16 must-read horror books like Monkey Shines by Michael Stewart

Cover of Monkey Shines by Michael      Stewart

Monkey Shines

By: Michael Stewart

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

While cramming for finals, wheelchair-bound quadriplegic Allan Mann takes some pills intended to in…

If you liked the horror plot in Monkey Shines by Michael Stewart , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Everything's Eventual by Stephen        King

1. Everything's Eventual

By: Stephen King

3.97

Format: 605 pages, Paperback

In this eerie, enchanting compilation, Stephen King takes readers down a road less travelled (for g… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Time belongs to the Tower."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

"A broken spoon may become a fork."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

"Black as night and as beautiful as forever."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

"I decided it didn't matter a fuck in a rabbit hutch."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

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2. Children of the Night (Seasons of Horror #2)

By: Dan Simmons

3.72

Format: 453 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An evil legacy comes to life in this classic and ultimately human novel about believable vampires, … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham, Nick Tosches

3. Nightmare Alley

By: William Lindsay Gresham , Nick Tosches

3.83

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abje… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Also Dad said it was a shame to go to bed early and miss everything when you could sleep late the next day and catch up..."

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"Beyond that elfin face, the steady eyes, there was something breathing, something that was fed blood from a tiny heart beating under pointed breasts. But is was cobweb under the fingers. Cobweb in th…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"Hoatley - First Carnival Owner: Now this creature - There he is, THE GEEK! He has puzzled the foremost scientists of Europe and America. Is he the missing link? Is he man or beast? Some have pronounc…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

Cover of Uzumaki by Junji Ito, Yuji Oniki

4. Uzumaki

By: Junji Ito , Yuji Oniki

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Ratman's Notebooks

By: Stephen Gilbert

3.55

Format: 199 pages,

When his nagging mother discovers a rat infestation, the anonymous writer of these notebooks sets o… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

6. The Chrysalids

By: John Wyndham

3.93

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A world paralysed by genetic mutation John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of … read more

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  • fiction
"We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that."

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for"

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"The living form defies evolution at its peril; if it does not adapt, it will be broken. The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity: the finished image is a sacrilegious myth."

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"... the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it. They had no means of consensus. They learnt to co-operate constructively in small units; but only destructiv…"

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

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7. Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2)

By: Stephen King

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Wake up, genius. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jim… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, #1) by Alan             Moore, Kevin O'Neill

8. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, #1)

By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

3.42

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Alan Moore's familiar cast of Victorian literary characters enters the brave new world of the 20th … read more

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  • fiction
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9. Here

By: Richard McGuire

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hereis Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same n… read more

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  • fiction
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10. American Born Chinese

By: Gene Luen Yang

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds tha… read more

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  • fiction
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11. Duma Key

By: Stephen King

3.44

Format: 336 pages,

Six months after a crane crushes his pickup truck and his body self-made millionaire Edgar Freemant… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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12. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969

By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The third volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues,… read more

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  • fiction

13. Under the Skin

By: Michel Faber

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this haunting, entrancing novel, Michel Faber introduces us to Isserley, a female driver who cru… read more

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14. Wolverine

By: Chris Claremont , Frank Miller , Paul Smith

4.04

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The master of mutants joins the master of ninjas in Wolverine's first solo series - replete with ro… read more

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  • fiction
"The better to slay me?! Mt healing factors make me a mutant. Lacing my bones with adamantium and giving me these claws, that was done to me. but, you asked to be changed. You did this to yourself. Th…"

-Chris Claremont, Wolverine

15. Grendel

By: John Gardner

4.03

Format: 606 pages,

The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tel… read more

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16. The Crow

By: James O'Barr

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

Eric has returned from the dead, driven only by hate and the need to wreak revenge on those who kil… read more

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17. 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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18. The Tommyknockers

By: Stephen King

3.60

Format: 747 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian's Note: This is alternate cover edition #2 ISBN 10: 0451156609 ISBN13: 9780451156600… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"The feel of the sticky wetness down there when she moved made her grimace. God, she wanted to get cleaned up. In a hurry."

-Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

"One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred-pound Coke machine, one need worry about nothing else."

-Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

"The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on…"

-Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

"I have just drawn my weapon and killed a Coke machine, sir." Claudell Weems said hollowly inside his mask. Andy Torgeson turned toward him. "And you never even ordered it to halt, or fired a warning …"

-Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

19. Sandcastle

By: Frederik Peeters , Pierre Oscar Lévy

3.27

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It's a perfect beach day, or so thought the family, young couple, a few tourists, and a refugee who… read more

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20. The Bridge Over the River Kwai

By: Pierre Boulle , Xan Fielding

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

1942: Boldly advancing through Asia, the Japanese need a train route from Burma going north. In a p… read more

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21. Gravity's Rainbow

By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more

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22. The Amityville Horror

By: Jay Anson

3.83

Format: 315 pages, Mass Market Paperback

28 Days of Terror in a House Possessed by Evil Spirits In December 1975, the Lutz family moved i… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

23. Magic

By: William Goldman

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Starting out as a boy in the Catskills, Corky develops into a brilliant and famous magician whose l… read more

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24. The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)

By: James Ellroy

4.10

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Holl… read more

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25. A Short Stay in Hell

By: Steven L. Peck

4.22

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

Cover of Out by Natsuo Kirino, Stephen    Snyder

26. Out

By: Natsuo Kirino , Stephen Snyder

3.95

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Natsuo Kirino's novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mothe… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"...I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."

-Natsuo Kirino, Out

"And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."

-Natsuo Kirino, Out

"I'm desperate for money'. She said. And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."

-Natsuo Kirino, Out

"I'm desperate for money'. She said. 'And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you'. (Yoshie Azuma)"

-Natsuo Kirino, Out

Cover of Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2) by Richard  Chizmar

27. Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2)

By: Richard Chizmar

3.78

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

Something evil has swept into the small western Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the lates… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana

28. 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

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana

29. 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

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  • 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

Cover of The Predator: Hunters And Hunted Official Movie Prequel by James A. Moore

30. The Predator: Hunters And Hunted Official Movie Prequel

By: James A. Moore

3.60

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

The official prequel novel leads into the summer blockbuster The Predator, Shane Black’s new movie … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Monkey Shines by Michael      Stewart

31. Monkey Shines

By: Michael Stewart

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

While cramming for finals, wheelchair-bound quadriplegic Allan Mann takes some pills intended to in… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

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Everything's Eventual

Stephen King

3.97

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Children of the Night (Seasons of Horror #2)

Dan Simmons

3.72

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Nightmare Alley

William Lindsay Gresham , Nick Tosches

3.83

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3.95

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4.23

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