12 Top fantasy books like The Taxidermist's Lover by Polly Hall

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The Taxidermist's Lover

By: Polly Hall

3.56

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A modern Gothic tale of a woman obsessed with her lover’s taxidermy creatures and haunted by her pa…

"You are a wonderful, complex, f*cked-up mess,"

-Polly Hall, The Taxidermist's Lover

"Even in my dreams I would steal the wings from birds and try to fly, or grow the lithe legs of a hare so I could race across a moonlit field. Mostly my dreams consisted of sinking into the wet-black below my feet, right up to my neck, and I’d wake just before my head was covered in darkness."

-Polly Hall, The Taxidermist's Lover

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Taxidermist's Lover by Polly Hall , here is a list of 12 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 Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • dark
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"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

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2. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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3. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

Similar categories in Johanna van Veen's My Darling Dreadful Thing book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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4. 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 Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • dark
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories

By: Eric LaRocca

3.74

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and autho… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • dark
  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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6. What Kind of Mother

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Bran… read more

Similar categories in Clay McLeod Chapman's What Kind of Mother book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Green Fuse Burning

By: Tiffany Morris

3.88

Format: 107 pages, ebook

The debut novella from the Elgin Award winning author of Elegies of Rotting Stars. After the death … read more

Similar categories in Tiffany Morris's Green Fuse Burning book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Briardark (Briardark, #1)

By: S.A. Harian

3.80

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

Survival and cosmic horror collide in this new series, perfect for fans of LOST and House of Leaves… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Harian's Briardark (Briardark, #1) book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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9. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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10. Last to Leave the Room

By: Caitlin Starling

3.51

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A new novel of genre-busting speculative horror from the acclaimed author of The Death of Jane Lawr… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Starling's Last to Leave the Room book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

By: Molly McGhee

3.50

Format: 304 pages, None

Jonathan Abernathy is drowning in debt. If he can appear to be competent at his new job, he might h… read more

Similar categories in Molly McGhee's Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. Troll

By: Matthew A. Clarke

4.01

Format: None pages, Paperback

“A horror filled look at the reality of the damage internet trolls can cause, with a touch of bizar… read more

Similar categories in Matthew A. Clarke's Troll book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • horror
Cover of Claw Heart Mountain by David Oppegaard

13. Claw Heart Mountain

By: David Oppegaard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“ Claw Heart Mountain is beautifully written.” ―HorrorDNA “Anyone looking for gripping natural horr… read more

Similar categories in David Oppegaard's Claw Heart Mountain book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • horror
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14. It Rides a Pale Horse

By: Andy Marino

3.39

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From a new star in horror fiction comes a terrifying novel of obsession, greed, and the shocking ac… read more

Similar categories in Andy Marino's It Rides a Pale Horse book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. So Thirsty

By: Rachel Harrison

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in thi… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's So Thirsty book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
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16. Desert Creatures

By: Kay Chronister

3.50

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a world that has become treacherous and desiccated, Magdala has always had to fight to survive. … read more

Similar categories in Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Don't Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews

17. Don't Let the Forest In

By: C.G. Drews

4.35

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, Andrew had cut out his heart and given it to this boy, and he was very sure Thoma… read more

Similar categories in C.G. Drews's Don't Let the Forest In book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
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18. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Taxidermist's Lover

By: Polly Hall

3.56

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A modern Gothic tale of a woman obsessed with her lover’s taxidermy creatures and haunted by her pa… read more

Similar categories in Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • romance
  • gothic
  • dark
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You are a wonderful, complex, f*cked-up mess,"

-Polly Hall, The Taxidermist's Lover

"Even in my dreams I would steal the wings from birds and try to fly, or grow the lithe legs of a hare so I could race across a moonlit field. Mostly my dreams consisted of sinking into the wet-black …"

-Polly Hall, The Taxidermist's Lover

Cover of Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson

20. Guillotine

By: Delilah S. Dawson

4.02

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

The Menu meets Ready of Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New … read more

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's Guillotine book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Coyote Rage

By: Owl Goingback

3.73

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

2019 BRAM STOKER AWARDS WINNERBram Stoker Award-Winning author Owl Goingback makes a triumphant ret… read more

Similar categories in Owl Goingback's Coyote Rage book and Polly Hall's The Taxidermist's Lover

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

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Sour Candy

Kealan Patrick Burke

3.65

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3.33

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My Darling Dreadful Thing

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3.89

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Black Mouth

Ronald Malfi

3.96

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3.66

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Tara Sim

4.07

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Emily Varga

4.05

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