11 Best fantasy books like Smothermoss by Alisa Alering

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Smothermoss

By: Alisa Alering

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Smothermoss by Alisa Alering , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Basilisk

By: Graham Masterton

3.54

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

When a scientist's wife is injured by a basilisk he faces a terrible choice...let her die, or join … read more

Similar categories in Graham Masterton's Basilisk book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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2. 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

Similar categories in Christina Henry's The House That Horror Built book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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3. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

Similar categories in Johanna van Veen's My Darling Dreadful Thing book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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4. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

Similar categories in Elliott Gish's Grey Dog book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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7. The Night Guest

By: Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík … read more

Similar categories in Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. So Thirsty

By: Rachel Harrison

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in thi… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's So Thirsty book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
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9. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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11. 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

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • historical fiction
Cover of Smothermoss by Alisa Alering

12. Smothermoss

By: Alisa Alering

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that… read more

Similar categories in Alisa Alering's Smothermoss book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • gothic
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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13. Midnight Rooms

By: Donyae Coles

3.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a foreboding Gothic mansion and infused with the heightened paranoia and creeping horror of … read more

Similar categories in Donyae Coles's Midnight Rooms book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. We Carry the Sea in Our Hands

By: Janie Kim

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Told with poetic prose and an imaginative voice, this “beautifully composed [and] original” (Joyce … read more

Similar categories in Janie Kim's We Carry the Sea in Our Hands book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and u… read more

Similar categories in Leslie J. Anderson's The Unmothers book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. Mystery Lights

By: Lena Valencia

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Set against the stark background of the Southwestern desert, Lena Valencia’s Mystery Lights glows w… read more

Similar categories in Lena Valencia's Mystery Lights book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) by Nathan Ballingrud

17. Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into th… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Haunt Sweet Home

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.47

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pinsker's Haunt Sweet Home book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. Sacrificial Animals

By: Kailee Pedersen

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up … read more

Similar categories in Kailee Pedersen's Sacrificial Animals book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Young and having barely grown his first pair of antlers he is innocent of this fatal desire to engrave himself into the body of another. Reworking and remaking the fabric of his destiny, skin against…"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? Wih the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's C…"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? With the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's …"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

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20. To the Bone

By: Alena Bruzas

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This moving and tragic love story is also a starkly honest look at Colonial America, set during the… read more

Similar categories in Alena Bruzas's To the Bone book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Bog Wife

By: Kay Chronister

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this atmospheric Appalachian gothic, the Haddesley siblings of West Virginia must unearth long-b… read more

Similar categories in Kay Chronister's The Bog Wife book and Alisa Alering's Smothermoss

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy

16 Top audiobook books like Smothermoss by Alisa Alering

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The House That Horror Built

Christina Henry

3.22

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Grey Dog

Elliott Gish

3.96

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Horror Movie

Paul Tremblay

3.45

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Bury Your Gays

Chuck Tingle

4.29

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21 must-read fiction books like The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir

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The Stranger at the Wedding

A.E. Gauntlett

3.32

Transform Your Habits

The Night Guest

Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

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Heads Will Roll

Josh Winning

3.69

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So Thirsty

Rachel Harrison

4.03

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