6 Top supernatural books like Help the Witch by Tom Cox

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Help the Witch

By: Tom Cox

3.71

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

As night draws through country lanes, and darkness sweeps across hills and darkness sweeps across h…

"Each day the pair would meet at 2pm at the exact halfway point between the villages and stand a hundred yards apart, staring longingly at each other, yearning for the time when the pestilence would pass."

-Tom Cox, Help the Witch

If you liked the supernatural plot in Help the Witch by Tom Cox , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Pig Iron

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Pig Iron is the story of John-John, a young man wrestling with the legacy of brutality left by his … read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's Pig Iron book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Collected Ghost Stories

By: M.R. James

4.14

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

M. R. James is widely regarded as the father of the modern ghost story, and his tales have influenc… read more

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  • short stories
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
"The door was opening again. The seer does not like to dwell upon what he saw entering the room: he says it might be described as a frog - the size of a man - but it had scanty white hair about its he…"

-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories

"Those that spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pa…"

-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories

"But it was in the life-saving competition that Stanley Judkins's conduct was most blameable and had the most far-reaching effects. The practice, as you know, was to throw a selected lower boy, of sui…"

-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories

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3. The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales

By: Kate Mosse

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A wonderfully atmospheric collection of stories from one of our most captivating writers, inspired … read more

Similar categories in Kate Mosse's The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. The Gallows Pole

By: Benjamin Myers

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

"The Gallows Pole may well turn out to be 2017's His Bloody Project. It's a windswept, brutal tale … read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's The Gallows Pole book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Folk

By: None , Zoe Gilbert , Isobel Simonds

3.94

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

Every year they gather, while the girls shoot their arrows and the boys hunt them out. The air is r… read more

Similar categories in None's Folk book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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6. The Wicker Man

By: Anthony Shaffer , Robin Hardy

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

The emergence of a rabid cult following the film version of The Wicker Man prompted the publication… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Shaffer's The Wicker Man book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories

By: Robert Aickman

4.40

Format: 436 pages,

Cold Hand in Minewas first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story Pages from … read more

Similar categories in Robert Aickman's Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

8. The Owl Service

By: Alan Garner

3.84

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Something is scratching around in the attic above Alison's room. Yet the only thing up there is a s… read more

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9. Man in the Dark

By: Paul Auster

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

Man in the Dark is Paul Auster's brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit a… read more

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10. The Haunted Book

By: Jeremy Dyson

4.23

Format: 187 pages, Hardcover

* What unspeakable horror glimpsed in the basement of a private library in West Yorkshire drove a m… read more

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11. Elmet

By: Fiona Mozley

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Fresh and distinctive writing from an exciting new voice in fiction - Sally Rooney meets Sarah Perr… read more

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12. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's Cuddy book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

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13. Wakenhyrst

By: Michelle Paver

3.87

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wa… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Paver's Wakenhyrst book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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14. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Michael Hurley's Starve Acre book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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15. The Sleepwalkers

By: Scarlett Thomas

3.17

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the UK’s most interesting authors” (Kirkus Reviews), Patricia Highsmith meets White Lo… read more

Similar categories in Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Love Will Tear Us Apart (Stranger Times, #3)

By: C.K. McDonnell

4.39

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Love can be a truly terrible thing.Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one o… read more

Similar categories in C.K. McDonnell's Love Will Tear Us Apart (Stranger Times, #3) book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It flicked through all the channels until it found a repeat of the 1990s show in which people in swimwear saved other people from drowning by running in slow motion towards them"

-C.K. McDonnell, Love Will Tear Us Apart (Stranger Times, #3)

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17. 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 Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. The Way of All Flesh (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #1)

By: Ambrose Parry

3.94

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

A vivid and gripping historical crime novel set in 19th century Edinburgh, from husband-and-wife wr… read more

Similar categories in Ambrose Parry's The Way of All Flesh (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #1) book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • fiction
"Nor did he care for how McLevy used the term ‘females.’ He made it sound as though he were talking about some other manner of species; exotic and of interest, no doubt, but somehow beyond the human. …"

-Ambrose Parry, The Way of All Flesh (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #1)

"James Matthew Duncan, he decided, was going to be insufferable. He had the bearing of a young man who had never been punched full in the face for an unguarded remark, and Raven instinctively felt he …"

-Ambrose Parry, The Way of All Flesh (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #1)

"Sarah poured the tea, thinking how narrow Mina’s assessment of a woman’s role was, how restrictive. Why couldn’t a woman aspire to more? Why shouldn’t she? Why did Raven get to do whatever he wanted?…"

-Ambrose Parry, The Way of All Flesh (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #1)

"Sarah had been speaking the truth when she said she didn’t dislike him, but she did dislike his presumption of superiority over her, as she disliked it in all young men. Given the same chance, she wa…"

-Ambrose Parry, The Way of All Flesh (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #1)

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19. The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World

By: Jennifer Higgie

4.08

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

'Endlessly intriguing . . . I was enchanted' - DAILY TELEGRAPH'Illuminating in every sense of the w… read more

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20. The Didomenico Fragment

By: Amor Towles

4.17

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

1 hour, 47 minutes From the New York Times best-selling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rul… read more

Similar categories in Amor Towles's The Didomenico Fragment book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Help the Witch

By: Tom Cox

3.71

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

As night draws through country lanes, and darkness sweeps across hills and darkness sweeps across h… read more

Similar categories in Tom Cox's Help the Witch book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • short stories
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • witches
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Each day the pair would meet at 2pm at the exact halfway point between the villages and stand a hundred yards apart, staring longingly at each other, yearning for the time when the pestilence would p…"

-Tom Cox, Help the Witch

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22. Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

By: Richard Wells

3.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Damnable Tales is an illustrated collection of classic short stories drawing upon the haunted lands… read more

Similar categories in Richard Wells's Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
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23. Mischief Acts

By: Zoe Gilbert

3.78

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Herne the hunter, mischief-maker, spirit of the forest, leader of the wild hunt, hurtles through th… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Gilbert's Mischief Acts book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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24. Two Stories

By: Sally Rooney

3.30

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Two stories about the uncertainties of attraction, from the acclaimed author of Normal People and C… read more

Similar categories in Sally Rooney's Two Stories book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Time skimmed past us like an ice skater."

-Sally Rooney, Two Stories

"He kissed me. I felt feverish and stupid, like a thirsty person with too much water suddenly pouring into their mouth."

-Sally Rooney, Two Stories

"What made you think I was nice? He doesn’t think he can answer this question. In truth he doesn’t think of her as particularly nice. He just thinks of niceness as a general standard to which everyone…"

-Sally Rooney, Two Stories

"We used to watch films together like that. And he would touch my hair in that exact way, distractedly. I found his distraction comforting. In a way i wanted to live inside it, as if it was a place of…"

-Sally Rooney, Two Stories

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25. Dead Relatives

By: Lucie McKnight Hardy

3.92

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Iris has never left the big house in the country she shares with Mammy and the servants. When The L… read more

Similar categories in Lucie McKnight Hardy's Dead Relatives book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • horror
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. Salt Lick

By: Lulu Allison

3.66

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Food production has moved overseas. The countryside is empty and once again wild. The rural economy… read more

Similar categories in Lulu Allison's Salt Lick book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

27. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • fiction
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28. Rare Singles

By: Benjamin Myers

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul mu… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's Rare Singles book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. The Moonlight Market

By: Joanne Harris

3.54

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author Joanne Harris comes a richly imagined and captivating novel … read more

Similar categories in Joanne Harris's The Moonlight Market book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
" Love never ends--- but it changes. In some cases, it grows like a tree, stronger and more fruitful. In others, it changes nature, like chrysalis to butterfly. "

-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market

"And, at that, picking up his parcel of books, Spider began to walk purposefully down the road, a river of light at his ragged heels, his spindly shadow beside him."

-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market

"He was close to her now, close enough to smell her scent, which was like bluebells in the rain, and the aroma of a forest in spring, and the peppery sweetness of petrichor."

-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market

"There's daylight names and midnight names. Daylight names are safe enough. A spider brings good luck before midnight, but bad luck after. And you look to me like the kind of young man who needs good …"

-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market

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30. These Darkening Days (Mace & Brindle, #2)

By: Benjamin Myers

3.93

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

As autumn draws in, a Pennine valley town famed for its alternative lifestyles is shocked to its co… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's These Darkening Days (Mace & Brindle, #2) book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • fiction
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31. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Tom Cox's Help the Witch

  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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Collected Ghost Stories

M.R. James

4.14

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Kate Mosse

3.70

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Benjamin Myers

3.00

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Anthony Shaffer , Robin Hardy

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Elly Griffiths

3.92

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Liane Moriarty

4.15

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Elizabeth Strout

4.46

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Chris Brookmyre

4.07

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