21 Top horror books like Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11) by Carl Laymon

Cover of Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11) by Carl Laymon

Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11)

By: Carl Laymon

3.52

Format: 146 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It started off as a family vacation, but when Burt and his sister Sammi discover the remains of a h…

If you liked the horror plot in Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11) by Carl Laymon , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Wytches, Volume 1 by Scott Snyder, Matt Hollingsworth, Jock, Clem Robins

1. Wytches, Volume 1

By: Scott Snyder , Matt Hollingsworth , Jock , Clem Robins

3.80

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Everything you thought you knew about witches is wrong. They are much darker, and they are much mor… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Monster by Christopher Pike

2. Monster

By: Christopher Pike

3.74

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

She said she killed them because they were monsters. Mary Blanc walked into the party with a loaded… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • horror
Cover of Slimer by Harry Adam Knight, Leroy Kettle

3. Slimer

By: Harry Adam Knight , Leroy Kettle

3.42

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

SLIMER On a deserted oil rig lurks the ultimate horror - SLIMER A genetically-engineered ki… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Say Cheese and Die! (Goosebumps, #4) by R.L. Stine

4. Say Cheese and Die! (Goosebumps, #4)

By: R.L. Stine

1.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Greg thinks there is something wrong with the old camera he found. The photos keep turning out . . … read more

Similar categories in R.L. Stine's Say Cheese and Die! (Goosebumps, #4) book and Carl Laymon's Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11)

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • horror
Cover of Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1) by V.C. Andrews

5. Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)

By: V.C. Andrews

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Such wonderful children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror! It wasn… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • horror
Cover of Allhallow's Eve: A past massacre returns to haunt the present this Halloween by Richard Laymon

6. Allhallow's Eve: A past massacre returns to haunt the present this Halloween

By: Richard Laymon

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King The Sherwood house has been deserted … read more

Similar categories in Richard Laymon's Allhallow's Eve: A past massacre returns to haunt the present this Halloween book and Carl Laymon's Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11)

  • fiction
  • horror

7. The White People

By: Arthur Machen

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix, None

8. Horrorstör

By: Grady Hendrix , None

3.66

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, … read more

Similar categories in Grady Hendrix's Horrorstör book and Carl Laymon's Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11)

  • fiction
  • horror
"All great works must begin with a sacrifice."

-Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

"the day had been long and her emotions were toast."

-Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

"I know this is your religion, but for me it’s just a job."

-Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

"Let's make sure it's really raining before we worry about floods."

-Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

Cover of The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

9. The King in Yellow

By: Robert W. Chambers

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more

Similar categories in Robert W. Chambers's The King in Yellow book and Carl Laymon's Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11)

  • fiction
  • horror
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

10. The Game (Dark Forces #1)

By: Les Logan

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Children's Game or Tool of Evil? Julie and Terri are popular twins, identical-until a car accident … read more

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11. The Silent Companions

By: Laura Purcell

4.46

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country e… read more

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12. Live Girls (Davey Owen #1)

By: Ray Garton

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Davey Owen was looking for a little entertainment. He finds instead a nightmare in the form of a be… read more

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13. Darkness, Tell Us

By: Richard Laymon

2.00

Format: 28 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It started as a game. Six college kids at a party. Then someone suggested they try the Ouija board.… read more

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14. Island

By: Dean Koontz , Richard Laymon

2.00

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

When Rupert Conway set out on a cruise with seven other people, he planned to swim a little, get so… read more

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15. Meddling Kids

By: Edgar Cantero

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

1990. The teen detectives once known as the Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small … read more

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Cover of This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno

16. This Thing Between Us

By: Gus Moreno

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

It was Vera's idea to buy the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart speaker!" didn't interest Thia… read more

Similar categories in Gus Moreno's This Thing Between Us book and Carl Laymon's Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11)

  • fiction
  • horror
"You were you and I was me and there was this thing between us."

-Gus Moreno, This Thing Between Us

Cover of Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9) by Seanan McGuire

17. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9) book and Carl Laymon's Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11)

  • fiction
  • young adult
"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"

-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

Cover of Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7) by Seanan McGuire

18. Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.05

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you've a… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7) book and Carl Laymon's Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11)

  • fiction
  • young adult
"Names have power. Names define things"

-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

"I'm not your door, but I might be my own."

-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

"Being a fat child meant knowing how to be own best advocate"

-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

"I am not your door.' After a pause for thought, she added, 'But I might be my own."

-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)

Cover of Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana

19. Gone to See the River Man

By: Kristopher Triana

3.67

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Super fans. Groupies. Stalkers. These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be t… read more

Similar categories in Kristopher Triana's Gone to See the River Man book and Carl Laymon's Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11)

  • fiction
  • horror
"That didn't matter, though. Her thoughts toward her were entirely justified. They'd always been there, but were suppressed by a guilt she'd now began to think she never should have felt in the first …"

-Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

Cover of Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8) by Seanan McGuire

20. Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.32

Format: 208 pages, ebook

A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8) book and Carl Laymon's Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11)

  • fiction
  • young adult
"They needed to know because a choice you make without knowing the consequences isn't any choice at all!"

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"They have hearts. I can feel them beating. So I will build them a home and haven, as none was built for me, and I will care for them as long as I am able."

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"Then you found a door that said to be sure, and you were sure, you were already sure, you were so sure that when you tried the knob, it wasn't locked, and you could walk right through."

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"Some children need to escape from places that will only hurt them, or grind them away until they're nothing. And some children need to go somewhere else if they're ever going to grow into the people …"

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

Cover of Hench (Hench, #1) by Natalie Zina Walschots

21. Hench (Hench, #1)

By: Natalie Zina Walschots

4.02

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Zina Walschots's Hench (Hench, #1) book and Carl Laymon's Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11)

  • fiction
"I wondered what it must be like to be so mediocre and so confident that the same time."

-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)

"But even if the label on your own feelings doesn't matter, wouldn't you want to know how you felt about you? He pulled me off an operating table and rebuilt my brain. He killed people to get to me. W…"

-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)

"No one wants to be a real hero; it’s too hard. My husband didn’t give a damn whether the work I was doing was noble as long as it appeared to be. When I killed someone then - something I did a lot mo…"

-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)

Cover of Blood Sugar (Hard Case Crime) by Daniel Kraus

22. Blood Sugar (Hard Case Crime)

By: Daniel Kraus

3.42

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

In a ruined house at the end of Yellow Street, an angry outcast hatches a scheme to take revenge fo… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Kraus's Blood Sugar (Hard Case Crime) book and Carl Laymon's Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11)

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Cunning Folk by Adam L.G. Nevill

23. Cunning Folk

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Money's tight and their new home is a fixer-upper. Deep in rural South West England, with an ancien… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's Cunning Folk book and Carl Laymon's Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11)

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

24. The Other Black Girl

By: Zakiya Dalila Harris

3.36

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Get Out meets The Stepford Wives in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two you… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Locs or no locs, though… you know one of your coworkers is gonna mix you and the new Black girl up at least once. I promise you."

-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl

"OBGs. "Other Black Girls," Lynn had dubbed them, "because they're not our kind." They were something else entirely. Something close to alien...."

-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl

"At a historically Black college, Diana had been granted the blessed gift of tunnel vision. She'd been blessed with the ability to forget white people existed, if only for a little while. I had been b…"

-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl

"..eight or nine women and one extremely serious-looking man had decided to spend their Monday evening exercising with a demonic workout instructor n the Flatbush District rather than doing something …"

-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl

Cover of Occupy Space by Grady Hendrix

25. Occupy Space

By: Grady Hendrix

3.82

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Melville, South Carolina was out of money, it was out of jobs, it was out of hope, and today it was… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"And as for the people around here, well, I’m very sorry that my rocket might crash through their roofs and put a premature halt to their careers as professional television watches, but given the stat…"

-Grady Hendrix, Occupy Space

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26. The Return

By: Rachel Harrison

3.38

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

An edgy and haunting debut novel about a group of friends who reunite after one of them has returne… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's The Return book and Carl Laymon's Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11)

  • fiction
  • horror
"I want to spread this moment on a cracker and eat it."

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

"I want to spread this moment on a cracker and eat it’s"

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

"It was her coping mechanism - tying ribbons over open wounds."

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

"You can't erase your past when there are pieces of it scattered inside other people."

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

Cover of The Last Word by Taylor  Adams

27. The Last Word

By: Taylor Adams

3.71

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

After posting a negative book review, a woman living in a remote location begins to wonder if the a… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Being seen burdens you with an image you have to maintain."

-Taylor Adams, The Last Word

"Far worse things can happen to you than some stranger hurting your feelings on the internet."

-Taylor Adams, The Last Word

Cover of Mina and the Undead (Mina and the Undead, #1) by Amy McCaw

28. Mina and the Undead (Mina and the Undead, #1)

By: Amy McCaw

3.86

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

NEW ORLEANS FANG FEST, 1995. MINA'S HAVING A SUMMER TO DIE FOR. 17-year-old Mina, from England, … read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • horror
Cover of FRUT of Her Loins: Extreme Horror by Sea Caummisar

29. FRUT of Her Loins: Extreme Horror

By: Sea Caummisar

3.80

Format: 68 pages, Kindle Edition

FRUT: (urban dictionary); frequently recycled used trash: used damaged goods, trash, person/ object… read more

Similar categories in Sea Caummisar's FRUT of Her Loins: Extreme Horror book and Carl Laymon's Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11)

  • horror
Cover of Halloween Land by Kevin J. Kennedy

30. Halloween Land

By: Kevin J. Kennedy

3.45

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

An action-packed, coming of age horror tale, full of twists, turns and unexpected adventures. Za… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • horror
Cover of Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11) by Carl Laymon

31. Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11)

By: Carl Laymon

3.52

Format: 146 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It started off as a family vacation, but when Burt and his sister Sammi discover the remains of a h… read more

Similar categories in Carl Laymon's Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11) book and Carl Laymon's Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11)

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • horror

24 Top fiction books like Nightmare Lake (Twilight: Where Darkness Begins #11) by Carl Laymon

Transform Your Habits

Wytches, Volume 1

Scott Snyder , Matt Hollingsworth , Jock , Clem Robins

3.80

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Monster

Christopher Pike

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Slimer

Harry Adam Knight , Leroy Kettle

3.42

Transform Your Habits

Say Cheese and Die! (Goosebumps, #4)

R.L. Stine

1.50

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11 best-selling fiction books like The White People by Arthur Machen

Transform Your Habits

The Centaur

Algernon Blackwood

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Collected Ghost Stories

M.R. James

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

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The Suicide Club

Robert Louis Stevenson

2.70

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