6 Best horror books like Whisper by Yu-Ko Chang

Cover of Whisper by Yu-Ko Chang

Whisper

By: Yu-Ko Chang

3.54

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Victims all describe hearing a voice before they die gruesomely. Sometimes it’s singing an old Taiw…

If you liked the horror plot in Whisper by Yu-Ko Chang , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Victorian Chaise Longue by Marghanita Laski

1. The Victorian Chaise Longue

By: Marghanita Laski

3.58

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

The charming, childish wife of a successful lawyer, falls asleep one afternoon on her Victorian cha… read more

Similar categories in Marghanita Laski's The Victorian Chaise Longue book and Yu-Ko Chang's Whisper

  • fiction
  • horror
"...and at last there was nothing but darkness, and in the darkness the ecstasy, and after the ecstasy, death and life."

-Marghanita Laski, The Victorian Chaise Longue

Cover of Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin, Ari Larissa Heinrich

2. Last Words from Montmartre

By: Qiu Miaojin , Ari Larissa Heinrich

2.77

Format: 130 pages,

When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she… read more

Similar categories in Qiu Miaojin's Last Words from Montmartre book and Yu-Ko Chang's Whisper

  • asia
  • china
  • fiction
Cover of The Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu Takagi, Deborah Boliver Boehm

3. The Tattoo Murder Case

By: Akimitsu Takagi , Deborah Boliver Boehm

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a … read more

Similar categories in Akimitsu Takagi's The Tattoo Murder Case book and Yu-Ko Chang's Whisper

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Goth by Otsuichi, Andrew Cunningham

4. Goth

By: Otsuichi , Andrew Cunningham

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In these haunting stories, two teenagers linked by an obsession with murder and torture explore the… read more

Similar categories in Otsuichi's Goth book and Yu-Ko Chang's Whisper

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"What I saw there was my own death."

-Otsuichi, Goth

"I'm not gonna die alone, no way! He will never allow it!"

-Otsuichi, Goth

"Tobacco kills a lot of people, but cigarette vending machines are killing that woman by stealing her job."

-Otsuichi, Goth

"By understanding the value system the world preferred, remembering and feigning it, I was able to convince others that I was free of problems. I simply had to participate enthusiastically in the bori…"

-Otsuichi, Goth

5. The Graveyard Apartment

By: Mariko Koike , Deborah Boliver Boehm

4.32

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

A terrifying tale of a young family who move into an apartment building next to a graveyard and the… read more

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6. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

By: None , Chi-Young Kim

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

I don't encourage murder. I have no interest in one person killing another. I only want to draw out… read more

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7. The Ark Sakura

By: Kōbō Abe , Juliet Winters Carpenter

4.09

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Tells of a fat hermit whose fears of a nuclear disaster lead him to build a shelter inside a mounta… read more

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8. The Hole

By: Sora Kim-Russell , Hye-Young Pyun , None

2.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Bestseller in Korea, a Psychological Thriller about Loneliness and the Dark Truths We Try to Bury… read more

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9. Idol, Burning

By: Rin Usami

3.23

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer,… read more

Similar categories in Rin Usami's Idol, Burning book and Yu-Ko Chang's Whisper

  • asian literature
  • asia
  • fiction
"His existence and my witnessing of it were all I asked for."

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

"Maybe that was how a home broke down over the years, as the sound of doors slamming and chairs roughly scraping the floor built up like dust, and the slow drip of gnashing teeth and resentful grumbli…"

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

"Idol groups generally assigned each member an official color, which would be used for the light sticks that fans would hold up to show your support at a performance or for other individual merch. My …"

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

Cover of Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung

10. Cursed Bunny

By: Bora Chung

3.78

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more

Similar categories in Bora Chung's Cursed Bunny book and Yu-Ko Chang's Whisper

  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • horror
"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

Cover of The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1) by Seishi Yokomizo

11. The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.66

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translate… read more

Similar categories in Seishi Yokomizo's The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1) book and Yu-Ko Chang's Whisper

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"What was Kenzo's reaction to all this criticism? His approach was to stay completely silent. He made no move whatsoever to respond to any of it. And, of course, water eventually wins over fire. One b…"

-Seishi Yokomizo, The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)

Cover of Chiếc Ghế Người by Edogawa Rampo

12. Chiếc Ghế Người

By: Edogawa Rampo

3.63

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

“Đã mấy tháng nay, tôi hoàn toàn biến mất khỏi thế giới loài người và đang sống một cuộc đời như củ… read more

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Cover of Your Utopia by Bora Chung

13. 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 Yu-Ko Chang's Whisper

  • asia
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2) by Yukito Ayatsuji

14. The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

By: Yukito Ayatsuji

3.62

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Ever since a horrific car accident, Fujinuma Kiichi has lived a reclusive existence in the remote M… read more

Similar categories in Yukito Ayatsuji's The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2) book and Yu-Ko Chang's Whisper

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"A cold death mask worn by a living man."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

"It sounded like the beating heart of the house."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

"In the gloomy darkness, I revealed my accursed face."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

"He cursed the storm that had upset his peaceful life."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

Cover of His Black Tongue by Mitchell Lüthi

15. His Black Tongue

By: Mitchell Lüthi

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is no plague in Enfaire… Dead things have been found in the fields of Enfaire, a God-feari… read more

Similar categories in Mitchell Lüthi's His Black Tongue book and Yu-Ko Chang's Whisper

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Tower by Bae Myung-hoon

16. Tower

By: Bae Myung-hoon

3.65

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Tower is a series of interconnected stories set in Beanstalk, a 674-story skyscraper and sovereign … read more

Similar categories in Bae Myung-hoon's Tower book and Yu-Ko Chang's Whisper

  • asian literature
  • asia
  • fiction
"Ho tirato fuori una cosa scritta a ventisette anni. Ero un ragazzo insofferente. Non mi stava bene nulla. Tutto era colpa delle vecchie generazioni. Li criticavo, li insultavo... Quando mi dicevano «…"

-Bae Myung-hoon, Tower

Cover of A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon

17. A Magical Girl Retires

By: Park Seolyeon

3.63

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more

Similar categories in Park Seolyeon's A Magical Girl Retires book and Yu-Ko Chang's Whisper

  • fiction
"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

Cover of Hạnh ngộ trong bóng tối by Otsuichi

18. Hạnh ngộ trong bóng tối

By: Otsuichi

4.03

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Mù loà, không còn ai để nương tựa, Michiru sống cô độc và lặng lẽ trong căn nhà người cha quá cố để… read more

Similar categories in Otsuichi's Hạnh ngộ trong bóng tối book and Yu-Ko Chang's Whisper

  • fiction
  • asian literature
  • thriller
  • novels
  • mystery
Cover of Whisper by Yu-Ko Chang

19. Whisper

By: Yu-Ko Chang

3.54

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Victims all describe hearing a voice before they die gruesomely. Sometimes it’s singing an old Taiw… read more

Similar categories in Yu-Ko Chang's Whisper book and Yu-Ko Chang's Whisper

  • novels
  • asia
  • chinese literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • asian literature
  • thriller
  • china
  • crime
  • mystery
Cover of Guardian: Zhen Hun (Novel) Vol. 2 by Priest

20. Guardian: Zhen Hun (Novel) Vol. 2

By: Priest

4.32

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

THE SLEEPING GOD STIRS As snow quietly covers Dragon City in the final days of the lunar year, p… read more

Similar categories in Priest's Guardian: Zhen Hun (Novel) Vol. 2 book and Yu-Ko Chang's Whisper

  • mystery
  • fiction
"If you must die, it must be in my arms and by my hand."

-Priest, Guardian: Zhen Hun (Novel) Vol. 2

"For love, the living may die, and the dead may live again."

-Priest, Guardian: Zhen Hun (Novel) Vol. 2

"I have plenty of assets, but I doubt they’d appeal to you. All I really have to offer is my heart. But if you won’t accept it, then just forget about this."

-Priest, Guardian: Zhen Hun (Novel) Vol. 2

"There in the dim light, he’d stolen a kiss from the love of his life. His heart soared with elation and sweetness. Even if he had died then and there, he wouldn’t have uttered a word of complaint."

-Priest, Guardian: Zhen Hun (Novel) Vol. 2

Cover of Astral Season, Beastly Season by Tahi Saihate

21. 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 Yu-Ko Chang's Whisper

  • asian literature
  • asia
  • thriller
  • fiction

16 Top fiction books like Whisper by Yu-Ko Chang

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The Victorian Chaise Longue

Marghanita Laski

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Last Words from Montmartre

Qiu Miaojin , Ari Larissa Heinrich

2.77

Transform Your Habits

The Tattoo Murder Case

Akimitsu Takagi , Deborah Boliver Boehm

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Goth

Otsuichi , Andrew Cunningham

4.02

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17 must-read fiction books like The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1) by Seishi Yokomizo

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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

Sōji Shimada , Shika MacKenzie , Ross MacKenzie

3.87

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The Decagon House Murders

Yukito Ayatsuji , Sōji Shimada , Ho-Ling Wong

2.50

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Inspector Imanishi Investigates

Seichō Matsumoto , Beth Cary

4.08

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Salvation of a Saint

Keigo Higashino , Alexander O. Smith

4.25

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