15 must-read horror books like Hide the Children by Victor Miller

Cover of Hide the Children by Victor Miller

Hide the Children

By: Victor Miller

3.40

Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback

3 former mental patients and their nurse kidnap a bus load of children.

If you liked the horror plot in Hide the Children by Victor Miller , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. The Devil Crept In

By: Ania Ahlborn

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Young Jude Brighton has been missing for three days, and while the search for him is in full swing … read more

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  • horror
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2. Cold Moon Over Babylon

By: Michael McDowell

3.99

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Terror grows in Babylon, a typical sleepy Southern town with its throbbing sun and fog-shrouded swa… read more

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  • horror
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3. The Hunger

By: Alma Katsu

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The Hunger is a tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical mome… read more

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  • horror

4. The Fog

By: James Herbert

2.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

A peaceful village in Wiltshire is shattered by a disaster which strikes without reason or explanat… read more

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5. Feral

By: Berton Roueché

4.04

Format: 156 pages,

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6. Dark Harvest

By: Norman Partridge

4.02

Format: 982 pages,

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, … read more

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7. The Troop

By: Nick Cutter

3.84

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

Once a year, scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a three-d… read more

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"Soldering iron, Max."

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"You’ve never heard of the tapeworm diet?"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"I been to hell ... I ain't afraid to go back"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"His fear was whetted to such a fine edge that he could actually feel it now: a disembodied ball of baby fingers inside his stomach, tickling him from the inside. That's what mortal terror felt like, …"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

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8. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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9. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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10. Hide

By: Kiersten White

3.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. The priz… read more

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  • horror
"What a generation long before her summoned and paid for, and what subsequent generations decided to make others pay for. Trickle-down economics. They got the economy, and the blood trickled down the …"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"Mack looks back at the maze that housed a monster that fed in youth and hope and stalled dreams. That ground up vulnerable people so the ones in power could keep their power, could keep their safety,…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"So now she's seen it. She [Mack] knows what's out there. It doesn't make any more sense than it did before, but at least she can move from horror, the fear of the unknown, and into terror, the fear o…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"He doesn't love you," she said matter-of-factly. "He didn't love your mother, either, and I don't want you to spend your whole life waiting for something he can't give. Men like that, people are thin…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

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11. 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

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"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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12. Happy-Go-Lucky

By: David Sedaris

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” ( Los Angeles Times ) returns with his first new collect… read more

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13. Dead Silence

By: S.A. Barnes

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more

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"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."

-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

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14. Mary

By: Nat Cassidy

3.80

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invis… read more

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15. Ghostwritten

By: Ronald Malfi

4.12

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

Four brand-new horror novellas from “a modern-day Algernon Blackwood” all about books, stories, man… read more

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  • horror
"myself asks am i here? i've lost myself i fear"

-Ronald Malfi, Ghostwritten

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16. Hell Hound

By: Ken Greenhall

3.91

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

‘What are the possibilities of my strength? That is a thought I have never had before. What if some… read more

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"Does everyone have to have an obsession?' 'Certainly. It's your choice of one that determines whether you're sane or not."

-Ken Greenhall, Hell Hound

"As Jason drove through the twilight he wondered weather people really could love animals. No, he thought. What they love is themselves; a part of themselves they see reflected in the animal."

-Ken Greenhall, Hell Hound

"Trust is the ultimate weakness and a kind of madness.... It may be inevitable that anyone who lives in the town, even I, must become afflicted with moments of trust. It is something one must accept. …"

-Ken Greenhall, Hell Hound

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17. A History of Fear

By: Luke Dumas

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devi… read more

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18. Only the Stains Remain

By: Ross Jeffery

3.83

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

From the Bram Stoker Nominated Author Ross Jeffery comes a new nightmare. Only The Stains Remain… read more

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19. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

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20. Hide the Children

By: Victor Miller

3.40

Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback

3 former mental patients and their nurse kidnap a bus load of children. read more

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  • horror

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3.86

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3.42

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