13 Best fantasy books like The Smell of Evil by Charles Birkin

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The Smell of Evil

By: Charles Birkin

3.76

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

A sinister baron and his wife inflict unimaginable tortures on their young niece to compel her to s…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Smell of Evil by Charles Birkin , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1) by Agatha Christie

1. The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

By: Agatha Christie

3.85

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great… read more

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"It's dangerous to know too much."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Shades of Pelmanism!’ said Tommy, and relapsed into silence."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

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2. The Drawing of the Three

By: Stephen King

3.39

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

In 1978, Stephen King introduced the world to the last gunslinger, Roland of Gilead. Nothing has be… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's The Drawing of the Three book and Charles Birkin's The Smell of Evil

  • fantasy
  • horror
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3. The Elementals

By: Michael McDowell

4.01

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

On a split of land cut off by the Gulf, three Victorian summer houses stand against the encroaching… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror
"Savage mothers eat their children!"

-Michael McDowell, The Elementals

"There's no point in advertising a circus when everybody hates the clown."

-Michael McDowell, The Elementals

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4. The Reaping

By: Bernard Taylor

3.16

Format: 288 pages,

Commissioned to paint a portrait at the Woolvercombe House, painter Tom Rigsby is drawn into the se… read more

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  • horror
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5. Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)

By: Agatha Christie

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Murder at the Vicaragemarks the debut of Agatha Christie's unflappable and much beloved female dete… read more

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6. The Twenty Days of Turin

By: Giorgio De Maria , Ramon Glazov

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space whe… read more

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  • fantasy
  • horror

7. The Waste Lands

By: Stephen King , Ned Dameron

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Roland, The Last Gunslinger, moves ever closer to The Dark Tower of his dreams and nightmares--as h… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's The Waste Lands book and Charles Birkin's The Smell of Evil

  • fantasy
  • horror
Cover of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, Esther Freud, Thomas Teal, Sophia Jansson

8. The Summer Book

By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more

Similar categories in Tove Jansson's The Summer Book book and Charles Birkin's The Smell of Evil

  • short stories
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9. A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

By: Agatha Christie

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman! Rex Fortescue, king of a finan… read more

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10. Floating Dragon

By: Peter Straub

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Two monstrous evils. This quiet suburban town of Hampstead is threatened by two horrors. One is nat… read more

Similar categories in Peter Straub's Floating Dragon book and Charles Birkin's The Smell of Evil

  • fantasy
  • horror
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11. 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 Charles Birkin's The Smell of Evil

  • fantasy
  • horror

12. The Dark

By: James Herbert

2.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

It came like a malignant shadow with seductive promises of power. And somewhere in the night, a sma… read more

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13. Stolen Tongues

By: Felix Blackwell

4.25

Format: None pages,

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14. Revival

By: Stephen King

3.80

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

A dark and electrifying novel about addiction, fanaticism, and what might exist on the other side o… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Revival book and Charles Birkin's The Smell of Evil

  • fantasy
  • horror
"There’s no tonic like an old friend."

-Stephen King, Revival

"Frightened people live in their own special hell."

-Stephen King, Revival

"When you’re travelling far, it’s best to travel light."

-Stephen King, Revival

"Paths cross all the time in this world of our, sometimes in the strangest places."

-Stephen King, Revival

15. The Lost

By: Jack Ketchum

4.07

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

In 1965, teenage friends Ray, Tim, and Jennifer liked hanging out in the campgrounds, but Tim and J… read more

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16. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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17. The Haar

By: David Sodergren

4.17

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's The Haar book and Charles Birkin's The Smell of Evil

  • fantasy
  • horror
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18. Cursed Bunny

By: Bora Chung

3.78

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more

Similar categories in Bora Chung's Cursed Bunny book and Charles Birkin's The Smell of Evil

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

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19. Come with Me

By: Ronald Malfi

3.94

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

A masterful, heart-palpitating novel of small-town horror and psychological dread from a Bram Stoke… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Come with Me book and Charles Birkin's The Smell of Evil

  • horror
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20. The Exorcist's House

By: Nick Roberts

4.02

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 1994, psychologist Daniel Hill buys a rustic farmhouse nestled in the rolling hill… read more

Similar categories in Nick Roberts's The Exorcist's House book and Charles Birkin's The Smell of Evil

  • fantasy
  • horror
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21. 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 Charles Birkin's The Smell of Evil

  • horror
Cover of The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig

22. The Book of Accidents

By: Chuck Wendig

3.73

Format: 530 pages, Hardcover

Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his fam… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's The Book of Accidents book and Charles Birkin's The Smell of Evil

  • fantasy
  • horror
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23. Mary

By: Nat Cassidy

3.80

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invis… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Mary book and Charles Birkin's The Smell of Evil

  • fantasy
  • horror
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24. Hell Hound

By: Ken Greenhall

3.91

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

‘What are the possibilities of my strength? That is a thought I have never had before. What if some… read more

Similar categories in Ken Greenhall's Hell Hound book and Charles Birkin's The Smell of Evil

  • horror
"Does everyone have to have an obsession?' 'Certainly. It's your choice of one that determines whether you're sane or not."

-Ken Greenhall, Hell Hound

"As Jason drove through the twilight he wondered weather people really could love animals. No, he thought. What they love is themselves; a part of themselves they see reflected in the animal."

-Ken Greenhall, Hell Hound

"Trust is the ultimate weakness and a kind of madness.... It may be inevitable that anyone who lives in the town, even I, must become afflicted with moments of trust. It is something one must accept. …"

-Ken Greenhall, Hell Hound

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25. The Loop

By: Jeremy Robert Johnson

3.41

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Stranger Things meets World War Z in this heart-racing conspiracy thriller as a lonely young woman … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Robert Johnson's The Loop book and Charles Birkin's The Smell of Evil

  • horror
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26. The Smell of Evil

By: Charles Birkin

3.76

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

A sinister baron and his wife inflict unimaginable tortures on their young niece to compel her to s… read more

Similar categories in Charles Birkin's The Smell of Evil book and Charles Birkin's The Smell of Evil

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror

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