21 best-selling horror books like The Color Out of Time by Michael Shea

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The Color Out of Time

By: Michael Shea

3.42

Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The flooded New England valley made a beautiful holiday spot, with twenty miles of secluded lakesho…

If you liked the horror plot in The Color Out of Time by Michael Shea , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Ghost Train

By: Stephen Laws

4.14

Format: 512 pages,

Something deadly is stalking the corridors of the King's Cross train, preying on passengers. Commut… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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2. Burnt Black Suns

By: Laird Barron , Simon Strantzas , None

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

In this fourth collection of stories, Simon Strantzas establishes himself as one of the most dynami… read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's Burnt Black Suns book and Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. Demons By Daylight

By: Ramsey Campbell

3.97

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

* Potential[Severn Valley] - (1973) * The End of a Summer's Day- (1973) * At First Sight- (1973) * … read more

Similar categories in Ramsey Campbell's Demons By Daylight book and Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. At the Mountains of Madness

By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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5. The Keep (Adversary Cycle, #1)

By: F. Paul Wilson

3.61

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

"Something is murdering my men." Thus reads the message received from a Nazi commander stationed in… read more

Similar categories in F. Paul Wilson's The Keep (Adversary Cycle, #1) book and Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

6. Brood of the Witch-Queen

By: Sax Rohmer

3.50

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

The strange deeds of Antony Ferrara, as herein related, are intended to illustrate certain phases o… read more

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7. The Ritual

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.59

Format: 418 pages, Paperback

Four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"For Anne and our cub, for making me and my life less beastly"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right then, they screamed in alarm from times before symbols and language could depict such things that h…"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

8. The Children of Cthulhu: Chilling New Tales Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft

By: Caitlín R. Kiernan , Steve Rasnic Tem , China Miéville , Mark Chadbourn , Yvonne Navarro , Richard Laymon , Alan Dean Foster , Paul Finch , Brian Hodge , James Dorr , Weston Ochse , James Van Pelt , Matt Cardin , John Pelan , James Robert Smith , Poppy Z. Brite , Benjamin Adams , L.H. Maynard , None , None , None , W.H. Pugmire

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Descend to the depths of primal horror with this chilling collection of original stories drawn from… read more

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9. Gateways to Abomination: Collected Short Fiction

By: Matthew M. Bartlett

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Bizarre radio broadcasts luring dissolute souls into the dark woods of Western Massachusetts. Sinis… read more

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10. Mongrels

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy whose family lives on t… read more

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11. Legion

By: William Peter Blatty

4.36

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

One by one the bizarre murders frustrate and torment Lt. Kinderman , the homicide detective from Th… read more

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12. The Searching Dead (The Three Births of Daoloth, #1)

By: Ramsey Campbell

4.03

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Dominic Sheldrake has never forgotten his childhood in fifties Liverpool or the talk an old boy of … read more

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13. Ancient Images

By: Ramsey Campbell

4.60

Format: 200 pages,

A colleague's violent death and its apparent cause - a stolen copy of an old, never-released Karlof… read more

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14. The October Country

By: Ray Bradbury

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Ray Bradbury's second short story collection is back in print, its chilling encounters with funhous… read more

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15. Agents of Dreamland

By: Caitlín R. Kiernan

3.35

Format: None pages, ebook

A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning… read more

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16. All the Fiends of Hell

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the mor… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's All the Fiends of Hell book and Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time

  • science fiction
  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. Gone to See the River Man

By: Kristopher Triana

3.67

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Super fans. Groupies. Stalkers. These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be t… read more

Similar categories in Kristopher Triana's Gone to See the River Man book and Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time

  • fiction
  • horror
"That didn't matter, though. Her thoughts toward her were entirely justified. They'd always been there, but were suppressed by a guilt she'd now began to think she never should have felt in the first …"

-Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

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18. The Vessel

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.73

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

'A watcher may remark that after sleeping for so long, the building appears to have been roused.' … read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Vessel book and Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time

  • fiction
  • horror
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19. 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 Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2) by Matt Ruff

20. The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2)

By: Matt Ruff

3.94

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

“Another virtuoso blend of horror, action, and humor. . . . Fans will find this a worthy sequel.”— … read more

Similar categories in Matt Ruff's The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2) book and Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time

  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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21. Cunning Folk

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Money's tight and their new home is a fixer-upper. Deep in rural South West England, with an ancien… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's Cunning Folk book and Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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22. Head Like a Hole

By: Andrew Van Wey

3.85

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

When you bury your past make sure that it’s dead. It’s the mid-nineties. Grunge and flannel are … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Van Wey's Head Like a Hole book and Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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23. The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

By: Brian Evenson

4.10

Format: 254 pages, ebook

“Here is how monstrous humans are.” A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurkin… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell book and Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time

  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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24. The Eater of Gods

By: Dan Franklin

3.84

Format: 154 pages, Hardcover

Nothing really dies if it's remembered, his wife had told him. In the dying village of Al Tarfuk… read more

Similar categories in Dan Franklin's The Eater of Gods book and Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time

  • fiction
  • horror
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25. Wyrd and Other Derelictions

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.81

Format: 106 pages, ebook

Derelictions are horror stories told in ways you may not have encountered before. Something is m… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's Wyrd and Other Derelictions book and Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time

  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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26. The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: Ten Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction

By: Ellen Datlow

3.76

Format: 554 pages, Kindle Edition

For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most f… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Datlow's The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: Ten Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction book and Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. Black Wings VI: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

By: S.T. Joshi

3.79

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

This sixth volume of S. T. Joshi’s acclaimed Black Wings series demonstrates as never before how in… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • cthulhu mythos
  • horror
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28. The Color Out of Time

By: Michael Shea

3.42

Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The flooded New England valley made a beautiful holiday spot, with twenty miles of secluded lakesho… read more

Similar categories in Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time book and Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time

  • pulp
  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • cthulhu mythos
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29. The Red Brain: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

By: S.T. Joshi

3.74

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

Following up on the success of A Mountain Walked, this volume presents another dozen tales of the C… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Joshi's The Red Brain: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos book and Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • cthulhu mythos
Cover of The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library by Darrell Schweitzer

30. The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library

By: Darrell Schweitzer

4.08

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Miskatonic University, in fabled Arkham Massachusetts, has long been described in the fiction of H.… read more

Similar categories in Darrell Schweitzer's The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library book and Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • cthulhu mythos
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31. His Own Most Fantastic Creation

By: S.T. Joshi

3.67

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), the pioneering writer of weird fiction, has himself become an icon in … read more

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20 must-read fiction books like The Color Out of Time by Michael Shea

Transform Your Habits

Ghost Train

Stephen Laws

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Burnt Black Suns

Laird Barron , Simon Strantzas , None

4.67

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Demons By Daylight

Ramsey Campbell

3.97

Transform Your Habits

At the Mountains of Madness

H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi

4.00

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19 must-read fiction books like The Ritual by Adam L.G. Nevill

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The Deep

Nick Cutter

3.42

Little Heaven

Nick Cutter

3.85

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A Head Full of Ghosts

Paul Tremblay

3.79

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Scott Smith

3.68

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