5 best-selling thriller books like In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn by Rob True

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In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn

By: Rob True

3.98

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Carl, reeling from the death of his brother, is drowning in visions. Followed by shadow men through…

If you liked the thriller plot in In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn by Rob True , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. So You've Been Publicly Shamed

By: Jon Ronson

3.93

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile pub… read more

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"The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

"...all violence being a person’s attempt to replace shame with self-esteem."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

"[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

"A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

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2. The Wine-Dark Sea

By: Peter Straub , Robert Aickman

4.10

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

From Publishers WeeklySince his death several years ago, British writer Aickman's reputation has co… read more

Similar categories in Peter Straub's The Wine-Dark Sea book and Rob True's In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn

  • horror
"Probably everything in the world is decided by tiny last straws."

-Peter Straub, The Wine-Dark Sea

"You speak English beautifully, which means you can't be English."

-Peter Straub, The Wine-Dark Sea

"Those who deem this either weak of me or incredible are invited to find themselves in a like situation."

-Peter Straub, The Wine-Dark Sea

"Dreams, [...], are misleading, because they make life seem real. When it loses the support of dreams, life dissolves."

-Peter Straub, The Wine-Dark Sea

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3. Devil's Day

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the Lancashire farm where he grew up to help gather the she… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Michael Hurley's Devil's Day book and Rob True's In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn

  • thriller
  • horror
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4. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

Similar categories in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories book and Rob True's In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn

  • horror
"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

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5. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West book and Rob True's In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn

  • horror
"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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6. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.02

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more

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"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

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7. Earthlings

By: Sayaka Murata

3.60

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witc… read more

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Earthlings book and Rob True's In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn

  • horror
"Sobreviver, haja o que houver."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"O senso comum é uma doença contagiosa e é difícil manter a infecção sozinho."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"I thought that when I grew up society would brainwash me, but it didn't work."

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

"Até quando eu teria de sobreviver? Será que algum dia poderia apenas viver e não sobreviver?"

-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

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8. Nothing But Blackened Teeth

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.66

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in … read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth book and Rob True's In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn

  • horror
"Every religion is a one-way relationship."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"The dead miss the sun. It's dark down there."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

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9. Treacle Walker

By: Alan Garner

3.13

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more

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10. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

Similar categories in Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A Scenario book and Rob True's In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn

  • horror
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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11. No es un río

By: Selva Almada

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more

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12. Brutes

By: Dizz Tate

3.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more

Similar categories in Dizz Tate's Brutes book and Rob True's In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn

  • thriller
  • horror
"to be loved, was just to be watched"

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

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13. Junge mit schwarzem Hahn

By: Stefanie vor Schulte

4.18

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

Der elfjährige Martin besitzt nichts bis auf das Hemd auf dem Leib und seinen schwarzen Hahn, Behüt… read more

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14. A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East

By: László Krasznahorkai

3.89

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old mona… read more

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"...végső soron az egyszerű bizalmat abban, hogy van hagyomány, hogy ez a hagyomány a megfigyelésre, az ismétlésre és a természet belső rendjének és a dolgok természetének a tiszteletére épül, s hogy …"

-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East

"...mert maguk voltak a létezés, miközben a létezésből mégis ki voltak zárva, vagyis oly közel estek a létezéshez, hogy azonossá váltak vele, és a létezés nem látszik soha, így hát ha itt voltak is, a…"

-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East

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15. The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.53

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkn… read more

Similar categories in Ragnar Jónasson's The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1) book and Rob True's In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn

  • thriller
"It was as if her life had been brought to a full stop: she couldn't look forward, couldn't picture what tomorrow night bring."

-Ragnar Jónasson, The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)

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16. Split Tooth

By: Tanya Tagaq

3.91

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth book and Rob True's In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn

"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

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17. Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

By: Garth Marenghi

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dar… read more

Similar categories in Garth Marenghi's Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome book and Rob True's In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn

  • thriller
  • horror
"Good job I loaded this with silver bullets from that box of silver bullets that was sitting on that table labelled “Silver Bullets"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"She may well have whispered, ‘I’ll miss you,’ once I’d gone, but I couldn’t hear that from where I was, and as this is first-person narration and therefore not omniscient, we just won’t know."

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"Thanks for the warning about leaving the car door open, by the way,’ Capello said, his manner towards Nick softening. ‘You know it makes sense, amigo. I guess we’re both learning something out here.’…"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"Roz, I need you to do this,’ I said, although I didn’t, in actual fact – that’s just a lazy phrase which helps steer a lost narrative back on course when readers are giving up in droves, and is, iron…"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

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18. The Colony

By: Audrey Magee

4.11

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more

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19. The Doloriad

By: Missouri Williams

3.14

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the M… read more

Similar categories in Missouri Williams's The Doloriad book and Rob True's In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn

  • horror
"...the story of the city was always a story of disintegration."

-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad

"...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and then the Matriarch would finally be free of it—the past and its language."

-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad

"...the way that the words hung together to produce meaning had a logic that he could not follow, and sometimes he thought that this was because they spoke in images, immediate, sensuous images, that …"

-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad

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20. Dead Relatives

By: Lucie McKnight Hardy

3.92

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Iris has never left the big house in the country she shares with Mammy and the servants. When The L… read more

Similar categories in Lucie McKnight Hardy's Dead Relatives book and Rob True's In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn

  • dark
  • horror
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21. In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn

By: Rob True

3.98

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Carl, reeling from the death of his brother, is drowning in visions. Followed by shadow men through… read more

Similar categories in Rob True's In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn book and Rob True's In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn

  • thriller
  • dark
  • horror

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4.10

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3.25

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3.92

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4.22

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