29 Top horror books like The Screaming Child by Scott Adlerberg

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The Screaming Child

By: Scott Adlerberg

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Scott Adlerberg’s The Screaming Child is a mystery horror novel told by a grieving woman working on…

If you liked the horror plot in The Screaming Child by Scott Adlerberg , here is a list of 29 books like this:

1. A House at the Bottom of a Lake

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

Both seventeen. Both afraid. But both saying yes. It sounded like the perfect first date: canoeing … read more

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2. 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

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Boys in the Valley book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • adult
  • 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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3. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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4. 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

Similar categories in Caitlin Marceau's This Is Where We Talk Things Out book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. 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

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Nestlings book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • mystery
  • adult
  • 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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6. The Reformatory

By: Tananarive Due

4.47

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sen… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's The Reformatory book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Looking Glass Sound

By: Catriona Ward

3.49

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Looking Glass Sound is the newest twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, the interna… read more

Similar categories in Catriona Ward's Looking Glass Sound book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Potatoes make everything okay."

-Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

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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

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • mystery
  • adult
  • 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. We Can Never Leave This Place

By: Eric LaRocca

3.52

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

"When you're given a gift, something else gets taken away." A precocious young girl with an unus… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's We Can Never Leave This Place book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"We can never leave this place," my mother told her. "It would hurt too much."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

"We can never leaves this places," my mother told her. "It would hurt to much."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

"How could you do this to me?' the creature asked. And the blind man said, 'I wanted to be the only one to hurry you."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

"I watched as blood swirled down my naked body in dark ribbons—tiny threads that had forever come undone from me and were sent to freedom."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

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10. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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11. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Silver Nitrate book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. Goddess of Filth

By: V. Castro

3.63

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

“Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash som… read more

Similar categories in V. Castro's Goddess of Filth book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Why the black lipstick? Is this goddess a Goth?"

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

"I have traveled a long way through light and volatile stardust. The stars in the night sky are moth holes in space-time and the bodies of the larvae between each hole are the means of travel"

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

"Be smart, but not too smart. Be beautiful, but not so pretty as to make other females mad. Be successful, but not bossy or overly ambitious. Nobody likes a mouthy brown woman. Be a declawed kitten."

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

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13. Come with Me

By: Ronald Malfi

3.94

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

A masterful, heart-palpitating novel of small-town horror and psychological dread from a Bram Stoke… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Come with Me book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. The Broken Places

By: Blaine Daigle

None

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

When Ryne Burdette inherits his family's old hunting cabin deep in the Yukon wilderness, he wants t… read more

Similar categories in Blaine Daigle's The Broken Places book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • fiction
  • horror
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15. The Only Safe Place Left is the Dark

By: Warren Wagner

4.08

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

In The Only Safe Place Left is the Dark , an HIV positive gay man must leave the relative safety of… read more

Similar categories in Warren Wagner's The Only Safe Place Left is the Dark book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Puzzle House

By: Duncan Ralston

3.58

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Six strangers arrive at the home of preeminent puzzle master Alexei Vasiliev for the reading of his… read more

Similar categories in Duncan Ralston's Puzzle House book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. 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

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. The Pale House Devil

By: Richard Kadrey

3.67

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, snappy creature feature from the master of horror noir about two detectives—one dead, o… read more

Similar categories in Richard Kadrey's The Pale House Devil book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories by Andrew Cull

19. Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories

By: Andrew Cull

3.95

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Between April and August 2021 eighteen horror writers disappeared. Gathered together for the first … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Cull's Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Linghun

By: Ai Jiang

3.96

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

WELCOME HOME. Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian… read more

Similar categories in Ai Jiang's Linghun book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"In HOME, Liam was a dream. Here, he's a flawed but beautiful reality. Whispers of our future together lull us both into a dreamless sleep. It's the first time we find such emptiness comforting."

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

"Feelings, emotions, experiences, are all part of humanity's shared language, and in Linghun, that shared language is grief. Grief is a language that tears us apart, but it is also what brings us toge…"

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

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21. Winterset Hollow

By: Jonathan Edward Durham

3.99

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to me… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Edward Durham's Winterset Hollow book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
"Winterset Hollow was one of those timeless, inimitable books that was simple and pure and patently entertaining on the surface, but so much more underneath. It spoke about life and loss and struggle,…"

-Jonathan Edward Durham, Winterset Hollow

Cover of Eynhallow by Tim McGregor

22. 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 Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • fiction
  • horror
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23. Conjuring the Witch

By: Jessica Leonard

3.81

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

There are witches in the woods. These are the words the reverend of the Lilin Assembly of Our L… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Leonard's Conjuring the Witch book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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24. A Light Most Hateful

By: Hailey Piper

3.21

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

When a summer storm sweeps through a sleepy town unleashing a monstrous and otherworldy power that … read more

Similar categories in Hailey Piper's A Light Most Hateful book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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25. The Woodkin

By: Alexander James

3.40

Format: 410 pages, Hardcover

On the trail, anything can happen. After secrets and betrayal shatter his marriage, Josh Mallory… read more

Similar categories in Alexander James's The Woodkin book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • fiction
  • horror
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26. The Last Haunt

By: Max Booth III

3.88

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

On the one-year anniversary of a young woman’s tragic death, an extreme haunted house attraction re… read more

Similar categories in Max Booth III's The Last Haunt book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies

By: E. M. Roy

3.73

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

In the small town of Eston, Maine . . . weird things happen sometimes.Leo Bates knows what’s behind… read more

Similar categories in E. M. Roy's Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Cold, Black & Infinite: Stories of the Horrific & Strange by Todd Keisling

28. Cold, Black & Infinite: Stories of the Horrific & Strange

By: Todd Keisling

4.22

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Down here in the dark lies a vast and twisted landscape where the wicked, wistful, and profane coal… read more

Similar categories in Todd Keisling's Cold, Black & Infinite: Stories of the Horrific & Strange book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Screaming Child by Scott Adlerberg

29. The Screaming Child

By: Scott Adlerberg

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Scott Adlerberg’s The Screaming Child is a mystery horror novel told by a grieving woman working on… read more

Similar categories in Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

30. Everything the Darkness Eats

By: Eric LaRocca

2.77

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. A haunting… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's Everything the Darkness Eats book and Scott Adlerberg's The Screaming Child

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror

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Philip Fracassi

4.18

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Chuck Tingle

3.94

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3.77

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Nat Cassidy

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Jon Athan

3.95

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L.M. Kaplin

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