18 best-selling horror books like Black Cat by John A. Russo

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Black Cat

By: John A. Russo

3.69

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

SPIRITED FROM THE DARK JUNGLES OF AFRICA TO A PLACE IN THE AMERICAN DESERT . . . The evil soul of a…

If you liked the horror plot in Black Cat by John A. Russo , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Bone White

By: Ronald Malfi

3.89

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

A landscape of frozen darkness punctuated by grim, gray days. The feeling like a buzz in your tee… read more

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  • horror
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2. Baal

By: Robert McCammon

4.50

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

A woman is ravished... and to her a child is born... unleashing an unimaginable evil upon the world… read more

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  • horror
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3. FantasticLand

By: Mike Bockoven

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where “Fun is Guaranteed!” But when a hurric… read more

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"One more thing. I...I kind of hate people. Seriously, I've thought about how to phrase this and the best thing I can say isn't, "I'm not a people person," or something like that. It's that I hate peo…"

-Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

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4. I'm Not Sam

By: Jack Ketchum , Lucky McKee

3.79

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Now I'm way beyond confusion. Now I'm scared. I've slid down the rabbit-hole and what's down there … read more

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  • horror
Cover of Serial Uncut: Extended Edition by Blake Crouch, J.A. Konrath, Jack Kilborn

5. Serial Uncut: Extended Edition

By: Blake Crouch , J.A. Konrath , Jack Kilborn

5.00

Format: 176 pages,

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  • horror
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6. Blue World

By: Robert McCammon

4.10

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

From the battlefields of a Vietnam veteran's memory to an old-time movie hero's search for a serial… read more

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  • horror

7. Dead Ringers

By: Christopher Golden

3.72

Format: 134 pages, Hardcover

With a deep history that threads back to the days of Alistair Crowley and an ancient house, the spi… read more

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8. Snowblind

By: Christopher Golden

3.00

Format: 31 pages, Hardcover

In Christopher Golden's first horror novel in more than a decade--a work reminiscent of early Steph… read more

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9. The Rats (Rats, #1)

By: James Herbert

2.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For millions of years man and rats had been natural enemies. But now for the first time - suddenly,… read more

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10. 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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11. The Night Boat

By: Robert McCammon

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the living hell of her watery grave she rises again... THE NIGHT BOAT Deep under the calm wate… read more

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12. December Park

By: Ronald Malfi

3.57

Format: 307 pages,

In the quiet suburb of Harting Farms, the weekly crime blotter usually consists of graffiti or the … read more

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13. Those Across the River

By: Christopher Buehlman

3.71

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whit… read more

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"Violence like that is private, don't you think?"

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"That was a mean thought, and not funny at all. I let it turn to sand and blow out of my head."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"I mostly drink clear booze because the rest of it looks it's already been through a gentleman."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"But when I make a good [taxidermy] mount I feel like I beat God in a small way. As though the Almighty said, Let such critter be dead, and I said, 'Fuck You, he can still play the banjo."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

14. Off Season (Dead River, #1)

By: Jack Ketchum

3.98

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Off Season, a novel about horror and cannibalism in modern-day Maine, was first released in 19… read more

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15. The Hunger, and Other Stories

By: Charles Beaumont

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When The Hunger and Other Stories (1957) appeared, it heralded the arrival of Charles Beaumont (192… read more

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16. 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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  • horror
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17. Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more

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" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

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18. Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

3.53

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more

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  • horror
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19. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

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  • horror
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

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20. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

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Cover of The Spite House by Johnny Compton

21. The Spite House

By: Johnny Compton

3.53

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife,… read more

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  • horror
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22. We Need to Do Something

By: Max Booth III

3.42

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM IFC … read more

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  • horror
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23. Litani

By: Jess Lourey

3.99

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

The Amazon Charts bestselling author of Unspeakable Things and Bloodline explores the darkness at t… read more

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  • horror
"The evil of what had been done to Crane and the choices he'd made because of it were living inside him, just like I'd have to carry around forever everything I'd survived and done. That's the way it …"

-Jess Lourey, Litani

"Creeping Charlie was the real rock star, though, according to Dad. It thrived in the shade on the edge of forests and sometimes on rocky soil, and the world saw it as a greedy invader. They didn't kn…"

-Jess Lourey, Litani

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24. 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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25. The Devil's Playground

By: Craig Russell

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A riveting 1920s Hollywood thriller about the making of the most terrifying silent film ever made, … read more

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Cover of Black Cat by John A. Russo

26. Black Cat

By: John A. Russo

3.69

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

SPIRITED FROM THE DARK JUNGLES OF AFRICA TO A PLACE IN THE AMERICAN DESERT . . . The evil soul of a… read more

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18 Top fiction books like Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2) by Richard Chizmar

Transform Your Habits

Gwendy's Button Box + "The Music Room"

Stephen King , Richard Chizmar , Maggie Siff

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Blaze

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Colorado Kid

Stephen King

3.38

Transform Your Habits

Black House (The Talisman, #2)

Stephen King , Peter Straub

3.93

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