10 Top fantasy books like The Raven by Jonathan Janz

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The Raven

By: Jonathan Janz

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Fearing that mankind is heading toward nuclear extinction, a group of geneticists unleash a plot to…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Raven by Jonathan Janz , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Bone Houses

By: Emily Lloyd-Jones

4.00

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Aderyn ("Ryn") only cares about two things: her family, and her family's graveya… read more

Similar categories in Emily Lloyd-Jones's The Bone Houses book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • paranormal
  • fantasy
  • horror
"There were some pains so old they were almost a comfort."

-Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

"Perhaps she could draw memories of him from these people like water from a well."

-Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

"Atop the barn's roof, a lone chicken sat watching as figures began to emerge from the forest."

-Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

"She was half a wild creature that loved a graveyard, the first taste of misty night air, and the heft of a shovel. She knew how things died. And in her darkest moments, she feared she did not know ho…"

-Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

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2. The Weight of This World

By: David Joy

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

Critically acclaimed author David Joy, whose debut, Where All Light Tends to Go, was hailed as "a s… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's The Weight of This World book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • thriller
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3. Where All Light Tends to Go

By: David Joy

3.94

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel In the country-noir tradition of Winter's Bonem… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's Where All Light Tends to Go book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

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4. In the Valley of the Sun

By: Andy Davidson

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Joe Hill, Cormac McCarthy, and classic Anne Rice, a chilling tale of suspense and ho… read more

Similar categories in Andy Davidson's In the Valley of the Sun book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • vampires
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • thriller
  • paranormal
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5. House of Windows

By: John Langan

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From John Langan (Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters) comes House of Windows, a chilling novel i… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's House of Windows book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • horror
Cover of Rolling in the Deep (Rolling in the Deep #0.5) by Mira Grant

6. Rolling in the Deep (Rolling in the Deep #0.5)

By: Mira Grant

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Hardcover

When the Imagine Network commissioned a documentary on mermaids, to be filmed from the cruise ship … read more

Similar categories in Mira Grant's Rolling in the Deep (Rolling in the Deep #0.5) book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • horror
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7. You've Lost a Lot of Blood

By: Eric LaRocca

3.26

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

A disturbing new vision of terror from the author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. … read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's You've Lost a Lot of Blood book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • horror
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8. 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

Similar categories in Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • horror
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9. The Pallbearers Club

By: Paul Tremblay

3.10

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable—and unsettling—friendship, with blo… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Pallbearers Club book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • vampires
  • horror
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
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10. In the Valley of the Headless Men

By: L.P. Hernandez

3.82

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Nahanni National Park is one of last truly wild places on earth. Accessible only by plane, and only… read more

Similar categories in L.P. Hernandez's In the Valley of the Headless Men book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • horror
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11. Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

By: Brian Evenson

3.89

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome le… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • horror
" The world is a strange place , thought Haupt, alone in the dark, almost unbearably so. And yet, it is the only place I have. And I'm not even entirely sure I have it. "

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

"We did speak, occasionally, but gestured more often than moved our lips, and in general lived in that brusque and silent accord enjoyed, if enjoyed is the right word, by certain long-married couples."

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

"And there's another one, where you look yourself in the mirror and keep looking until you can see through your skin, and then you draw your own heart and send the drawing in a letter to someone else.…"

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

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12. The Devil Himself

By: Peter Farris

4.03

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

For Fans of Brian Panowich and Ron Rash. Southern Noir at its finest, The Devil Himself,  sizzles … read more

Similar categories in Peter Farris's The Devil Himself book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • thriller
  • horror
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13. 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 Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • horror
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14. Guests

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

4.04

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

A child who can turn your reality into an unspeakable nightmare. A monster from childhood with wire… read more

Similar categories in Kealan Patrick Burke's Guests book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • horror
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15. 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 Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • horror
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16. 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 Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • thriller
  • horror
Cover of Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies by John  Langan

17. Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

By: John Langan

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • fantasy
  • horror
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18. The Hollow Ones

By: Guillermo del Toro

3.69

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

A horrific crime that defies ordinary explanation. A rookie FBI agent in dangerous, uncharted terri… read more

Similar categories in Guillermo del Toro's The Hollow Ones book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • fantasy
  • horror
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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19. The Living Dead

By: George A. Romero

3.78

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

It begins with one body. A pair of medical examiners find themselves facing a dead man who won’t… read more

Similar categories in George A. Romero's The Living Dead book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
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20. 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 Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • science fiction
  • horror
Cover of Voodoo Heart (Fiction Without Frontiers) by John Everson

21. Voodoo Heart (Fiction Without Frontiers)

By: John Everson

3.83

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

“Voodoo Heart offers a solid blend of supernatural horror and hard-boiled detective fiction, and sh… read more

Similar categories in John Everson's Voodoo Heart (Fiction Without Frontiers) book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • horror
Cover of The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5) by Dean Koontz

22. The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5)

By: Dean Koontz

4.41

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz brings Jane Hawk's one-woman war to an explosive c… read more

Similar categories in Dean Koontz's The Night Window (Jane Hawk #5) book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • horror
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23. The Puzzle Master

By: Danielle Trussoni

3.32

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Reality and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle maker is thrust into an ancient mystery—… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Trussoni's The Puzzle Master book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • horror
"these changes to his way of experiencing reality were so strange that he didn't say anything about them at first. All he knew was he was experiencing highly-structured geometric hallucinations on reg…"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

"There is a story from the midrash that I've always loved," she said. "It's about Lailah, the angel of conception. Lailah, the story goes, bequeaths babies the totality of knowledge in the womb. Then,…"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

"the next seconds swelled, slowed, filled with a tension that pressed through me. And then, in that close stillness, the creature awoke. The eyes fluttered open and for ten seconds, perhaps twenty, I …"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

Cover of Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning

24. Heads Will Roll

By: Josh Winning

3.69

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Willow’s worst nightmare was being cancelled. But the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more tha… read more

Similar categories in Josh Winning's Heads Will Roll book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • thriller
  • horror
Cover of Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

25. 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 Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • horror
Cover of Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo by Adam Cesare

26. 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

Similar categories in Adam Cesare's Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • thriller
  • horror
Cover of August's Eyes (Fiction Without Frontiers) by Glenn Rolfe

27. August's Eyes (Fiction Without Frontiers)

By: Glenn Rolfe

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"An intense tale reminiscent of classic works by Jack Ketchum or Stephen King" — Booklist When dre… read more

Similar categories in Glenn Rolfe's August's Eyes (Fiction Without Frontiers) book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • horror
Cover of Blood Covenant by Alan Baxter

28. Blood Covenant

By: Alan Baxter

3.90

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

What should have been a breeze of a bank heist for James Glenn and his crew goes violently wrong, f… read more

Similar categories in Alan Baxter's Blood Covenant book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • thriller
  • horror
Cover of The Raven by Jonathan Janz

29. The Raven

By: Jonathan Janz

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Fearing that mankind is heading toward nuclear extinction, a group of geneticists unleash a plot to… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Janz's The Raven book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • werewolves
  • vampires
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
Cover of Dead Folk by Katherine Silva

30. 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 Jonathan Janz's The Raven

  • horror
Cover of BLACKOUT: Micropoetry by Brian Bowyer

31. BLACKOUT: Micropoetry

By: Brian Bowyer

5.00

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The first definition of romance is “a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love,” but … read more

Similar categories in Brian Bowyer's BLACKOUT: Micropoetry book and Jonathan Janz's The Raven

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The Bone Houses

Emily Lloyd-Jones

4.00

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Andy Davidson

4.23

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John Langan

4.36

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Kealan Patrick Burke

4.04

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The House That Horror Built

Christina Henry

3.22

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Paul Tremblay

3.45

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Marcus Kliewer

3.84

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Chuck Tingle

4.29

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