26 must-read fantasy books like Holy Terror by Cherie Priest

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Holy Terror

By: Cherie Priest

3.85

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In her first collection of short fiction, Holy Terror: Stories by Cherie Priest, readers will be ta…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Holy Terror by Cherie Priest , here is a list of 26 books like this:

Cover of Wild Cards (Wild Cards, #1) by George R.R. Martin, Roger Zelazny, Brian Bolland, Howard Waldrop, Mike Zeck, Walter Jon Williams, Stephen Leigh, Lewis Shiner, Edward Bryant, Victor Milán, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Leanne C. Harper, John J.  Miller

1. Wild Cards (Wild Cards, #1)

By: George R.R. Martin , Roger Zelazny , Brian Bolland , Howard Waldrop , Mike Zeck , Walter Jon Williams , Stephen Leigh , Lewis Shiner , Edward Bryant , Victor Milán , Melinda M. Snodgrass , Leanne C. Harper , John J. Miller

3.69

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Just after World War 2 over New York City, an alien virus transforms human genetics and goes recess… read more

Similar categories in George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards (Wild Cards, #1) book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • urban fantasy
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Beasts of Tarzan (Tarzan, #3) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

2. The Beasts of Tarzan (Tarzan, #3)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Not long after Tarzan claims his hereditary title of Lord Greystoke and marries Jane, their infant … read more

Similar categories in Edgar Rice Burroughs's The Beasts of Tarzan (Tarzan, #3) book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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3. Rainbows End

By: Vernor Vinge

3.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it t… read more

Similar categories in Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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4. Autonomous

By: Annalee Newitz

4.33

Format: 481 pages, Hardcover

Autonomousfeatures a rakish female pharmaceutical pirate named Jack who traverses the world in her … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.90

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

1888 W Africa. Newlyweds Lord and Lady Greystoke are marooned by mutineers. He builds a snug cabin … read more

Similar categories in Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1) book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Teach me to speak the language of men."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

"I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

"Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

"P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

6. The Olympian Affair (The Cinder Spires, #2)

By: Jim Butcher

4.25

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

The characters are off on a diplomatic mission to another Spire. A bunch of representatives of vari… read more

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7. Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Other children get given xylophones. Susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off. Ye… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"We're on a mission from Glod."

-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)

"It's . . . it's like a legend! It has to happen!"

-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)

"The fastest way to travel is to be there already."

-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)

"The universe was bad enough without people poking it."

-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)

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8. I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

By: Peter S. Beagle

3.78

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A cast of characters trapped within their roles of dragon hunter, princess, and more must come toge… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Fear cannot breed where there is action."

-Peter S. Beagle, I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

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9. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9) book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

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10. Spear

By: Nicola Griffith

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cav… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Griffith's Spear book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"My lord."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"I never knew my father,"

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Even the dead had names."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Now his knowledge was her knowledge."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

Cover of Spelunking Through Hell (InCryptid, #11) by Seanan McGuire

11. Spelunking Through Hell (InCryptid, #11)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Now in trade paperback, the eleventh book in the fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns … read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Spelunking Through Hell (InCryptid, #11) book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • urban fantasy
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1) by Emma Mieko Candon

12. The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

By: Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's b… read more

Similar categories in Emma Mieko Candon's The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1) book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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14. Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.32

Format: 208 pages, ebook

A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8) book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"They needed to know because a choice you make without knowing the consequences isn't any choice at all!"

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"They have hearts. I can feel them beating. So I will build them a home and haven, as none was built for me, and I will care for them as long as I am able."

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"Then you found a door that said to be sure, and you were sure, you were already sure, you were so sure that when you tried the knob, it wasn't locked, and you could walk right through."

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"Some children need to escape from places that will only hurt them, or grind them away until they're nothing. And some children need to go somewhere else if they're ever going to grow into the people …"

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

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15. The Spare Man

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space li… read more

Similar categories in Mary Robinette Kowal's The Spare Man book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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16. Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.20

Format: 596 pages, ebook

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the second novel in an extr… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2) book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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17. Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.19

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space oper… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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18. An Assassination on the Agenda (Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #11)

By: T.E. Kinsey

4.53

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

They’re hoping this visit is a return journey—but it might be a one-way ticket to murder. July 1… read more

Similar categories in T.E. Kinsey's An Assassination on the Agenda (Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #11) book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • fiction
"Chap's been shot in the Tramway Centre." "Nasty place to be shot," I said. "I wouldn't want to be shot in the Tramway Centre."

-T.E. Kinsey, An Assassination on the Agenda (Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #11)

"Hello Sim, dear," said Lady Hardcastle. "We've come to see your body." Dr. Gosling laughed. "I say, that's rather forward of you, Em. I had no idea you felt that way."

-T.E. Kinsey, An Assassination on the Agenda (Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #11)

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19. A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

By: T.E. Kinsey

4.50

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

May 1912. After the previous year’s deadly heatwave, it’s been an uneventful spring in Littleton Co… read more

Similar categories in T.E. Kinsey's A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10) book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • fiction
"Butts are for rainwater, my little Baumkuchen"

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

"Perhaps we should all just accept the peculiarities of the world and the people in it."

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

"One doesn't have to toil to be enraged at the system that requires it of others. Unfairness and injustice affect us all."

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

"Wherever I've been, people have thought I've been up to something nefarious," she said. "A single woman in possession of a profitable business must be in want of locking up."

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

Cover of The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2) by Garth Nix

20. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2)

By: Garth Nix

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Return to the enchanting world of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London in this sequel by Garth Nix… read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2) book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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22. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

Cover of City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

23. City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.96

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fanta… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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24. The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

By: Josiah Bancroft

3.82

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

The first book in a wildly inventive and mesmerizing new fantasy series from acclaimed author Josia… read more

Similar categories in Josiah Bancroft's The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1) book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Do not neglect to live your life. No cause, no matter how noble, will ever love you."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

"Administrators are oblivious and generally get in the way; effective employees learn to work around them. That's how it always is."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

"I read in the paper yesterday that astronomers believe there are planets out there that don't ride on a rail around a star like our rock does. They call them nomads. These nomads are up there wanderi…"

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

Cover of Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights, #2) by T.L. Huchu

25. Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights, #2)

By: T.L. Huchu

3.92

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

“Alluring, shadowy Edinburgh with its hints of sophisticated academic magic will draw you in, but i… read more

Similar categories in T.L. Huchu's Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights, #2) book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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26. The Wild Hunt

By: Emma Seckel

3.74

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

The islanders have only three rules: don’t stick your nose where it’s not wanted, don’t mention the… read more

Similar categories in Emma Seckel's The Wild Hunt book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"You don’t sound happy, mo ghrád,"

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

"No matter how hard one tried, this island was not a place of leaving easily. It clung to a person like dew. He was still here, always still here"

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

"No matter how hard one tried, this island was not a place of leaving easily. It clung to a person like a dee. He was still here, always still here"

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

"She suspected that nobody still left on this island really deserved the blissful ignorance that was prerequisite to that slow and simple life anymore."

-Emma Seckel, The Wild Hunt

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27. The Salvation Gambit

By: Emily Skrutskie

3.65

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

A hotheaded hacker must outwit the AI at the heart of a rogue warship–turned–penal colony if she an… read more

Similar categories in Emily Skrutskie's The Salvation Gambit book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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28. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

Similar categories in Keanu Reeves's The Book of Elsewhere book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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29. A Fire Born of Exile

By: Aliette de Bodard

4.05

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

The Scattered Pearls Belt is a string of habitats under tight military rule . . . where the powerfu… read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's A Fire Born of Exile book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1) by James S.A. Corey

30. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.24

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more

Similar categories in James S.A. Corey's The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1) book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Holy Terror by Cherie Priest

31. Holy Terror

By: Cherie Priest

3.85

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In her first collection of short fiction, Holy Terror: Stories by Cherie Priest, readers will be ta… read more

Similar categories in Cherie Priest's Holy Terror book and Cherie Priest's Holy Terror

  • urban fantasy
  • short story collection
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • steampunk
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy

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3.69

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