29 Best fiction books like Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror by Samantha Kolesnik

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Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

By: Samantha Kolesnik

3.77

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

A fateful family trip to an amusement park. An island movie theater that takes more than the patron…

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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 Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • fiction
  • horror

2. The Nest

By: Gregory A. Douglas , None

3.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Gregory A. Douglas's The Nest book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • fiction
  • horror

3. 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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4. Ankle Snatcher

By: Grady Hendrix

3.74

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Obey the rules. It’s the only way to survive the night in a short story about what hides in the dar… read more

Similar categories in Grady Hendrix's Ankle Snatcher book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology

By: Vince A. Liaguno

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An anthology of original horror stories edited by Bram Stoker Award ® winners Vince A. Liaguno and … read more

Similar categories in Vince A. Liaguno's Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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6. Your Shadow Half Remains

By: Sunny Moraine

3.38

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

One look can kill. Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No fac… read more

Similar categories in Sunny Moraine's Your Shadow Half Remains book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Black Tide

By: K.C. Jones

3.59

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

A story with a cinematic feel, Black Tide is Cujo meets A Quiet Place. It was just another day a… read more

Similar categories in K.C. Jones's Black Tide book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"We're alive. And we have hope. I say, no matter what, we're heading in the right direction."

-K.C. Jones, Black Tide

"Stories explained the unknowable before the advent of science. What happens when science is left shrugging its shoulders?"

-K.C. Jones, Black Tide

"I'm a liar, but I'm telling you the truth about this: I want to stay on the road. I want to go as far as these wheels and gears can take me."

-K.C. Jones, Black Tide

"My dad always used to say it's important that people never stop appreciating sunsets. As long as we can still be stopped in our tracks and remember what a big deal it is that we're even here, there's…"

-K.C. Jones, Black Tide

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8. 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 Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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9. Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees

By: Patrick Horvath

4.21

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Live, laugh, shed blood. Dexter meets Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Town in this twisted debut graphi… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Horvath's Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Twelve Nights at Rotter House

By: J.W. Ocker

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Felix Allsey is a travel writer with a keen eye for the paranormal, and he's carved out a unique, i… read more

Similar categories in J.W. Ocker's Twelve Nights at Rotter House book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Where else was I wrong? It was the same question I had asked myself when I'd finally sloughed off Christianity. Where else was I fundamentally wrong about life and the universe and how everything wor…"

-J.W. Ocker, Twelve Nights at Rotter House

"Because you trust your house, right? It's your house. It protects you from the world and, even more important, all the people out there. It sees you naked every day. It knows your sins. It's the only…"

-J.W. Ocker, Twelve Nights at Rotter House

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11. 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 Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"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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12. Guests

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

4.04

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

A child who can turn your reality into an unspeakable nightmare. A monster from childhood with wire… read more

Similar categories in Kealan Patrick Burke's Guests book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Tastes Like Candy

By: Ivy Tholen

3.64

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone at Pritchett High wants an invitation to the Senior Scavenge. In 2020, Violet Warren and h… read more

Similar categories in Ivy Tholen's Tastes Like Candy book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology

By: Ellen Datlow

3.65

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horro… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Datlow's Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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15. 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 Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • 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

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16. This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

By: Eric LaRocca

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram St… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
"The worst thing a person can do to you after they've hurt you is let you live."

-Eric LaRocca, This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

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17. Camp Slaughter (Slaughter Series, #1)

By: Sergio Gomez

3.45

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s a local legend. No one is sure if this “Camp Slaughter” place is real or not. But a group of c… read more

Similar categories in Sergio Gomez's Camp Slaughter (Slaughter Series, #1) book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories by Andrew Cull

18. Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories

By: Andrew Cull

3.95

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Between April and August 2021 eighteen horror writers disappeared. Gathered together for the first … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Cull's Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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19. Halloween Fiend

By: C.V. Hunt

3.58

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Strang isn’t the small, quaint town it appears to be. It’s haunted every night by a creature the to… read more

Similar categories in C.V. Hunt's Halloween Fiend book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"But no matter where I ran to or how loud I played the music, I could still hear a low chuckling coming from the thing on our front step."

-C.V. Hunt, Halloween Fiend

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

20. 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 Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

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

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

Cover of It Came from the Multiplex: 80s Midnight Chillers by Joshua Viola

21. It Came from the Multiplex: 80s Midnight Chillers

By: Joshua Viola

3.54

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

Welcome to tonight's feature presentation, brought to you by an unholy alliance of our spellcasters… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Viola's It Came from the Multiplex: 80s Midnight Chillers book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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22. 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

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's Below book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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23. 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 Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"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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24. Secret Santa

By: Andrew Shaffer

3.46

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

The Office meets Stephen King, dressed up in holiday tinsel, in this fun, festive, and frightening … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Shaffer's Secret Santa book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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25. Shooting Star

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.78

Format: 43 pages, Paperback

John Shaw just wanted to go fishing and live off the land—now he is one of only a few survivors inv… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's Shooting Star book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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26. The Visitor

By: Sergio Gomez

3.34

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

On Christmas, during one of the worst snowstorms Indiana has ever seen, five strangers are forced t… read more

Similar categories in Sergio Gomez's The Visitor book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Cirque Berserk by Jessica Guess

27. Cirque Berserk

By: Jessica Guess

3.76

Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition

The summer of 1989 brought terror to the town of Shadows Creek, Florida in the form of a massacre a… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Guess's Cirque Berserk book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror by Samantha Kolesnik

28. Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

By: Samantha Kolesnik

3.77

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

A fateful family trip to an amusement park. An island movie theater that takes more than the patron… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of The Devil and the Deep by Ellen Datlow

29. The Devil and the Deep

By: Ellen Datlow

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2018 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY Stranded on a desert island, a young man… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Datlow's The Devil and the Deep book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) by Nathan Ballingrud

30. Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into th… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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31. Haunt Sweet Home

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.47

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pinsker's Haunt Sweet Home book and Samantha Kolesnik's Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror

25 Top adult books like Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror by Samantha Kolesnik

Transform Your Habits

Ankle Snatcher

Grady Hendrix

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology

Vince A. Liaguno

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Your Shadow Half Remains

Sunny Moraine

3.38

Transform Your Habits

Black Tide

K.C. Jones

3.59

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19 Top fiction books like Twelve Nights at Rotter House by J.W. Ocker

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A Haunting

L.I. Albemont

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Bone White

Ronald Malfi

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Haunted Forest Tour

James A. Moore , Jeff Strand

3.69

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Joe Hart

3.18

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