9 Top science fiction books like Paused by Stephanie Ellis

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Paused

By: Stephanie Ellis

3.77

Format: 132 pages, Kindle Edition

People are stopping, bodies halting regardless of situation or location. They are still alive but c…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Paused by Stephanie Ellis , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Night Parade

By: Ronald Malfi

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

First the birds disappeared. Then the insects took over. Then the madness began . . . They call it … read more

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  • science fiction
  • horror

2. Disappearance at Devil's Rock

By: Paul Tremblay

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy in this eerie ta… read more

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3. A Short Stay in Hell

By: Steven L. Peck

4.22

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
  • horror
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

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4. The Haar

By: David Sodergren

4.17

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
  • horror
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5. This Thing Between Us

By: Gus Moreno

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

It was Vera's idea to buy the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart speaker!" didn't interest Thia… read more

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  • science fiction
  • horror
"You were you and I was me and there was this thing between us."

-Gus Moreno, This Thing Between Us

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6. This Is Where We Talk Things Out

By: Caitlin Marceau

3.77

Format: 93 pages, ebook

This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contempo… read more

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  • novella
  • horror
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7. 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
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8. 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

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  • horror
"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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9. 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

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  • horror
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10. 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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11. The Fervor

By: Alma Katsu

3.63

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A psychological and supernatural twist on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in … read more

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  • horror
"No computer books for me. I love real books I can hold and open with excitement, anticipation and, yes, reverence. There is nothing like the smell of a book, bookshops and libraries"

-Alma Katsu, The Fervor

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12. A Child Alone With Strangers

By: Philip Fracassi

4.28

Format: 575 pages, Hardcover

When the young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by mile… read more

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  • horror
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13. Crossroads

By: Laurel Hightower

3.91

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

How far would you go to bring back someone you love? When Chris's son dies in a tragic car cras… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's Crossroads book and Stephanie Ellis's Paused

  • novella
  • horror
"Exhausted, but not tired enough to escape the torturous loop of pain that awaited her inactive brain..."

-Laurel Hightower, Crossroads

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14. Ghost Eaters

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One of Vulture's Best Horror Novels of 2022, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you… read more

Similar categories in Clay McLeod Chapman's Ghost Eaters book and Stephanie Ellis's Paused

  • horror
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15. Dead Silence

By: S.A. Barnes

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more

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  • science fiction
  • horror
"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."

-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

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16. Ghost Station

By: S.A. Barnes

3.57

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.… read more

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  • science fiction
  • horror
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17. Artificial Wisdom

By: Thomas R. Weaver

4.09

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

It’s 2050, a decade after a heatwave that killed four hundred million across the Persian Gulf, incl… read more

Similar categories in Thomas R. Weaver's Artificial Wisdom book and Stephanie Ellis's Paused

  • science fiction
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18. Nothing but the Rain

By: Naomi Salman

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A sleepy little town discovers its memories have become part of the water cycle in Naomi Salman's d… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
  • horror
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19. 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 Stephanie Ellis's Paused

  • novella
  • horror
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20. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

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  • horror
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21. 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

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  • horror
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22. The Midnight Game

By: Cynthia Murphy

3.86

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

A classic horror story for a new generation. Six strangers. One night. But how many survivors? … read more

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  • horror
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23. Haunt of Southern-Fried Fear

By: Ronald Kelly

4.31

Format: 149 pages, Kindle Edition

Down below the Mason-Dixon Line, deep in the shadowy hills and hollows of Tennessee, lives a teller… read more

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  • horror
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24. Below

By: Kev Harrison

3.78

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Nick has revered his grandfather his entire life. The absent hero, his namesake, buried alive in hi… read more

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  • novella
  • horror
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25. Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo

By: Adam Cesare

3.82

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The thrills and chills are far from over in the third novel from Bram Stoker Award winner and maste… read more

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  • horror
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26. Paused

By: Stephanie Ellis

3.77

Format: 132 pages, Kindle Edition

People are stopping, bodies halting regardless of situation or location. They are still alive but c… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
  • horror
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27. Nocturnal Pursuits

By: Glenn Rolfe

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

Glenn Rolfe (Blood and Rain and August’s Eyes) is back with a new collection of deliciously frighte… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker

28. 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 Stephanie Ellis's Paused

  • novella
  • horror
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29. 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

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  • novella
  • horror
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30. Enter the Darkness

By: Sarah Budd

3.81

Format: 202 pages, ebook

During the Spring Solstice, four people enter the caves underneath London. Garth: a shy young ma… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Budd's Enter the Darkness book and Stephanie Ellis's Paused

  • horror
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31. Marionette

By: Antonia Rachel Ward

3.29

Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition

On the run from a life of prostitution and poverty, exotic dancer Cece Dulac agrees to become the m… read more

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  • novella
  • horror

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The Night Parade

Ronald Malfi

3.91

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Steven L. Peck

4.22

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David Sodergren

4.17

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3.74

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Caitlin Marceau

3.77

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Jon Athan

3.95

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L.M. Kaplin

3.96

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4.33

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