17 must-read horror books like My Throat an Open Grave by Tori Bovalino

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My Throat an Open Grave

By: Tori Bovalino

3.84

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Labyrinth meets folk horror in this darkly romantic tale of a girl who wishes her baby brother away…

If you liked the horror plot in My Throat an Open Grave by Tori Bovalino , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. The House That Horror Built

By: Christina Henry

3.22

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifyi… read more

Similar categories in Christina Henry's The House That Horror Built book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
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2. The Invocations

By: Krystal Sutherland

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . . Zara Jones believes in magic because the… read more

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"What if Savannah had found whatever it was she sold a piece of her soul to go looking for."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?" "Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. Th…"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going …"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

Cover of Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) by S.T. Gibson

3. Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

3.66

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodig… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • romance
  • gothic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut."

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

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4. A Botanical Daughter

By: Noah Medlock

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty… read more

Similar categories in Noah Medlock's A Botanical Daughter book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Grief can be a kind of exhaustion, after all."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Gregor now knew in his soul that greatness came at a price, and true greatness is paid for by the hour."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"He had tried sculpting in other materials - in clay, marble, wood, and bronze - but corpses were the only medium that really sang under his fingers."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Simon, what do you understand to be the nature of a soul?" he said suddenly. Simon was staring darkly into the endless distance. He didn't refocus his gaze to reply. "That part of us which cannot be …"

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

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5. When Ghosts Call Us Home

By: Katya de Becerra

3.68

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Haunting of Hill House meets found-footage horror in this edge-of-your-seat thriller that explores … read more

Similar categories in Katya de Becerra's When Ghosts Call Us Home book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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6. Where the Dark Stands Still

By: A.B. Poranek

4.12

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Raised in a small village near the spirit-wood, Liska Radost knows that Magic is monstrous, and its… read more

Similar categories in A.B. Poranek's Where the Dark Stands Still book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • romance
  • gothic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"We kissed, you incorrigible antlered tradgedy!"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"His eyebrows tilt up, firelight reflecting in his eyes. "It was always to be my fate." "Fate," she scoffs. "What is fate but an excuse to surrender responsibility? No, Eliasz, we cannot think of that…"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"Please," she begs. "Surely there must be some spell—there must be something, anything. Please, Eliasz, please. Tell me how to save you." "Liska, Liseczka. Oj, lisku." He raises her hand to his lips, …"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

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7. An Education in Malice

By: S.T. Gibson

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insat… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's An Education in Malice book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • romance
  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing."

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playma…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

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8. Your Blood, My Bones

By: Kelly Andrew

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A seductively twisted romance about loyalty, fate, the lengths we go to hide the darkest parts of o… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Andrew's Your Blood, My Bones book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • romance
  • gothic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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9. When Among Crows

By: Veronica Roth

3.73

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's When Among Crows book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

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10. The Bad Ones

By: Melissa Albert

3.66

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Goddess, goddess, count to five In the morning, who’s alive? In the course of a single winter’s… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Albert's The Bad Ones book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"Let's say your the girl who saved your best friends life. The person who apparently kept her alive With your love and your constancey. With your steadfast disregard for the worser parts of her nature…"

-Melissa Albert, The Bad Ones

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11. My Throat an Open Grave

By: Tori Bovalino

3.84

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Labyrinth meets folk horror in this darkly romantic tale of a girl who wishes her baby brother away… read more

Similar categories in Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • romance
  • gothic
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
Cover of Dead Things Are Closer than They Appear by Robin Wasley

12. Dead Things Are Closer than They Appear

By: Robin Wasley

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A painfully average teen’s life is upended by a magical apocalypse. High school is hard enough t… read more

Similar categories in Robin Wasley's Dead Things Are Closer than They Appear book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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13. A Place for Vanishing

By: Ann Fraistat

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl and her family return to her mother's childhood home, only to discover that the house's… read more

Similar categories in Ann Fraistat's A Place for Vanishing book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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14. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • retellings
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Clever Creatures of the Night by Samantha Mabry

15. Clever Creatures of the Night

By: Samantha Mabry

2.77

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When Case’s best friend Drea goes missing, Case dives into the bizarre, cultlike—and possibly murde… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Mabry's Clever Creatures of the Night book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
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16. Bad Graces

By: Kyrie McCauley

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Yellowjackets meets House of Hollow in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s gripping and magical Y… read more

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's Bad Graces book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
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17. All Who Wander Are Lost: Destination Horror Stories

By: Gemma Amor

4.21

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

First Landing State Park. Antarctica. Mongolia. France. Norway. Ireland. Somerset. Egypt. A giant g… read more

Similar categories in Gemma Amor's All Who Wander Are Lost: Destination Horror Stories book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Lady Macbeth

By: Ava Reid

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's Lady Macbeth book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • romance
  • gothic
  • retellings
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Nakedness, even among women in private, is still uncommon, uncouth. Bodies are meant to be guarded like gold. The flash of a bare ankle is like dropping a pendant, so that everyone can see it clatter…"

-Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth

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19. Kill Call

By: Jeff Wooten

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Dreams do come true. It’s Jude's job to make sure they don’t. Born with the curse of prophetic nigh… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Wooten's Kill Call book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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20. The House Where Death Lives

By: Alex Brown

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A dance to the death. A girl who’s just as monstrous as H.H. Holmes. A hallway that’s constantly ch… read more

Similar categories in Alex Brown's The House Where Death Lives book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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21. Myrrh

By: Polly Hall

3.18

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman searching for her birth-parents unlocks the secrets of her horrific past, as she tries to s… read more

Similar categories in Polly Hall's Myrrh book and Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave

  • fiction
  • horror

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