23 best-selling horror books like The House of Nodens by Sam Gafford

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The House of Nodens

By: Sam Gafford

3.89

Format: None pages, ebook

In 1975, young Bill Simmons is the new kid in New Milford. Bullied and struggling for acceptance, h…

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1. The Ballad of Black Tom

By: Victor LaValle

3.85

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more

Similar categories in Victor LaValle's The Ballad of Black Tom book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • lovecraftian
  • horror
"I wish I’d been more like my father,"

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

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2. The Awakening

By: James Newman , Brett McBean

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Welcome to the small Midwestern town of Belford, Ohio. It's a quiet, friendly town. On one corner o… read more

Similar categories in James Newman's The Awakening book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • horror
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3. Last Days

By: Brian Evenson , Peter Straub

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Intense and profoundly unsettling, Brian Evenson's Last Daysis a down-the-rabbit-hole detective nov… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's Last Days book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • mystery
  • horror
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4. The Ritual

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.59

Format: 418 pages, Paperback

Four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic … read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Ritual book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • mystery
  • horror
"For Anne and our cub, for making me and my life less beastly"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right then, they screamed in alarm from times before symbols and language could depict such things that h…"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

5. The Lesser Dead

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.18

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I'm stealing from you what is most tr… read more

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6. Jamaica Inn

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.89

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coas… read more

Similar categories in Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • mystery
"For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"I like the look of you and the feel of you, and that's enough for any man. It ought to be enough for a woman too."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

7. Ghoul

By: Brian Keene

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

June 1984. Timmy Graco is looking forward to summer vacation, taking it easy and hanging out with h… read more

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8. Universal Harvester

By: John Darnielle

4.04

Format: None pages,

Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at… read more

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9. Father of Lies

By: Brian Evenson

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

At the urging of his wife, Provost Fochs reluctantly agrees to see a therapist, Dr. Feshtig. Throug… read more

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10. The Exorcist

By: William Peter Blatty

4.20

Format: 385 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Georgetown, Washington D.C. Actress and divorced mother Chris MacNeil starts to experience 'difficu… read more

Similar categories in William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • horror
"Keep away. The sow is mine."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"The child was slender as fleeting hope."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"The child was slender as a fleeting hope."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"In forgetting, they were trying to remember"

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

11. The Changeling

By: Victor LaValle

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

One man's thrilling journey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after … read more

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12. 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 Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • 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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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 Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • mystery
  • 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 Vessel

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.73

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

'A watcher may remark that after sleeping for so long, the building appears to have been roused.' … read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Vessel book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • horror
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15. A Child Alone With Strangers

By: Philip Fracassi

4.28

Format: 575 pages, Hardcover

When the young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by mile… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's A Child Alone With Strangers book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • mystery
  • horror
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16. Gothic

By: Philip Fracassi

3.83

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

On his 59th birthday, Tyson Parks—a famous, but struggling, horror writer—receives an antique desk … read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Gothic book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • horror
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17. Whalefall

By: Daniel Kraus

3.73

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eigh… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Kraus's Whalefall book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • horror
"There need be no struggle when we are all the same weight."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"But those three people waiting outside are the tones of Jay's voice, the organs in Jay's body."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"The simple sharing of hope, its weight not so heavy after all, is a wonder. A lifting. A rising. A surfacing."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"Jay's not sure he believes in therapy. He definitely doesn't believe in closure. People aren't doors. They're whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost ins…"

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

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18. Bruises on a Butterfly

By: Chad Lutzke

4.27

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

A young boy runs away from his abusive home to live in the fort he'd built with friends, smack dab … read more

Similar categories in Chad Lutzke's Bruises on a Butterfly book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • horror
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19. The Patient

By: Jasper DeWitt

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The Silent Patient by way of Stephen King: Parker, a young, overconfident psychiatrist new to his j… read more

Similar categories in Jasper DeWitt's The Patient book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • mystery
  • horror
"it is not possible to show the reality for people who suffer from delusions"

-Jasper DeWitt, The Patient

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20. Cunning Folk

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Money's tight and their new home is a fixer-upper. Deep in rural South West England, with an ancien… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's Cunning Folk book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • horror
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21. Maggie's Grave

By: David Sodergren

4.06

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

The small Scottish town of Auchenmullan is dead, and has been for years. It sits in the shadow of a… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's Maggie's Grave book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • horror
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22. 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 Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • mystery
  • horror
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23. Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

4.04

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

A god wages war—using all of humanity as its pawns—in the unforgettable conclusion to the Founders … read more

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"It'll just go on. More fixes gone awry. The mad pride of men who think themselves engineers of all creation."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

"No. There are people in this world who learned the lessons I never did, the lessons that our son has learned all too late - that you are right. There is no magic fix. That a better world can only be …"

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

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24. Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Binge's Ascension book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • mystery
  • horror
"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

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25. Commodore

By: Philip Fracassi

4.21

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

There is a legend in the town of Sabbath that tells of a haunted car lost somewhere in the local ju… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Commodore book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • horror
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26. Obscura

By: Joe Hart

4.06

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

She's felt it before … the fear of losing control. And it's happening again. In the near future… read more

Similar categories in Joe Hart's Obscura book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • mystery
  • horror
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27. Howls from the Dark Ages

By: P.L. McMillan

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Uncover the secret annals of untold history in these eighteen medieval manuscripts. Each tortured s… read more

Similar categories in P.L. McMillan's Howls from the Dark Ages book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • horror
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28. Rites of Extinction

By: Matt Serafini

3.28

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Rebecca Daniels is a down-and-out private investigator on the hunt for her daughter’s killer. The t… read more

Similar categories in Matt Serafini's Rites of Extinction book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • mystery
  • horror
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29. Don't Let Them Get You Down

By: Philip Fracassi

4.17

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

DON’T LET THEM GET YOU DOWN is a deeply dark novel about depression and the madness inside each one… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Don't Let Them Get You Down book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • horror
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30. The House of Nodens

By: Sam Gafford

3.89

Format: None pages, ebook

In 1975, young Bill Simmons is the new kid in New Milford. Bullied and struggling for acceptance, h… read more

Similar categories in Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens book and Sam Gafford's The House of Nodens

  • mystery
  • lovecraftian
  • horror

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