17 must-read fantasy books like The Heart of Hell by Wayne Barlowe

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The Heart of Hell

By: Wayne Barlowe

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sargatanas has Ascended and the doomed, anguished souls have found themselves emancipated. Hell has…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Heart of Hell by Wayne Barlowe , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Island in the Sea of Time (Nantucket, #1) by S.M. Stirling

1. Island in the Sea of Time (Nantucket, #1)

By: S.M. Stirling

4.01

Format: 608 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It's spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the enti… read more

Similar categories in S.M. Stirling's Island in the Sea of Time (Nantucket, #1) book and Wayne Barlowe's The Heart of Hell

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

By: Stephen King

4.28

Format: 1050 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The seventh and final installment of Stephen King's The Dark Tower saga is perhaps the most anticip… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7) book and Wayne Barlowe's The Heart of Hell

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I don’t like people. They fuck me up"

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

"Ending is just another word for goodbye."

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

"he sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls..."

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

Cover of Song of Susannah by Stephen        King, Darrel Anderson

3. Song of Susannah

By: Stephen King , Darrel Anderson

3.39

Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannahis at once a boo… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Song of Susannah book and Wayne Barlowe's The Heart of Hell

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose

4. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more

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"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

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5. The Hellbound Heart

By: Clive Barker

4.07

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. … read more

Similar categories in Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart book and Wayne Barlowe's The Heart of Hell

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas"

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

Cover of The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1) by Tad Williams

6. The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1)

By: Tad Williams

3.91

Format: 192 pages,

With The Dragonbone Chair, Tad Williams introduced readers to the incredible fantasy world of Osten… read more

Similar categories in Tad Williams's The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1) book and Wayne Barlowe's The Heart of Hell

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker

7. The Scarlet Gospels

By: Clive Barker

4.15

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

The Scarlet Gospelstakes readers back many years to the early days of two of Barker's most iconic c… read more

Similar categories in Clive Barker's The Scarlet Gospels book and Wayne Barlowe's The Heart of Hell

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

8. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

Similar categories in Peter Watts's Blindsight (Firefall, #1) book and Wayne Barlowe's The Heart of Hell

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

9. Anthem

By: Ayn Rand

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Anthemhas long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic novels, and a clear predecessor to her late… read more

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10. The King in Yellow

By: Robert W. Chambers

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more

Similar categories in Robert W. Chambers's The King in Yellow book and Wayne Barlowe's The Heart of Hell

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

11. Lost Gods

By: Brom

3.53

Format: None pages, ebook

A young man descends into Purgatory to save his wife and unborn child in this gorgeous, illustrated… read more

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12. A Congregation of Jackals

By: S. Craig Zahler

4.11

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

One of Oswell's old bank-robbing gang is getting married out in Montana Territory, and the rest of … read more

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13. Those Across the River

By: Christopher Buehlman

3.71

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whit… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Buehlman's Those Across the River book and Wayne Barlowe's The Heart of Hell

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Violence like that is private, don't you think?"

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"That was a mean thought, and not funny at all. I let it turn to sand and blow out of my head."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"I mostly drink clear booze because the rest of it looks it's already been through a gentleman."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"But when I make a good [taxidermy] mount I feel like I beat God in a small way. As though the Almighty said, Let such critter be dead, and I said, 'Fuck You, he can still play the banjo."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

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14. Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

By: Brom

4.29

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only… read more

Similar categories in Brom's Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery book and Wayne Barlowe's The Heart of Hell

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"You will think me foolish. But I wanted to be a fairy queen, to run barefoot through the woods, to sing like a bird and fly through the trees." She smiled. "To be able to talk to the animals."

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

"He stared up into the trees, watched them sway in the soft breeze, watched the sun drift slowly across the sky, hour after hour, until it began to sink from view, trying to let go, to let his mind dr…"

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

"Buzzing filled his ears, and he watched several bumblebees bounce from flower to flower. He found their hum soothing, and there, at the moment, felt he could watch them forever. He drank in the scent…"

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

Cover of Crowbones (The World of the Others, #3; The Others, #8) by Anne Bishop

15. Crowbones (The World of the Others, #3; The Others, #8)

By: Anne Bishop

4.39

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

In this engrossing and gripping fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others s… read more

Similar categories in Anne Bishop's Crowbones (The World of the Others, #3; The Others, #8) book and Wayne Barlowe's The Heart of Hell

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Beast You Are: Stories by Paul Tremblay

16. The Beast You Are: Stories

By: Paul Tremblay

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of  The Pallbearers Club ,  A He… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Beast You Are: Stories book and Wayne Barlowe's The Heart of Hell

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1) by Alex Pheby

17. Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)

By: Alex Pheby

3.60

Format: 617 pages, Hardcover

GOD IS DEAD, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew. In the slums of the sea-battered… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"You will be judged on your actions, not by accidents of birth. Yet now, for the Master's purposes, you are worse than nothing...Again, do not let this disturb you-many malodorous things have a use. S…"

-Alex Pheby, Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)

Cover of The Pale House Devil by Richard Kadrey

18. 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

Similar categories in Richard Kadrey's The Pale House Devil book and Wayne Barlowe's The Heart of Hell

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson

19. The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

By: Brian Evenson

4.10

Format: 254 pages, ebook

“Here is how monstrous humans are.” A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurkin… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell book and Wayne Barlowe's The Heart of Hell

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Heart of Hell by Wayne Barlowe

20. The Heart of Hell

By: Wayne Barlowe

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sargatanas has Ascended and the doomed, anguished souls have found themselves emancipated. Hell has… read more

Similar categories in Wayne Barlowe's The Heart of Hell book and Wayne Barlowe's The Heart of Hell

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

17 Top fiction books like The Heart of Hell by Wayne Barlowe

Transform Your Habits

Island in the Sea of Time (Nantucket, #1)

S.M. Stirling

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

Stephen King

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Song of Susannah

Stephen King , Darrel Anderson

3.39

Transform Your Habits

The Hellbound Heart

Clive Barker

4.07

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11 best-selling fiction books like The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7) by Stephen King

Transform Your Habits

Blaze

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Roadwork

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

Transform Your Habits

The Gunslinger Born (Stephen King's The Dark Tower: Beginnings, #1)

Stephen King , Peter David , Robin Furth , Richard Isanove , Jae Lee

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

Stephen King

4.28

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