8 must-read paranormal books like Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims

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Thirteen Storeys

By: Jonathan Sims

3.86

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

You're cordially invited to dinner. Penthouse access is available via the broken freight elevator. …

"The ghosts were never the problem"

-Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys

"The ghosts were never the problem"

-Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys

"At a certain point, beyond all extremity, the only freedom you have left is the freedom to say ‘No’ and let them do as they will"

-Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys

"At a certain point, beyond all extremity, the only freedom you have left is the freedom to say ‘No’ and let them do as they will"

-Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys

If you liked the paranormal plot in Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims , here is a list of 8 books like this:

1. Welcome to Night Vale (Night Vale, #1)

By: None , Jeffrey Cranor

4.07

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Valepodcast comes an imaginative mystery o… read more

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2. Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

3.53

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's Episode Thirteen book and Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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3. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus book and Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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4. The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

By: A.M. Shine

3.93

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different… read more

Similar categories in A.M. Shine's The Watchers (The Watchers, #1) book and Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Every grudge, if it is to stand the test of time, relies on the certainty of a selective memory."

-A.M. Shine, The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

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5. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

3.89

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) book and Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

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6. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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7. The September House

By: Carissa Orlando

3.92

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this c… read more

Similar categories in Carissa Orlando's The September House book and Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"the stars shone in the sky, reminding me there were calm constants everywhere"

-Carissa Orlando, The September House

"Hal was familiar with anger. He preferred it. It was like a warm blanket to him. Something soft, and smelling of home"

-Carissa Orlando, The September House

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8. The House That Horror Built

By: Christina Henry

3.22

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifyi… read more

Similar categories in Christina Henry's The House That Horror Built book and Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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9. 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

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Mister Magic book and Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • adult
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"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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10. 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 Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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11. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.52

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has th… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's The Spirit Bares Its Teeth book and Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

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12. In That Endlessness, Our End

By: Gemma Files

4.03

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection COME C… read more

Similar categories in Gemma Files's In That Endlessness, Our End book and Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • audiobook
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13. The Creeper

By: A.M. Shine

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Superstitions only survive if people believe in them... Renowned academic Dr Sparling seeks help… read more

Similar categories in A.M. Shine's The Creeper book and Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. 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 Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

16. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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17. 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 Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims

18. Thirteen Storeys

By: Jonathan Sims

3.86

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

You're cordially invited to dinner. Penthouse access is available via the broken freight elevator. … read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys book and Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"The ghosts were never the problem"

-Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys

"At a certain point, beyond all extremity, the only freedom you have left is the freedom to say ‘No’ and let them do as they will"

-Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys

"He considered himself a good man, and always did his best to avoid passing judgement on others, but deep down he had an unshakeable conviction that all rich people were deeply, deeply stupid."

-Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys

"The beautiful woman in blood-stained jewels looked away, searching for a seat. She should hate her for the trophies she wore of slavery and death, but somewhere beneath her new callouses, she found t…"

-Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys

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19. When the Devil

By: Emma E. Murray

4.29

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

In When the Devil, Libby finds salvation in a new sapphic partner, homebrewed poison, and facing a … read more

Similar categories in Emma E. Murray's When the Devil book and Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive by Craig DiLouie

20. How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

By: Craig DiLouie

3.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From Bram Stoker Award‑nominated author Craig DiLouie comes a darkly humorous horror novel that see… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive book and Jonathan Sims's Thirteen Storeys

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

19 must-read fiction books like Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims

Transform Your Habits

Episode Thirteen

Craig DiLouie

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

A.M. Shine

3.93

Transform Your Habits

What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

T. Kingfisher

3.89

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19 must-read fiction books like The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

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So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors, #1)

Kamilah Cole

3.90

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T. Kingfisher

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The Invocations

Krystal Sutherland

4.11

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