy Davidson's The Boatman's Daughter book and John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by John Hornor Jacobs

20. A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

By: John Hornor Jacobs

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales—b… read more

Similar categories in John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror book and John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • gothic
  • lovecraftian
  • novella
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1) by Hailey Piper

21. The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)

By: Hailey Piper

3.75

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

New York City, 1990: When you slip through the cracks, no one is there to catch you. Monique learns… read more

Similar categories in Hailey Piper's The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1) book and John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

  • lovecraftian
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"She’s part of the nothing now."

-Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)

"I think death is what happens when anyone meets a god."

-Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)

20 must-read fiction books like A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by John Hornor Jacobs

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A Collapse of Horses

Brian Evenson

4.02

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

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21 must-read fiction books like The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1) by Hailey Piper

Transform Your Habits

The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

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Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

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