17 must-read horror books like An Excellent Host by Chelsea G. Summers

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An Excellent Host

By: Chelsea G. Summers

4.01

Format: 69 pages, Paperback

"In An Excellent Host, modern dating goes wildly awry (at least when Chelsea G. Summers is in charg…

If you liked the horror plot in An Excellent Host by Chelsea G. Summers , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Maeve Fly

By: C.J. Leede

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's Maeve Fly book and Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

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2. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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3. Paradise Rot

By: Jenny Hval

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot book and Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

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4. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

Similar categories in Henry Hoke's Open Throat book and Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • novella
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Bloom

By: Delilah S. Dawson

3.90

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella from the New York… read more

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's Bloom book and Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

Similar categories in E.K. Sathue's youthjuice book and Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. 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 Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Kittentits

By: Holly Wilson

3.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searchin… read more

Similar categories in Holly Wilson's Kittentits book and Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

Similar categories in Marina Yuszczuk's Thirst book and Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. 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 Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Deliver Me book and Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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12. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Smith's Brat book and Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

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13. 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 Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Gay Girl Prayers

By: Emily R. Austin

4.10

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, a… read more

Similar categories in Emily R. Austin's Gay Girl Prayers book and Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • adult
Cover of An Excellent Host by Chelsea G. Summers

15. An Excellent Host

By: Chelsea G. Summers

4.01

Format: 69 pages, Paperback

"In An Excellent Host, modern dating goes wildly awry (at least when Chelsea G. Summers is in charg… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host book and Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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16. I Want You More

By: Swan Huntley

3.57

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When ghostwriter Zara falls for her celebrity chef client, Jane Bailey, she starts to see the side … read more

Similar categories in Swan Huntley's I Want You More book and Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • fiction
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17. Graveyard Shift

By: M.L. Rio

3.49

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night sh… read more

Similar categories in M.L. Rio's Graveyard Shift book and Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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18. Lady Macbeth

By: Ava Reid

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's Lady Macbeth book and Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Nakedness, even among women in private, is still uncommon, uncouth. Bodies are meant to be guarded like gold. The flash of a bare ankle is like dropping a pendant, so that everyone can see it clatter…"

-Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth

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19. Midnight Rooms

By: Donyae Coles

3.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a foreboding Gothic mansion and infused with the heightened paranoia and creeping horror of … read more

Similar categories in Donyae Coles's Midnight Rooms book and Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and u… read more

Similar categories in Leslie J. Anderson's The Unmothers book and Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Guillotine

By: Delilah S. Dawson

4.02

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

The Menu meets Ready of Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New … read more

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's Guillotine book and Chelsea G. Summers's An Excellent Host

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror

20 Top fiction books like An Excellent Host by Chelsea G. Summers

Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Paradise Rot

Jenny Hval

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Open Throat

Henry Hoke

4.01

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20 best-selling fiction books like Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede

Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

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