21 best-selling horror books like Ghosts of West Baltimore by David Simmons

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Ghosts of West Baltimore

By: David Simmons

4.45

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

“Save the Westside, save the world” Our hero, Worm, has just been released from Sinai Hospital in …

If you liked the horror plot in Ghosts of West Baltimore by David Simmons , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. LOVE & OTHER WOUNDS

By: Jordan Harper

4.09

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In the hard-edged tradition of Hubert Selby Jr., Daniel Woodrell, and Donald Ray Pollock, and with … read more

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  • crime
"Sometimes I hear Mark laugh, and some days in the car the right song will come on the satellite radio and I'll feel him there tingling like a phantom limb. Like he's sitting there next to me in the d…"

-Jordan Harper, LOVE & OTHER WOUNDS

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2. Falling Angel

By: James Crumley , William Hjortsberg , Ridley Scott

3.91

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of murder, mystery, and the occult, Falling Angel pits a tough New York privat… read more

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  • crime
  • horror
"I like your eyes when you get mad," I said. "They glow like embers."

-James Crumley, Falling Angel

"Her wavy, shoulder-length hair was the colour of polished mahogany."

-James Crumley, Falling Angel

"I was examining the perfumed, coloured candles guaranteed to bring good fortune with continued use when a lovely mocha-skinned girl came in from the back room and stood behind the counter. She wore a…"

-James Crumley, Falling Angel

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3. The Hunger

By: Alma Katsu

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The Hunger is a tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical mome… read more

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  • horror

4. Lives of the Monster Dogs

By: Kirsten Bakis

3.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Here is a first novel like no other: a spellbinding tale that both creates its own fully realized w… read more

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5. Mongrels

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy whose family lives on t… read more

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6. 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

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  • horror
"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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7. Mister Magic

By: Kiersten White

3.59

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and di… read more

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"Magic never forgets the taste of your friendship."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"This version of him isn't perfect. None of them are. New isn't the same as perfect. Growing up isn't inherently loss, it's just change."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"I think you've told me thank you more in the last day than anyone else has in years. It's like--when there's a stack of dishes, if my husband actually does them , I tell him thank you. But when I do …"

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

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8. Black Sheep

By: Rachel Harrison

3.60

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irr… read more

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  • horror
"How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?"

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

"I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch."

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

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9. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

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  • horror
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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10. In the Valley of the Headless Men

By: L.P. Hernandez

3.82

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Nahanni National Park is one of last truly wild places on earth. Accessible only by plane, and only… read more

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  • horror
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11. Negative Space

By: B.R. Yeager

3.72

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more

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  • horror
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

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12. Bad Foundations

By: Brian Allen Carr

4.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Bad Foundations is a comedic absurdist novel about a home foundation inspector whose own home life … read more

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13. Churn the Soil

By: Steve Stred

3.77

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

Two hundred miles north of the town of Basco sits The Border. It’s a quiet, off-the-grid settlement… read more

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  • horror
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14. Below

By: Laurel Hightower

3.70

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO HELP A STRANGER? While driving through the mountains of West Virginia du… read more

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  • horror
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15. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

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  • horror
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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16. We Are Here to Hurt Each Other

By: Paula D. Ashe

4.06

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

With these twelve stories Paula D. Ashe takes you into a dark and bloody world where nothing is sac… read more

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  • horror
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17. Rainbow Black

By: Maggie Thrash

3.96

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more

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  • horror
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18. Ghosts of West Baltimore

By: David Simmons

4.45

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

“Save the Westside, save the world” Our hero, Worm, has just been released from Sinai Hospital in … read more

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  • crime
  • horror
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19. Violent Faculties

By: Charlene Elsby

4.04

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

A philosophy professor tests the limits of the soul and body by performing dehumanizing experiments… read more

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  • horror
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20. Rural Decay

By: Jason Nickey

4.13

Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition

Jack Buckley always admired his father. even after he found out he was a serial killer. As Jack gro… read more

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  • horror
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21. Friday Black

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.05

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt… read more

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  • horror
"We’re in How-It-Was class."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"Buy One Get One stops for no one."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"I locate: your life is in the hands of someone who doesn't even know you and thinks you don't deserve it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"You have to grab for happiness in places like this because there isn't enough to go around for everybody."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

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22. Chaindevils

By: Matthew Mitchell

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Take heed, and smoke what you got… In the far-distant post-apocalypse of rural America, an embat… read more

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  • horror
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23. Hobbies You Enjoy: A Novelty

By: Brian Alan Ellis

4.61

Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition

Serving as a somewhat companion piece to such literary classics as Letters to Wendy’s, Jack Handey’… read more

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24. Howl (The Howling Earth, #1)

By: E. Rathke

4.17

Format: 177 pages, Paperback

Nameless and kinless, a man and woman are banished by the only people they have ever known after be… read more

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25. Bullet Tooth

By: Grant Wamack

4.05

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

"With Bullet Tooth, Grant Wamack has created a horror icon for our time. Unlike Freddy and Jason wh… read more

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  • horror
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26. Letters to the Purple Satin Killer

By: Joshua Chaplinsky

4.18

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Jonas Williker is considered one of the most sadistic serial murderers of the modern era. This epis… read more

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  • horror
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27. Creation: On Art and Unbecoming

By: Christopher Zeischegg

4.59

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"Creation is a stunning new collection by one of the most exciting living writers. Reading a Christ… read more

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28. You Are the Snake: Stories

By: Juliet Escoria

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the celebrated author of Juliet the Maniac comes a collection of previously unpublished storie… read more

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29. Merciless Waters

By: Rae Knowles

3.95

Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea never changes. Neither do Lily and Jaq. Aboard the ship Scylla, there is no future or p… read more

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  • horror
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30. Make It Stop

By: Jim Ruland

3.87

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

A speculative tale of dysfunctional vigilantes, sex-crazed junkies, and corporate healthcare run am… read more

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31. Crazytimes

By: Scott Cole

3.63

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

You wake up Monday morning and everyone is crazy. Everyone was already crazy, though, right? But so… read more

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  • horror

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4.02

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4.18

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4.25

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