20 must-read horror books like The Pain Eater by Kyle Muntz

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The Pain Eater

By: Kyle Muntz

3.18

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

The Pain Eater is the story of two brothers from Michigan reunited after the death of their father.…

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Cover of The Case Against Satan (Penguin Classics) by Laird Barron, Ray Russell

1. The Case Against Satan (Penguin Classics)

By: Laird Barron , Ray Russell

3.69

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Teenager Susan Garth was “a clean-talking sweet little girl” of high school age before she started … read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's The Case Against Satan (Penguin Classics) book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"A great boob he is to pit himself against a holy Father and a bishop of the Church, with the very House of God next door. The nerve of him!"

-Laird Barron, The Case Against Satan (Penguin Classics)

Cover of The Haunted Forest Tour by James A. Moore, Jeff Strand

2. The Haunted Forest Tour

By: James A. Moore , Jeff Strand

3.69

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Haunted Forest Tour! Sit back and enjoy a smooth ride in air-c… read more

Similar categories in James A. Moore's The Haunted Forest Tour book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

3. Burnt Offerings

By: Robert Marasco

3.74

Format: 646 pages, Hardcover

Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so… read more

Similar categories in Robert Marasco's Burnt Offerings book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

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4. 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 Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • adult
  • 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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5. 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 Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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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6. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

Similar categories in Johanna van Veen's My Darling Dreadful Thing book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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7. Black Mouth

By: Ronald Malfi

3.96

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

For nearly two decades, Jamie Warren has been running from darkness. He's haunted by a traumatic ch… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Black Mouth book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • dark
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • adult
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8. Black Tide

By: K.C. Jones

3.59

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

A story with a cinematic feel, Black Tide is Cujo meets A Quiet Place. It was just another day a… read more

Similar categories in K.C. Jones's Black Tide book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"We're alive. And we have hope. I say, no matter what, we're heading in the right direction."

-K.C. Jones, Black Tide

"Stories explained the unknowable before the advent of science. What happens when science is left shrugging its shoulders?"

-K.C. Jones, Black Tide

"I'm a liar, but I'm telling you the truth about this: I want to stay on the road. I want to go as far as these wheels and gears can take me."

-K.C. Jones, Black Tide

"My dad always used to say it's important that people never stop appreciating sunsets. As long as we can still be stopped in our tracks and remember what a big deal it is that we're even here, there's…"

-K.C. Jones, Black Tide

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9. Puzzle House

By: Duncan Ralston

3.58

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Six strangers arrive at the home of preeminent puzzle master Alexei Vasiliev for the reading of his… read more

Similar categories in Duncan Ralston's Puzzle House book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Burn the Negative

By: Josh Winning

3.38

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In this incendiary mash-up of horror and suspense, a notorious slasher film is remade…and the curse… read more

Similar categories in Josh Winning's Burn the Negative book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Eynhallow by Tim McGregor

11. Eynhallow

By: Tim McGregor

4.29

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 – Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island… read more

Similar categories in Tim McGregor's Eynhallow book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • dark
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Below by Laurel Hightower

12. Below

By: Laurel Hightower

3.70

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO HELP A STRANGER? While driving through the mountains of West Virginia du… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's Below book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • dark
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

13. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

Cover of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima

14. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Wasps in the Ice Cream

By: Tim McGregor

4.10

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens when you fall for the girl everyone hates? Summer 1987: Mark Prewitt's only priorit… read more

Similar categories in Tim McGregor's Wasps in the Ice Cream book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • fiction
  • horror
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17. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Stay on the Line

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

4.25

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

After a small coastal town is devastated by a hurricane, the survivors gravitate toward a long out-… read more

Similar categories in Clay McLeod Chapman's Stay on the Line book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Pain Eater by Kyle Muntz

19. The Pain Eater

By: Kyle Muntz

3.18

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

The Pain Eater is the story of two brothers from Michigan reunited after the death of their father.… read more

Similar categories in Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • dark
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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20. Where I End

By: Sophie White

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

My mother. At night, my mother creaks. The house creaks along with her. Through our thin shar… read more

Similar categories in Sophie White's Where I End book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Genesis (The Exorcist's House #2) by Nick  Roberts

21. Genesis (The Exorcist's House #2)

By: Nick Roberts

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In chasing devils, all roads lead to Hell. 1967: A brutal murder occurs at the Weston State Hosp… read more

Similar categories in Nick Roberts's Genesis (The Exorcist's House #2) book and Kyle Muntz's The Pain Eater

  • fiction
  • horror

20 Top fiction books like The Pain Eater by Kyle Muntz

Transform Your Habits

The Case Against Satan (Penguin Classics)

Laird Barron , Ray Russell

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Haunted Forest Tour

James A. Moore , Jeff Strand

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

Transform Your Habits

We Can Never Leave This Place

Eric LaRocca

3.52

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21 Best fiction books like My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen

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Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Haunting of Velkwood

Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

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The House That Horror Built

Christina Henry

3.22

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Johanna van Veen

3.89

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