12 must-read short stories books like Where Night Cowers by Matthew M. Bartlett

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Where Night Cowers

By: Matthew M. Bartlett

4.30

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

A hair product's occult properties give the unsuspecting consumer more than just luxurious locks. …

If you liked the short stories plot in Where Night Cowers by Matthew M. Bartlett , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Forever, in Pieces by Kurt Fawver

1. Forever, in Pieces

By: Kurt Fawver

4.15

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

EIGHTEEN HAUNTING VISIONS . . . FROM A MIND ADROITLY TWISTED In this debut collection of short f… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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2. The Gone World

By: Tom Sweterlitsch

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Inception meets True Detective in this science-fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and stagger… read more

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  • horror

3. In a Lonely Place

By: Karl Edward Wagner

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: xi * Introduction * Peter Straub * in 1 * Prologue to In the Pines ["Lonely Places"] * vi… read more

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4. Cycle of the Werewolf

By: Stephen King , Bernie Wrightson

3.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the fangs ripping at his throat. The n… read more

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5. Invincible, Compendium One

By: Robert Kirkman , Ryan Ottley , Cory Walker

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Introducing the first nine volumes of the greatest superhero comic in the universe, collected into … read more

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6. All the Fiends of Hell

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the mor… read more

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  • horror
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7. 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

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  • 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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8. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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9. Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

10. 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

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  • 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 Fever House (Fever House, #1) by Keith Rosson

11. 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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  • horror
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12. 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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  • horror
"Potatoes make everything okay."

-Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

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13. 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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  • horror
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14. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

By: Kelly Link

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

Cover of Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 7 by James Tynion IV

15. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 7

By: James Tynion IV

4.28

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The final chapter of the Tribulation saga and the decisive showdown between Erica Slaughter and Cut… read more

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  • horror
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16. 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

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  • horror
Cover of In the Shadow of Their Dying by Michael R. Fletcher

17. In the Shadow of Their Dying

By: Michael R. Fletcher

3.79

Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition

The third best assassin. A second rate mercenary crew. One terrifying demon. As Sharaam crumbles un… read more

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  • horror
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18. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

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  • horror
Cover of The Wind Began to Howl (Isaiah Coleridge, #3.5) by Laird Barron

19. The Wind Began to Howl (Isaiah Coleridge, #3.5)

By: Laird Barron

4.31

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Laird Barron's acclaimed crime saga makes a triumphant return in The Wind Began to Howl, an all-new… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling

20. Devil's Creek

By: Todd Keisling

3.82

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

About fifteen miles west of Stauford, Kentucky lies Devil’s Creek. According to local legend, there… read more

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  • horror
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21. Red Rabbit

By: Alex Grecian

4.18

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

A folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by d… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies by John  Langan

22. Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

By: John Langan

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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23. 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

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  • short stories
  • 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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24. A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

By: Luigi Musolino

4.23

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

This brilliant new collection showcases the best short stories and novellas of one of Italy's leadi… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Puppet King and Other Atonements by Justin A. Burnett

25. The Puppet King and Other Atonements

By: Justin A. Burnett

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The Puppet King and Other Atonements conjures a horrific universe of puppets, labyrinths, and limin… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve by M. Shaw

26. One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve

By: M. Shaw

4.35

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Two halves of a human cadaver awaken on a cold morgue slab. The two distinct personalities, Left an… read more

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  • horror
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27. The Inconsolables

By: Michael Wehunt

4.24

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

In his first collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt introduced the world to his singular voic… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Well, my wife and child have moved out," Fulton told him, "and I've gotten back into vampires to fill the hole they left behind."

-Michael Wehunt, The Inconsolables

Cover of Where Night Cowers by Matthew M. Bartlett

28. Where Night Cowers

By: Matthew M. Bartlett

4.30

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

A hair product's occult properties give the unsuspecting consumer more than just luxurious locks. … read more

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

29. 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
  • horror
Cover of The Dragon in Winter (Kagen the Damned, #3) by Jonathan Maberry

30. The Dragon in Winter (Kagen the Damned, #3)

By: Jonathan Maberry

4.52

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

The Dragon in Winter brings New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry's epic Kagen the Dam… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Not a Speck of Light: Stories by Laird Barron

31. Not a Speck of Light: Stories

By: Laird Barron

4.16

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

It’s about to get very dark. Bram Stoker Award-winning author Laird Barron returns to the dark and … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

28 must-read horror books like Where Night Cowers by Matthew M. Bartlett

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Forever, in Pieces

Kurt Fawver

4.15

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The Gone World

Tom Sweterlitsch

3.33

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All the Fiends of Hell

Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

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

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

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Occultation and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.08

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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Laird Barron

3.98

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The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.00

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Laird Barron

3.73

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