26 must-read fiction books like The Ballad of Old Joe Booth by William Pauley III

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The Ballad of Old Joe Booth

By: William Pauley III

3.93

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Some monsters are impossible to see. This is The Ballad of Old Joe Booth. An epic poem in fou…

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Cover of Hammerhead Ranch Motel (Serge Storms, #2) by Tim Dorsey

1. Hammerhead Ranch Motel (Serge Storms, #2)

By: Tim Dorsey

4.03

Format: 354 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There's a different schemer or slimeball behind every cocaine duckpins who have survived only by t… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Jeff VanderMeer, Thomas Ligotti

2. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" (TheWashington Pos… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In by Joe R. Lansdale, Andres Guinaldo

3. Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In

By: Joe R. Lansdale , Andres Guinaldo

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

When a group of friends decided to spend a day at the world's largest Drive-In theater horror fest,… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

4. The Big Blow

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

"The sea had turned black as a dutch oven, the sky the color of gangrene, and between sea and sky t… read more

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5. Pressure

By: Jeff Strand

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

Alex stared at the red pocketknife shown to him by his daughter. A pocketknife owned by somebody he… read more

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6. This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)

By: David Wong

4.26

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Originally released as an online serial where itreceivedmore than 70,000 downloads,John Dies at the… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
"Damn it! I knew she was a monster! John! Amy! Listen! Guard your buttholes."

-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)

"When they write the sequel to the Bible, that shit is definitely gonna be in there."

-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)

"Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back."

-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)

"Your 'let's remain calm and stay put' speech would be a lot more convincing if you weren't giving it in front of a pile of burning skeletons."

-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)

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7. 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

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  • audiobook
  • 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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8. Everything the Darkness Eats

By: Eric LaRocca

2.78

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are co… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. Fever House (Fever House, #1)

By: Keith Rosson

4.03

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Looking Glass Sound

By: Catriona Ward

3.49

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Looking Glass Sound is the newest twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, the interna… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
"Potatoes make everything okay."

-Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

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11. The Spite House

By: Johnny Compton

3.53

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife,… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. Womb City

By: Tlotlo Tsamaase

3.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

WOMB CITY imagines a dark and deadly future Botswana, rich with culture and true folklore, which be… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Gothic

By: Philip Fracassi

3.83

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

On his 59th birthday, Tyson Parks—a famous, but struggling, horror writer—receives an antique desk … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Nightmare Man

By: J.H. Markert

3.87

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

T. Kingfisher meets Cassandra Khaw in a chilling horror novel that illustrates the fine line betwee… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
"Scarecrow's scare, That's what they do."

-J.H. Markert, The Nightmare Man

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16. The Babysitter Lives

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.62

Format: 8 pages, Audiobook

Only on Audio! A new horror novel from the bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances by Eric LaRocca

17. 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

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  • audiobook
  • 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

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18. To Rouse Leviathan

By: Matt Cardin

4.04

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Matt Cardin has distinguished himself by writing weird … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Zombie Bake-Off

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.50

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

It's time for the annual Recipe Days bake-off in Lubbock, Texas. Soccer moms and grandmothers gathe… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
"If there's any better place to get stoned than a rolling box full of pastry, then they didn't have the keys for it, anyway."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Zombie Bake-Off

Cover of The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1) by Cassandra Khaw

20. The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.66

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling authors Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey have teamed up to deliver a dark new story wi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
"Julie felt its hunger ripple eover her, listened: It was waiting for the city to die. It would wait forever. It did not need this to come to pass now. It was used to waiting. It knew, in the way of g…"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

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21. Psychic Teenage Bloodbath

By: Carl John Lee

3.79

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Susan Ward is in a coma. She’s been there for one year, ever since the accident. She can’t speak… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Briardark (Briardark, #1) by S.A. Harian

22. Briardark (Briardark, #1)

By: S.A. Harian

3.80

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

Survival and cosmic horror collide in this new series, perfect for fans of LOST and House of Leaves… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

23. 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

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

Cover of Heart of Night and Fire (The Nightfire Quartet #1) by Nisha J. Tuli

24. Heart of Night and Fire (The Nightfire Quartet #1)

By: Nisha J. Tuli

3.92

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

A city of magic. A passion born in dreams. A secret that will set their world aflame.Packed with en… read more

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  • fiction
"Who did this to you?"

-Nisha J. Tuli, Heart of Night and Fire (The Nightfire Quartet #1)

"You look… beautiful,"

-Nisha J. Tuli, Heart of Night and Fire (The Nightfire Quartet #1)

"You, Look out for her."

-Nisha J. Tuli, Heart of Night and Fire (The Nightfire Quartet #1)

"Don't be charming- I almost died."

-Nisha J. Tuli, Heart of Night and Fire (The Nightfire Quartet #1)

Cover of The Ballad of Old Joe Booth by William Pauley III

25. The Ballad of Old Joe Booth

By: William Pauley III

3.93

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Some monsters are impossible to see. This is The Ballad of Old Joe Booth. An epic poem in fou… read more

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  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo by Adam Cesare

26. Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo

By: Adam Cesare

3.82

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The thrills and chills are far from over in the third novel from Bram Stoker Award winner and maste… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of A Deep Horror That Was Very Nearly Awe by J.R. Hamantaschen

27. A Deep Horror That Was Very Nearly Awe

By: J.R. Hamantaschen

4.26

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

J.R. Hamantaschen’s third collection of short stories delivers more inimitable dark fiction. These … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Choir of Crickets by Sharon Ferrante

28. The Choir of Crickets

By: Sharon Ferrante

3.80

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

Ferrante calls upon the crickets from all parts of the field. Bringing together distant oceans, mys… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Loka (The Alloy Era, #2) by S.B. Divya

29. Loka (The Alloy Era, #2)

By: S.B. Divya

4.15

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

Finding a place to belong becomes a girl’s ambitious quest in a thrilling epic about space, humanit… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Glossolalia; or don't scream it on the mountain by E. Rathke

30. Glossolalia; or don't scream it on the mountain

By: E. Rathke

4.29

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

“My name is Ineluki. I come from past the mountains and ice. It took me many days to reach here. Al… read more

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Cover of The Crypt of Blood: A Halloween TV Special by Jonathan Raab

31. The Crypt of Blood: A Halloween TV Special

By: Jonathan Raab

4.24

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

Halloween night, 2007. A television station near Denver, Colorado broadcasts a locally produced fil… read more

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  • horror

19 best-selling audiobook books like The Ballad of Old Joe Booth by William Pauley III

Transform Your Habits

Hammerhead Ranch Motel (Serge Storms, #2)

Tim Dorsey

4.03

Transform Your Habits

This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)

David Wong

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Everything the Darkness Eats

Eric LaRocca

2.78

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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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