7 Top paranormal books like Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away by Stephen Lancaster

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Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

By: Stephen Lancaster

3.59

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

When paranormal investigator Stephen Lancaster brought home an old doll from an antique shop, he ha…

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1. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

By: Caitlin Doughty

4.22

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degre… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Doughty's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • adult
  • nonfiction
"Your relationship to mortality is your own."

-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

"In spite of my fear of living, I chose not to die."

-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

"A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves."

-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

"The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m."

-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

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2. The Book of Fairy Poetry

By: Michael Hague

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Hardcover

Poets from Shakespeare to Walter de la Mare to Jack Prelutsky have written about fairy folk. Someti… read more

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3. Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex or design. He fears … read more

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4. Bunnicula (Bunnicula, #1)

By: James Howe , Alan Daniel , Deborah Howe

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

BEWARE THE HARE! Is he or isn't he a vampire? Before it's too late, Harold the dog and Chester the … read more

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5. The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

By: Leigh Bardugo , Sara Kipin

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns. Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by moonlig… read more

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6. Don't You Cry

By: Mary Kubica

3.71

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

In downtown Chicago, Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting lette… read more

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7. The Lucky One

By: Nicholas Sparks

3.69

Format: 384 pages,

When U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman half-buried in the dirt… read more

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8. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1

By: James Tynion IV

4.16

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

When children begin to go missing in the town of Archer’s Peak, all hope seems lost until a mysteri… read more

Similar categories in James Tynion IV's Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1 book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • supernatural
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • horror
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9. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 2

By: James Tynion IV

4.26

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Erica Slaughter may have slain the monster terrorizing the small Wisconsin town of Archer’s Peak, b… read more

Similar categories in James Tynion IV's Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 2 book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • supernatural
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • horror
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10. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 3

By: James Tynion IV

4.29

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

As the House of Slaughter arrives to clean up the situation by any means necessary, Erica will find… read more

Similar categories in James Tynion IV's Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 3 book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • supernatural
  • adult
  • horror
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11. The Road to Roswell

By: Connie Willis

3.74

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are … read more

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12. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

By: Caitlin Doughty

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with ten… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Doughty's From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • adult
  • nonfiction
"My next drone folk album will be called "The Cremation Reforms of Octavius B. Frothingham"."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

"What dignity translates to, more often than not, is silence, a forced poise, a rigid formality."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

"All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

"In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

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13. Night of the Mannequins

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.34

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Night of the Mannequins book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • adult
  • horror
"Moms are so oblivious. It’s like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

"The tornado the alarms had screamed about ... hadn't actually happened, but around here you never know. Better safe in the cellar than sorry halfway up the sky."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

"Sometimes you just know what you're doing is the only thing to be doing. That the world is conspiring all around you to make it happen, like, not just giving you permission, but herding you the direc…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

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14. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • adult
  • horror
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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15. Nothing But Blackened Teeth

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.66

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in … read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • ghosts
"Every religion is a one-way relationship."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"The dead miss the sun. It's dark down there."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

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16. Bloodbath Nation

By: Paul Auster

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

An intimate and astonishing rumination on gun violence in America from one of our greatest living w… read more

Similar categories in Paul Auster's Bloodbath Nation book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • adult
  • nonfiction
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17. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 4

By: James Tynion IV

4.45

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The origin of Erica Slaughter, monster hunter, is revealed in this volume of the Eisner Award-nomin… read more

Similar categories in James Tynion IV's Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 4 book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • supernatural
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • horror
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18. Musical Tables: Poems

By: Billy Collins

3.79

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compresse… read more

Similar categories in Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • adult
  • nonfiction
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19. Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

By: Kathleen Hale

3.94

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the Am… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hale's Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • horror
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20. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

By: John Glatt

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Tangled Vines , bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigiou… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • nonfiction
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21. Woman Last Seen (DCI Clements, #1)

By: Adele Parks

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Leigh Fletcher: happily married stepmom to two gorgeous boys goes missing on Monday. Her husband, M… read more

Similar categories in Adele Parks's Woman Last Seen (DCI Clements, #1) book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • adult
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22. Little Weirds

By: Jenny Slate

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Hello and welcome to my book. Inside you will find… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Slate's Little Weirds book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • nonfiction
"If I deny that the root is in me, I will never change."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

"I love myself. I think that I am a very top-quality person."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

"If I could remember anything, I would remember my belief that my extra love could just be used on myself."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

"I was born bucking the idea that I should have to be anywhere that I don’t like or talk to people who make me feel dead or trapped."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

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23. The Island

By: Natasha Preston

3.47

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Hot on the heels of the New York Times bestsellers The Twin and The Lake, another pulse-pounding re… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Preston's The Island book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • horror
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24. Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

By: Megan Rosenbloom

4.01

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest othe… read more

Similar categories in Megan Rosenbloom's Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • horror
"Human skin books—mostly made by nineteenth-century doctor bibliophiles—are the only books that are controversial not for the ideas they contain but for the physical makeup of the object itself."

-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

"Anthropodermic books tell a complicated and uncomfortable take about the development of clinical medicine and the doctoring class, and the worst of what can come from the collision of acquisitiveness…"

-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

"Many confirmed human skin books didn’t begin their print life in this controversial binding but were rebound by collectors, usually doctors who took the oldest or rarest texts in their private collec…"

-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

"No wonder the public persists in connecting the idea of human skin books with Nazis. It's easier to believe that objects of human skin are made by monsters like Nazis and serial killers, and not the …"

-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

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25. Man, Fuck This House

By: Brian Asman

3.36

Format: 158 pages, Kindle Edition

Sabrina Haskins and her family have just moved into their dream home, a gorgeous Craftsman in the r… read more

Similar categories in Brian Asman's Man, Fuck This House book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • adult
  • paranormal
  • horror
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26. Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

By: Josh Malerman

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Bird Box (Bird Box, #1) book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • adult
  • horror
"Your baby is smarter than you think."

-Josh Malerman, Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

"Creatures, Malorie thinks. What a cheap word."

-Josh Malerman, Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

"You are saving their lives for a life not living."

-Josh Malerman, Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

"Some people choose to wait for news and others make their own."

-Josh Malerman, Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)

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27. The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

By: Thomas Morris

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions, A teenage boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Morris's The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • nonfiction
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28. Finding Ashley

By: Danielle Steel

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

In Finding Ashley , a deeply moving novel from the number one bestseller Danielle Steel, two estran… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Steel's Finding Ashley book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • adult
Cover of Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia

29. Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts

By: Kate Racculia

3.87

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

A dying billionaire sends one woman and a cast of dreamers and rivals on a citywide treasure hunt i… read more

Similar categories in Kate Racculia's Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • adult
  • paranormal
"Tomorrow you could be anyone. Imagine that."

-Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts

"Look at me. Really look at me, please. I dare you to look at me and know me and love me."

-Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts

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30. Aurora: The Psychiatrist Who Treated the Movie Theater Killer Tells Her Story

By: Lynne Fenton

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A compelling look at violence and trauma from the psychiatrist who treated mass shooter James Holme… read more

Similar categories in Lynne Fenton's Aurora: The Psychiatrist Who Treated the Movie Theater Killer Tells Her Story book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • nonfiction
Cover of Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away by Stephen Lancaster

31. Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

By: Stephen Lancaster

3.59

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

When paranormal investigator Stephen Lancaster brought home an old doll from an antique shop, he ha… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away book and Stephen Lancaster's Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away

  • ghosts
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • paranormal

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty

4.22

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James Tynion IV

4.16

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James Tynion IV

4.26

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James Tynion IV

4.29

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Salman Rushdie

4.10

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Paul Auster

3.87

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Jon Fosse

3.49

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Matthew Desmond

4.27

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