21 best-selling horror books like How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive by Craig DiLouie

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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…

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1. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

Cover of The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry

2. 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 Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • halloween
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • adult fiction
  • halloween
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • 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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7. The Night Guest

By: Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík … read more

Similar categories in Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest book and Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Heads Will Roll

By: Josh Winning

3.69

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Willow’s worst nightmare was being cancelled. But the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more tha… read more

Similar categories in Josh Winning's Heads Will Roll book and Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. So Thirsty

By: Rachel Harrison

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in thi… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's So Thirsty book and Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • halloween
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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10. 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 Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Wilderness Reform

By: Matt Query

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The authors of the “impossible to put down” (The Guardian) thriller Old Country return with a terri… read more

Similar categories in Matt Query's Wilderness Reform book and Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

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

13. 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 Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • adult fiction
  • film
  • halloween
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. 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 Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias

15. House of Bone and Rain

By: Gabino Iglesias

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME… read more

Similar categories in Gabino Iglesias's House of Bone and Rain book and Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. 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 Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • halloween
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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18. William

By: Mason Coile

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Psychological horror meets cyber noir in this delicious one-sitting read — a haunted house story in… read more

Similar categories in Mason Coile's William book and Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Drowning House by Cherie Priest

19. The Drowning House

By: Cherie Priest

3.55

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

A violent storm washes a mysterious house onto a rural Pacific Northwest beach, stopping the heart … read more

Similar categories in Cherie Priest's The Drowning House book and Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of A Mask of Flies by Matthew Lyons

20. A Mask of Flies

By: Matthew Lyons

3.80

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A Mask of Flies by Matthew Lyons is a crime horror novel which blends It Follows and The Outsider, … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Lyons's A Mask of Flies book and Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker

21. 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 Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook

21 best-selling fiction books like How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive by Craig DiLouie

Transform Your Habits

The Haunting of Velkwood

Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The House That Horror Built

Christina Henry

3.22

Transform Your Habits

Small Town Horror

Ronald Malfi

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Horror Movie

Paul Tremblay

3.45

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21 must-read fiction books like The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger at the Wedding

A.E. Gauntlett

3.32

Transform Your Habits

The Night Guest

Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Heads Will Roll

Josh Winning

3.69

Transform Your Habits

So Thirsty

Rachel Harrison

4.03

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