15 Top horror books like The Exit to San Breta by George R.R. Martin

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The Exit to San Breta

By: George R.R. Martin

3.27

Format: None pages, None

A short ghost story written by Martin in the early 1970s.

If you liked the horror plot in The Exit to San Breta by George R.R. Martin , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Rage

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.73

Format: 131 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A disturbed high-school student with authority problems kills one of his teachers and takes the res… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Be'…"

-Stephen King, Rage

"You’re on, Ted,"

-Stephen King, Rage

"That was Dad's life, and I was the birdshit on his windshield."

-Stephen King, Rage

"If I knew what was making me do it, I probably wouldn't have to."

-Stephen King, Rage

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2. Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.47

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

Brandon Sanderson creates worlds, and those worlds are linked. His universe spans the Stormlight Ar… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
"Wow! I hate you already."

-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

"It was like saying that a man drowning in beer was better off than one drowning in acid."

-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

"She hated dreams. They either showed her a life she couldn't have, or a life that terrified her."

-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

"People," Shai said, rising to fetch another seal, "by nature attempt to exercise power over what is around them. We build walls to shelter us from the wind, roofs to stop the rain. We tame the elemen…"

-Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

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3. Roadwork

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Barton Dawes’ unremarkable but comfortable existence suddenly takes a turn for the worst. Highway c… read more

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  • horror
"Wimmern war die letzte Zuflucht unbedeutender Männer."

-Stephen King, Roadwork

"The fucking you got was never worth the screwing you took."

-Stephen King, Roadwork

"Das Leben schien nur eine Vorbereitung auf die Hölle zu sein."

-Stephen King, Roadwork

"Haben Sie in meiner Nase gebohrt, als ich nicht hingesehen habe?"

-Stephen King, Roadwork

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4. Apt Pupil

By: Stephen King

3.92

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a dif… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"What does a good man fall back on when the situation is desperate? His faith, of course. The science of a new century. The love of his friends."

-Stephen King, Apt Pupil

"Your own politicians make our Dr. Goebbels look like a child playing with picture books in a kindergarten. They speak of morality while they douse screaming children and old women in burning napalm. …"

-Stephen King, Apt Pupil

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5. Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.17

Format: 50 pages,

Originally appearing in the Dangerous Women anthology and now available as a solo ebook, Shadows fo… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Hush now, my dear one... be not afraid. Night comes upon us, but sunlight will break. Sleep now, my dear one... let your tears fade. Darkness surrounds us, but someday we'll wake...."

-Brandon Sanderson, Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell

"What would it take?" she asked. "For you to see a miracle instead of a coincidence?" "It would take a miracle,obviously," Silence said, picking up her knife. "Instead of just a coincidence."

-Brandon Sanderson, Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell

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6. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

By: John Steinbeck

4.06

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more

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"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

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7. The Raven

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Gustave Doré

4.29

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century,… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Quoth the raven nevermore."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"La ciencia no nos a enseñado aun si la locura es o no lo mas sublime de la inteligencia"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted Nevermore"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

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8. The Masque of the Red Death

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

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9. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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10. Wizard and Glass

By: Stephen King , Dave McKean

3.39

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Roland of Gilead and his fellow pilgrims determine to reach the Dark Tower, but their quest is rife… read more

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  • science fiction
  • horror
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11. Insomnia

By: Stephen King , Bettina Blanch Tyroller

3.94

Format: None pages,

Ralph Roberts, a sus setenta anos y tras la muerte de su mujer, siente que su vida se acaba. ?Es ac… read more

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  • horror
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12. The Children of Húrin

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Alan Lee

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

The Children of Hurin is the first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The… read more

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13. The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

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14. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • short stories
  • horror
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15. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

By: Dan Simmons

4.27

Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature calle… read more

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  • science fiction
  • horror
"You have to live to really know things, my love"

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

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16. The Eleventh Metal (Mistborn, #0.5)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.95

Format: 128 pages, ebook

Also available in . "This story was written specifically for the Mistborn Adventure Game, a tablet… read more

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  • short stories

17. Sixth of the Dusk

By: Brandon Sanderson

5.00

Format: 64 pages,

A fascinating new novella in Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere, the universe shared by his Mistborn serie… read more

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18. Secret History (Mistborn, #3.5)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.50

Format: 24 pages,

Mistborn: Secret Historyis a companion story to the original Mistborn trilogy. As such, it contains… read more

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19. The Talisman (The Talisman, #1)

By: Stephen King , Peter Straub

4.12

Format: 652 pages,

On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a sile… read more

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20. Lisey's Story

By: Stephen King

3.96

Format: None pages,

Lisey Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of profound, s… read more

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21. Different Seasons

By: Stephen King

4.21

Format: 391 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A "hypnotic" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas from Stephen King bound t… read more

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22. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

By: Stephen King

4.21

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

A man convicted of murder lives in a prison brutally ruled by a sadistic warden and secretly run by… read more

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23. Meathouse Man

By: George R.R. Martin , Raya Golden

2.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Based on the short story by George R.R. Martin, bestselling author of A Game of Thrones, Meathouse … read more

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24. The Emperor's Soul

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.53

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Also available in . A heretic thief is the empire's only hope in this fascinating tale that inhabi… read more

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25. Cujo

By: Stephen King

3.79

Format: 432 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Durante toda su vida Cujo fue un buen perro, un San Bernardo grandote, pacífico, juguetón y amante … read more

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  • horror
"The monster nevers dies."

-Stephen King, Cujo

"There is no bad time for good news."

-Stephen King, Cujo

"No hago más que percibirle... sentirle... en todos los rincones."

-Stephen King, Cujo

"Aspiraba el olor de la locura en un viento que aún no había llegado."

-Stephen King, Cujo

26. The Hope of Elantris (Elantris, #1.5)

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.26

Format: None pages, ebook

The following is a short story I wrote in theElantris world back in January of 2006. At that point,… read more

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27. Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania

By: Brandon Sanderson

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

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28. Season of Storms (The Witcher, #0)

By: Andrzej Sapkowski

3.97

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the Witcher video games. Geralt of Rivia. A … read more

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"O medo nunca é irracional."

-Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms (The Witcher, #0)

"É preciso comprovar a culpa, e não a inocência."

-Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms (The Witcher, #0)

"O provérbio diz: a quem mal vive, o medo o segue."

-Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms (The Witcher, #0)

"Zwykłość zaś równa się nijakość, a nijakość to taniość."

-Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms (The Witcher, #0)

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29. The Body

By: Stephen King

4.02

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."

-Stephen King, The Body

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?"

-Stephen King, The Body

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"

-Stephen King, The Body

"Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words, can close those lovebites. It's the other way around, that's the joke."

-Stephen King, The Body

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30. 1979 Short Stories (Study Guide): The Way of Cross and Dragon

By: Books LLC

3.77

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book cl… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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31. The Exit to San Breta

By: George R.R. Martin

3.27

Format: None pages, None

A short ghost story written by Martin in the early 1970s. read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • horror

13 Top short stories books like The Exit to San Breta by George R.R. Martin

Transform Your Habits

Rage

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

Brandon Sanderson

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Apt Pupil

Stephen King

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell

Brandon Sanderson

4.17

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11 Top fiction books like Roadwork by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

Transform Your Habits

Roadwork

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

Transform Your Habits

The Eyes of the Dragon

Stephen King

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Desperation

Stephen King

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Dolores Claiborne

Stephen King

3.00

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