12 Top mystery books like Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories by Bryan Smith

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Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

By: Bryan Smith

4.04

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

They’ve come from all over the world for a three-day celebration of peace, music, and groovy vibes.…

If you liked the mystery plot in Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories by Bryan Smith , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Benjamin's Parasite by Jeff Strand

1. Benjamin's Parasite

By: Jeff Strand

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Strand, author of The Sinister Mr. Corpse, Gleefully Macabre Tales, and Pressure, delivers his most… read more

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  • horror
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2. 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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  • 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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3. Pieces of Hate

By: Ray Garton

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Pieces of terror, pieces of suspense, pieces of darkness combine to create Pieces of Hate, master s… read more

Similar categories in Ray Garton's Pieces of Hate book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • short stories
  • horror
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4. Cold Moon Over Babylon

By: Michael McDowell

3.99

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Terror grows in Babylon, a typical sleepy Southern town with its throbbing sun and fog-shrouded swa… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • mystery
  • horror

5. I Am Legend and Other Stories

By: Richard Matheson

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and c… read more

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6. The Rising (The Rising #1)

By: Brian Keene

3.81

Format: None pages,

Nothing stays dead for long. The dead are returning to life, intelligent, determined...and very hun… read more

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7. Hell House

By: Richard Matheson

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Can any soul survive? Regarded as the Mount Everest of haunted houses, Belasco House has witnessed … read more

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8. The Summer I Died (The Roger Huntington Saga, #1)

By: Ryan C. Thomas

5.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

So much screaming. When Roger Huntington comes home from college for the summer and is met by his b… read more

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9. 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

Similar categories in Joe Hill's The Pram book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • short stories
  • horror
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10. 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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  • short stories
  • horror
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11. The Slob

By: Aron Beauregard

3.38

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

SOME STAINS DON'T COME OUT... Raised in a household that was so filthy it was stomach spilling, Ver… read more

Similar categories in Aron Beauregard's The Slob book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • horror
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12. The Gathering

By: C.J. Tudor

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secret… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Tudor's The Gathering book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • mystery
  • horror
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13. Survivor Song

By: Paul Tremblay

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spre… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Survivor Song book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • horror
"By then Ramola had begun to see herself as asexual but would not admit this to her mum. She said she was impressed by Mum's vocabulary choice, and added she enjoyed the idea of sex like she enjoyed t…"

-Paul Tremblay, Survivor Song

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14. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Peele's Out There Screaming book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • short stories
  • horror
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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15. A Cosmology of Monsters

By: Shaun Hamill

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Noah Turner sees monsters. His father saw them—and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dar… read more

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  • mystery
  • horror
"...there's no such thing as a happy ending. The songs, books, and movies with "happy endings" al stop at teh moment of triumph....There are, however, good stopping places."

-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters

"Living with a family wounded by a loss you can't remember is like sitting behind a tall person at a movie theater. The people around you are laughing, crying, reacting to something, but you have no i…"

-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters

"I don't reject the choices I've made, or the cost. It's not so surprising, I guess. My monster suit always fit better than my regular skin. I was never a guardian, or a hero, but a creator and harves…"

-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters

"...he has so much he wants to tell the boy, but most important, maybe, is this: life makes monsters of everyone, but it's always possible to come back. Pain and death are real, but so are love, and f…"

-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters

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16. Dead Silence

By: S.A. Barnes

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more

Similar categories in S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • mystery
  • horror
"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."

-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

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17. We Sold Our Souls

By: Grady Hendrix

3.73

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

In the 1990s, heavy metal band Dürt Würk was poised for breakout success -- but then lead singer Te… read more

Similar categories in Grady Hendrix's We Sold Our Souls book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • horror
"Fight," she finally said. Just fight. Never stop."

-Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

"— "Do you see where I'm going?" [ROB] — "Yeah, the sparrow kicks the mountain's ass." [KRIS]"

-Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

"— Do you see where I'm going with this? [ROB] — Yeah, the sparrow kicks the mountain's ass. [KRIS]"

-Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

"I can't believe that after a lifetime of playing metal, it turns out the world is a shitty country song."

-Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

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18. Becoming the Boogeyman

By: Richard Chizmar

4.13

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, haunting sequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller Chasing the Boogeyman—a tale… read more

Similar categories in Richard Chizmar's Becoming the Boogeyman book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • mystery
  • horror
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19. Ghostland (Ghostland Trilogy, #1)

By: Duncan Ralston

3.79

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

People are dying to get in. The exhibits will kill to get out. Be first in line for the most haunte… read more

Similar categories in Duncan Ralston's Ghostland (Ghostland Trilogy, #1) book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • mystery
  • horror
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20. 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 Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • mystery
  • horror
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21. The Cursed Among Us

By: John Durgin

3.93

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

It has been twenty years since the serial killer known as The Black Heart Killer terrorized the tow… read more

Similar categories in John Durgin's The Cursed Among Us book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • mystery
  • horror
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22. The Switch House

By: Tim Meyer

3.53

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

CONGRATULATIONS! You've won a role on LET'S SWITCH HOUSES! Your life is going to change. We promise… read more

Similar categories in Tim Meyer's The Switch House book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • short stories
  • horror
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23. 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 Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • mystery
  • horror
"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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24. Cirque Berserk

By: Jessica Guess

3.76

Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition

The summer of 1989 brought terror to the town of Shadows Creek, Florida in the form of a massacre a… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Guess's Cirque Berserk book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • short stories
  • horror
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25. Touch the Night

By: Max Booth III

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

MOTHER! MOTHER! RISE FROM THE GROUND! Stranger Things and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre unite to … read more

Similar categories in Max Booth III's Touch the Night book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • mystery
  • horror
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26. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • mystery
  • horror
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27. Wasps in the Ice Cream

By: Tim McGregor

4.10

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens when you fall for the girl everyone hates? Summer 1987: Mark Prewitt's only priorit… read more

Similar categories in Tim McGregor's Wasps in the Ice Cream book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • horror
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28. Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

By: Bryan Smith

4.04

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

They’ve come from all over the world for a three-day celebration of peace, music, and groovy vibes.… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • mystery
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Snuggling the Grotesque by Jeff Strand

29. Snuggling the Grotesque

By: Jeff Strand

4.55

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

We apologize in advance for the fatal blow to your sanity, but Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jef… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Strand's Snuggling the Grotesque book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • short stories
  • horror
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30. Crazytimes

By: Scott Cole

3.63

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

You wake up Monday morning and everyone is crazy. Everyone was already crazy, though, right? But so… read more

Similar categories in Scott Cole's Crazytimes book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • horror
Cover of Are You There, Cthulhu? It's me, Matthew. by Matthew M. Bartlett

31. Are You There, Cthulhu? It's me, Matthew.

By: Matthew M. Bartlett

3.85

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

Matthew M. Bartlett, almost fifty-three, has just moved from Leeds, Massachusetts to the devil-haun… read more

Similar categories in Matthew M. Bartlett's Are You There, Cthulhu? It's me, Matthew. book and Bryan Smith's Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories

  • horror

8 Top short stories books like Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories by Bryan Smith

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Pieces of Hate

Ray Garton

4.00

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The Pram

Joe Hill

3.77

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Ankle Snatcher

Grady Hendrix

3.74

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Out There Screaming

Jordan Peele

3.79

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The Grip of It

Jac Jemc

3.66

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In the Valley of the Sun

Andy Davidson

4.23

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Of Foster Homes and Flies

Chad Lutzke

3.97

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Philip Fracassi

4.18

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