15 Top horror books like Before the Devil Knows You're Here by Autumn Krause

Cover of Before the Devil Knows You're Here by Autumn Krause

Before the Devil Knows You're Here

By: Autumn Krause

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously dark folk horror for fans of Maggie Stiefvater and Erin Craig, blending the tall tale…

"Curses could be broken, yes, but they left scars. Not simply the sort made from dead flesh, but the sort formed over a nerve so that an ache is always there, just beneath the skin."

-Autumn Krause, Before the Devil Knows You're Here

"Curses could be broken, yes, but they left scars. Not simply the sort made from dead flesh, but the sort formed over a nerve so that an ache is always there, just beneath the skin."

-Autumn Krause, Before the Devil Knows You're Here

If you liked the horror plot in Before the Devil Knows You're Here by Autumn Krause , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Under This Red Rock by Mindy McGinnis

1. Under This Red Rock

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Neely’s monsters don’t always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in h… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's Under This Red Rock book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • horror
Cover of The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

2. The Invocations

By: Krystal Sutherland

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . . Zara Jones believes in magic because the… read more

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • horror
"What if Savannah had found whatever it was she sold a piece of her soul to go looking for."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?" "Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. Th…"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going …"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

Cover of A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) by Ava Reid

3. A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

By: Ava Reid

3.78

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The only enemy is the sea."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"No one owns the right to tell a story."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"I find you very charming underneath all the smugness."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"The sea is treacherous, but women are even more treacherous."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

Cover of When Ghosts Call Us Home by Katya de Becerra

4. When Ghosts Call Us Home

By: Katya de Becerra

3.68

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Haunting of Hill House meets found-footage horror in this edge-of-your-seat thriller that explores … read more

Similar categories in Katya de Becerra's When Ghosts Call Us Home book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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5. A Fragile Enchantment

By: Allison Saft

3.53

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In this romantic fantasy of manners from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft, a magical … read more

Similar categories in Allison Saft's A Fragile Enchantment book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You're like a pint-sized hurricane of earnestness and good cheer."

-Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment

"it's not meaningful to kill yourself little by little to make people happy!"

-Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment

Cover of Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek

6. Where the Dark Stands Still

By: A.B. Poranek

4.12

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Raised in a small village near the spirit-wood, Liska Radost knows that Magic is monstrous, and its… read more

Similar categories in A.B. Poranek's Where the Dark Stands Still book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We kissed, you incorrigible antlered tradgedy!"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"His eyebrows tilt up, firelight reflecting in his eyes. "It was always to be my fate." "Fate," she scoffs. "What is fate but an excuse to surrender responsibility? No, Eliasz, we cannot think of that…"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"Please," she begs. "Surely there must be some spell—there must be something, anything. Please, Eliasz, please. Tell me how to save you." "Liska, Liseczka. Oj, lisku." He raises her hand to his lips, …"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

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7. Your Blood, My Bones

By: Kelly Andrew

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A seductively twisted romance about loyalty, fate, the lengths we go to hide the darkest parts of o… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Andrew's Your Blood, My Bones book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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8. The Bad Ones

By: Melissa Albert

3.66

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Goddess, goddess, count to five In the morning, who’s alive? In the course of a single winter’s… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Albert's The Bad Ones book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Let's say your the girl who saved your best friends life. The person who apparently kept her alive With your love and your constancey. With your steadfast disregard for the worser parts of her nature…"

-Melissa Albert, The Bad Ones

Cover of My Throat an Open Grave by Tori Bovalino

9. My Throat an Open Grave

By: Tori Bovalino

3.84

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Labyrinth meets folk horror in this darkly romantic tale of a girl who wishes her baby brother away… read more

Similar categories in Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • gothic
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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10. Together We Rot

By: Skyla Arndt

3.56

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl looking for the truth about her missing mother forms a reluctant alliance with her form… read more

Similar categories in Skyla Arndt's Together We Rot book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters

11. All That Consumes Us

By: Erica Waters

3.75

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Ninth House meets The Dead and the Dark in this gothic dark academia novel that delves into the hum… read more

Similar categories in Erica Waters's All That Consumes Us book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • horror
"We are like a mockery to the dead-so young and so alive, our blood beating hot and excited in our veins. If the roles were reversed and it were me who lay beneath the earth, beneath this thoughtless …"

-Erica Waters, All That Consumes Us

Cover of The Hedgewitch of Foxhall by Anna  Bright

12. The Hedgewitch of Foxhall

By: Anna Bright

3.73

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

In this gorgeous stand-alone fantasy romance perfect for fans of Margaret Rogerson and Allison Saft… read more

Similar categories in Anna Bright's The Hedgewitch of Foxhall book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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13. A Place for Vanishing

By: Ann Fraistat

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl and her family return to her mother's childhood home, only to discover that the house's… read more

Similar categories in Ann Fraistat's A Place for Vanishing book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Before the Devil Knows You're Here by Autumn Krause

14. Before the Devil Knows You're Here

By: Autumn Krause

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously dark folk horror for fans of Maggie Stiefvater and Erin Craig, blending the tall tale… read more

Similar categories in Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • gothic
  • retellings
  • historical
  • young adult
  • folklore
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Curses could be broken, yes, but they left scars. Not simply the sort made from dead flesh, but the sort formed over a nerve so that an ache is always there, just beneath the skin."

-Autumn Krause, Before the Devil Knows You're Here

Cover of Don't Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews

15. Don't Let the Forest In

By: C.G. Drews

4.35

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, Andrew had cut out his heart and given it to this boy, and he was very sure Thoma… read more

Similar categories in C.G. Drews's Don't Let the Forest In book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Clever Creatures of the Night by Samantha Mabry

16. Clever Creatures of the Night

By: Samantha Mabry

2.77

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When Case’s best friend Drea goes missing, Case dives into the bizarre, cultlike—and possibly murde… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Mabry's Clever Creatures of the Night book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
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17. The Voice Upstairs

By: Laura E. Weymouth

3.70

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In 1920s England, a working-class girl who can see spirits works with a lord’s son to solve mysteri… read more

Similar categories in Laura E. Weymouth's The Voice Upstairs book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • gothic
  • historical
  • young adult
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Our Wicked Histories by Amy  Goldsmith

18. Our Wicked Histories

By: Amy Goldsmith

3.95

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl’s attempt to make amends with her former friend group takes a sinister turn during a we… read more

Similar categories in Amy Goldsmith's Our Wicked Histories book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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19. To a Darker Shore

By: Leanne Schwartz

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A da Vinci-esque teen girl inventor on a Dante-esque journey through hell to save her best friend. … read more

Similar categories in Leanne Schwartz's To a Darker Shore book and Autumn Krause's Before the Devil Knows You're Here

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"She couldn’t help the hope that kindled painfully in her chest. Couldn’t help the steps she took in the wrong direction—nearer to him. Greater than any pull of gravity upon a flier, more than her dut…"

-Leanne Schwartz, To a Darker Shore

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