11 must-read novella books like The Town That Feared Dusk by Calvin Demmer

Cover of The Town That Feared Dusk by Calvin  Demmer

The Town That Feared Dusk

By: Calvin Demmer

4.19

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Bernstein doesn't want to end up on a dead-end path like a former journalism colleague. She …

If you liked the novella plot in The Town That Feared Dusk by Calvin Demmer , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Sour Candy

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

3.65

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different … read more

Similar categories in Kealan Patrick Burke's Sour Candy book and Calvin Demmer's The Town That Feared Dusk

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton's teeth fell out."

-Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

2. The Girl Next Door

By: Jack Ketchum

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Suburbia. Shady, tree-lined streets, well-tended lawns and cozy homes. A nice, quiet place to grow … read more

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3. Strange Highways

By: Dean Koontz

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Back by popular demand is the hardcover edition of this classic collection of novels, novellas, and… read more

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4. My Secret Admirer (Point Horror, #4)

By: Carol Ellis

5.00

Format: 144 pages,

Jenny is new in town. Her parents go away, leaving her all alone in an isolated house. The mountain… read more

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5. Dark Harvest

By: Norman Partridge

4.02

Format: 982 pages,

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, … read more

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6. The October Country

By: Ray Bradbury

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Ray Bradbury's second short story collection is back in print, its chilling encounters with funhous… read more

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7. Dead of Winter

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

3.62

Format: 176 pages, ebook

A boy becomes convinced that there is something not right about the snowmen in his yard...A man tak… read more

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8. The Pram

By: Joe Hill

3.77

Format: 58 pages, Kindle Edition

A husband’s obsessive desire for a child leads to an unexpected manifestation of his yearning in a … read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's The Pram book and Calvin Demmer's The Town That Feared Dusk

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. 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

Similar categories in Grady Hendrix's Ankle Snatcher book and Calvin Demmer's The Town That Feared Dusk

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. It Waits in the Woods

By: Josh Malerman

3.72

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

Some chilling campfire tales ring too true to ignore. For one young woman, an urban legend calls he… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's It Waits in the Woods book and Calvin Demmer's The Town That Feared Dusk

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. Black Mouth

By: Ronald Malfi

3.96

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

For nearly two decades, Jamie Warren has been running from darkness. He's haunted by a traumatic ch… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Black Mouth book and Calvin Demmer's The Town That Feared Dusk

  • fiction
  • horror
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12. Buried

By: Jeffery Deaver

4.10

Format: 93 pages, Kindle Edition

An old-school reporter discovers that the search for the truth is still full of surprises in a twis… read more

Similar categories in Jeffery Deaver's Buried book and Calvin Demmer's The Town That Feared Dusk

  • mystery thriller
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • novella
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13. The Sleep Tight Motel

By: Lisa Unger

3.73

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman on the run finds refuge in a motel at the edge of the woods, with plenty of vacancies. Chec… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Unger's The Sleep Tight Motel book and Calvin Demmer's The Town That Feared Dusk

  • mystery thriller
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. The Saturday Night Ghost Club

By: Craig Davidson

3.85

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

A short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of "Stranger Things" and "S… read more

Similar categories in Craig Davidson's The Saturday Night Ghost Club book and Calvin Demmer's The Town That Feared Dusk

  • fiction
  • horror
"You always fall hardest the first time, don’t you? There’s no bottom to it."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

"Our boy owes us nothing. No boy owes his parents. Parents owe their children everything, always and unconditionally, and that's just the way it goes."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

"Everybody could be doing something better without their lives. Name me one person who is doing the best, most righteous thing with their life this very minute."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

"As far as I was concerned, there was nothing wrong with being an odd duck. I figured some people have edges that don’t allow them to slot into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

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15. Snowflakes

By: Ruth Ware

3.52

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

When a barrier between truth and illusion grows stronger, a family’s trust crumbles in this arresti… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Ware's Snowflakes book and Calvin Demmer's The Town That Feared Dusk

  • mystery thriller
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • novella
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16. The Backbone of the World

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.93

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

An American Indian woman’s past and future collide in unthinkable ways in this richly imagined shor… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Backbone of the World book and Calvin Demmer's The Town That Feared Dusk

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. Hannah-Beast

By: Jennifer McMahon

3.81

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

The fate of a lonely girl becomes part of a town’s shameful secret history in Thriller Award winner… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer McMahon's Hannah-Beast book and Calvin Demmer's The Town That Feared Dusk

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Miao Dao

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.52

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

A girl comes of age with a vengeance—and help from a friend—in a tale of unnerving suspense from Na… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's Miao Dao book and Calvin Demmer's The Town That Feared Dusk

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo

By: Adam Cesare

3.82

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The thrills and chills are far from over in the third novel from Bram Stoker Award winner and maste… read more

Similar categories in Adam Cesare's Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo book and Calvin Demmer's The Town That Feared Dusk

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Town That Feared Dusk by Calvin  Demmer

20. The Town That Feared Dusk

By: Calvin Demmer

4.19

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Bernstein doesn't want to end up on a dead-end path like a former journalism colleague. She … read more

Similar categories in Calvin Demmer's The Town That Feared Dusk book and Calvin Demmer's The Town That Feared Dusk

  • mystery thriller
  • ghosts
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Ushers: A Short Story by Joe Hill

21. Ushers: A Short Story

By: Joe Hill

4.31

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short sto… read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's Ushers: A Short Story book and Calvin Demmer's The Town That Feared Dusk

  • mystery thriller
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

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3.77

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Lisa Unger

4.04

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Lisa Unger

3.94

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3.93

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