29 Top horror books like Touch the Night by Max Booth III

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Touch the Night

By: Max Booth III

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

MOTHER! MOTHER! RISE FROM THE GROUND! Stranger Things and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre unite to …

If you liked the horror plot in Touch the Night by Max Booth III , here is a list of 29 books like this:

Cover of Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In by Joe R. Lansdale, Andres Guinaldo

1. Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In

By: Joe R. Lansdale , Andres Guinaldo

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

When a group of friends decided to spend a day at the world's largest Drive-In theater horror fest,… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • fiction
  • horror

2. Dark Harvest

By: Norman Partridge

4.02

Format: 982 pages,

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, … read more

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3. Sacculina

By: Philip Fracassi

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

When Jim's big brother Jack is released from prison, the brothers - along with their broken father … read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Sacculina book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

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4. Maeve Fly

By: C.J. Leede

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's Maeve Fly book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

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5. Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Boys in the Valley book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

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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

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"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. The Pram

By: Joe Hill

3.77

Format: 58 pages, Kindle Edition

A husband’s obsessive desire for a child leads to an unexpected manifestation of his yearning in a … read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's The Pram book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

Format: 457 pages, Hardcover

Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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9. Fever House (Fever House, #1)

By: Keith Rosson

4.03

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose … read more

Similar categories in Keith Rosson's Fever House (Fever House, #1) book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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10. We Can Never Leave This Place

By: Eric LaRocca

3.52

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

"When you're given a gift, something else gets taken away." A precocious young girl with an unus… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's We Can Never Leave This Place book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"We can never leave this place," my mother told her. "It would hurt too much."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

"We can never leaves this places," my mother told her. "It would hurt to much."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

"How could you do this to me?' the creature asked. And the blind man said, 'I wanted to be the only one to hurry you."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

"I watched as blood swirled down my naked body in dark ribbons—tiny threads that had forever come undone from me and were sent to freedom."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

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11. Big Bad

By: Chandler Baker

3.77

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

For a family trying to make an isolated farmhouse into a home, fear and rage are getting harder to … read more

Similar categories in Chandler Baker's Big Bad book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. Gothic

By: Philip Fracassi

3.83

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

On his 59th birthday, Tyson Parks—a famous, but struggling, horror writer—receives an antique desk … read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Gothic book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Black Mouth

By: Ronald Malfi

3.96

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

For nearly two decades, Jamie Warren has been running from darkness. He's haunted by a traumatic ch… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Black Mouth book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of Along the River of Flesh (Gone to See the River Man, #2) by Kristopher Triana

14. Along the River of Flesh (Gone to See the River Man, #2)

By: Kristopher Triana

3.96

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Having escaped from prison, serial killer Edmund Cox returns to his hometown of Killen. Entering th… read more

Similar categories in Kristopher Triana's Along the River of Flesh (Gone to See the River Man, #2) book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. The Day of the Door

By: Laurel Hightower

4.13

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Once there were four Lasco siblings banded together against a world that failed to protect them. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's The Day of the Door book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • fiction
  • horror
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17. The Handyman Method

By: Nick Cutter

3.27

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror. When a y… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Handyman Method book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"When prey dies in fear, hunters will say the meat tastes bitter."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"What of happiness, then? May we speak of the taste of joyful meat?"

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"Old memories were like land mines: dormant, forgotten, but forever deadly."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

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18. Small Town Horror

By: Ronald Malfi

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Small Town Horror book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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19. 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 Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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20. Wild Spaces

By: S.L. Coney

3.51

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life meets H. P. Lovecraft in Wild Spaces, a foreboding, sensual coming-… read more

Similar categories in S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • coming of age
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"As funny as he thinks a fish would look, he wonders how the sea felt when her inhabitants started walking away. He wonders if maybe that’s why she keeps eating away at the land, trying to take back w…"

-S.L. Coney, Wild Spaces

Cover of Zombie Bake-Off by Stephen Graham Jones

21. Zombie Bake-Off

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.50

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

It's time for the annual Recipe Days bake-off in Lubbock, Texas. Soccer moms and grandmothers gathe… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Zombie Bake-Off book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"If there's any better place to get stoned than a rolling box full of pastry, then they didn't have the keys for it, anyway."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Zombie Bake-Off

Cover of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

22. 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

By: Sadie Hartmann

4.43

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

The Ultimate List of Must-Read Horror! Curious readers and fans of monsters and the macabre, get re… read more

Similar categories in Sadie Hartmann's 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • adult
  • horror
"I love a good story about everyone dying."

-Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

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23. Midnight on Beacon Street

By: Emily Ruth Verona

2.88

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A suspenseful and entertaining debut thriller—and love letter to vintage horror movies—in which a t… read more

Similar categories in Emily Ruth Verona's Midnight on Beacon Street book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2) by Brian  McAuley

24. Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2)

By: Brian McAuley

4.12

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Oh what fun it is to DIE! When Austin’s parents drag him and his little sister Fiona to a remote… read more

Similar categories in Brian McAuley's Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2) book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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25. Psychic Teenage Bloodbath

By: Carl John Lee

3.79

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Susan Ward is in a coma. She’s been there for one year, ever since the accident. She can’t speak… read more

Similar categories in Carl John Lee's Psychic Teenage Bloodbath book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Forgotten Island by David Sodergren

26. The Forgotten Island

By: David Sodergren

3.90

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

When Ana Logan agrees to go on holiday to Thailand with her estranged sister Rachel, she hopes it w… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's The Forgotten Island book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Touch the Night by Max Booth III

27. Touch the Night

By: Max Booth III

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

MOTHER! MOTHER! RISE FROM THE GROUND! Stranger Things and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre unite to … read more

Similar categories in Max Booth III's Touch the Night book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of Wasps in the Ice Cream by Tim McGregor

28. Wasps in the Ice Cream

By: Tim McGregor

4.10

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens when you fall for the girl everyone hates? Summer 1987: Mark Prewitt's only priorit… read more

Similar categories in Tim McGregor's Wasps in the Ice Cream book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
Cover of I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

29. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of Suffer the Darkness by Yolanda Sfetsos

30. Suffer the Darkness

By: Yolanda Sfetsos

3.49

Format: 161 pages, ebook

Kae Roscoe's daughter went missing in the woods sixteen months ago but when she returns, she's not … read more

Similar categories in Yolanda Sfetsos's Suffer the Darkness book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo by Adam Cesare

31. Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo

By: Adam Cesare

3.82

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The thrills and chills are far from over in the third novel from Bram Stoker Award winner and maste… read more

Similar categories in Adam Cesare's Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo book and Max Booth III's Touch the Night

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • horror

28 must-read fiction books like Touch the Night by Max Booth III

Transform Your Habits

Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In

Joe R. Lansdale , Andres Guinaldo

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

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20 best-selling fiction books like Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede

Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

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