20 best-selling horror books like Past the Glad and Sunlit Season by K.A. Opperman

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Past the Glad and Sunlit Season

By: K.A. Opperman

4.23

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

K. A. Opperman conjures up a pageant of autumnal imagery sure to delight all fans of the Halloween …

If you liked the horror plot in Past the Glad and Sunlit Season by K.A. Opperman , here is a list of 20 books like this:

1. Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween

By: Lisa Morton

3.37

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Every year, children and adults alike take to the streets dressed as witches, demons, animals, cele… read more

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2. Dark Harvest

By: Norman Partridge

4.02

Format: 982 pages,

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, … read more

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3. Hell House

By: Richard Matheson

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Can any soul survive? Regarded as the Mount Everest of haunted houses, Belasco House has witnessed … read more

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4. This Side of Paradise

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.64

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the a… read more

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"A squalid phantasmagoria of breath"

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

"Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

"Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

"Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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5. Night of the Mannequins

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.34

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen… read more

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  • horror
"Moms are so oblivious. It’s like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

"The tornado the alarms had screamed about ... hadn't actually happened, but around here you never know. Better safe in the cellar than sorry halfway up the sky."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

"Sometimes you just know what you're doing is the only thing to be doing. That the world is conspiring all around you to make it happen, like, not just giving you permission, but herding you the direc…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

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6. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

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  • horror
  • ghosts
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7. Black Sheep

By: Rachel Harrison

3.60

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irr… read more

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  • horror
"How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?"

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

"I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch."

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

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8. Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

By: Brom

4.29

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only… read more

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  • horror
"You will think me foolish. But I wanted to be a fairy queen, to run barefoot through the woods, to sing like a bird and fly through the trees." She smiled. "To be able to talk to the animals."

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

"He stared up into the trees, watched them sway in the soft breeze, watched the sun drift slowly across the sky, hour after hour, until it began to sink from view, trying to let go, to let his mind dr…"

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

"Buzzing filled his ears, and he watched several bumblebees bounce from flower to flower. He found their hum soothing, and there, at the moment, felt he could watch them forever. He drank in the scent…"

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

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9. Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

By: Shea Ernshaw

3.85

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Jack and Sally are "truly meant to be" ... or are they? Sally Skellington is the official, newl… read more

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  • horror
  • halloween
"Even if my seams can be broken, that doesn't mean I will be."

-Shea Ernshaw, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

"I was born in Dream Town, but I am also the Pumpkin Queen. I will fight for Jack. I will fight to set things right."

-Shea Ernshaw, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

"It's a ghastly thing to lose an arm--or any part of yourself, really--to feel disconnected from your body. Not quite whole."

-Shea Ernshaw, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

" Your curiosity will kill you , Dr. Finkelstein once told me. Maybe he was right. But instead of killing me, it's taken the man, the skeleton, I love."

-Shea Ernshaw, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

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10. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

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  • horror
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

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11. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

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  • horror
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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12. Hark! the Herald Angels Scream

By: Christopher Golden

3.70

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

Eighteen stories of Christmas horror from bestselling, acclaimed authors including Scott Smith, Sea… read more

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  • horror
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13. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

By: Joe Vallese

4.18

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more

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  • horror
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"

-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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14. The Lake House

By: Sarah Beth Durst

3.40

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

Claire’s grown up triple-checking locks. Counting her steps. Second-guessing every decision. It’s j… read more

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  • horror
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15. Our Hideous Progeny

By: C.E. McGill

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

It is not the monster you must fear, but the monster it makes of men. . . For readers of Circe o… read more

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  • horror
"We had built here, in this half-ruined boat house on the edge of the Moray Firth, a temple to our own strange gods- to Chemistry and Anatomy and Electricity."

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"There is something romantic about feeding a predator from the palm of your hand, I think- a creature which might bite you if it chooses, but chooses not to. But how does one turn such awful beauty to…"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"I will always hold dear to my heart that fact that I was the first to see those golden eyes open, to see its reptilian pupils narrow and focus on my own- for in those eyes I saw, for the first time, …"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"I suppose that is why it often makes me sad to read about history, or even natural history, as you do; I cannot help but think of everyone whose tale cannot fit in one book, those poor creatures who …"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

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16. 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

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  • horror
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17. 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

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  • horror
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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

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  • horror
  • halloween
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19. The Mary Shelley Club

By: Goldy Moldavsky

3.92

Format: 468 pages, Hardcover

New girl Rachel Chavez is eager to make a fresh start at Manchester Prep. But as one of the few sch… read more

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  • horror
"Fear is where the truth lies."

-Goldy Moldavsky, The Mary Shelley Club

"He's the Stu to my Billy Loomis"

-Goldy Moldavsky, The Mary Shelley Club

"If you want this to be over, just make sure she screams."

-Goldy Moldavsky, The Mary Shelley Club

"We were staked out at the playground across the street, an optimal vantage for us to watch the house, and for me to watch Bram watch his girlfriend get scared."

-Goldy Moldavsky, The Mary Shelley Club

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20. An Education in Malice

By: S.T. Gibson

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insat… read more

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  • horror
"Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing."

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playma…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

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21. So Thirsty

By: Rachel Harrison

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in thi… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's So Thirsty book and K.A. Opperman's Past the Glad and Sunlit Season

  • horror
  • halloween
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22. Graveyard Shift

By: M.L. Rio

3.49

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night sh… read more

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  • horror
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23. An Academy for Liars

By: Alexis Henderson

4.01

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A student will find that the hardest lessons sometimes come outside the classroom in this stunning … read more

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  • horror
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24. Past the Glad and Sunlit Season

By: K.A. Opperman

4.23

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

K. A. Opperman conjures up a pageant of autumnal imagery sure to delight all fans of the Halloween … read more

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  • poetry
  • horror
  • halloween
  • ghosts
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25. Nightwing (2016-) #112

By: Tom Taylor

4.36

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

Nightwing continues to struggle with his recent woe—why can’t he leap, and what’s causing it? And B… read more

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26. Rewitched

By: Lucy Jane Wood

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Belladonna Blackthorn hasn’t lost her magical spark . . . but she hasn’t seen it in a while, either… read more

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  • halloween
Cover of Pumpkin Spice & Poltergeist (Maple Hollow, #1) by Ali K. Mulford

27. Pumpkin Spice & Poltergeist (Maple Hollow, #1)

By: Ali K. Mulford

4.15

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

Get ready for a bewitching tale of love, laughter, and supernatural shenanigans in the heart of Map… read more

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  • halloween
Cover of At Summer's Wistful End: Last Poems for Halloween by K. A. Opperman

28. At Summer's Wistful End: Last Poems for Halloween

By: K. A. Opperman

4.00

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

None read more

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29. Halloween Hearts

By: Adele Gardner

4.13

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

HALLOWEEN POETRY INSPIRED BY RAY BRADBURY AND EDGAR ALLAN POE Adele Gardner’s Halloween Hearts is… read more

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  • poetry
  • halloween
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30. I Awaken In October

By: Scott J. Couturier

4.78

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

SCOTT J. COUTURIER has distinguished himself with poems of uncanny beauty and dread, appearing in t… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Book of Shadows: Grim Tales and Gothic Fancies by Manuel Arenas

31. Book of Shadows: Grim Tales and Gothic Fancies

By: Manuel Arenas

4.75

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

For those who hunger for small bites of horror sweetened with black humor, this collection of Grim … read more

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Shea Ernshaw

3.85

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Paul Tremblay

3.45

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Rachel Harrison

4.03

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4.23

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Elizabeth Luly

4.01

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Elizabeth Luly

4.14

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Make My Wish Come True

Rachael Lippincott

4.30

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Sara Raasch

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