10 Top dark books like Terminal Park by Gary J. Shipley

Cover of Terminal Park by Gary J.  Shipley

Terminal Park

By: Gary J. Shipley

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

“Shipley's Terminal Park pounds fiction into entirely new shapes. Disintegrating and blissful. High…

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Cover of The Sluts by Dennis Cooper

1. The Sluts

By: Dennis Cooper

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's The Sluts book and Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park

  • dark
  • fiction
  • horror
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2. The Marbled Swarm

By: Dennis Cooper

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Marbled Swarmis Dennis Cooper's most haunting work to date. In secret passageways, hidden rooms… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's The Marbled Swarm book and Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park

  • dark
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. Visions

By: Troy James Weaver

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A hypnotic descent from childhood to adulthood. A boy sees angels, finds love, loses it, and become… read more

Similar categories in Troy James Weaver's Visions book and Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park

  • fiction
  • horror
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4. 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 Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park

  • horror
  • weird fiction
  • dark
  • fiction
  • novels
"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

5. Under the Skin

By: Michel Faber

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this haunting, entrancing novel, Michel Faber introduces us to Isserley, a female driver who cru… read more

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6. Marigold

By: Troy James Weaver

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

A thirty-something floral salesman searches for reasons to keep living. read more

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7. The Summer I Died (The Roger Huntington Saga, #1)

By: Ryan C. Thomas

5.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

So much screaming. When Roger Huntington comes home from college for the summer and is met by his b… read more

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8. 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 Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park

  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • novels
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9. Burn You the Fuck Alive

By: B.R. Yeager

4.01

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

She asks for a light. You reach in your pocket and dig out your Bic, strike the flint, and touch th… read more

Similar categories in B.R. Yeager's Burn You the Fuck Alive book and Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park

  • fiction
  • dark
  • horror
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10. Bedlam

By: Charlene Elsby

4.30

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

"One of my favorite contemporary writers. Each of these vicious little stories is a perfect articul… read more

Similar categories in Charlene Elsby's Bedlam book and Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park

  • fiction
  • horror
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11. Fluids

By: May Leitz

3.43

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

A woman, desperate for companionship. Another woman desperate for acceptance. Love and obsession qu… read more

Similar categories in May Leitz's Fluids book and Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Negative Space by B.R. Yeager

12. 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

Similar categories in B.R. Yeager's Negative Space book and Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park

  • dark
  • fiction
  • 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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13. Amygdalatropolis

By: B.R. Yeager

3.69

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Amygdalatropolis is a work of brilliant neurorealism in which the city is a Computer, a libidinal p… read more

Similar categories in B.R. Yeager's Amygdalatropolis book and Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park

  • literature
  • dark
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • horror
"/1404er/ was born from video. His way into the threads. His eyes translating light from a stream. Before his eyes translated light from a stream he was only a person. Before the stream was a stream, …"

-B.R. Yeager, Amygdalatropolis

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14. Bonding

By: Maggie Siebert

4.13

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

"Maggie understands that splatter for splatter's sake is boring. Psychopathy is boring. Coldness is… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Siebert's Bonding book and Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park

  • dark
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. The World Below

By: David Peak

3.98

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Witches, LSD psychosis, and the slippery nature of truth. The World Below is about the limitless ho… read more

Similar categories in David Peak's The World Below book and Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park

  • novels
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Abnormal Statistics by Max Booth III

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

Similar categories in Max Booth III's Abnormal Statistics book and Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park

  • fiction
  • 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

Cover of Terminal Park by Gary J.  Shipley

17. Terminal Park

By: Gary J. Shipley

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

“Shipley's Terminal Park pounds fiction into entirely new shapes. Disintegrating and blissful. High… read more

Similar categories in Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park book and Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • literature
  • weird fiction
  • philosophy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • dark
  • novels
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18. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Deliver Me book and Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park

  • dark
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

Cover of The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty by Charlene Elsby

19. The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty

By: Charlene Elsby

3.86

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"Explosive and propulsive, The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty proves Charlene Elsby to be a formidable tal… read more

Similar categories in Charlene Elsby's The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty book and Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park

  • fiction
  • horror
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20. To Be Devoured

By: Sara Tantlinger

3.82

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

What does carrion taste like? Andi has to know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and in… read more

Similar categories in Sara Tantlinger's To Be Devoured book and Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park

  • dark
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Hexis

By: Charlene Elsby

3.75

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

I'm not relentless. "Relentless" makes it sound like there's something called "relent" and that I'm… read more

Similar categories in Charlene Elsby's Hexis book and Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park

  • fiction
  • horror

18 Best fiction books like Terminal Park by Gary J. Shipley

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Dennis Cooper

3.79

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Dennis Cooper

3.41

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Troy James Weaver

4.26

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Laird Barron

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Last Days

Brian Evenson , Peter Straub

3.75

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Visions

Troy James Weaver

4.26

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Kathe Koja

3.54

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2.78

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