27 Top horror books like Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women by Lee Murray

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Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

By: Lee Murray

4.09

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

Almond-eyed celestial, the filial daughter, the perfect wife. Quiet, submissive, demure. In Black C…

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1. The Beauty

By: Aliya Whiteley

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Somewhere away from the cities and towns, a group of men and boys gather around the fire each night… read more

Similar categories in Aliya Whiteley's The Beauty book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

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2. Maeve Fly

By: C.J. Leede

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's Maeve Fly book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

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3. 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 Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
" 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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4. 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 Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"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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5. 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 Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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6. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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7. 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 Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. 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 Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"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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9. All Hallows

By: Christopher Golden

3.55

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

With the 80's nostalgia of Stranger Things, this horror drama from NYT bestselling author Christoph… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Golden's All Hallows book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Ghost Wall

By: Sarah Moss

3.73

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie an… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Moss's Ghost Wall book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"It was bright again, as if England had forgotten how to rain"

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"Lights blind you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"Haven't you been listening, people don't bother to hurt what they don't love. To sacrifice it."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"I knew better than to challenge him; even the word 'Negro' was already some concession to my ideas because he preferred to use a more offensive term and wait, chin raised, for a reaction."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

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11. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Silver Nitrate book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. Goddess of Filth

By: V. Castro

3.63

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

“Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash som… read more

Similar categories in V. Castro's Goddess of Filth book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • feminism
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
"Why the black lipstick? Is this goddess a Goth?"

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

"I have traveled a long way through light and volatile stardust. The stars in the night sky are moth holes in space-time and the bodies of the larvae between each hole are the means of travel"

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

"Be smart, but not too smart. Be beautiful, but not so pretty as to make other females mad. Be successful, but not bossy or overly ambitious. Nobody likes a mouthy brown woman. Be a declawed kitten."

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

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13. Piñata

By: Leopoldo Gout

3.67

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

A Head Full of Ghosts meets Hereditary in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist… read more

Similar categories in Leopoldo Gout's Piñata book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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14. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

Similar categories in Emily Carroll's A Guest in the House book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

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15. The Scourge Between Stars

By: Ness Brown

3.59

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more

Similar categories in Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Stitches

By: Hirokatsu Kihara

3.14

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Horror manga giant Junji Ito teams up with spooky story writer Hirokatsu Kihara for the ultimate co… read more

Similar categories in Hirokatsu Kihara's Stitches book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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17. Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology

By: Ellen Datlow

3.65

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horro… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Datlow's Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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18. 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 Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

By: A.Y. Chao

3.38

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Pawned by her mother to the King of Hell as a child, Lady Jing is half-vampire, half-hulijing fox-s… read more

Similar categories in A.Y. Chao's Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1) book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Try no to die, okay? I've become rather fond of you. "I'm very hard to kill," I murmur."

-A.Y. Chao, Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

"You named two of the' – he clears his throat – 'fiercest creatures of legend, Cutie and Puffy?"

-A.Y. Chao, Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

"The next morning I am rudely awakened by cocks crowing. A lot of cocks crowing. I yank the quilt over my head and try to smother the hoarse, braying sounds. It sounds like a whole flock of cocks has …"

-A.Y. Chao, Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

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20. Spin a Black Yarn

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the singular mind of the New York Ti… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Spin a Black Yarn book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
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21. 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 Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
"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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22. Let Him In

By: William Friend

3.36

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

William Friend’s haunting debut Let Him In is a creeping, gothic psychological suspense about a you… read more

Similar categories in William Friend's Let Him In book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
"They say that grief numbs, but I still feel everything and mostly it hurts."

-William Friend, Let Him In

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23. Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2)

By: Emily Tesh

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This second volume of the Greenhollow duology once again invites readers to lose themselves in the … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2) book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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24. 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 Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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25. 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

Similar categories in V. Castro's The Haunting of Alejandra book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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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26. The Devil Aspect

By: Craig Russell

4.03

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

Prague, 1935: Viktor Kosárek, a psychiatrist newly trained by Carl Jung, arrives at the infamous Hr… read more

Similar categories in Craig Russell's The Devil Aspect book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • fiction
  • horror
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27. 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 Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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28. Shakespeare Unleashed (Unleashed Series Book 2)

By: James Aquilone

4.08

Format: 439 pages, Kindle Edition

SHAKESPEARE IN BLOOD! From the blood of Macbeth and the ghosts of Hamlet, to the dark fantasy of T… read more

Similar categories in James Aquilone's Shakespeare Unleashed (Unleashed Series Book 2) book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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29. Suburban Monsters

By: Christopher Hawkins

3.85

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Description: The house at the end of the block with the overgrown lawn. The darkened store window … read more

Similar categories in Christopher Hawkins's Suburban Monsters book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
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30. Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

By: Lee Murray

4.09

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

Almond-eyed celestial, the filial daughter, the perfect wife. Quiet, submissive, demure. In Black C… read more

Similar categories in Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women book and Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • feminism
  • anthologies
  • folklore
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
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 Lee Murray's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy

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Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

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Philip Fracassi

4.18

Transform Your Habits

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

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

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Keith Rosson

4.03

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C.J. Leede

3.78

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Philip Fracassi

4.18

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4.21

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Chuck Tingle

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