10 Top fantasy books like The Wise Friend by Ramsey Campbell

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The Wise Friend

By: Ramsey Campbell

3.56

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Patrick Semple's aunt Thelma Turnbill was a successful artist whose late work turned towards the oc…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Wise Friend by Ramsey Campbell , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Wylding Hall

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.80

Format: 176 pages, ebook

When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their u… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hand's Wylding Hall book and Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"But mostly I'm just respectful of old ways. I believe things for a reason, and in the old days they did things for a reason. And if you don't understand why—well, you might end up opening a few doors…"

-Elizabeth Hand, Wylding Hall

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2. The Haunted Forest Tour

By: James A. Moore , Jeff Strand

3.69

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Haunted Forest Tour! Sit back and enjoy a smooth ride in air-c… read more

Similar categories in James A. Moore's The Haunted Forest Tour book and Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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3. The Sentinel

By: Jeffrey Konvitz

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A beautiful young model. The old brownstone apartment she simply had to have. The grotesque blind p… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Konvitz's The Sentinel book and Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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4. The Course of the Heart

By: M. John Harrison

3.32

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

John M. Harrison delivers an extraordinary, genre-bending novel that weaves together mythology, sex… read more

Similar categories in M. John Harrison's The Course of the Heart book and Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Quarantine (Subjective Cosmology #1)

By: Greg Egan

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

It causes riots and religions. It has people dancing in the streets and leaping off skyscrapers. An… read more

Similar categories in Greg Egan's Quarantine (Subjective Cosmology #1) book and Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

  • mystery
  • fiction
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6. They Lurk

By: Ronald Malfi

3.79

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

COME CLOSER . . . Five terrifying collected horror novellas newly reissued from the "modern-day … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's They Lurk book and Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

  • audiobook
  • supernatural
  • fiction
  • horror
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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

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Ritual book and Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"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. In a Lonely Place

By: Karl Edward Wagner

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: xi * Introduction * Peter Straub * in 1 * Prologue to In the Pines ["Lonely Places"] * vi… read more

Similar categories in Karl Edward Wagner's In a Lonely Place book and Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

9. Snow

By: Ronald Malfi

3.62

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Todd Curry wants nothing more than to spend Christmas with his son. But when a brutal snowstorm can… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Snow book and Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

10. Apartment 16

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

4.18

Format: 578 pages, Paperback

Some doors are better left closed--a spine-chilling horror novel from a new talent In Barrington Ho… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's Apartment 16 book and Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

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11. 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 Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. 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 Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • 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

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13. The Gathering

By: C.J. Tudor

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secret… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Tudor's The Gathering book and Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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14. Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

By: Brian Evenson

3.89

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome le… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories book and Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
" The world is a strange place , thought Haupt, alone in the dark, almost unbearably so. And yet, it is the only place I have. And I'm not even entirely sure I have it. "

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

"We did speak, occasionally, but gestured more often than moved our lips, and in general lived in that brusque and silent accord enjoyed, if enjoyed is the right word, by certain long-married couples."

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

"And there's another one, where you look yourself in the mirror and keep looking until you can see through your skin, and then you draw your own heart and send the drawing in a letter to someone else.…"

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

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15. The Dead House

By: Billy O'Callaghan

3.47

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

This best-selling debut by an award-winning writer is both an eerie contemporary ghost story and a … read more

Similar categories in Billy O'Callaghan's The Dead House book and Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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16. The Reddening

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.62

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

One million years of evolution didn't change our nature. Nor did it bury the horrors predating civi… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Reddening book and Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. 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 Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Mr. Cables

By: Ronald Malfi

4.00

Format: 99 pages, ebook

For bestselling horror novelist Wilson Paventeau, the scariest novel of his career is one he didn’t… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Mr. Cables book and Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • audiobook
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19. If You See Her

By: Ania Ahlborn

3.62

Format: 293 pages, ebook

The house on Old Mill Road has stood in an open field for longer than Jesse Wells has been alive, i… read more

Similar categories in Ania Ahlborn's If You See Her book and Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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20. A Light Most Hateful

By: Hailey Piper

3.21

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

When a summer storm sweeps through a sleepy town unleashing a monstrous and otherworldy power that … read more

Similar categories in Hailey Piper's A Light Most Hateful book and Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. The Wise Friend

By: Ramsey Campbell

3.56

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Patrick Semple's aunt Thelma Turnbill was a successful artist whose late work turned towards the oc… read more

Similar categories in Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend book and Ramsey Campbell's The Wise Friend

  • gothic
  • adult
  • magic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook

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Elizabeth Hand

3.80

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James A. Moore , Jeff Strand

3.69

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3.86

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The Course of the Heart

M. John Harrison

3.32

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James A. Moore , Jeff Strand

3.69

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The Haar

David Sodergren

4.17

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Philip Fracassi

4.18

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Craig DiLouie

3.53

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