9 best-selling short stories books like To Drown in Dark Water by Steve Toase

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To Drown in Dark Water

By: Steve Toase

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The debut short story collection from Steve Toase heralds the arrival of a transcendent visionary o…

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1. Greener Pastures

By: Michael Wehunt , Michael Bukowski

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

*Shirley Jackson Award Finalist, Single-Author Collection* *Shortlisted for the Crawford Award* *Ru… read more

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2. In a Lonely Place

By: Karl Edward Wagner

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: xi * Introduction * Peter Straub * in 1 * Prologue to In the Pines ["Lonely Places"] * vi… read more

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3. We Are All Completely Fine

By: Daryl Gregory

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Harrison is the Monster Detective, a storybook hero. Now he's in his mid-thirties and spends most o… read more

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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

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Boys in the Valley book and Steve Toase's To Drown in Dark Water

  • 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. Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

3.53

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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6. Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

Format: 457 pages, Hardcover

Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Helpmeet

By: Naben Ruthnum

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband from Manhattan to the upstate orchard estate… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"This isn’t like the nose. That came off, like it was being picked at, pulled, tugged like taffy. This is from the inside. I can feel it when I’m going to sleep. Through the optic nerves. Drinking, ge…"

-Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet

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8. Leech

By: Hiron Ennes

3.60

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s repla… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Wherever we are, we want to be somewhere else."

-Hiron Ennes, Leech

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9. 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

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  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Where the Body Was

By: Ed Brubaker

4.14

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Bru… read more

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  • fiction
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11. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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12. The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

By: James Tynion IV

4.30

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

With Something Is Killing the Children and The Department of Truth, James Tynion IV has changed the… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, …"

-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, …"

-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

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13. The Devil Takes You Home

By: Gabino Iglesias

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father despera… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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14. The Scourge Between Stars

By: Ness Brown

3.59

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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15. The Black God's Drums

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.01

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to … read more

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  • fiction
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16. 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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. Friday, Book One: The First Day of Christmas

By: Ed Brubaker

4.05

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Friday Fitzhugh spent her childhood solving crimes and digging up occult secrets with her best frie… read more

Similar categories in Ed Brubaker's Friday, Book One: The First Day of Christmas book and Steve Toase's To Drown in Dark Water

  • fiction
  • horror
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18. The Ghost Sequences

By: A.C. Wise

3.98

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

From A.C. Wise, the acclaimed author of Wendy, Darling, comes a brand new collection of horror stor… read more

Similar categories in A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences book and Steve Toase's To Drown in Dark Water

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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19. Below

By: Laurel Hightower

3.70

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO HELP A STRANGER? While driving through the mountains of West Virginia du… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Friday, Book Two: On a Cold Winter's Night

By: Ed Brubaker

4.31

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

BOOK TWO is finally here! A young adult detective hero finally grows up in this second volume of th… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Different Faces

By: Rory Say

4.54

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Single author mini-collection containing 5 short stories read more

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22. The Bone Weaver's Orchard

By: Sarah Read

3.76

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

He’s run away home. That’s what they say every time one of Charley Winslow’s friends vanishes from … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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23. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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24. 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

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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25. All Who Wander Are Lost: Destination Horror Stories

By: Gemma Amor

4.21

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

First Landing State Park. Antarctica. Mongolia. France. Norway. Ireland. Somerset. Egypt. A giant g… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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26. Oh Pain

By: Kyle Winkler

4.24

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

A NEW MOTHER secretly bites her baby until the compulsion ruins her. AN ABANDONED ANGEL eats the t… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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27. I Would Haunt You If I Could

By: Seán Padraic Birnie

4.00

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

I would haunt you ... The debut short story collection from Seán Padraic Birnie does indeed haun… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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28. To Drown in Dark Water

By: Steve Toase

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The debut short story collection from Steve Toase heralds the arrival of a transcendent visionary o… read more

Similar categories in Steve Toase's To Drown in Dark Water book and Steve Toase's To Drown in Dark Water

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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29. The Talosite

By: Rebecca Campbell

4.33

Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1916, during the First World War, in an alternate world where resurrection is possible. Anne M… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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30. Friday, Book Three: Christmas Time is Here Again

By: Ed Brubaker

4.18

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

This genre-defying adventure from award-winning creators Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martin and Muntsa Vice… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

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4.18

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3.53

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Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

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Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.30

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Public Domain, Volume 1: Past Mistakes

Chip Zdarsky

3.94

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Daniel Warren Johnson

4.52

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Jeff Lemire

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