30 Best horror books like The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle by William Holloway

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The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

By: William Holloway

3.73

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

With The Abyssal Plain, Holloway and Talley have managed to transform the Cthulhu Mythos into somet…

If you liked the horror plot in The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle by William Holloway , here is a list of 30 books like this:

Cover of Books of Blood: Volume Three (Books of Blood #3) by Clive Barker

1. Books of Blood: Volume Three (Books of Blood #3)

By: Clive Barker

3.50

Format: None pages,

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN 9780425093474 To a mortician, the preparation of a corpse is an ar… read more

Similar categories in Clive Barker's Books of Blood: Volume Three (Books of Blood #3) book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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2. The Black Farm

By: Elias Witherow , Thought Catalog

3.50

Format: 824 pages,

After the loss of a child along with a slew of agonizing misfortunes, Nick and Jess decide to end t… read more

Similar categories in Elias Witherow's The Black Farm book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. The Inhuman Condition (Books of Blood, #4)

By: Clive Barker

4.06

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

A master storyteller and unrivaled visionary, Clive Barker has mixed the real and unreal with the h… read more

Similar categories in Clive Barker's The Inhuman Condition (Books of Blood, #4) book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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4. 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

Similar categories in John Langan's The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • lovecraftian
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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5. 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

Similar categories in John Langan's The Fisherman book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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

6. Agents of Dreamland

By: Caitlín R. Kiernan

3.35

Format: None pages, ebook

A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning… read more

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7. The Haar

By: David Sodergren

4.17

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's The Haar book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. 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 William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • fantasy
  • 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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9. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 5

By: James Tynion IV

4.33

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Erica Slaughter strikes out on her own in the bestselling, award-winning series! After a year si… read more

Similar categories in James Tynion IV's Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 5 book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 6

By: James Tynion IV

4.29

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

With the last person in her corner gone and a ruthless agent from the Order of St. George closing i… read more

Similar categories in James Tynion IV's Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 6 book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. A Botanical Daughter

By: Noah Medlock

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty… read more

Similar categories in Noah Medlock's A Botanical Daughter book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Grief can be a kind of exhaustion, after all."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Gregor now knew in his soul that greatness came at a price, and true greatness is paid for by the hour."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"He had tried sculpting in other materials - in clay, marble, wood, and bronze - but corpses were the only medium that really sang under his fingers."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Simon, what do you understand to be the nature of a soul?" he said suddenly. Simon was staring darkly into the endless distance. He didn't refocus his gaze to reply. "That part of us which cannot be …"

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

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13. 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 William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 7 by James Tynion IV

14. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 7

By: James Tynion IV

4.28

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The final chapter of the Tribulation saga and the decisive showdown between Erica Slaughter and Cut… read more

Similar categories in James Tynion IV's Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 7 book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2) by Matt Ruff

15. The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2)

By: Matt Ruff

3.94

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

“Another virtuoso blend of horror, action, and humor. . . . Fans will find this a worthy sequel.”— … read more

Similar categories in Matt Ruff's The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2) book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. Head Like a Hole

By: Andrew Van Wey

3.85

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

When you bury your past make sure that it’s dead. It’s the mid-nineties. Grunge and flannel are … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Van Wey's Head Like a Hole book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. 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 William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • audiobook
  • 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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18. Gollitok

By: Andrew Najberg

3.84

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

In a post-nuclear Eastern Europe, Hammel E Varka departs for a remote island to join a survey team … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Najberg's Gollitok book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • science fiction
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. The Reddening

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.62

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

One million years of evolution didn't change our nature. Nor did it bury the horrors predating civi… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Reddening book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Sister, Maiden, Monster

By: Lucy A. Snyder

3.58

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transfo… read more

Similar categories in Lucy A. Snyder's Sister, Maiden, Monster book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. 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

Similar categories in S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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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22. The Pale House Devil

By: Richard Kadrey

3.67

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, snappy creature feature from the master of horror noir about two detectives—one dead, o… read more

Similar categories in Richard Kadrey's The Pale House Devil book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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23. Wyrd and Other Derelictions

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.81

Format: 106 pages, ebook

Derelictions are horror stories told in ways you may not have encountered before. Something is m… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's Wyrd and Other Derelictions book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • lovecraftian
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of By the Light of Dead Stars (Beyond the Lost Coast, #1) by Andrew Van Wey

24. By the Light of Dead Stars (Beyond the Lost Coast, #1)

By: Andrew Van Wey

4.26

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

On the Lost Coast, some things should never be found. When tragedy shatters thirteen-year-old Ze… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Van Wey's By the Light of Dead Stars (Beyond the Lost Coast, #1) book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"But maybe that’s all adults really were, just big kids with more responsibility and a lot of practice covering it up."

-Andrew Van Wey, By the Light of Dead Stars (Beyond the Lost Coast, #1)

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25. The Venue

By: T.J. Payne

3.87

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

"Rollicking dark, twisted fun!"Welcome to THE VENUEWhere the super rich can get away from it all. .… read more

Similar categories in T.J. Payne's The Venue book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • fiction
  • horror
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26. Paradise-1

By: David Wellington

3.83

Format: 681 pages, Paperback

When Special Agent Petrov and Dr. Lei Zhang are woken up from cryogenic sleep, dragged freezing and… read more

Similar categories in David Wellington's Paradise-1 book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • science fiction
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1) by Hailey Piper

27. The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)

By: Hailey Piper

3.75

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

New York City, 1990: When you slip through the cracks, no one is there to catch you. Monique learns… read more

Similar categories in Hailey Piper's The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1) book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"She’s part of the nothing now."

-Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)

"I think death is what happens when anyone meets a god."

-Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)

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28. A Light Most Hateful

By: Hailey Piper

3.21

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

When a summer storm sweeps through a sleepy town unleashing a monstrous and otherworldy power that … read more

Similar categories in Hailey Piper's A Light Most Hateful book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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29. In the Devil's Dreams

By: Felix Blackwell

3.59

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

While visiting his mother at her secluded Waldport cabin, an English teacher is awoken in the night… read more

Similar categories in Felix Blackwell's In the Devil's Dreams book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle by William  Holloway

30. The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

By: William Holloway

3.73

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

With The Abyssal Plain, Holloway and Talley have managed to transform the Cthulhu Mythos into somet… read more

Similar categories in William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • lovecraftian
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • cthulhu mythos
  • audiobook
Cover of Tides of Darkness (Beyond the Lost Coast, #2) by Andrew Van Wey

31. Tides of Darkness (Beyond the Lost Coast, #2)

By: Andrew Van Wey

4.55

Format: 458 pages, Kindle Edition

Among the ashes some cinders still burn. After the fire of Raven’s Valley consumed their community—… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Van Wey's Tides of Darkness (Beyond the Lost Coast, #2) book and William Holloway's The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle

  • lovecraftian
  • horror

29 must-read fiction books like The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle by William Holloway

Transform Your Habits

Books of Blood: Volume Three (Books of Blood #3)

Clive Barker

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Black Farm

Elias Witherow , Thought Catalog

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Inhuman Condition (Books of Blood, #4)

Clive Barker

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

John Langan

4.06

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21 must-read fiction books like The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1) by Hailey Piper

Transform Your Habits

The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

3.85

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Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

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Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

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Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

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