13 best-selling horror books like The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel

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The Wild Hunt

By: Emma Seckel

3.74

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

The islanders have only three rules: don’t stick your nose where it’s not wanted, don’t mention the…

"You don’t sound happy, mo ghrád,"

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

"You don’t sound happy, mo ghrád,"

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

"No matter how hard one tried, this island was not a place of leaving easily. It clung to a person like dew. He was still here, always still here"

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

"No matter how hard one tried, this island was not a place of leaving easily. It clung to a person like dew. He was still here, always still here"

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

If you liked the horror plot in The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood

1. The Empty House

By: Algernon Blackwood

3.16

Format: 288 pages, ebook

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Similar categories in Algernon Blackwood's The Empty House book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

2. Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

4.00

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

Cover of The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen

3. The End of Drum-Time

By: Hanna Pylväinen

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder… read more

Similar categories in Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Shutter by Ramona Emerson

4. Shutter

By: Ramona Emerson

3.80

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Ramona Emerson's Shutter book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Downtown Village was one of the oldest apartment buildings in Albuquerque, rising five stories above the street below. The first four floors housed six small apartments, each just like the one next t…"

-Ramona Emerson, Shutter

Cover of The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

5. The Warm Hands of Ghosts

By: Katherine Arden

4.02

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."

-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Cover of The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

6. The Familiar

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

Cover of Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas

7. Vampires of El Norte

By: Isabel Cañas

3.90

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the aut… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Cañas's Vampires of El Norte book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Silver Nitrate book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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9. The Vaster Wilds

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

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10. Starling House

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.83

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that ca… read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's Starling House book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You’re a pretty good liar"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Survival is a hard habit to break."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

Cover of O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker

11. O Caledonia

By: Elspeth Barker

3.98

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more

Similar categories in Elspeth Barker's O Caledonia book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
Cover of Whale Fall by Elizabeth  O'Connor

12. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth O'Connor's Whale Fall book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) by Heather Fawcett

13. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.32

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wi… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"One of the guiding principles of dryadology,"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I may not be a miller's daughter, but you are not so different from the Folk as you think, Your Highness." I lifted her wineglass and dashed the remainder against her face, spilling it across her mou…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I brushed the hair from his face. It is very soft--- ludicrously so, in fact, more like rabbit down or dandelion seed than human hair--- and I found I could not stop stroking it. He murmured somethin…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

Cover of The Cloisters by Katy Hays

14. The Cloisters

By: Katy Hays

3.41

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

On the wheel of fortune, who will emerge on top... and who will die? When Ann Stilwell arrives i… read more

Similar categories in Katy Hays's The Cloisters book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Life after parents is like a clean slate. [Rachel Mondray]"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

"...time made it possible to revisit even the hardest places. [Ann Stilwell]"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

"And I searched my memory -- that thin, imperfect archive -- for where might have seen it before. [Ann Stilwell]"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

"Era difícil no notar el peso del pasado a nuestro alrededor. Al fin de cuentas, ¿los museos no eran en realidad mausoleos?"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

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15. The Morningside

By: Téa Obreht

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more

Similar categories in Téa Obreht's The Morningside book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The House in the Orchard by Elizabeth  Brooks

16. The House in the Orchard

By: Elizabeth Brooks

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

1945: War widow Peggy is grateful to have inherited Orchard House from her husband’s Aunt Maude; sh… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Brooks's The House in the Orchard book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The God of Endings by Jacqueline  Holland

17. The God of Endings

By: Jacqueline Holland

3.80

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Collette LeSange has been hiding a dark secret: She is immortal. In 1834, Collette’s grandfather gr… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Holland's The God of Endings book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of King Nyx by Kirsten Bakis

18. King Nyx

By: Kirsten Bakis

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the contemporary cult classic, Lives of the Monster Dogs , comes a haunting myst… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Bakis's King Nyx book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of When Among Crows by Veronica Roth

19. 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 Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel

20. The Wild Hunt

By: Emma Seckel

3.74

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

The islanders have only three rules: don’t stick your nose where it’s not wanted, don’t mention the… read more

Similar categories in Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt book and Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • magical realism
  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You don’t sound happy, mo ghrád,"

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

"No matter how hard one tried, this island was not a place of leaving easily. It clung to a person like dew. He was still here, always still here"

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

"No matter how hard one tried, this island was not a place of leaving easily. It clung to a person like a dee. He was still here, always still here"

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

"She suspected that nobody still left on this island really deserved the blissful ignorance that was prerequisite to that slow and simple life anymore."

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

21. 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 Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

21 Best fiction books like The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel

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Algernon Blackwood

3.16

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Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

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The End of Drum-Time

Hanna Pylväinen

3.94

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Shutter

Ramona Emerson

3.80

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21 must-read fiction books like The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

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The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Katherine Arden

4.02

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The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

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