7 must-read science fiction books like The Legend of Charlie Fish by Josh Rountree

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The Legend of Charlie Fish

By: Josh Rountree

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

As an unlikely found-family flees toward Galveston, a psychic young girl bonds with Charlie Fish, a…

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1. The Croning

By: Laird Barron

3.73

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyon… read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's The Croning book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did."

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"Ramirez walked ahead with a torch he'd fashioned from a stick and some rags and by that queer and reddish light, devils, or the shadows of devils hooked to the shoes of the men and capered across the…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"The light in the gallery changed subtly and he whirled and saw someone approaching him from between the exhibit cases. The individual moved with alarming speed, bent low to the floor, but straighteni…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"They would, according to his experience of their traditions, suspect he was a demon, or demon-inhabited. Considering the volume of alcohol saturating his liver, that ancient gateway of spirits, of co…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

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2. Paradise Sky

By: Joe R. Lansdale

4.00

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

A Library JournalBest Book of 2015! A rollicking novel about Nat Love, an African-American cowboy w… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's Paradise Sky book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. 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 Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. 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

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • 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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5. The Militia House

By: John Milas

3.60

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Stephen King meets Tim O’Brien in John Milas’s The Militia House, a spine-tingling and boldly origi… read more

Similar categories in John Milas's The Militia House book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • fiction
  • horror
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6. The Day of the Door

By: Laurel Hightower

4.13

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Once there were four Lasco siblings banded together against a world that failed to protect them. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's The Day of the Door book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • fiction
  • horror
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7. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • westerns
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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8. Small Town Horror

By: Ronald Malfi

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Small Town Horror book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • fiction
  • horror
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9. Wild Spaces

By: S.L. Coney

3.51

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life meets H. P. Lovecraft in Wild Spaces, a foreboding, sensual coming-… read more

Similar categories in S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"As funny as he thinks a fish would look, he wonders how the sea felt when her inhabitants started walking away. He wonders if maybe that’s why she keeps eating away at the land, trying to take back w…"

-S.L. Coney, Wild Spaces

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10. Red Rabbit

By: Alex Grecian

4.18

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

A folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by d… read more

Similar categories in Alex Grecian's Red Rabbit book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
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11. 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 Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. 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 Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • fantasy
  • 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

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13. Eynhallow

By: Tim McGregor

4.29

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 – Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island… read more

Similar categories in Tim McGregor's Eynhallow book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. 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

Similar categories in Sam Rebelein's Edenville book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Undead Folk

By: Katherine Silva

4.38

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Beyond the smoke-choked skies of an apocalyptic United States, a woman travels the desolate railroa… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Silva's Undead Folk book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. The Circumference of the World

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.43

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notoriou… read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's The Circumference of the World book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Fiction of Joe R. Lansdale

By: Joe R. Lansdale

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this career retrospective of nineteen unforgettable crime tales, Edgar Award-winning author Joe … read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Fiction of Joe R. Lansdale book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. House of Bone and Rain

By: Gabino Iglesias

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME… read more

Similar categories in Gabino Iglesias's House of Bone and Rain book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Navigational Entanglements

By: Aliette de Bodard

4.05

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard presents yet another innovative space opera that broadens th… read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's Navigational Entanglements book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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20. 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

Similar categories in Clay McLeod Chapman's Stay on the Line book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. The Legend of Charlie Fish

By: Josh Rountree

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

As an unlikely found-family flees toward Galveston, a psychic young girl bonds with Charlie Fish, a… read more

Similar categories in Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • weird west
  • westerns
  • historical
  • novella
  • death
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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22. The Bang-Bang Sisters

By: Rio Youers

3.86

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From critically acclaimed author Rio Youers, an action-packed crime novel featuring three kick-ass … read more

Similar categories in Rio Youers's The Bang-Bang Sisters book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • fiction
Cover of The Devil By Name (Fever House, #2) by Keith Rosson

23. The Devil By Name (Fever House, #2)

By: Keith Rosson

4.55

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

No one expected the apocalypse would be broadcast via phone call. But in this chilling sequel to Fe… read more

Similar categories in Keith Rosson's The Devil By Name (Fever House, #2) book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • fiction
  • horror
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24. The Dissonance

By: Shaun Hamill

3.99

Format: 475 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of A Cosmology of Monsters comes an epic contemporary fantasy: a story of… read more

Similar categories in Shaun Hamill's The Dissonance book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) by Nathan Ballingrud

25. Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into th… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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26. Coup de Grâce

By: Sofia Ajram

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal su… read more

Similar categories in Sofia Ajram's Coup de Grâce book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. Rest Stop

By: Nat Cassidy

4.69

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A young musician finds himself locked inside a gas station bathroom in the middle of the night by a… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Rest Stop book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
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28. Colossus with a Poison Tongue: A Novel of the Occult

By: Coy Hall

4.64

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

In the City of Saint Ghost, life revolves around an imposing statue, the Colossus, a god cast in br… read more

Similar categories in Coy Hall's Colossus with a Poison Tongue: A Novel of the Occult book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • horror
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29. Dead Folk

By: Katherine Silva

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Once upon a time, a woman thought she made peace with her grief. As she tended the dying land, she … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Silva's Dead Folk book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • horror
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30. Kill Your Darling

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

4.50

Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition

The acclaimed author of Ghost Eaters and What Kind of Mother is coming to Bad Hand Books with a new… read more

Similar categories in Clay McLeod Chapman's Kill Your Darling book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • novella
  • horror
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31. Parthenogenesis

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.78

Format: 23 pages, ebook

When their rental truck breaks down, two friends moving cross-country kill time by telling stories … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Parthenogenesis book and Josh Rountree's The Legend of Charlie Fish

  • horror

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Laird Barron

3.73

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Joe R. Lansdale

4.00

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Fever House (Fever House, #1)

Keith Rosson

4.03

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Gwendolyn Kiste

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Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

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Josh Winning

3.69

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Johnny Compton

3.46

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