24 Top thriller books like The Vile Thing We Created by Robert P. Ottone

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The Vile Thing We Created

By: Robert P. Ottone

3.64

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Lola and Ian had what they thought was the perfect relationship. Vacations. Fine dining. A healthy …

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1. 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 Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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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2. 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 Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. This Is Where We Talk Things Out

By: Caitlin Marceau

3.77

Format: 93 pages, ebook

This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contempo… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Marceau's This Is Where We Talk Things Out book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
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4. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Nestlings book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

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5. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

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6. 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 Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
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7. 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 Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Gothic

By: Philip Fracassi

3.83

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

On his 59th birthday, Tyson Parks—a famous, but struggling, horror writer—receives an antique desk … read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Gothic book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. Seven Rabbits

By: Timothy King

4.23

Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition

In the town of Tall Oak, high school football reigns supreme. Led by star Quarterback Justin Jackso… read more

Similar categories in Timothy King's Seven Rabbits book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • horror
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10. Mine

By: L.M. Kaplin

3.96

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

Chandler Henricks hates his life. Socially awkward and a near shut-in, Chandler spends his time car… read more

Similar categories in L.M. Kaplin's Mine book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. In The Tall Trees

By: Angel N. Van Atta

4.33

Format: 132 pages, Kindle Edition

Mella lives in a tiny house in the middle of a dense forest with her mommy and her baby brother, Pe… read more

Similar categories in Angel N. Van Atta's In The Tall Trees book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. Rotten Tommy

By: David Sodergren

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

“Keep the door locked night and day…”It’s been forty years since Becky Sharp’s mother vanished with… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's Rotten Tommy book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • fiction
  • horror
"The enormous hand closed over his penis and testicles, squashing them in a vice-like grip. The man rose to his full stature and dragged John's limp body towards the staircase by his cock & balls. The…"

-David Sodergren, Rotten Tommy

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13. The Day of the Door

By: Laurel Hightower

4.13

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Once there were four Lasco siblings banded together against a world that failed to protect them. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's The Day of the Door book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. The Church Beneath the Roots

By: Felix Blackwell

4.25

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

Long before the events of Stolen Tongues… On the Cold Valley Indian Reservation, in the shadow of … read more

Similar categories in Felix Blackwell's The Church Beneath the Roots book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Palmetto

By: Ania Ahlborn

3.72

Format: 101 pages, Paperback

Kim Devland nearly has it all. A great marriage. A baby on the way. All that's missing is a house--… read more

Similar categories in Ania Ahlborn's Palmetto book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. 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 Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. 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 Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
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18. The Redemption of Morgan Bright

By: Chris Panatier

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

What would guilt make you do? Hadleigh Keene died on the road leading away from Hollyhock Asylu… read more

Similar categories in Chris Panatier's The Redemption of Morgan Bright book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
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19. Mean Spirited

By: Nick Roberts

4.41

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

An alcoholic teacher and father’s world spirals out of control when a former student is killed and … read more

Similar categories in Nick Roberts's Mean Spirited book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Portrait of a Nuclear Family

By: J.P. Behrens

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Wanda has uncovered a dark secret that could shatter the image of her perfect family. Attempting to… read more

Similar categories in J.P. Behrens's Portrait of a Nuclear Family book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • fiction
  • horror
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21. What Kind of Mother

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Bran… read more

Similar categories in Clay McLeod Chapman's What Kind of Mother book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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22. On a Clear Day, You Can See Block Island

By: Gage Greenwood

4.07

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

They left the island, but the island never left them. Four years after the Keating family endure… read more

Similar categories in Gage Greenwood's On a Clear Day, You Can See Block Island book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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23. We Used to Live Here

By: Marcus Kliewer

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Get Out meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original m… read more

Similar categories in Marcus Kliewer's We Used to Live Here book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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24. BETA: A Technological Nightmare

By: Sammy Scott

None

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Michael Danvers’ life of self-imposed seclusion is interrupted when he receives a strange the uniqu… read more

Similar categories in Sammy Scott's BETA: A Technological Nightmare book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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25. Eynhallow

By: Tim McGregor

4.29

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 – Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island… read more

Similar categories in Tim McGregor's Eynhallow book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • fiction
  • horror
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26. I Found a Circus Tent in the Woods Behind My House (I Found Horror)

By: Ben Farthing

3.77

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

Lost in a labyrinth of circus tents... Dave and his four-year-old, Jacob, find a circus tent in … read more

Similar categories in Ben Farthing's I Found a Circus Tent in the Woods Behind My House (I Found Horror) book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. The Vile Thing We Created

By: Robert P. Ottone

3.64

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Lola and Ian had what they thought was the perfect relationship. Vacations. Fine dining. A healthy … read more

Similar categories in Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • cults
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
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28. 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 Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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29. Wasps in the Ice Cream

By: Tim McGregor

4.10

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens when you fall for the girl everyone hates? Summer 1987: Mark Prewitt's only priorit… read more

Similar categories in Tim McGregor's Wasps in the Ice Cream book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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30. Stuck

By: Ben Young

3.88

Format: 314 pages, ebook

Each death is unique. Will you recognize when yours begins? John Camden doesn't realize he's dying… read more

Similar categories in Ben Young's Stuck book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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31. Dear Hanna

By: Zoje Stage

3.73

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Bab… read more

Similar categories in Zoje Stage's Dear Hanna book and Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror

30 must-read fiction books like The Vile Thing We Created by Robert P. Ottone

Transform Your Habits

Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

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All the Fiends of Hell

Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

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This Is Where We Talk Things Out

Caitlin Marceau

3.77

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Nestlings

Nat Cassidy

3.86

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This Is Where We Talk Things Out

Caitlin Marceau

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Jon Athan

3.95

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L.M. Kaplin

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Angel N. Van Atta

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