17 Top fantasy books like The Merry Dredgers by Jeremy C. Shipp

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The Merry Dredgers

By: Jeremy C. Shipp

3.63

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Seraphina Ramon will stop at nothing to find out the truth about why her sister Eff is in a coma af…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Merry Dredgers by Jeremy C. Shipp , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Fever House (Fever House, #1) by Keith Rosson

1. Fever House (Fever House, #1)

By: Keith Rosson

4.03

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose … read more

Similar categories in Keith Rosson's Fever House (Fever House, #1) book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
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2. Looking Glass Sound

By: Catriona Ward

3.49

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Looking Glass Sound is the newest twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, the interna… read more

Similar categories in Catriona Ward's Looking Glass Sound book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Potatoes make everything okay."

-Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

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3. 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

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
"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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4. Mister Magic

By: Kiersten White

3.59

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and di… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Mister Magic book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • adult
  • cults
"Magic never forgets the taste of your friendship."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"This version of him isn't perfect. None of them are. New isn't the same as perfect. Growing up isn't inherently loss, it's just change."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"I think you've told me thank you more in the last day than anyone else has in years. It's like--when there's a stack of dishes, if my husband actually does them , I tell him thank you. But when I do …"

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

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5. 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 Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
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6. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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7. 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 Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. The Beast You Are: Stories

By: Paul Tremblay

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of  The Pallbearers Club ,  A He… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Beast You Are: Stories book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

Similar categories in E.K. Sathue's youthjuice book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • science fiction
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10. 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 Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories

By: Eric LaRocca

3.74

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and autho… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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12. Linghun

By: Ai Jiang

3.96

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

WELCOME HOME. Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian… read more

Similar categories in Ai Jiang's Linghun book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"In HOME, Liam was a dream. Here, he's a flawed but beautiful reality. Whispers of our future together lull us both into a dreamless sleep. It's the first time we find such emptiness comforting."

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

"Feelings, emotions, experiences, are all part of humanity's shared language, and in Linghun, that shared language is grief. Grief is a language that tears us apart, but it is also what brings us toge…"

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

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13. Schrader's Chord

By: Scott Leeds

4.06

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

Heart-Shaped Box meets The Haunting of Hill House in Schrader's Chord , Scott Leeds's chilling debu… read more

Similar categories in Scott Leeds's Schrader's Chord book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Also ..." He nodded to the lone restaurant surrounded by trees. "... that looks like the s-sort of place that has pie." "And hot coffee," Ana added, closing her eyes and purring. Raymond smiled. "May…"

-Scott Leeds, Schrader's Chord

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14. On a Clear Day, You Can See Block Island

By: Gage Greenwood

4.07

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

They left the island, but the island never left them. Four years after the Keating family endure… read more

Similar categories in Gage Greenwood's On a Clear Day, You Can See Block Island book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. The Night Guest

By: Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík … read more

Similar categories in Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. The Marigold

By: Andrew F. Sullivan

3.32

Format: 360 pages, ebook

An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. In a near-future Toronto buffeted by environm… read more

Similar categories in Andrew F. Sullivan's The Marigold book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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17. Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

By: GennaRose Nethercott

3.76

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

From the author of the breakout fantasy novel Thistlefoot : a collection of dark fairytales and fra… read more

Similar categories in GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. 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 Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima

19. 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 Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. 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 Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Saturnalia

By: Stephanie Feldman

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Saturnalia carnival marks three years since Nina walked away from Philadelphia’s elite Saturn C… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Feldman's Saturnalia book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive by Craig DiLouie

22. How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

By: Craig DiLouie

3.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From Bram Stoker Award‑nominated author Craig DiLouie comes a darkly humorous horror novel that see… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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23. I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

By: Jason Pargin

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bes… read more

Similar categories in Jason Pargin's I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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24. The Merry Dredgers

By: Jeremy C. Shipp

3.63

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Seraphina Ramon will stop at nothing to find out the truth about why her sister Eff is in a coma af… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • lgbt
  • cults
  • young adult
  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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25. The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and u… read more

Similar categories in Leslie J. Anderson's The Unmothers book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker

26. Haunt Sweet Home

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.47

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pinsker's Haunt Sweet Home book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram

27. Coup de Grâce

By: Sofia Ajram

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal su… read more

Similar categories in Sofia Ajram's Coup de Grâce book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson

28. Guillotine

By: Delilah S. Dawson

4.02

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

The Menu meets Ready of Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New … read more

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's Guillotine book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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29. Model Home

By: Rivers Solomon

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. The… read more

Similar categories in Rivers Solomon's Model Home book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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30. The Black Hunger

By: Nicholas Pullen

3.76

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

John Sackville will soon be dead. Shadows writhe in the corners of his cell as he mourns the death … read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Pullen's The Black Hunger book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

31. Everything the Darkness Eats

By: Eric LaRocca

2.77

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. A haunting… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's Everything the Darkness Eats book and Jeremy C. Shipp's The Merry Dredgers

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer

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4.03

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3.49

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3.64

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Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

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Josh Winning

3.69

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Johnny Compton

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