27 Best horror books like Despair: A Collection of Horror Short Stories by Relvin Gonzalez

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Despair: A Collection of Horror Short Stories

By: Relvin Gonzalez

2.76

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

Seven stories, seven horrors.They didn't say anything about the departure stage of parenthood. And …

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1. The Haunted Forest Tour

By: James A. Moore , Jeff Strand

3.69

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Haunted Forest Tour! Sit back and enjoy a smooth ride in air-c… read more

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2. The Book of Etta (The Road to Nowhere #2)

By: Meg Elison

4.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

In the gripping sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, o… read more

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3. The Troop

By: Nick Cutter

3.84

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

Once a year, scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a three-d… read more

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"Soldering iron, Max."

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"You’ve never heard of the tapeworm diet?"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"I been to hell ... I ain't afraid to go back"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"His fear was whetted to such a fine edge that he could actually feel it now: a disembodied ball of baby fingers inside his stomach, tickling him from the inside. That's what mortal terror felt like, …"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

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4. Intercepts

By: T.J. Payne

4.13

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

Joe works at a facility that performs human experimentation.His work just followed him home. The go… read more

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5. Ankle Snatcher

By: Grady Hendrix

3.74

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Obey the rules. It’s the only way to survive the night in a short story about what hides in the dar… read more

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6. The Hollow Places

By: T. Kingfisher

3.80

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in thi… read more

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"If there's a way into hell, someone will always find it."

-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

"No one has zombie raccoons roaming around their museum. That would just be silly."

-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

"We had passed close in space, but separated by far too much time to make a difference."

-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

"You're from Florida. There's got to be more holes to hell in Florida than any other state."

-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

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7. Hide

By: Kiersten White

3.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. The priz… read more

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"What a generation long before her summoned and paid for, and what subsequent generations decided to make others pay for. Trickle-down economics. They got the economy, and the blood trickled down the …"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"Mack looks back at the maze that housed a monster that fed in youth and hope and stalled dreams. That ground up vulnerable people so the ones in power could keep their power, could keep their safety,…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"So now she's seen it. She [Mack] knows what's out there. It doesn't make any more sense than it did before, but at least she can move from horror, the fear of the unknown, and into terror, the fear o…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"He doesn't love you," she said matter-of-factly. "He didn't love your mother, either, and I don't want you to spend your whole life waiting for something he can't give. Men like that, people are thin…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

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8. Nothing But Blackened Teeth

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.66

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in … read more

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"Every religion is a one-way relationship."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"The dead miss the sun. It's dark down there."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

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9. House of Hunger

By: Alexis Henderson

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

WANTED - Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life's finer pleasures. Gi… read more

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"To love is to devour"

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

"In the end there are only those who eat and those who bleed. - Countess Lisavet Bathory"

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

"I’ve staked my time on it, and when you’re as busy as I am there’s no gamble so big as that."

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

"I’ve built you a house out of my bones and still it’s as if you believe there are cracks in it."

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

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10. The Exorcist's House

By: Nick Roberts

4.02

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 1994, psychologist Daniel Hill buys a rustic farmhouse nestled in the rolling hill… read more

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11. All the Seas of the World

By: Guy Gavriel Kay

4.17

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Returning triumphantly to the brilliantly evoked near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago an… read more

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"Maybe home for some is always the one they lost."

-Guy Gavriel Kay, All the Seas of the World

"The effect of being violently driven from home, and that home being despoiled .... it can go on and on like sea-surf against rocks. On and on within a man or a woman, or within a child as it grows up…"

-Guy Gavriel Kay, All the Seas of the World

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12. Cadaverous

By: Jay Bower

4.17

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

When darkness falls, the nightmare begins...Step into the twisted world of Gaige Penrod. This self-… read more

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13. Her Wild Roommate (Her Sweet Seduction, #1)

By: Adele Knight

3.51

Format: 77 pages, Kindle Edition

If your roommate walks in on you in a risqué position, is he supposed to stand there and…watch? … read more

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14. Wilder Girls

By: Rory Power

3.46

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox… read more

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"I’m still bitter,"

-Rory Power, Wilder Girls

"It's not love, to give your wounds to someone else."

-Rory Power, Wilder Girls

"See how a body will change, to give you the best chance it can."

-Rory Power, Wilder Girls

"It's complicated," She says at last. "Or maybe I just wish it was."

-Rory Power, Wilder Girls

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15. Through Flickering Lights, a Silhouette

By: Gage Greenwood

3.80

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

Mira must travel through a thickening winter storm in search of her adopted brother, but the night … read more

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16. Grackles on the Feeder: A Short Horror Story

By: Gage Greenwood

3.77

Format: 22 pages, Kindle Edition

WARNING: While these are not topics I typically write about, this story does contain scenes of anim… read more

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17. The Forgotten Island

By: David Sodergren

3.90

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

When Ana Logan agrees to go on holiday to Thailand with her estranged sister Rachel, she hopes it w… read more

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18. Mouth Full of Ashes

By: Briana Morgan

3.44

Format: 147 pages, None

Mourning the sudden loss of her sister, Callie Danoff wants nothing more than to embrace a fresh st… read more

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19. Follow Me to Ground

By: Sue Rainsford

3.54

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that cu… read more

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20. Gretel

By: Annalee Adams

3.42

Format: 78 pages, Kindle Edition

Trapped in a cage, fighting for her life, will she survive the night? Gretel is a blood-curdling… read more

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21. Feed the Machine

By: Erica Summers

3.62

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

Anthony signs up to Beta-test a brand new horror game on a soon-to-be-launched Virtual Reality Syst… read more

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22. Hunt (The Monster Hunters, #1)

By: Alexandra Nisneru

3.56

Format: 55 pages, Kindle Edition

Monsters are real. For Emily and Jeremy, the price of this truth was extremely high. Ten years afte… read more

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Cover of Her Body and Other Tragedies : A Collection of Poems and Short Stories by A. M. Morse

23. Her Body and Other Tragedies : A Collection of Poems and Short Stories

By: A. M. Morse

3.53

Format: 62 pages, Kindle Edition

This collection of short stories and poetry by author A. M. Morse takes the reader on a beautifully… read more

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24. Shadows Through the Fog

By: Amanda Leanne

3.47

Format: 85 pages, Kindle Edition

Shadows are often benign, nothing to truly fear, and yet our minds create from them. We see them tw… read more

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25. Despair: A Collection of Horror Short Stories

By: Relvin Gonzalez

2.76

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

Seven stories, seven horrors.They didn't say anything about the departure stage of parenthood. And … read more

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26. The Hills Know

By: Breanna Leslie

3.84

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

When Mel's mother passes away, she and her husband are tasked with sorting her estate. The affair i… read more

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27. Twisted Tales of Halloween Horror: 11 Spicy and Gory Tales of Halloween Terror

By: The Sisterhood of the Black Pen

4.20

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

11 of the best new indie Horror authors unite to provide you with a collection of devestatingly fri… read more

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Cover of Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Amanda East

28. Home Is Where the Bodies Are

By: Amanda East

3.88

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

Savannah Raymore ran away from her entire life 10 years ago. She packed her bags, moved hours away,… read more

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29. Sever the Circle

By: Amanda Leanne

4.07

Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition

Life for me and mine was set. Wood Women, witches to many, had a cycle. There were only two Wood Wo… read more

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30. Possessed by the Devil

By: Nicola Rose

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A monster has always stalked me from the shadows. Now he’s come to collect. My name is Angel. … read more

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31. Mind the Mirrors: Compilation of Short Horror Stories

By: Amanda Leanne

3.25

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

Dreams are but our brains reflecting what they have seen, experienced, and imagined. These images c… read more

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21 must-read horror books like Cadaverous by Jay Bower

Transform Your Habits

Mine

L.M. Kaplin

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Inside The Devil's Nest

John Durgin

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Gollitok

Andrew Najberg

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Beast of Burden: A Horror Novella

Judith Sonnet

3.82

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