8 must-read horror books like The Hunting Ground by Cliff McNish

Cover of The Hunting Ground by Cliff McNish

The Hunting Ground

By: Cliff McNish

3.71

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When Elliott and his brother, Ben, move into old and crumbling Glebe House they don't expect to fin…

If you liked the horror plot in The Hunting Ground by Cliff McNish , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor

1. The Chalk Man

By: C.J. Tudor

3.71

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days bik… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Tudor's The Chalk Man book and Cliff McNish's The Hunting Ground

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
"Love isn’t a choice. It’s a compulsion."

-C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

"All the stuff we take for granted can just be ripped away"

-C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

"muitas vezes, o que a idade traz não é sabedoria, mas sim intolerância"

-C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

"Nunca presupongas nada. Duda de todo. Mira siempre más allá de lo evidente."

-C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

Cover of Gwendy's Button Box (The Button Box, #1) by Stephen        King, Richard  Chizmar

2. Gwendy's Button Box (The Button Box, #1)

By: Stephen King , Richard Chizmar

3.92

Format: 171 pages, Hardcover

The little town of Castle Rock, Maine has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over t… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Gwendy's Button Box (The Button Box, #1) book and Cliff McNish's The Hunting Ground

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • mystery
  • horror
  • fantasy
"I am what you might call a rambling man, and America is my beat."

-Stephen King, Gwendy's Button Box (The Button Box, #1)

"Los secretos son un problema, quizá el mayor problema de todos. Pesan sobre la conciencia y roban espacio al mundo."

-Stephen King, Gwendy's Button Box (The Button Box, #1)

Cover of Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1) by Christina Henry

3. Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)

By: Christina Henry

3.84

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

A mind-bending new novel inspired by the twisted and wondrous works of Lewis Carroll... In a warren… read more

Similar categories in Christina Henry's Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1) book and Cliff McNish's The Hunting Ground

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • horror
"Just because I’m mad doesn’t mean I’m not right."

-Christina Henry, Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)

"I do know this. You’re a Magician, as sure as I’m mad."

-Christina Henry, Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)

"You’re thinking. That’s good. Not just a pretty face, then."

-Christina Henry, Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)

"Memories surfaced, one by one, and she was afraid to see all of them at once"

-Christina Henry, Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)

Cover of Doctor Sleep by Stephen        King

4. Doctor Sleep

By: Stephen King

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Sh… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Doctor Sleep book and Cliff McNish's The Hunting Ground

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
Cover of Stardust by Neil Gaiman

5. Stardust

By: Neil Gaiman

3.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

Life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall - named after the imposing stone barrier wh… read more

Similar categories in Neil Gaiman's Stardust book and Cliff McNish's The Hunting Ground

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult

6. Carry On

By: Rainbow Rowell

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A #1 New York Times-bestseller Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's wh… read more

Similar categories in Rainbow Rowell's Carry On book and Cliff McNish's The Hunting Ground

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult

7. The Haunting of Hill House

By: Shirley Jackson , None

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959,… read more

Similar categories in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House book and Cliff McNish's The Hunting Ground

8. P.S. I Love You

By: Cecelia Ahern

3.00

Format: 1118 pages, Paperback

A novel about holding on, letting go, and learning to love again. Now in paperback, the endearing n… read more

Similar categories in Cecelia Ahern's P.S. I Love You book and Cliff McNish's The Hunting Ground

Cover of My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

9. My Best Friend's Exorcism

By: Grady Hendrix

3.94

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fifth grade, when they bonded over a shared love of … read more

Similar categories in Grady Hendrix's My Best Friend's Exorcism book and Cliff McNish's The Hunting Ground

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"Are you going to do it?"

-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

"Abby Rivers was a certified grown-up because she'd finally cried at a movie."

-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

"I love you, Gretchen Lang. You are my reflection and my shadow and I will not let you go. We are bound together forever and ever! Until Halley’s Comet comes around again. I love you dearly and I love…"

-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

"Brother Lemon and Abby looked at each other, eyes gleaming in the shadows, and then he stood up. Rummaging in one of his duffle bags, he pulled out an athletic cup and slid it down the front of his p…"

-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

Cover of The Binding by Bridget Collins

10. The Binding

By: Bridget Collins

3.86

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Binding book and Cliff McNish's The Hunting Ground

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Memories,"

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

"I ran through air that held me back."

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

"We make books - we make beautiful books - out of love."

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

"the fear with elderly characters is the high likelihood of their death..."

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

Cover of Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson

11. Love in the Time of Serial Killers

By: Alicia Thompson

3.31

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn’t exactly conducive to modern dating—and one woma… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Thompson's Love in the Time of Serial Killers book and Cliff McNish's The Hunting Ground

  • mystery
  • fiction
" Hmm, if only there were a place where one could go for information... a place that had free books on every topic you could think of... (book stack emoji) Smiling, I typed back the interwebs? just to…"

-Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

"I'm not comparing him to Most Wanted sketches anymore, if that's what you're asking." "The start of every beautiful friendship." "Shut up," I said. "You know I have a black, mistrustful pit where my …"

-Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

"... Old neighbors viewed each other strangely, and as strangers,'" I said softly to myself. From behind me, Conner laughed. "If anyone is acting strangely here, it's you. This is a real '"'Tis," repl…"

-Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

"You're sweet," I said. "Sweet on you." I groaned at the cheesiness of that line, giving him a playful swat. But the truth was that it wormed its way into my heart regardless. It made me dream, for on…"

-Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

Cover of Spookily Yours (Witches of Pleasant Grove, #1) by Jennifer Chipman

12. Spookily Yours (Witches of Pleasant Grove, #1)

By: Jennifer Chipman

3.51

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

My cat is a demon. No, that's not a joke. An actual, real life demon. And he needs my help to brea… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Chipman's Spookily Yours (Witches of Pleasant Grove, #1) book and Cliff McNish's The Hunting Ground

  • paranormal
  • fantasy
Cover of The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

13. The Last House on Needless Street

By: Catriona Ward

3.85

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of a serial killer. A stolen child. Revenge. Death. And an ordinary house at the … read more

Similar categories in Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street book and Cliff McNish's The Hunting Ground

  • gothic
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
"Kittens don't come back from the woods."

-Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

"Thoughts are a door that the dead walk through."

-Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

"Truth has weight. It leaves footprints in your mind."

-Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

"If there's anything better than a cat on the bed, I don't know about it."

-Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

Cover of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

14. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

By: Grady Hendrix

3.80

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thrill… read more

Similar categories in Grady Hendrix's The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires book and Cliff McNish's The Hunting Ground

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"You’d rather get stabbed forty-one times than ruin the curb appeal of your home?"

-Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

"The silence continued and Patricia felt something bigger than her fear: solidarity."

-Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

"Everyone's hungry for our children," she said, and her voice cracked. "The whole world wants to gobble up colored children and no matter how many it takes it just licks its lips and wants more."

-Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

"Think of us what you will," she thought, "we made mistakes, and probably scarred our children for life, and we froze sandwiches, and forgot car pool, and got divorced. But when the time came, we went…"

-Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

Cover of The Hunting Ground by Cliff McNish

15. The Hunting Ground

By: Cliff McNish

3.71

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When Elliott and his brother, Ben, move into old and crumbling Glebe House they don't expect to fin… read more

Similar categories in Cliff McNish's The Hunting Ground book and Cliff McNish's The Hunting Ground

  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • paranormal

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The Chalk Man

C.J. Tudor

3.71

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Gwendy's Button Box (The Button Box, #1)

Stephen King , Richard Chizmar

3.92

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Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)

Christina Henry

3.84

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Doctor Sleep

Stephen King

3.91

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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Terry Pratchett , Neil Gaiman

4.26

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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

Ursula K. Le Guin

4.01

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House of Many Ways (Howl's Moving Castle, #3)

Diana Wynne Jones

4.06

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Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

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4.29

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