6 Best novels books like A Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig

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A Devil Comes to Town

By: Paolo Maurensig

3.53

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Wild rabies runs rampant through the woods. The foxes are gaining ground, boldly making their way i…

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Cover of The Vet's Daughter by Kathryn Davis, Barbara Comyns

1. The Vet's Daughter

By: Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns

3.90

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridde… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Davis's The Vet's Daughter book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • horror
"Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone."

-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter

"When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies."

-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter

"It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church."

-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter

"Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowin…"

-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter

2. Great Granny Webster

By: Honor Moore , Caroline Blackwood

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwoo… read more

Similar categories in Honor Moore's Great Granny Webster book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. Nails and Eyes

By: Kaori Fujino

3.43

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans of The Memory Police, Tender is … read more

Similar categories in Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

Cover of My Death by Lisa Tuttle

4. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Tuttle's My Death book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • literary fiction
  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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5. Stitches

By: Hirokatsu Kihara

3.14

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Horror manga giant Junji Ito teams up with spooky story writer Hirokatsu Kihara for the ultimate co… read more

Similar categories in Hirokatsu Kihara's Stitches book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Termush by Sven Holm

6. Termush

By: Sven Holm

3.31

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more

Similar categories in Sven Holm's Termush book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • fiction
"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"

-Sven Holm, Termush

Cover of Your Utopia by Bora Chung

7. Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more

Similar categories in Bora Chung's Your Utopia book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Lost in the Garden by Adam S. Leslie

8. Lost in the Garden

By: Adam S. Leslie

3.73

Format: 446 pages, Paperback

"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more

Similar categories in Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken

9. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

Similar categories in Anne de Marcken's It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • literary fiction
  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

Cover of Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek

10. Bitter Water Opera

By: Nicolette Polek

4.03

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without it In 1967, … read more

Similar categories in Nicolette Polek's Bitter Water Opera book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard

11. The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

By: Matthieu Simard

3.66

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where … read more

Similar categories in Matthieu Simard's The Country Will Bring Us No Peace book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Harlequin Butterfly by Toh EnJoe

12. Harlequin Butterfly

By: Toh EnJoe

3.37

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

A surreal novella about the global pursuit of a mysterious writer who somehow writes in dozens of l… read more

Similar categories in Toh EnJoe's Harlequin Butterfly book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • fiction
Cover of Eyes Guts Throat Bones by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

13. Eyes Guts Throat Bones

By: Moïra Fowley-Doyle

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

What will the end of the world look like? Will it be an old man slowly turned to gold, flowers rain… read more

Similar categories in Moïra Fowley-Doyle's Eyes Guts Throat Bones book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Smith's Brat book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

Cover of Fragile Animals by Genevieve Jagger

15. Fragile Animals

By: Genevieve Jagger

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Jagger's Fragile Animals book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of One's Company by Ashley Hutson

16. One's Company

By: Ashley Hutson

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

One of the New Yorker 's Best Books of 2022 So Far and BuzzFeed 's Must-Read Summer Books For read… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Hutson's One's Company book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • literary fiction
  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"People who research anything, who deep-dive anything, understand that solitude is never loneliness when you have your subject. The subject looms before you like a bright city on the horizon, beckonin…"

-Ashley Hutson, One's Company

Cover of A Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig

17. A Devil Comes to Town

By: Paolo Maurensig

3.53

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Wild rabies runs rampant through the woods. The foxes are gaining ground, boldly making their way i… read more

Similar categories in Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • italy
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • italian literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • books about books
Cover of Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardy

18. Water Shall Refuse Them

By: Lucie McKnight Hardy

3.45

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

The heatwave of 1976. Following the accidental drowning of her sister, sixteen-year-old Nif and her… read more

Similar categories in Lucie McKnight Hardy's Water Shall Refuse Them book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
Cover of Hard Copy by Fien Veldman

19. Hard Copy

By: Fien Veldman

3.34

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This is a story of girl meets printer. A customer service assistant spends her long workdays pri… read more

Similar categories in Fien Veldman's Hard Copy book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Astral Season, Beastly Season by Tahi Saihate

20. Astral Season, Beastly Season

By: Tahi Saihate

3.42

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Astral Season, Beastly Season is the debut novel by Japanese writer Tahi Saihate. The story follows… read more

Similar categories in Tahi Saihate's Astral Season, Beastly Season book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories by Sarah Coolidge

21. Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories

By: Sarah Coolidge

4.01

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist… A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brin… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Coolidge's Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories book and Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult

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