16 must-read thriller books like Savaging the Dark by Christopher Conlon

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Savaging the Dark

By: Christopher Conlon

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Mona Straw has it all—beautiful daughter, caring husband, lovely home, fulfilling job as a middle-s…

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1. Geek Love

By: Katherine Dunn

3.95

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out ― wi… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Dunn's Geek Love book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"You must have wished a million times to be normal."

-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

"A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born."

-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

"There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough."

-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

"It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me."

-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

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2. The Deep

By: Nick Cutter

3.42

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Troop—which Stephen King raved “scared the hell out of me and I co… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Deep book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
"What are you so afraid of? said that same voice inside Luke’s head. Everything, another voice answered."

-Nick Cutter, The Deep

"Well, time works differently down here, boss. Sometimes I feel like I've lived a thousand lifetimes ... it's funny. The pain is constant. Sometimes it's so much that I can't stand it. I bite at mysel…"

-Nick Cutter, The Deep

"The water wasn't the same down here. Water is what runs out of the kitchen taps or a playground drinking fountain. It fills bathubs and pools and yes, of course, the ocean- but at a certain depth, wa…"

-Nick Cutter, The Deep

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3. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

By: Jack Finney

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell d… read more

Similar categories in Jack Finney's Invasion of the Body Snatchers book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"Of course we could have failed; I could have wrecked her life; but that made me no different from any other man who might have done the same thing."

-Jack Finney, Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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4. The Elementals

By: Michael McDowell

4.01

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

On a split of land cut off by the Gulf, three Victorian summer houses stand against the encroaching… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's The Elementals book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Savage mothers eat their children!"

-Michael McDowell, The Elementals

"There's no point in advertising a circus when everybody hates the clown."

-Michael McDowell, The Elementals

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5. Sour Candy

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

3.65

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different … read more

Similar categories in Kealan Patrick Burke's Sour Candy book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton's teeth fell out."

-Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

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6. The Incest Diary

By: Anonymous

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

"In the fairy tales about father-daughter incest--'The Girl Without Hands,' 'Thousand Furs,' the or… read more

Similar categories in Anonymous's The Incest Diary book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • horror
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7. Cows

By: Matthew Stokoe

2.80

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Mother's corpse in bits, dead dog on the roof, girlfriend in a coma, baby nailed to the wall, and a… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Stokoe's Cows book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Yeah, I'm a cow, man. Touch me."

-Matthew Stokoe, Cows

"Yeah, I'm a cow, man. Can you handle it?"

-Matthew Stokoe, Cows

"There were couples, too, together on the slashed seats, and they were the most densely coloured of all. Their belonging, their completeness, pushed them out from the background of safety glass and pr…"

-Matthew Stokoe, Cows

"There had been no love there, upstairs tonight, but it would come - Lucy would force it into being. She had no choice. She would never find her black lumps of poison or cut them out, and like Steven …"

-Matthew Stokoe, Cows

8. Tampa

By: Alissa Nutting

3.59

Format: 83 pages, ebook

Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She's undeniably attractive. Sh… read more

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9. The Wasp Factory

By: Iain Banks

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed B… read more

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10. The Girl Next Door

By: Jack Ketchum

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Suburbia. Shady, tree-lined streets, well-tended lawns and cozy homes. A nice, quiet place to grow … read more

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11. Boy Toy

By: Barry Lyga

3.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is. Five years ago, Josh's life cha… read more

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12. The Cipher

By: Kathe Koja

3.54

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blo… read more

Similar categories in Kathe Koja's The Cipher book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror

13. Song of Kali

By: Dan Simmons

1.33

Format: 397 pages,

"O terrible wife of Siva / Your tongue is drinking the blood, / O dark Mother! O unclad Mother." It… read more

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14. Full Brutal

By: Kristopher Triana

4.04

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Kim White is a very popular cheerleader. She’s pretty, healthy, and comes from a well-off family. S… read more

Similar categories in Kristopher Triana's Full Brutal book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Gone to See the River Man

By: Kristopher Triana

3.67

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Super fans. Groupies. Stalkers. These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be t… read more

Similar categories in Kristopher Triana's Gone to See the River Man book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"That didn't matter, though. Her thoughts toward her were entirely justified. They'd always been there, but were suppressed by a guilt she'd now began to think she never should have felt in the first …"

-Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

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16. Earthlings

By: Sayaka Murata

3.60

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witc… read more

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Earthlings book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Sobreviver, haja o que houver."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"O senso comum é uma doença contagiosa e é difícil manter a infecção sozinho."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"I thought that when I grew up society would brainwash me, but it didn't work."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"Até quando eu teria de sobreviver? Será que algum dia poderia apenas viver e não sobreviver?"

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

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17. Slade House

By: David Mitchell

3.81

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British p… read more

Similar categories in David Mitchell's Slade House book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"Coffee’s the elixir of life."

-David Mitchell, Slade House

"In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows."

-David Mitchell, Slade House

"It takes more than holding hands and singing ‘Ebony and Ivory’."

-David Mitchell, Slade House

"Truth has this habit of changing after the fact, don't you find?"

-David Mitchell, Slade House

Cover of 100% Match (Pocket Nasties) by Patrick C. Harrison III

18. 100% Match (Pocket Nasties)

By: Patrick C. Harrison III

3.11

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

Bart is thirty. He is bald. He is overweight. He wears glasses. He is a fry cook. He hates cats. An… read more

Similar categories in Patrick C. Harrison III's 100% Match (Pocket Nasties) book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Dead Inside

By: Chandler Morrison

3.29

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

In this bleak and disturbingly erotic debut novel, iconoclast Chandler Morrison provides readers wi… read more

Similar categories in Chandler Morrison's Dead Inside book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Fluids

By: May Leitz

3.43

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

A woman, desperate for companionship. Another woman desperate for acceptance. Love and obsession qu… read more

Similar categories in May Leitz's Fluids book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. The Reddening

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.62

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

One million years of evolution didn't change our nature. Nor did it bury the horrors predating civi… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Reddening book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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22. Any Man

By: Amber Tamblyn

3.86

Format: 288 pages, ebook

In her blazingly original and unforgettable debut novel "Any Man", Amber Tamblyn brings to startlin… read more

Similar categories in Amber Tamblyn's Any Man book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"People who live through sexual assault are a crash on the side of the road, and the American media is nothing more than cars slowing down just long enough to take a peek."

-Amber Tamblyn, Any Man

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23. Manhunt

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.54

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"It was actually good that the world had ended, because now no one could make her play Settlers of Catan."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"Later, she thought, in a moment of terrible clarity, each of us will tell herself the other was the one who pulled the trigger."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"But I think mostly I just wanted her to … make me real, the way you’re real when the beautiful people look at you, and talk to you, and let you fuck them."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"He pressed a kiss to the crown of her head and she let him hold her close among the falling leaves and relished the illusion that, if only for a little while, she was safe."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

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24. Dear Laura

By: Gemma Amor

3.61

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

Every year, on her birthday, Laura gets a letter from a stranger. That stranger claims to know the … read more

Similar categories in Gemma Amor's Dear Laura book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Maggot Girl, Episode 1: A Maggoty Metamorphosis by Otis Bateman

25. Maggot Girl, Episode 1: A Maggoty Metamorphosis

By: Otis Bateman

3.66

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

Maggot Girl is sick, violent and dangerous. She leaves a trail of brutal pornographic perversion in… read more

Similar categories in Otis Bateman's Maggot Girl, Episode 1: A Maggoty Metamorphosis book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • fiction
  • horror
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26. Grandpappy

By: Patrick C. Harrison III

3.59

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

Grandpappy is on hospice. Charles is going mad. Vile happenings are abound. You, reader, are not… read more

Similar categories in Patrick C. Harrison III's Grandpappy book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. The Groomer

By: Jon Athan

3.60

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

Andrew McCarthy grows concerned for his family after he catches a young man, Zachary Denton, photog… read more

Similar categories in Jon Athan's The Groomer book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
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28. Zola

By: D.E. McCluskey

3.52

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Gordon's name was a joke. It was given to him by Anthony Zola, a controlling, and abusive fathe… read more

Similar categories in D.E. McCluskey's Zola book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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29. Broken pieces of June

By: Stuart Bray

3.83

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

June has struggled to find her place in the world, jumping from town to town, state to state. But w… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Bray's Broken pieces of June book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"I've always heard the expression, 'your body is a temple'. Well, my body was a crack den off Interstate sixty-five."

-Stuart Bray, Broken pieces of June

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30. Along the Path of Torment

By: Chandler Morrison

3.79

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Ty Seward is a sick man. Anorexic, sexually aberrant, and haunted by a ghostly apparition residing … read more

Similar categories in Chandler Morrison's Along the Path of Torment book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • fiction
  • horror
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31. Savaging the Dark

By: Christopher Conlon

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Mona Straw has it all—beautiful daughter, caring husband, lovely home, fulfilling job as a middle-s… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark book and Christopher Conlon's Savaging the Dark

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult

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Katherine Dunn

3.95

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3.42

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