14 must-read historical books like Blight by Tom Carlisle

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Blight

By: Tom Carlisle

3.19

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliantly atmospheric horror novel about people disappearing in a small, claustrophobic village…

If you liked the historical plot in Blight by Tom Carlisle , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Man in the Picture

By: Susan Hill

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary ghost story from a modern master, published just in time for Halloween. In the apa… read more

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  • gothic
  • horror

2. A Midsummer's Equation

By: Keigo Higashino , Alexander O. Smith

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hari Cove, a once-popula… read more

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3. The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2)

By: Mark Lawrence

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The second volume in the bestselling, ground-breaking Library Trilogy, following The Book That Woul… read more

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4. The House That Horror Built

By: Christina Henry

3.22

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifyi… read more

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  • gothic
  • horror
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5. A Haunting on the Hill

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.35

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hand's A Haunting on the Hill book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • gothic
  • horror
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6. The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights

By: Bridget Collins

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly t… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • gothic
  • horror
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7. The Black Feathers

By: Rebecca Netley

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Where ghosts tread, black feathers fall . . . When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and a… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Netley's The Black Feathers book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • gothic
  • historical
  • horror
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8. A Botanical Daughter

By: Noah Medlock

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty… read more

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  • gothic
  • historical
  • horror
"Grief can be a kind of exhaustion, after all."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Gregor now knew in his soul that greatness came at a price, and true greatness is paid for by the hour."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"He had tried sculpting in other materials - in clay, marble, wood, and bronze - but corpses were the only medium that really sang under his fingers."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Simon, what do you understand to be the nature of a soul?" he said suddenly. Simon was staring darkly into the endless distance. He didn't refocus his gaze to reply. "That part of us which cannot be …"

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

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9. The Weejee Man

By: NP Cunniffe

3.65

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

A nerve-shredding slice of rural horror for fans of Adam Nevill and Andrew Michael Hurley. Force… read more

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  • horror
"His face had grown dark, except for the reflection of the red fire in his eyes. The house, too, seemed to have filled with shadow, as if a storm was brewing outside. Jim’s eyes beamed red from the sh…"

-NP Cunniffe, The Weejee Man

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10. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

By: Bridget Collins

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • gothic
  • historical
  • horror
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11. The House of Footsteps

By: Mathew West

3.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

If you loved The Haunting of Hill House, welcome to Thistlecrook… It’s 1923 and at Thistlecr… read more

Similar categories in Mathew West's The House of Footsteps book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • gothic
  • historical
  • horror
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12. 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

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13. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

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14. A Haunting in the Arctic

By: C.J. Cooke

3.78

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

1901-ben ​járunk. A fiatal nőt, Nickyt megtámadják, majd egy bálnavadász hajó, az Ormen fedélzetén … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Cooke's A Haunting in the Arctic book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • gothic
  • historical
  • horror
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15. The Whistling

By: Rebecca Netley

3.69

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Alone in the world, Elspeth Swansome has taken the position of nanny to a family on the remote Scot… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Netley's The Whistling book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • gothic
  • historical
  • horror
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16. The Creeper

By: A.M. Shine

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Superstitions only survive if people believe in them... Renowned academic Dr Sparling seeks help… read more

Similar categories in A.M. Shine's The Creeper book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • horror
Cover of Pine by Francine Toon

17. Pine

By: Francine Toon

3.38

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

They are driving home from the search party when they see her. The trees are coarse and tall in… read more

Similar categories in Francine Toon's Pine book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • gothic
  • horror
"...she can’t shake the discomfort of last night. It has seeped into the daylight."

-Francine Toon, Pine

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18. Bloom

By: Delilah S. Dawson

3.90

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella from the New York… read more

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's Bloom book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • gothic
  • horror
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19. The Coffin Path

By: Katherine Clements

3.64

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Coffin Path is an eerie and compelling seventeenth-century ghost story set on the dark wilds of… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Clements's The Coffin Path book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • gothic
  • historical
  • horror
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20. 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 Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • horror
"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

Cover of The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman

21. The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul

By: Eleanor Herman

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roilin… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Herman's The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • historical
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22. The Whispering Muse

By: Laura Purcell

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambit… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's The Whispering Muse book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • gothic
  • historical
  • horror
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23. The Ghost Woods

By: C.J. Cooke

3.98

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folklore… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Cooke's The Ghost Woods book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • gothic
  • historical
  • horror
Cover of Good Girls Don’t Die by Christina Henry

24. Good Girls Don’t Die

By: Christina Henry

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Celia wakes up in a house that isn’t hers. She doesn't recognize her husband or the little girl who… read more

Similar categories in Christina Henry's Good Girls Don’t Die book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • horror
"[S]he marveled at how easily the heroines of her favorite books stumbled across physical clues after a crime. Fiction really was easier than truth."

-Christina Henry, Good Girls Don’t Die

"Maggie resisted the urge to explain to the other woman that life was not fair, that it had never been fair, that terrible things happened all the time that nobody planned on, that even when you tried…"

-Christina Henry, Good Girls Don’t Die

"Most women faked half their lives daily, pretending to have their work and their family and their health completely under control, moving through the world with just enough makeup and effortless sham…"

-Christina Henry, Good Girls Don’t Die

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25. The Lost Ones

By: Anita Frank

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Some houses are never at peace. England, 1917 Reeling from the death of her fiancé, Stella March… read more

Similar categories in Anita Frank's The Lost Ones book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • gothic
  • historical
  • horror
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26. The Butcher

By: Laura Kat Young

3.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A suspenseful small-town horror novel of oppression, heartbreak and buried anguish – Shirley Jackso… read more

Similar categories in Laura Kat Young's The Butcher book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • historical
  • horror
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27. Schrader's Chord

By: Scott Leeds

4.06

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

Heart-Shaped Box meets The Haunting of Hill House in Schrader's Chord , Scott Leeds's chilling debu… read more

Similar categories in Scott Leeds's Schrader's Chord book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • horror
"Also ..." He nodded to the lone restaurant surrounded by trees. "... that looks like the s-sort of place that has pie." "And hot coffee," Ana added, closing her eyes and purring. Raymond smiled. "May…"

-Scott Leeds, Schrader's Chord

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28. Frontier

By: Grace Curtis

3.62

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Saints and preachers, librarians and horse thieves, lawmakers and lawbreakers, and a crash-survivin… read more

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29. The Forest Grimm (The Forest Grimm #1)

By: Kathryn Purdie

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Where fairy tales come to life with dark, deadly twists... "Tell me again, Grandmère, the story … read more

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30. The Burial Plot

By: Elizabeth Macneal

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable his… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Macneal's The Burial Plot book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • gothic
  • historical
Cover of Blight by Tom Carlisle

31. Blight

By: Tom Carlisle

3.19

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliantly atmospheric horror novel about people disappearing in a small, claustrophobic village… read more

Similar categories in Tom Carlisle's Blight book and Tom Carlisle's Blight

  • gothic
  • historical
  • horror

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3.22

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3.35

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