11 Top horror books like The Magician by Christopher Zeischegg

Cover of The Magician by Christopher Zeischegg

The Magician

By: Christopher Zeischegg

4.49

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

“Andrea’s gore was dark red, nearly brown, and smelled of meat and piss. She must have wet herself …

If you liked the horror plot in The Magician by Christopher Zeischegg , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Sluts

By: Dennis Cooper

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

2. Mastodon Farm

By: Mike Kleine

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Outside, something resembling Godzilla attacks the city. At the party, 'Faith' by George Michael is… read more

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3. The Ritual

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.59

Format: 418 pages, Paperback

Four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic … read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Ritual book and Christopher Zeischegg's The Magician

  • fiction
  • horror
"For Anne and our cub, for making me and my life less beastly"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right then, they screamed in alarm from times before symbols and language could depict such things that h…"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

4. The Gospel Singer

By: Harry Crews

3.57

Format: 307 pages,

To the dirt poor town of Enigma, Georgia, a local farm boy returns as a prosperous faith healer. Th… read more

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5. 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 Christopher Zeischegg's The Magician

  • 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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6. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger (The Passenger #1) book and Christopher Zeischegg's The Magician

  • fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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7. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

By: Eric LaRocca

2.96

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke book and Christopher Zeischegg's The Magician

  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Negative Space

By: B.R. Yeager

3.72

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more

Similar categories in B.R. Yeager's Negative Space book and Christopher Zeischegg's The Magician

  • fiction
  • horror
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

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9. Bonding

By: Maggie Siebert

4.13

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

"Maggie understands that splatter for splatter's sake is boring. Psychopathy is boring. Coldness is… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Forever

By: Thomas Moore

4.44

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

SADNESS ALWAYS FINDS PEOPLE “I'm writing this instead of killing myself" states the narrator of … read more

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  • fiction
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11. Walking Practice

By: Dolki Min

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation … read more

Similar categories in Dolki Min's Walking Practice book and Christopher Zeischegg's The Magician

  • fiction
  • horror
"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Criteria are like glass. As long as they are respected and held without dropping them, they’ll stay solid and won’t break. I made myself complicit in humanity’s scam and adapted myself to the local e…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

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12. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Deliver Me book and Christopher Zeischegg's The Magician

  • fiction
  • horror
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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13. Invisibility: A Manifesto

By: Audrey Szasz

4.38

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

’Shut your mouth,’ Mother tells me. I shut my mouth. ‘Wipe that idiotic grin off your face,’ she sa… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Szasz's Invisibility: A Manifesto book and Christopher Zeischegg's The Magician

  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Violent Faculties

By: Charlene Elsby

4.04

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

A philosophy professor tests the limits of the soul and body by performing dehumanizing experiments… read more

Similar categories in Charlene Elsby's Violent Faculties book and Christopher Zeischegg's The Magician

  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Captagon

By: Philip Best

4.21

Format: 60 pages, stapled booklet

None read more

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  • fiction
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16. The Magician

By: Christopher Zeischegg

4.49

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

“Andrea’s gore was dark red, nearly brown, and smelled of meat and piss. She must have wet herself … read more

Similar categories in Christopher Zeischegg's The Magician book and Christopher Zeischegg's The Magician

  • fiction
  • horror
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17. Flunker

By: Dennis Cooper

3.94

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

When Dennis Cooper decides to publish a new collection of short stories with Amphetamine Sulphate, … read more

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  • fiction
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18. Die Closer to Me

By: David Kuhnlein

4.56

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

David Kuhnlein's debut novella-in-stories Die Closer to Me follows Jo as she cares for her mother o… read more

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  • fiction
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19. The Artifact

By: Germán Sierra

4.23

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

In the clever [dis]guise of fiction, what The Artifact in fact foists upon its readers (hoisting us… read more

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20. show me your face

By: Danielle Chelosky

4.57

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

‘show me your face’ is an explicit navigation of ambiguous sexual relationships in teenage years. D… read more

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21. Slabs from Paradise

By: Jason Williamson

3.93

Format: 40 pages, Stapled booklet

None read more

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  • fiction

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