20 must-read horror books like A Fig For All The Devils by C.S. Fritz

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A Fig For All The Devils

By: C.S. Fritz

3.92

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

IBPA's Gold Award Winner for Best in Horror 2021! An abused, grief-stricken, and impoverished So…

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1. A Short Stay in Hell

By: Steven L. Peck

4.22

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more

Similar categories in Steven L. Peck's A Short Stay in Hell book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

Cover of The Haar by David Sodergren

2. The Haar

By: David Sodergren

4.17

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's The Haar book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • halloween
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
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3. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Nestlings book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

Cover of Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4. Monstrilio

By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more

Similar categories in Gerardo Sámano Córdova's Monstrilio book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

Cover of Chlorine by Jade Song

5. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

Similar categories in Jade Song's Chlorine book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

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6. The Taiga Syndrome

By: Cristina Rivera Garza

3.48

Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition

A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a cou… read more

Similar categories in Cristina Rivera Garza's The Taiga Syndrome book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"...in the same way, just like being in love, being out of love also ends one day."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome

"In fairy tales, the wolf is always ferocious. Astute and agile, the wolf always figures out how to get its way. … The Wolf, in other words, always wins."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome

"Places where sex is sold are the same everywhere. They always have a viewing window or something similar: a bar, a walkway, a stage where you can see bodies and, if permitted, feel them. It has to be…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome

"Failures weigh people down. Writing reports of all the cases I was unable to solve, however, had helped me to tell stories, or at least get them down on paper, as they say. Whether I was obeying or t…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome

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7. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Tuttle's My Death book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

Similar categories in Elliott Gish's Grey Dog book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

By: Eric LaRocca

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram St… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"The worst thing a person can do to you after they've hurt you is let you live."

-Eric LaRocca, This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

Cover of Nothing but the Rain by Naomi Salman

10. Nothing but the Rain

By: Naomi Salman

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A sleepy little town discovers its memories have become part of the water cycle in Naomi Salman's d… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Salman's Nothing but the Rain book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard

11. The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

By: Matthieu Simard

3.66

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where … read more

Similar categories in Matthieu Simard's The Country Will Bring Us No Peace book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • fiction
  • horror
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12. Everything You Ever Wanted

By: Luiza Sauma

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

You wake up. You go to work. You don't go outside for twelve hours at a time. You have strategy mee… read more

Similar categories in Luiza Sauma's Everything You Ever Wanted book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. Eynhallow

By: Tim McGregor

4.29

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 – Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island… read more

Similar categories in Tim McGregor's Eynhallow book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • dark
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. 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 C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Carnality

By: Lina Wolff

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for i… read more

Similar categories in Lina Wolff's Carnality book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • dark
  • fiction
  • horror
"Ada rose even more in my estimation at that. I realized she had got completely lost in the male narrative and her mind, which had to be both sensitive and sharp, had been absorbing fragments of it he…"

-Lina Wolff, Carnality

Cover of Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

16. 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 C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. A Devil Comes to Town

By: Paolo Maurensig

3.53

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Wild rabies runs rampant through the woods. The foxes are gaining ground, boldly making their way i… read more

Similar categories in Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. American Rapture

By: C.J. Leede

4.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. Sop… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's American Rapture book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of A Fig For All The Devils by C.S. Fritz

19. A Fig For All The Devils

By: C.S. Fritz

3.92

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

IBPA's Gold Award Winner for Best in Horror 2021! An abused, grief-stricken, and impoverished So… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • coming of age
  • halloween
  • death
  • fiction
  • dark
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • comedy
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20. Absorbed

By: Kylie Whitehead

3.73

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Allison has been with Owen since university. She's given up on writing her novel and is working a d… read more

Similar categories in Kylie Whitehead's Absorbed book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • dark
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Dearest

By: Jacquie Walters

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A new mom in need of help opens her door to her long-estranged mother—only to invite something much… read more

Similar categories in Jacquie Walters's Dearest book and C.S. Fritz's A Fig For All The Devils

  • dark
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror

16 Best adult books like A Fig For All The Devils by C.S. Fritz

Transform Your Habits

A Short Stay in Hell

Steven L. Peck

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Haar

David Sodergren

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Nestlings

Nat Cassidy

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Monstrilio

Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

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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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