10 Top short stories books like Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors by Todd Keisling

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Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

By: Todd Keisling

4.42

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

THIS IS GOING TO HURT. The eleven stories in Ugly Little Things explore the depths of human suff…

If you liked the short stories plot in Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors by Todd Keisling , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Night Parade

By: Ronald Malfi

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

First the birds disappeared. Then the insects took over. Then the madness began . . . They call it … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's The Night Parade book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • horror

2. A House at the Bottom of a Lake

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

Both seventeen. Both afraid. But both saying yes. It sounded like the perfect first date: canoeing … read more

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3. Curfew

By: Phil Rickman

3.75

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

On the border between England and Wales lies the tiny town of Crybbe, not picturesque enough for th… read more

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4. Sacculina

By: Philip Fracassi

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

When Jim's big brother Jack is released from prison, the brothers - along with their broken father … read more

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5. Song of Kali

By: Dan Simmons

1.33

Format: 397 pages,

"O terrible wife of Siva / Your tongue is drinking the blood, / O dark Mother! O unclad Mother." It… read more

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6. 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

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Boys in the Valley book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • horror
" 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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7. All the Fiends of Hell

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the mor… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's All the Fiends of Hell book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • horror
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8. The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

By: A.M. Shine

3.93

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different… read more

Similar categories in A.M. Shine's The Watchers (The Watchers, #1) book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • horror
"Every grudge, if it is to stand the test of time, relies on the certainty of a selective memory."

-A.M. Shine, The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

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9. Monstrilio

By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more

Similar categories in Gerardo Sámano Córdova's Monstrilio book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • horror
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

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10. We Can Never Leave This Place

By: Eric LaRocca

3.52

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

"When you're given a gift, something else gets taken away." A precocious young girl with an unus… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's We Can Never Leave This Place book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"We can never leave this place," my mother told her. "It would hurt too much."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

"We can never leaves this places," my mother told her. "It would hurt to much."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

"How could you do this to me?' the creature asked. And the blind man said, 'I wanted to be the only one to hurry you."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

"I watched as blood swirled down my naked body in dark ribbons—tiny threads that had forever come undone from me and were sent to freedom."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

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11. 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

Similar categories in Max Booth III's We Need to Do Something book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. Growing Things and Other Stories

By: Paul Tremblay

3.50

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A chilling anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction from the multiple award-winning aut… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Growing Things and Other Stories book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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13. Woom

By: Duncan Ralston

3.25

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

Warning: this book contains graphic violence and sexuality most readers will find offensive. "I… read more

Similar categories in Duncan Ralston's Woom book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. The Broken Places

By: Blaine Daigle

None

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

When Ryne Burdette inherits his family's old hunting cabin deep in the Yukon wilderness, he wants t… read more

Similar categories in Blaine Daigle's The Broken Places book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Daughter's Drawings

By: Nick Botic

4.07

Format: 299 pages, Paperback

I’m posting this here because this seems to be the place that people could truly appreciate what’s … read more

Similar categories in Nick Botic's Daughter's Drawings book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Small Town Horror

By: Ronald Malfi

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Small Town Horror book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • horror
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17. Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology

By: Ellen Datlow

3.65

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horro… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Datlow's Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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18. Goblin

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie, a novella collection in which e… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Goblin book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"How can there be nothing?" he said, shaking his head. "Nothing doesn't make noise! Nothing doesn't wake you up! You know what does that?" he looked down the length of his booby-trapped rooms. "Someth…"

-Josh Malerman, Goblin

"One night at closing time in his second week at his second week on the job, a possible explanation popped up, unasked for. They know I’m not where I am supposed to be. Up here- he tapped his head – I…"

-Josh Malerman, Goblin

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19. This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

By: Eric LaRocca

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram St… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
"The worst thing a person can do to you after they've hurt you is let you live."

-Eric LaRocca, This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

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20. Daphne

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

It’s the last summer for Kit Lamb: The last summer before college. The last summer with her high sc… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Daphne book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Spin a Black Yarn

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the singular mind of the New York Ti… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Spin a Black Yarn book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of Near the Bone by Christina Henry

22. Near the Bone

By: Christina Henry

3.72

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

A woman trapped on a mountain attempts to survive more than one kind of monster, in a dread-inducin… read more

Similar categories in Christina Henry's Near the Bone book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • horror
"They were all willing to believe in the existence of an animal they'd never seen before but they weren't willing to believe it could think and reason."

-Christina Henry, Near the Bone

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23. 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

By: Sadie Hartmann

4.43

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

The Ultimate List of Must-Read Horror! Curious readers and fans of monsters and the macabre, get re… read more

Similar categories in Sadie Hartmann's 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • anthologies
  • horror
"I love a good story about everyone dying."

-Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

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24. Hellweg's Keep

By: Justin Holley

3.13

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

If you liked Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead and The Deep by Nick Cutter then you'll love this… read more

Similar categories in Justin Holley's Hellweg's Keep book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • horror
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25. Edenville

By: Sam Rebelein

3.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An unsettling, immersive, and wildly entertaining debut novel from an exciting new voice in horror … read more

Similar categories in Sam Rebelein's Edenville book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • horror
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26. Faces of Beth

By: Carver Pike

4.26

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

When Andrew meets Beth at the Myles-Bend State Mental Hospital, he knows she has issues. She checke… read more

Similar categories in Carver Pike's Faces of Beth book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • horror
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27. Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror

By: John F.D. Taff

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

Dark Stars, edited by John F.D. Taff, is a tribute to horror’s longstanding short fiction legacy, f… read more

Similar categories in John F.D. Taff's Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of Our Black Hearts Beat as One by Brian Peter Asman

28. Our Black Hearts Beat as One

By: Brian Peter Asman

3.67

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

"Hearts don’t just break, they explode. Destroying everything around them." Michael Mallory's livin… read more

Similar categories in Brian Peter Asman's Our Black Hearts Beat as One book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • horror
Cover of Castle of Sorrows (Fiction Without Frontiers) by Jonathan Janz

29. Castle of Sorrows (Fiction Without Frontiers)

By: Jonathan Janz

3.97

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

For nearly a century Castle Blackwood lay dormant on the Sorrows, a lonely island in the Pacific. L… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Janz's Castle of Sorrows (Fiction Without Frontiers) book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • horror
Cover of Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors by Todd Keisling

30. Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

By: Todd Keisling

4.42

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

THIS IS GOING TO HURT. The eleven stories in Ugly Little Things explore the depths of human suff… read more

Similar categories in Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors book and Todd Keisling's Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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31. Black Widow Blues

By: Andrew Adams

4.55

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

Kimberly has a unique addiction. Eating spiders is both her only pleasure and destroying her from t… read more

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7 Top anthologies books like Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors by Todd Keisling

Transform Your Habits

Growing Things and Other Stories

Paul Tremblay

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology

Ellen Datlow

3.65

Transform Your Habits

This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

Eric LaRocca

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Spin a Black Yarn

Josh Malerman

3.40

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Cows

Matthew Stokoe

2.80

Transform Your Habits

Gone to See the River Man

Kristopher Triana

3.67

Transform Your Habits

The Slob

Aron Beauregard

3.38

Transform Your Habits

No One Rides For Free

Judith Sonnet

2.78

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