20 must-read horror books like The Deep by Alma Katsu

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The Deep

By: Alma Katsu

3.33

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Someone, or something, is haunting the Titanic. This is the only way to explain the series of mi…

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Cover of The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) by Stephen Graham Jones

1. 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 Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
"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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2. Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

3.53

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's Episode Thirteen book and Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
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3. Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

Format: 457 pages, Hardcover

Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) book and Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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4. 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 Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
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5. The September House

By: Carissa Orlando

3.92

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this c… read more

Similar categories in Carissa Orlando's The September House book and Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
"the stars shone in the sky, reminding me there were calm constants everywhere"

-Carissa Orlando, The September House

"Hal was familiar with anger. He preferred it. It was like a warm blanket to him. Something soft, and smelling of home"

-Carissa Orlando, The September House

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6. 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 Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
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7. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones book and Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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8. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley book and Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
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9. The Spite House

By: Johnny Compton

3.53

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife,… read more

Similar categories in Johnny Compton's The Spite House book and Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
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10. Victor's Blessing

By: Barbara Sontheimer

4.34

Format: 582 pages, Paperback

Victor Gant, a 6'5" half-Osage blacksmith is an unusual hero for a Civil War love story. But Victor… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Sontheimer's Victor's Blessing book and Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Then wake up my sweet,  wake up knowing that your future is to be happy, and that your heart will heal."

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

"Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid.  Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six."

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

"He turned and smiled resolvedly at her.  He knew no one else would ever understand that for Arvellen, sex only had to do with friendship and of pleasing one another, and nothing at all to do with wha…"

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

"I'm afraid!" She cried breaking free from his embrace. But this time, he refused to let her go.  "No, no, no, you're not afraid of me!  What am I...a foot and half taller than you and out weigh you b…"

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

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11. The Luminous Dead

By: Caitlin Starling

3.66

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead book and Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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12. Whalefall

By: Daniel Kraus

3.73

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eigh… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Kraus's Whalefall book and Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"There need be no struggle when we are all the same weight."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"But those three people waiting outside are the tones of Jay's voice, the organs in Jay's body."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"The simple sharing of hope, its weight not so heavy after all, is a wonder. A lifting. A rising. A surfacing."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"Jay's not sure he believes in therapy. He definitely doesn't believe in closure. People aren't doors. They're whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost ins…"

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

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13. Dead Silence

By: S.A. Barnes

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more

Similar categories in S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence book and Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."

-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

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14. Ghost Station

By: S.A. Barnes

3.57

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Barnes's Ghost Station book and Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
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15. From Below

By: Darcy Coates

4.02

Format: 469 pages, Paperback

No light. No air. No escape. Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits... … read more

Similar categories in Darcy Coates's From Below book and Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
"The human mind couldn't cope with looking at nothing for very long and, in sufficient darkness, quickly began to create its own images of what it thought belonged there."

-Darcy Coates, From Below

"Humans were never intended to reach the depths they were seeking. The only way they had was through a century of trial and error, of pushing the limits, of countless deaths in search of a way down. C…"

-Darcy Coates, From Below

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16. 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 Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of The Deep by Alma Katsu

17. The Deep

By: Alma Katsu

3.33

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Someone, or something, is haunting the Titanic. This is the only way to explain the series of mi… read more

Similar categories in Alma Katsu's The Deep book and Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • ghosts
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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18. 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 Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
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19. 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 Alma Katsu's The Deep

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

20. 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 Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • historical fiction
Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) by Nathan Ballingrud

21. Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into th… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) book and Alma Katsu's The Deep

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

21 Best fiction books like The Deep by Alma Katsu

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

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Episode Thirteen

Craig DiLouie

3.53

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Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

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3.95

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20 best-selling fiction books like A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

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Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

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Episode Thirteen

Craig DiLouie

3.53

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Chuck Tingle

3.94

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Jimmy Juliano

3.72

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