12 must-read fantasy books like Echoes by Ellen Datlow

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Echoes

By: Ellen Datlow

3.70

Format: 816 pages, Paperback

The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the gen…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Echoes by Ellen Datlow , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Wylding Hall

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.80

Format: 176 pages, ebook

When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their u… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hand's Wylding Hall book and Ellen Datlow's Echoes

  • ghosts
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"But mostly I'm just respectful of old ways. I believe things for a reason, and in the old days they did things for a reason. And if you don't understand why—well, you might end up opening a few doors…"

-Elizabeth Hand, Wylding Hall

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2. Final Girls

By: Mira Grant

4.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What if you could fix the worst parts of yourself by confronting your worst fears? Dr. Jennifer Web… read more

Similar categories in Mira Grant's Final Girls book and Ellen Datlow's Echoes

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. The Croning

By: Laird Barron

3.73

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyon… read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's The Croning book and Ellen Datlow's Echoes

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did."

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"Ramirez walked ahead with a torch he'd fashioned from a stick and some rags and by that queer and reddish light, devils, or the shadows of devils hooked to the shoes of the men and capered across the…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"The light in the gallery changed subtly and he whirled and saw someone approaching him from between the exhibit cases. The individual moved with alarming speed, bent low to the floor, but straighteni…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"They would, according to his experience of their traditions, suspect he was a demon, or demon-inhabited. Considering the volume of alcohol saturating his liver, that ancient gateway of spirits, of co…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

4. The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror (Pine Cove, #3)

By: Christopher Moore

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Hardcover

'Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through the tiny community of … read more

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5. The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

By: Ted Chiang

2.50

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

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6. Give Me Your Hand

By: Megan Abbott

3.69

Format: 384 pages,

The thriller, promised to be Abbott's "biggest and best yet", weaves together two time frames to te… read more

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7. Odd Thomas: You Are Destined To Be Together Forever

By: Dean Koontz

3.85

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

The singular journey of Odd Thomas is approaching its unforgettable conclusion in Saint Odd. But be… read more

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8. When Sorrows Come (October Daye, #15)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Toby's getting married! It's hard to be a hero. There's always something needing October "Toby" … read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's When Sorrows Come (October Daye, #15) book and Ellen Datlow's Echoes

  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
"Yay for Canada, Canada's cool."

-Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come (October Daye, #15)

"What's the point of having an enchanted wedding dress if you can't use it as an infinite rose generator?"

-Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come (October Daye, #15)

"Congratulations on the occasion of your marriage, and may the blessings piled upon your house be so vast the roof is in danger of collapse before you can get the wedding party to safety."

-Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come (October Daye, #15)

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9. The Girl in the Green Silk Gown (Ghost Roads, #2)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.21

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

The second book in the Ghost Roads series returns to the highways of America, where hitchhiking gho… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's The Girl in the Green Silk Gown (Ghost Roads, #2) book and Ellen Datlow's Echoes

  • ghosts
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • ghost stories
"Homecomer, hitcher, phantom rider, White lady wants what’s been denied her, Gather-grim knows what you fear the most, But best keep away from the crossroads ghost. Talk to the poltergeist, talk to th…"

-Seanan McGuire, The Girl in the Green Silk Gown (Ghost Roads, #2)

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10. Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

By: Kate Andersen Brower

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

USA Today Bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Wome… read more

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11. The Dirty South (Charlie Parker, #18)

By: John Connolly

4.20

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one in the D… read more

Similar categories in John Connolly's The Dirty South (Charlie Parker, #18) book and Ellen Datlow's Echoes

  • fiction
  • horror
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12. 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

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances book and Ellen Datlow's Echoes

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"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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13. The Deep

By: Alma Katsu

3.33

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Someone, or something, is haunting the Titanic. This is the only way to explain the series of mi… read more

Similar categories in Alma Katsu's The Deep book and Ellen Datlow's Echoes

  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
Cover of A Blade So Black (The Nightmare-Verse #1) by L.L. McKinney

14. A Blade So Black (The Nightmare-Verse #1)

By: L.L. McKinney

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A Blade So Black delivers an irresistible urban fantasy retelling of Alice in Wonderland... but it'… read more

Similar categories in L.L. McKinney's A Blade So Black (The Nightmare-Verse #1) book and Ellen Datlow's Echoes

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Breathe, Baby Moon."

-L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black (The Nightmare-Verse #1)

"And Hatta was a lying liar who lies!"

-L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black (The Nightmare-Verse #1)

"But for what it's worth, you're my hero."

-L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black (The Nightmare-Verse #1)

"He was going to find this kitten had claws."

-L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black (The Nightmare-Verse #1)

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15. The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

By: John Connolly

4.14

Format: 483 pages, Hardcover

When the body of a woman—who apparently died in childbirth—is discovered, Parker is hired to track … read more

Similar categories in John Connolly's The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16) book and Ellen Datlow's Echoes

  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
"There are gods within gods."

-John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

"In the end, we’ll all face oblivion."

-John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

"It never paid to underestimate children."

-John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

"I don’t think you can dial 911 for a literary emergency."

-John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)

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16. The Tangled Lands

By: Paolo Bacigalupi

3.64

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Khaim, The Blue City, is the last remaining city in a crumbled empire that overly relied upon magic… read more

Similar categories in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Tangled Lands book and Ellen Datlow's Echoes

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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17. The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

By: Felicity McLean

3.43

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

'We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip away like the words of some half-remembered son… read more

Similar categories in Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone book and Ellen Datlow's Echoes

  • adult
  • fiction
"So many words, but none of them were enough. None of them brought those girls home."

-Felicity McLean, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

"So we kept our mouthes closed, like we squeezed our eyes shut. Our family of four blind mice."

-Felicity McLean, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

"Cordy kept strange private things curled up in her carelessness that were too tight for the rest of us to unravel."

-Felicity McLean, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

"We thought we'd seen the worst when those girls disappeared, but seeing, and not seeing, is a funny old thing. Even now, I don't know which is crueller in the end."

-Felicity McLean, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

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18. Echoes

By: Ellen Datlow

3.70

Format: 816 pages, Paperback

The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the gen… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Datlow's Echoes book and Ellen Datlow's Echoes

  • ghosts
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • ghost stories
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19. Blood from the Air

By: Gemma Files

4.08

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

Angels and insects, holes in the known world's fabric and what comes out of them, the love of death… read more

Similar categories in Gemma Files's Blood from the Air book and Ellen Datlow's Echoes

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) by Nathan Ballingrud

20. Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into th… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) book and Ellen Datlow's Echoes

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Screams from the Void

By: Anne Tibbets

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

For two years in deep space, the freighter Demeter and a small crew have collected botanical life f… read more

Similar categories in Anne Tibbets's Screams from the Void book and Ellen Datlow's Echoes

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror

16 Top fiction books like Echoes by Ellen Datlow

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Wylding Hall

Elizabeth Hand

3.80

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Final Girls

Mira Grant

4.44

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The Croning

Laird Barron

3.73

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When Sorrows Come (October Daye, #15)

Seanan McGuire

4.42

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Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)

C.J. Box

4.36

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You Like It Darker

Stephen King

4.32

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Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

Michael Connelly

4.56

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Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15)

John Sandford

4.36

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