30 Best horror books like Jimmy the Freak by Charles Colyott

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Jimmy the Freak

By: Charles Colyott

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Thanks to being dropped on his head when he was a baby, Jimmy is now both mentally disabled and psy…

If you liked the horror plot in Jimmy the Freak by Charles Colyott , here is a list of 30 books like this:

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1. Desperation

By: Stephen King

3.94

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

There's a place along Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. It's known as Desp… read more

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  • horror
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2. The Woodwitch

By: Stephen Gregory

4.81

Format: 539 pages,

Andrew Pinkney is a young English solicitor's clerk with boyish good looks and a gentle manner. But… read more

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  • horror
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3. Of Foster Homes and Flies

By: Chad Lutzke

3.97

Format: 172 pages,

read more

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  • novella
  • horror
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4. 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

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  • novella
  • horror
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5. Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more

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  • horror
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

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6. 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

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  • novella
  • horror
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7. Dead Eleven

By: Jimmy Juliano

3.72

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, h… read more

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  • horror
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8. 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

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  • novella
  • horror
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9. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

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  • horror
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

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10. The Reformatory

By: Tananarive Due

4.47

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sen… read more

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  • horror
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11. The Paleontologist

By: Luke Dumas

3.53

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

A haunted paleontologist returns to the museum where his sister was abducted years earlier and is f… read more

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  • horror
"He had understood that, like the site of a nuclear tragedy, the place was uninhabitable for him now."

-Luke Dumas, The Paleontologist

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12. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

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  • horror
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

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13. Summer Sons

By: Lee Mandelo

3.80

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddi… read more

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  • horror
"It's a choice I made, getting in this thing with you, whatever it is. But don't mistake me, I'm not interested in filling in for a ghost."

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

"His face twisted through several contradictory emotions and he said, "For fuck's sake Andrew. Is there anything in this scenario that feels heterosexual or well-adjusted to you?"

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

"I’m sorry he died before you figured it out. For what it’s worth, I think you might’ve eventually, without me there to displace your bullshit onto. He was head over heels for you, and everyone knew b…"

-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

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14. All Hallows

By: Christopher Golden

3.55

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

With the 80's nostalgia of Stranger Things, this horror drama from NYT bestselling author Christoph… read more

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  • horror
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15. 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 Charles Colyott's Jimmy the Freak

  • novella
  • horror
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16. The Handyman Method

By: Nick Cutter

3.27

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror. When a y… read more

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  • horror
"When prey dies in fear, hunters will say the meat tastes bitter."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"What of happiness, then? May we speak of the taste of joyful meat?"

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"Old memories were like land mines: dormant, forgotten, but forever deadly."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

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17. Indian Burial Ground

By: Nick Medina

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right an… read more

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  • horror
"What happened in the cemetery causes us pain, not her. You understand that, don’t you?"

-Nick Medina, Indian Burial Ground

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18. Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology

By: Ellen Datlow

3.65

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horro… read more

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  • horror
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19. Wild Spaces

By: S.L. Coney

3.51

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life meets H. P. Lovecraft in Wild Spaces, a foreboding, sensual coming-… read more

Similar categories in S.L. Coney's Wild Spaces book and Charles Colyott's Jimmy the Freak

  • novella
  • horror
"As funny as he thinks a fish would look, he wonders how the sea felt when her inhabitants started walking away. He wonders if maybe that’s why she keeps eating away at the land, trying to take back w…"

-S.L. Coney, Wild Spaces

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20. Daphne

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

It’s the last summer for Kit Lamb: The last summer before college. The last summer with her high sc… read more

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  • horror
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21. The Bedmakers

By: Chad Lutzke

4.08

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

After two elderly men tire of their homelessness in downtown Chicago 1979, they hop a train in sear… read more

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  • horror
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22. Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2)

By: Brian McAuley

4.12

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Oh what fun it is to DIE! When Austin’s parents drag him and his little sister Fiona to a remote… read more

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  • novella
  • horror
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23. The Haunting of Alejandra

By: V. Castro

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her fam… read more

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  • horror
"It occurred to Frances that perhaps everyone wore another set of clothing beneath their human skin, stitched together with all the things they hated about themselves and tried to hide."

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

"There are many times in life we feel there are no choices. Sometimes that is true. But I feel perhaps the true answers to the choices we must make find our way to us. Sometimes it is right away and a…"

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

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24. The Visitor

By: Sergio Gomez

3.34

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

On Christmas, during one of the worst snowstorms Indiana has ever seen, five strangers are forced t… read more

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  • novella
  • horror
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25. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

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  • horror
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26. Broad Street Bastard

By: Chad Lutzke

4.16

Format: 133 pages, Paperback

While working through his twelve-step program, eighteen-year-old Jex gets a new job and his first a… read more

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  • horror
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27. Dear Hanna

By: Zoje Stage

3.73

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Bab… read more

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  • horror
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28. The Light of a Black Star (The Light Sublime Trilogy #3)

By: C.S. Humble

4.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

It is 1872. Annie Miller and the valiant members of the Peregrine Estate did all they could in C… read more

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  • horror
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29. Jimmy the Freak

By: Charles Colyott

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Thanks to being dropped on his head when he was a baby, Jimmy is now both mentally disabled and psy… read more

Similar categories in Charles Colyott's Jimmy the Freak book and Charles Colyott's Jimmy the Freak

  • novella
  • horror
Cover of The Sequel (The Book Series, #2) by Jean Hanff Korelitz

30. The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times… read more

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31. Influencer

By: Adam Cesare

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Aaron Fortin is new in town. He drives a brand-new Acura—a gift from his parents for uprooting him … read more

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  • horror

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Chad Lutzke

3.97

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David Sodergren

4.17

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Joe Hill

3.77

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Grady Hendrix

3.74

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The Woodwitch

Stephen Gregory

4.81

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Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

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Nat Cassidy

3.86

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Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

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