18 must-read fiction books like Convulsive by Joe Koch

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Convulsive

By: Joe Koch

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New museums birth atrocity in every flex: fifteen horror stories of religion, abuse, desire, and ge…

If you liked the fiction plot in Convulsive by Joe Koch , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Heathenish

By: Kelby Losack

4.31

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

I have this dream where I’m floating in outer space, sniffing stardust off the rings of Saturn, and… read more

Similar categories in Kelby Losack's Heathenish book and Joe Koch's Convulsive

  • fiction
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2. Visions

By: Troy James Weaver

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A hypnotic descent from childhood to adulthood. A boy sees angels, finds love, loses it, and become… read more

Similar categories in Troy James Weaver's Visions book and Joe Koch's Convulsive

  • fiction
  • horror
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3. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) book and Joe Koch's Convulsive

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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4. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

Similar categories in Johanna van Veen's My Darling Dreadful Thing book and Joe Koch's Convulsive

  • horror
  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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5. Bedlam

By: Charlene Elsby

4.30

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

"One of my favorite contemporary writers. Each of these vicious little stories is a perfect articul… read more

Similar categories in Charlene Elsby's Bedlam book and Joe Koch's Convulsive

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. Manhunt

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.54

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt book and Joe Koch's Convulsive

  • horror
  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"It was actually good that the world had ended, because now no one could make her play Settlers of Catan."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"Later, she thought, in a moment of terrible clarity, each of us will tell herself the other was the one who pulled the trigger."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"But I think mostly I just wanted her to … make me real, the way you’re real when the beautiful people look at you, and talk to you, and let you fuck them."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"Every day I am making a choice, thought Indi as she set the sample wheel onto its shelf in the freezer. Every day I decide I matter more than the people outside this place."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

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7. The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories

By: Bernardo Esquinca

4.14

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Bernardo Esquinca's haunting tale "Señor Ligotti" represented Mexico in the acclaimed The Valancour… read more

Similar categories in Bernardo Esquinca's The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories book and Joe Koch's Convulsive

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Sooner or later', she said,' our true nature separates us from the person we love. Losing one's shadow shouldn't be a tragedy but a goal. It's the only way of finding out who we really are."

-Bernardo Esquinca, The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories

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8. Abnormal Statistics

By: Max Booth III

3.99

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Suburban decay, familial horror, bleak lullabies. Abnormal Statistics is the debut story collection… read more

Similar categories in Max Booth III's Abnormal Statistics book and Joe Koch's Convulsive

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"There are always concerns. Eating holes in your stomach. Scrambling your brain. Making your skin itch and itch and itch. Sometimes it feels like too much for a kid your age to handle. Sometimes it fe…"

-Max Booth III, Abnormal Statistics

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9. Animals Eat Each Other

By: Elle Nash

3.48

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

In Elle Nash’s stunning and powerful debut, a girl with no name embarks on a fraught three-way rela… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Animals Eat Each Other book and Joe Koch's Convulsive

  • horror
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Pain is closer to love than indifference, right?"

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

"I didn’t know if I was crying because it hurt so bad or if I was crying because I had failed by letting the pain hurt me so much."

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

"I did too many things to my body that made it feel old and tired, as though I were dragging all of the mistakes I’d ever made behind me with each step."

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

"Maybe it wasn’t true love after all. That was disappointing. I had hoped it was true love, that something like that could exist. Instead, it was just sex. Like everything else."

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

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10. Transmuted

By: Eve Harms

3.45

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Her doctor is giving her the body of his dreams... and her nightmares. Isa is a micro-celebrity who… read more

Similar categories in Eve Harms's Transmuted book and Joe Koch's Convulsive

  • horror
  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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11. 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 Joe Koch's Convulsive

  • horror
  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"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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12. Terminal Park

By: Gary J. Shipley

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

“Shipley's Terminal Park pounds fiction into entirely new shapes. Disintegrating and blissful. High… read more

Similar categories in Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park book and Joe Koch's Convulsive

  • fiction
  • horror
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13. We Are Here to Hurt Each Other

By: Paula D. Ashe

4.06

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

With these twelve stories Paula D. Ashe takes you into a dark and bloody world where nothing is sac… read more

Similar categories in Paula D. Ashe's We Are Here to Hurt Each Other book and Joe Koch's Convulsive

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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14. To Be Devoured

By: Sara Tantlinger

3.82

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

What does carrion taste like? Andi has to know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and in… read more

Similar categories in Sara Tantlinger's To Be Devoured book and Joe Koch's Convulsive

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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15. Convulsive

By: Joe Koch

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New museums birth atrocity in every flex: fifteen horror stories of religion, abuse, desire, and ge… read more

Similar categories in Joe Koch's Convulsive book and Joe Koch's Convulsive

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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16. 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 Joe Koch's Convulsive

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. 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 Joe Koch's Convulsive

  • horror
  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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18. Nudes

By: Elle Nash

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Beginning with a story of an ex sex-worker drifting through a small rural town in the south, and en… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Nudes book and Joe Koch's Convulsive

  • short stories
  • fiction
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19. Meth-DTF.

By: Shane Jesse Christmass

4.00

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

"One of the most ecstatic, deranged, and propulsive books I've read, Meth-DTF careens wildly throug… read more

Similar categories in Shane Jesse Christmass's Meth-DTF. book and Joe Koch's Convulsive

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20. Gone to Seed

By: Justin Lutz

4.57

Format: None pages, None

Gone to Seed is the debut collection of five horror stories by Justin Lutz, the acclaimed author of… read more

Similar categories in Justin Lutz's Gone to Seed book and Joe Koch's Convulsive

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21. Lockdown Laureate

By: O.F. Cieri

4.63

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

A 22 tale collection, with 22 illustrations by Soren Häxan. Dark, introspective, grimy, urban, … read more

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4.21

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3.89

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3.54

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Andrew Joseph White

4.13

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Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

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3.58

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