27 must-read fiction books like Wayward Suns by Hamelin Bird

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Wayward Suns

By: Hamelin Bird

4.43

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

"Bird's prose sets the bar high for his contemporaries in this slice-of-life tale marbled with self…

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1. The Hellbound Heart

By: Clive Barker

4.07

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas"

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

Cover of I Will Rot Without You by Danger Slater

2. I Will Rot Without You

By: Danger Slater

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Danger Slater is fearless. That much is obvious. But it's when you realize that he's also shameles… read more

Similar categories in Danger Slater's I Will Rot Without You book and Hamelin Bird's Wayward Suns

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Ritual by Adam L.G. Nevill

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

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  • 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

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4. 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

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  • fiction
  • horror
" 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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5. 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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  • fiction
  • horror
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6. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

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7. Gone to See the River Man

By: Kristopher Triana

3.67

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Super fans. Groupies. Stalkers. These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be t… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"That didn't matter, though. Her thoughts toward her were entirely justified. They'd always been there, but were suppressed by a guilt she'd now began to think she never should have felt in the first …"

-Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

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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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  • fiction
  • 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. 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 Hamelin Bird's Wayward Suns

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

10. She Is a Haunting

By: Trang Thanh Tran

3.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A house with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for f… read more

Similar categories in Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting book and Hamelin Bird's Wayward Suns

  • fiction
  • horror
"Who am I but someone others define? It's easier to be a stereotype. It hurts when you are yourself."

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"Revenge has always been easy to understand, but hunger implies that something can be filled. What is a ghost's limit when they have no real body?"

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"Blood slides from the sill and onto the wall, where it inches toward the floor. I'll let it stain, because it's exactly what he wanted: a mark on Vietnam."

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"My heart is here, the Lady of Many Tongues had said days before. Here, where I see how beautiful Đà Lạt is. I had thought the same of Saigon, despite the smoke and lights and buildings—how it could'v…"

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

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11. 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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  • fiction
  • horror
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12. White Horse

By: Erika T. Wurth

3.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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13. What Kind of Mother

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Bran… read more

Similar categories in Clay McLeod Chapman's What Kind of Mother book and Hamelin Bird's Wayward Suns

  • fiction
  • horror
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14. 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

By: Sadie Hartmann

4.43

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

The Ultimate List of Must-Read Horror! Curious readers and fans of monsters and the macabre, get re… read more

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  • horror
"I love a good story about everyone dying."

-Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

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15. 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 Hamelin Bird's Wayward Suns

  • fiction
  • horror
"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

Cover of Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2) by Brian  McAuley

16. Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2)

By: Brian McAuley

4.12

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Oh what fun it is to DIE! When Austin’s parents drag him and his little sister Fiona to a remote… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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17. The Resting Place

By: Camilla Sten

3.58

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A spine-chilling, propulsive psychological suspense from international sensation Camilla Sten. T… read more

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  • 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

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Vile Thing We Created by Robert P. Ottone

19. The Vile Thing We Created

By: Robert P. Ottone

3.64

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Lola and Ian had what they thought was the perfect relationship. Vacations. Fine dining. A healthy … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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20. 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

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  • fiction
  • horror
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21. 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

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House book and Hamelin Bird's Wayward Suns

  • fiction
  • horror
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22. 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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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Wasps in the Ice Cream by Tim McGregor

23. 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 Hamelin Bird's Wayward Suns

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Rootwork (Conjure #1) by Tracy  Cross

24. Rootwork (Conjure #1)

By: Tracy Cross

3.97

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Set in a small parish in Louisiana in 1889, Rootwork follows sisters, Betty, Ann and Pee Wee. When … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Stay on the Line by Clay McLeod Chapman

25. Stay on the Line

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

4.25

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

After a small coastal town is devastated by a hurricane, the survivors gravitate toward a long out-… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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26. Little Black Crimes: Stories

By: Nathaniel Blackhelm

4.06

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

For the sinners and antiheroes in LITTLE BLACK CRIMES, the road to deliverance is paved with brutal… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Lumberjack by Anthony Engebretson

27. Lumberjack

By: Anthony Engebretson

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Nebraska city, 1901. There’s a curse on Arbor Lodge—an elusive demon reclaiming the illustrious… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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28. Wayward Suns

By: Hamelin Bird

4.43

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

"Bird's prose sets the bar high for his contemporaries in this slice-of-life tale marbled with self… read more

Similar categories in Hamelin Bird's Wayward Suns book and Hamelin Bird's Wayward Suns

  • fiction
  • horror
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29. Sleeping Celeste

By: Alana K. Drex

4.60

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

It is October 1885, and Marie Maecott seems to be the only one who knows what has happened to her d… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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30. Wicked Blood

By: E.C. Hanson

4.27

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

After the unexpected death of their parents, three teenagers must fend for themselves in a farmhous… read more

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  • horror
Cover of I Do Not Apologize for My Position on Men by Rae  Wilde

31. I Do Not Apologize for My Position on Men

By: Rae Wilde

4.55

Format: None pages, Paperback

“It’s a rare thing, more rare than most of us would like to admit, to find such unflinching human n… read more

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  • horror

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The Hellbound Heart

Clive Barker

4.07

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I Will Rot Without You

Danger Slater

4.00

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The Ritual

Adam L.G. Nevill

3.59

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Philip Fracassi

4.18

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Caitlin Marceau

3.77

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Blender Babies

Jon Athan

3.95

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L.M. Kaplin

3.96

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Angel N. Van Atta

4.33

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