29 must-read fiction books like The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs by Celine Loup

Cover of The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs by Celine Loup

The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs

By: Celine Loup

3.24

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

After moving into a new home and giving birth to her first child, a woman worries that a supernatur…

"I admit I am an unnatural thing for not loving my child. But I hardly know my child. How can anyone love a thing that reveals nothing of itself. . . except for its unending screams?"

-Celine Loup, The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs

If you liked the fiction plot in The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs by Celine Loup , here is a list of 29 books like this:

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1. Delphine

By: Richard Sala

3.22

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A mysterious traveler gets off the train in a small village surrounded by a thick, sinister forest.… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
"Maybe we're just seeing a tiny corner of reality—the corner we want to see. But if somehow we could "turn" and look at what's behind us—we might see something so strange, we wouldn't understand it in…"

-Richard Sala, Delphine

"My dad once told me something when I was young and having boyfriend problems. He said all guys are guided by three things: their head, their heart and their dick. And those three things are always fi…"

-Richard Sala, Delphine

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2. My Pretty Vampire

By: Katie Skelly

3.91

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Clover -- the "pretty" vampire of the title -- is a Bardot-esque blonde who dreams of the (now-dead… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann, Helge Dascher, Kerascoët

3. Beautiful Darkness

By: Fabien Vehlmann , Helge Dascher , Kerascoët

3.87

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

Kerascoët’s and Fabien Vehlmann’s unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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4. Through the Woods

By: Emily Carroll

3.94

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

'It came from the woods. Most strange things do.' Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
"you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... but the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once."

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"But the worst kind of monster was the BURROWING KIND. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"I married my love in the springtime, but by summer he'd locked me away. He'd murdered me dead by the autumn, & by winter I was naught but decay. It's cold where I am and so lonely, but in loneliness …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

5. The Woods, Vol. 1: The Arrow

By: James Tynion IV , Michael Dialynas

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

On October 16, 2013, 437 students, 52 teachers, and 24 additional staff from Bay Point Preparatory … read more

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6. Hungry Ghost

By: Victoria Ying

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful and heart-wrenching young adult graphic novel takes a look at eating disorders, family … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
Cover of Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito

7. Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection

By: Junji Ito

4.11

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A collection full of grotesque imagination and surreal urban legends. Every night, a young man hea… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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8. The Closet

By: James Tynion IV

3.56

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Collects a tale of existential horror by James Tynion IV (The Department of Truth, Razorblades) and… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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9. Where the Body Was

By: Ed Brubaker

4.14

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Bru… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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10. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

Cover of Night Fever by Ed Brubaker

11. Night Fever

By: Ed Brubaker

3.87

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Who are you, really? Are you the things you do, or are you the person inside your mind? In Europe o… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll

12. When I Arrived at the Castle

By: Emily Carroll

3.69

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

"A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood." Like many before her tha… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Parasocial

By: Alex de Campi

3.50

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In the middle of the pandemic, a fading genre-TV actor, fresh from his long-running series' cancell… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of The Me You Love in the Dark: Books 1-5 by Skottie Young

14. The Me You Love in the Dark: Books 1-5

By: Skottie Young

3.70

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

An artist named Ro retreats from the grind of the city to an old house in a small town. She hopes … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of W0rldtr33 (Worldtree) Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV

15. W0rldtr33 (Worldtree) Vol. 1

By: James Tynion IV

4.14

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

In 1999, Gabriel and his friends discovered the Undernet―a secret architecture to the internet. The… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu

16. Carmilla: The First Vampire

By: Amy Chu

3.40

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Before Dracula, before Nosferatu, there was...CARMILLA. At the height of the Lunar New Year in 1… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of The Hills of Estrella Roja by Ashley Robin Franklin

17. The Hills of Estrella Roja

By: Ashley Robin Franklin

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In this delightfully creepy and unapologetically queer horror romp of a graphic novel, sometimes dr… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • horror
Cover of M Is for Monster: A Graphic Novel by Talia Dutton

18. M Is for Monster: A Graphic Novel

By: Talia Dutton

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A scientist attempts to bring her younger sister back to life with unexpected results in this Frank… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Bad Dreams in the Night

By: Adam Ellis

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Like a graphic novel version of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark , this collection of original hor… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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20. In Utero

By: Chris Gooch

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Akira meets Aliens , and Annihilation meets Evangelion , in this coming-of-age monster tale from aw… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Silver Coin, Vol. 1 by Chip Zdarsky

21. The Silver Coin, Vol. 1

By: Chip Zdarsky

3.53

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The story starts with a failing rock band whose fortune changes overnight when they find the myster… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies by Ed Brubaker

22. My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies

By: Ed Brubaker

3.60

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

The first original graphic novel from the bestselling creators of CRIMINAL, KILL OR BE KILLED, THE … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
Cover of I Walk With Monsters: The Complete Series by Paul Cornell

23. I Walk With Monsters: The Complete Series

By: Paul Cornell

3.26

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In her past, the Important Man took away Jacey's brother. Now Jacey has David, who is sometimes a m… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Ojja-Wojja by Magdalene Visaggio

24. The Ojja-Wojja

By: Magdalene Visaggio

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The first in a new graphic novel series from indie comic stars Magdalene Visaggio and Jenn St-Onge … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Eat the Rich by Sarah Gailey

25. Eat the Rich

By: Sarah Gailey

3.71

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

When the rich and powerful are literal cannibals, how can regular people avoid being on the menu?WE… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Hell Phone, Book 1 by Benji Nate

26. Hell Phone, Book 1

By: Benji Nate

3.88

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Sissy and Lola are best friends, next-door neighbors, and now… murder solvers? When Sissy picks up … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Unsound by Cullen Bunn

27. The Unsound

By: Cullen Bunn

3.05

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A surreal horror story, following a young nurse who is caught in the middle of a strange supernatur… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of Weeding by Geneviève Lebleu

28. Weeding

By: Geneviève Lebleu

3.42

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

X-Files meets The Young and The Restless On a typical autumn afternoon, Martha hosts a group of … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs by Celine Loup

29. The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs

By: Celine Loup

3.24

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

After moving into a new home and giving birth to her first child, a woman worries that a supernatur… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
"I admit I am an unnatural thing for not loving my child. But I hardly know my child. How can anyone love a thing that reveals nothing of itself. . . except for its unending screams?"

-Celine Loup, The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs

Cover of Confetti Realms by Nadia Shammas

30. Confetti Realms

By: Nadia Shammas

3.45

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

A group of teens are transported from a graveyard to another realm where they must collect teeth— a… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of When the Lake Burns by Geneviève Bigué

31. When the Lake Burns

By: Geneviève Bigué

3.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When a local lake catches fire, a group of teens set out to see the spectacle for themselves—but no… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction

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Beautiful Darkness

Fabien Vehlmann , Helge Dascher , Kerascoët

3.87

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Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection

Junji Ito

4.11

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James Tynion IV

3.56

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Emily Carroll

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Jay Stephens

4.00

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Hirokatsu Kihara

3.14

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