27 Best fiction books like Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art by Kealan Patrick Burke

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Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

4.04

Format: 85 pages, Kindle Edition

What do you see when you look at a painting? The image, the brush strokes, the stippled canvas bene…

If you liked the fiction plot in Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art by Kealan Patrick Burke , here is a list of 27 books like this:

Cover of The Night Parade by Ronald Malfi

1. The Night Parade

By: Ronald Malfi

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

First the birds disappeared. Then the insects took over. Then the madness began . . . They call it … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of They Lurk by Ronald Malfi

2. 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 Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

  • short stories
  • collections
  • fiction
  • horror

3. Sacculina

By: Philip Fracassi

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

When Jim's big brother Jack is released from prison, the brothers - along with their broken father … read more

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4. 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 Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi

5. Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

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6. The Pram

By: Joe Hill

3.77

Format: 58 pages, Kindle Edition

A husband’s obsessive desire for a child leads to an unexpected manifestation of his yearning in a … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Ankle Snatcher

By: Grady Hendrix

3.74

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Obey the rules. It’s the only way to survive the night in a short story about what hides in the dar… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Big Bad

By: Chandler Baker

3.77

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

For a family trying to make an isolated farmhouse into a home, fear and rage are getting harder to … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. Best of Luck

By: Jason Mott

3.77

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Did you ever hear the one about the man with a string of bad luck? The worst is still to come in a … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. In Bloom

By: Paul Tremblay

3.08

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

There’s something in the water in this hallucinatory short story by Paul Tremblay, bestselling auth… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. It Waits in the Woods

By: Josh Malerman

3.72

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

Some chilling campfire tales ring too true to ignore. For one young woman, an urban legend calls he… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. The Weejee Man

By: NP Cunniffe

3.65

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

A nerve-shredding slice of rural horror for fans of Adam Nevill and Andrew Michael Hurley. Force… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"His face had grown dark, except for the reflection of the red fire in his eyes. The house, too, seemed to have filled with shadow, as if a storm was brewing outside. Jim’s eyes beamed red from the sh…"

-NP Cunniffe, The Weejee Man

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13. Bruises on a Butterfly

By: Chad Lutzke

4.27

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

A young boy runs away from his abusive home to live in the fort he'd built with friends, smack dab … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Along the River of Flesh (Gone to See the River Man, #2)

By: Kristopher Triana

3.96

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Having escaped from prison, serial killer Edmund Cox returns to his hometown of Killen. Entering th… read more

Similar categories in Kristopher Triana's Along the River of Flesh (Gone to See the River Man, #2) book and Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Rotten Tommy

By: David Sodergren

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

“Keep the door locked night and day…”It’s been forty years since Becky Sharp’s mother vanished with… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's Rotten Tommy book and Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

  • fiction
  • horror
"The enormous hand closed over his penis and testicles, squashing them in a vice-like grip. The man rose to his full stature and dragged John's limp body towards the staircase by his cock & balls. The…"

-David Sodergren, Rotten Tommy

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16. Stitches

By: Hirokatsu Kihara

3.14

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Horror manga giant Junji Ito teams up with spooky story writer Hirokatsu Kihara for the ultimate co… read more

Similar categories in Hirokatsu Kihara's Stitches book and Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. The Day of the Door

By: Laurel Hightower

4.13

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Once there were four Lasco siblings banded together against a world that failed to protect them. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's The Day of the Door book and Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

  • fiction
  • horror
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18. The Handyman Method

By: Nick Cutter

3.27

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror. When a y… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Handyman Method book and Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

  • fiction
  • horror
"When prey dies in fear, hunters will say the meat tastes bitter."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"What of happiness, then? May we speak of the taste of joyful meat?"

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"Old memories were like land mines: dormant, forgotten, but forever deadly."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

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19. Palmetto

By: Ania Ahlborn

3.72

Format: 101 pages, Paperback

Kim Devland nearly has it all. A great marriage. A baby on the way. All that's missing is a house--… read more

Similar categories in Ania Ahlborn's Palmetto book and Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Cursed

By: Leigh Kenny

3.97

Format: 121 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever agreed to something without understanding the consequences? What would you do if a cu… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Kenny's Cursed book and Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Ghostwritten

By: Ronald Malfi

4.12

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

Four brand-new horror novellas from “a modern-day Algernon Blackwood” all about books, stories, man… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Ghostwritten book and Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"myself asks am i here? i've lost myself i fear"

-Ronald Malfi, Ghostwritten

Cover of The Prettiest Girl in the Grave by Kristopher Triana

22. The Prettiest Girl in the Grave

By: Kristopher Triana

3.98

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

From the author of international horror sensation Gone to See the River Man comes a new tale of ter… read more

Similar categories in Kristopher Triana's The Prettiest Girl in the Grave book and Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

  • fiction
  • horror
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23. The Bedmakers

By: Chad Lutzke

4.08

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

After two elderly men tire of their homelessness in downtown Chicago 1979, they hop a train in sear… read more

Similar categories in Chad Lutzke's The Bedmakers book and Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories by Andrew Cull

24. Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories

By: Andrew Cull

3.95

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Between April and August 2021 eighteen horror writers disappeared. Gathered together for the first … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

25. 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

By: Sadie Hartmann

4.43

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

The Ultimate List of Must-Read Horror! Curious readers and fans of monsters and the macabre, get re… read more

Similar categories in Sadie Hartmann's 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered book and Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

  • horror
"I love a good story about everyone dying."

-Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

Cover of Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2) by Brian  McAuley

26. Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2)

By: Brian McAuley

4.12

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Oh what fun it is to DIE! When Austin’s parents drag him and his little sister Fiona to a remote… read more

Similar categories in Brian McAuley's Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2) book and Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

  • fiction
  • horror
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27. The Dismembered

By: Jonathan Janz

3.95

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1912, American writer Arthur Pearce is reeling from the wounds inflicted by a disa… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Janz's The Dismembered book and Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Warrior Retreat by John           Lynch

28. The Warrior Retreat

By: John Lynch

4.02

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

SOME WOUNDS DON'T HEAL... For some servicemen and women, coming home means the end of the war.… read more

Similar categories in John Lynch's The Warrior Retreat book and Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

  • horror
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29. Snarl

By: John Boden

4.55

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

Marlin Stains is a lonely man who is filled with words. Words that he longs to share with the world… read more

Similar categories in John Boden's Snarl book and Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

  • horror
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30. Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

4.04

Format: 85 pages, Kindle Edition

What do you see when you look at a painting? The image, the brush strokes, the stippled canvas bene… read more

Similar categories in Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art book and Kealan Patrick Burke's Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

  • short stories
  • collections
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Cold, Black & Infinite: Stories of the Horrific & Strange by Todd Keisling

31. Cold, Black & Infinite: Stories of the Horrific & Strange

By: Todd Keisling

4.22

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Down here in the dark lies a vast and twisted landscape where the wicked, wistful, and profane coal… read more

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  • short stories
  • collections
  • fiction
  • horror

13 Top short stories books like Grim Portraits: Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art by Kealan Patrick Burke

Transform Your Habits

They Lurk

Ronald Malfi

3.79

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The Pram

Joe Hill

3.77

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Ankle Snatcher

Grady Hendrix

3.74

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Big Bad

Chandler Baker

3.77

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What Good Girls Do

Jonathan Butcher

4.16

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Elias Witherow , Thought Catalog

3.50

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Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

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Caitlin Marceau

3.77

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