13 must-read horror books like Valerie and Other Stories by Colin Insole

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Valerie and Other Stories

By: Colin Insole

4.48

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

With the nine stories of this collection, Colin Insole conducts a fantastic pavane that depicts hum…

If you liked the horror plot in Valerie and Other Stories by Colin Insole , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Welcome to the Arms Race

By: Justin Isis

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Churches made of meat, spaceships powered by song, simulated authors and a soul-warping artwork tha… read more

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  • short stories
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2. Come Closer

By: Sara Gran

3.65

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

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3. Divorce Procedures for the Hairdressers of a Metallic and Inconstant Goddess

By: Justin Isis , James Nicholas

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pitched partway between multivalent modern Orphic hymnal and satiric devastation of the Internet ag… read more

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4. Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories

By: Robert Aickman

4.40

Format: 436 pages,

Cold Hand in Minewas first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story Pages from … read more

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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

By: John Langan

4.06

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemp… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

7. Dark Entries

By: Robert Aickman

3.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sewn signatures, printed on 110gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in bergundy wibalin cloth … read more

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8. The Only Good Indians

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.70

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

The creeping horror of Paul Tremblay meets Tommy Orange’s There There in a dark novel of revenge, c… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Names are stupid, though. Pretty soon he won't even need his."

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

"Lewis finds the fourteen-foot aluminum ladder under boxes in the garage, Three Stooges in into the backyard..."

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

"Dealing with cops is like being around a skittish horse: No sudden movements, nothing shiny or loud. Zero jokes."

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

"An elk mother, cornered, will slash with her hooves and tear with her mouth and even offer the hope of her own hamstrings, and if none of that works, she'll rise again years and years later, because …"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

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9. Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening

By:

3.97

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Master Ren: "To quote the poets.. we're fucked"."

-, Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening

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10. Slade House

By: David Mitchell

3.81

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British p… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Coffee’s the elixir of life."

-David Mitchell, Slade House

"In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows."

-David Mitchell, Slade House

"It takes more than holding hands and singing ‘Ebony and Ivory’."

-David Mitchell, Slade House

"Truth has this habit of changing after the fact, don't you find?"

-David Mitchell, Slade House

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11. Lost in the Garden

By: Adam S. Leslie

3.73

Format: 446 pages, Paperback

"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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12. A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

By: Luigi Musolino

4.23

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

This brilliant new collection showcases the best short stories and novellas of one of Italy's leadi… read more

Similar categories in Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations book and Colin Insole's Valerie and Other Stories

  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Neo-Decadence: 12 Manifestos

By: Justin Isis

4.77

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

The early 21st Century: a gilded age of pious guilt, poison nostalgia, environmental collapse, unch… read more

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14. Neo-Decadence Evangelion

By: Justin Isis

4.79

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

The Neo-Decadents, those Post-Naturalist culture sluts of the 21st Century Empire of Ruins, present… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Instagrimoire//Fax Screen Sect: The Cancellation of Graham Greene, Volume 1: Tales from Orthographic Oceans, or: A Room with a View (Self-Portrait in a Concave Mirror with Interior Landscape & Key to the Scriptures) by Justin Isis

15. Instagrimoire//Fax Screen Sect: The Cancellation of Graham Greene, Volume 1: Tales from Orthographic Oceans, or: A Room with a View (Self-Portrait in a Concave Mirror with Interior Landscape & Key to the Scriptures)

By: Justin Isis

4.84

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

“These inappropriately pleasant poems about TikTok, necromantic sex and the pseudo-Platonic theurgy… read more

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16. Pleasant Tales II

By: Justin Isis

4.78

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Two young sisters enjoy the gustatory delights of chocolate pudding. A healthy young man takes a wa… read more

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17. Drowning in Beauty: The Neo-Decadent Anthology

By: Justin Isis

4.73

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

From the ashes of countless decayed Modernities comes Neo-Decadence, a profaned cathedral whose bro… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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18. The Inconsolables

By: Michael Wehunt

4.24

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

In his first collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt introduced the world to his singular voic… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Well, my wife and child have moved out," Fulton told him, "and I've gotten back into vampires to fill the hole they left behind."

-Michael Wehunt, The Inconsolables

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19. Valerie and Other Stories

By: Colin Insole

4.48

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

With the nine stories of this collection, Colin Insole conducts a fantastic pavane that depicts hum… read more

Similar categories in Colin Insole's Valerie and Other Stories book and Colin Insole's Valerie and Other Stories

  • literature
  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Everything Is Beautiful and Nothing Bad Can Ever Happen Here by Michael Wehunt

20. Everything Is Beautiful and Nothing Bad Can Ever Happen Here

By: Michael Wehunt

4.50

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

From the Nightscape Press Charitable Chapbooks line. One third of all sales of this chapbook will g… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Figures Unseen: Selected Stories

By: Steve Rasnic Tem

3.89

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

In the worlds of Steve Rasnic Tem a father takes his son “fishing” in the deepest part of downtown,… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

14 must-read fiction books like Valerie and Other Stories by Colin Insole

Transform Your Habits

Come Closer

Sara Gran

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories

Robert Aickman

4.40

Transform Your Habits

The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

John Langan

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Fisherman

John Langan

3.91

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15 Top fiction books like Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories by Robert Aickman

Transform Your Habits

The Secret of Ventriloquism

Jon Padgett

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Dark Domain

Stefan Grabiński , Mirosław Lipiński

4.01

Transform Your Habits

A Collapse of Horses

Brian Evenson

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Collected Connoisseur (The Connoisseur #1-2)

Mark Valentine , John Howard

4.39

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