17 Best fantasy books like Shock Waves by Richard Matheson

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Shock Waves

By: Richard Matheson

3.98

Format: 183 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A look at the ugliest doll ever seen, a self-murderess, the man who bled oil, a machine that promis…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Shock Waves by Richard Matheson , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Come Closer

By: Sara Gran

3.65

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more

Similar categories in Sara Gran's Come Closer book and Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

Cover of Rain (Blackwater, #6) by Michael McDowell

2. Rain (Blackwater, #6)

By: Michael McDowell

4.16

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

The mysterious saga of the Caskey family concludes in Blackwater VI: Rain. Time heals old wound… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's Rain (Blackwater, #6) book and Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969 by Alan             Moore, Kevin O'Neill

3. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969

By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The third volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues,… read more

Similar categories in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969 book and Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

4. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

By: J.D. Salinger

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE H… read more

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5. 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 Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • 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

6. The Island of Dr. Moreau

By: H.G. Wells

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettab… read more

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7. The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

By: Patrick Rothfuss

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Bast knows how to bargain. The give-and-take of a negotiation is as familiar to him as the in-and-o… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Rothfuss's The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6) book and Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Laughter was the true applause you offered to the world for being beautiful."

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

"But this? Convincing someone of the truth they were too twisted up to see? How could Bast begin to loosen such a knot? It was baffling. These creatures, fraught and frayed in their desire. A snake wo…"

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

"What he was asking for was, effectively, a story without all the conflict. Without tension and animosity. Without many of the things I'd been taught were essential to storytelling. This wasn't a tota…"

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

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8. La guerra (Blackwater, #4)

By: Michael McDowell

4.05

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

1938. È l’alba di una nuova èra per il clan Caskey e nulla sarà mai più come prima. La determinazio… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's La guerra (Blackwater, #4) book and Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the ordinary is presented as a possible future occurrence; but if an unusual …"

-Michael McDowell, La guerra (Blackwater, #4)

Cover of La casa (Blackwater, #3) by Michael McDowell

9. La casa (Blackwater, #3)

By: Michael McDowell

4.19

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

1928, Perdido. Il clan Caskey è dilaniato dalla spietata lotta tra Mary-Love ed Elinor. Ma all'oriz… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's La casa (Blackwater, #3) book and Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Holly

By: Stephen King

4.12

Format: 449 pages, Hardcover

Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Holly book and Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • fiction
  • horror
"Sometimes the universe throws you a rope. If it does, climb it. See what's at the top."

-Stephen King, Holly

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11. The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3)

By: P. Djèlí Clark

3.98

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 returns to the alternate Cairo of Clark's short fiction, where humans … read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3) book and Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. Ring Shout

By: P. Djèlí Clark

3.99

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

In America, demons wear white hoods. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America,… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's Ring Shout book and Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Who says all the fantasies with sword-wielding heroes and heroines have to be in Middle Earth, Westeros, or even our dreams of Africa past—“copper sun or scarlet sea?"

-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

"There were two brothers, Truth and Lie. One day they get to playing, throwing cutlasses up into the air. Them cutlasses come down and fast as can be-swish!-chop each of their faces clean off! Truth b…"

-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

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13. The Black God's Drums

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.01

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to … read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums book and Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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14. Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

By: John Langan

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies book and Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces

By: Eric LaRocca

3.59

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the viral sensation Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes They Were… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces book and Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of El dique (Blackwater, #2) by Michael McDowell

16. El dique (Blackwater, #2)

By: Michael McDowell

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Mientras Perdido se recupera de la inundación, se propone la construcción de un dique que impida un… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's El dique (Blackwater, #2) book and Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie." "Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your rea…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

"Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her children's gratitude, and if she…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

"That her niece should find such profound pleasure in the company of a thirteen-year-old black girl--and, more to the point, always within the precincts of Elinor's house--was a slap in Mary-Love's fa…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

"To the little girl the house seemed a gigantic head, and she only a morsel of meat conveniently positioned in its gaping mouth. The front porch was that grinning mouth, the white porch railing its lo…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

Cover of La fortuna (Blackwater, #5) by Michael McDowell

17. La fortuna (Blackwater, #5)

By: Michael McDowell

4.04

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

1946. Come un organismo vivente, la famiglia Caskey si sviluppa e si trasforma. Alcuni affrontano l… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's La fortuna (Blackwater, #5) book and Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Shock Waves by Richard Matheson

18. Shock Waves

By: Richard Matheson

3.98

Format: 183 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A look at the ugliest doll ever seen, a self-murderess, the man who bled oil, a machine that promis… read more

Similar categories in Richard Matheson's Shock Waves book and Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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19. Horror Star

By: Enrique Cordobés

4.21

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Victoria Miller es finalista de un concurso de literatura de terror. Los ocho concursantes deberán … read more

Similar categories in Enrique Cordobés's Horror Star book and Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • horror
Cover of A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enríquez

20. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

Similar categories in Mariana Enríquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People book and Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of La riada (Blackwater, #1) by Michael McDowell

21. La riada (Blackwater, #1)

By: Michael McDowell

3.74

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Descubre el primer volumen de la saga Blackwater. Una saga matriarcal. Mujeres poderosas que luc… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's La riada (Blackwater, #1) book and Richard Matheson's Shock Waves

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

18 must-read fiction books like Shock Waves by Richard Matheson

Transform Your Habits

Come Closer

Sara Gran

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Rain (Blackwater, #6)

Michael McDowell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969

Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Revival

Stephen King

3.80

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The Bighead

Edward Lee , Erik Wilson , Erik Wilson

3.70

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Come Closer

Sara Gran

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Gone to See the River Man

Kristopher Triana

3.67

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