21 best-selling horror books like Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex by Christopher Golden

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Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex

By: Christopher Golden

3.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1988, Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In launched onto the fiction scene and left an indelible mark,…

If you liked the horror plot in Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex by Christopher Golden , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In

By: Joe R. Lansdale , Andres Guinaldo

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

When a group of friends decided to spend a day at the world's largest Drive-In theater horror fest,… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In book and Christopher Golden's Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex

  • fiction
  • horror
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2. 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 Christopher Golden's Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex

  • 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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3. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) book and Christopher Golden's Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex

  • fiction
  • horror
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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4. The Paleontologist

By: Luke Dumas

3.53

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

A haunted paleontologist returns to the museum where his sister was abducted years earlier and is f… read more

Similar categories in Luke Dumas's The Paleontologist book and Christopher Golden's Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex

  • fiction
  • horror
"He had understood that, like the site of a nuclear tragedy, the place was uninhabitable for him now."

-Luke Dumas, The Paleontologist

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5. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

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6. A Haunting on the Hill

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.35

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hand's A Haunting on the Hill book and Christopher Golden's Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex

  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Where the Dead Wait

By: Ally Wilkes

3.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate an… read more

Similar categories in Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait book and Christopher Golden's Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex

  • fiction
  • horror
"Why would I want to die last?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

"You make a god of the things you fear or love. What could be more natural than that?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

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8. The Day of the Door

By: Laurel Hightower

4.13

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Once there were four Lasco siblings banded together against a world that failed to protect them. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's The Day of the Door book and Christopher Golden's Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex

  • fiction
  • horror
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9. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.14

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

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10. The Handyman Method

By: Nick Cutter

3.27

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror. When a y… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Handyman Method book and Christopher Golden's Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex

  • fiction
  • horror
"When prey dies in fear, hunters will say the meat tastes bitter."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"What of happiness, then? May we speak of the taste of joyful meat?"

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"Old memories were like land mines: dormant, forgotten, but forever deadly."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

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11. 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 Christopher Golden's Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex

  • fiction
  • horror
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12. Wild Spaces

By: S.L. Coney

3.51

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life meets H. P. Lovecraft in Wild Spaces, a foreboding, sensual coming-… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"As funny as he thinks a fish would look, he wonders how the sea felt when her inhabitants started walking away. He wonders if maybe that’s why she keeps eating away at the land, trying to take back w…"

-S.L. Coney, Wild Spaces

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13. 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 Christopher Golden's Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex

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

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

Cover of Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2) by Brian  McAuley

14. Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2)

By: Brian McAuley

4.12

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Oh what fun it is to DIE! When Austin’s parents drag him and his little sister Fiona to a remote… read more

Similar categories in Brian McAuley's Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2) book and Christopher Golden's Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex

  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Shooting Star

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.78

Format: 43 pages, Paperback

John Shaw just wanted to go fishing and live off the land—now he is one of only a few survivors inv… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's Shooting Star book and Christopher Golden's Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. The Haunting of Alejandra

By: V. Castro

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her fam… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"It occurred to Frances that perhaps everyone wore another set of clothing beneath their human skin, stitched together with all the things they hated about themselves and tried to hide."

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

"There are many times in life we feel there are no choices. Sometimes that is true. But I feel perhaps the true answers to the choices we must make find our way to us. Sometimes it is right away and a…"

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

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17. Heads Will Roll

By: Josh Winning

3.69

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Willow’s worst nightmare was being cancelled. But the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more tha… read more

Similar categories in Josh Winning's Heads Will Roll book and Christopher Golden's Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex

  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Forgotten Sisters

By: Cynthia Pelayo

3.50

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

A city’s haunted history and fairy-tale horrors converge for two women in an addictive novel of psy… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Pelayo's Forgotten Sisters book and Christopher Golden's Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex

  • fiction
  • horror
"I can't speak. I can't think. words are water and everything melds into a sea of suffering."

-Cynthia Pelayo, Forgotten Sisters

"Some memories are far too painful to resuscitate, and so they remain floating somewhere in the depths of our hearts."

-Cynthia Pelayo, Forgotten Sisters

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19. Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex

By: Christopher Golden

3.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1988, Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In launched onto the fiction scene and left an indelible mark,… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Golden's Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex book and Christopher Golden's Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) by Nathan Ballingrud

20. 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 Christopher Golden's Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Flowers from the Void by Gianni Washington

21. Flowers from the Void

By: Gianni Washington

3.79

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

Addictively strange and disturbing, Flowers From the Void is a collection of delectably uncanny tal… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

20 best-selling fiction books like Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex by Christopher Golden

Transform Your Habits

Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In

Joe R. Lansdale , Andres Guinaldo

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Paleontologist

Luke Dumas

3.53

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20 best-selling fiction books like Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2) by Brian McAuley

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The Woodwitch

Stephen Gregory

4.81

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Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

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Nestlings

Nat Cassidy

3.86

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The Haunting of Velkwood

Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

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