23 must-read horror books like Olden by James Newman

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Olden

By: James Newman

4.06

Format: 52 pages, ebook

Trapped. In a room that smells of death and sickness. Your food is running low, along with your res…

If you liked the horror plot in Olden by James Newman , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. Endless Night

By: Richard Laymon

3.93

Format: 471 pages, Paperback

Jody is pretty tough for a sixteen-year-old girl. That's the only reason she's still alive - for no… read more

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  • horror
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2. The Eyes of the Dragon

By: Stephen King

3.94

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king with two sons… ​Thus begins one of the most u… read more

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  • horror
"Never will you talk to me like that again."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

"Sleep is often denied to those with secrets."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

"A true King would not waste time justifying or explaining. He would simply state his will."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

"His rope, his legs, his luck. Either all would hold or all would break, quite possibly at the same time."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

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3. Relic (Pendergast, #1)

By: Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visi… read more

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  • horror
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4. The Ballad of Black Tom

By: Victor LaValle

3.85

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more

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  • novella
  • horror
"I wish I’d been more like my father,"

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

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5. A Dead Djinn in Cairo

By: P. Djèlí Clark

3.66

Format: 341 pages, ebook

Egypt, 1912. In an alternate Cairo infused with the otherworldly, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantm… read more

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  • novella

6. The Waste Lands

By: Stephen King , Ned Dameron

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Roland, The Last Gunslinger, moves ever closer to The Dark Tower of his dreams and nightmares--as h… read more

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  • horror
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7. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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  • horror
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

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8. Of Foster Homes and Flies

By: Chad Lutzke

3.97

Format: 172 pages,

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  • novella
  • horror
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9. Between Two Fires

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village… read more

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  • horror
"The only thing I say to God is my daughter's names; and it is not a prayer, it's a rebuke."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"He was being kissed now by his own mouth, not as lovers kiss, with tongues, but as true lovers kiss, sharing breath."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"A dark-haired little boy just in pants stood bewildered near the blaze, saying, as if there had been some mistake, "We live here. We live here."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death…"

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

10. The Lesser Dead

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.18

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I'm stealing from you what is most tr… read more

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11. Brother

By: Ania Ahlborn

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling horror author of Within These Wallsand The Bird Eater comes a brand-new novel … read more

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12. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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  • horror
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13. The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

By: A.M. Shine

3.93

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different… read more

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  • horror
"Every grudge, if it is to stand the test of time, relies on the certainty of a selective memory."

-A.M. Shine, The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

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14. The Traitor (Covenant of Steel, #3)

By: Anthony Ryan

4.45

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

Alwyn must make a difficult decide between his heart and his morals as he prepares for his final ba… read more

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15. Hex

By: Thomas Olde Heuvelt

3.73

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The English language debut of the bestselling Dutch novel, Hex, from Thomas Olde Heuvelt--a Hugo an… read more

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  • horror
"A magia existe nas mentes daqueles que acreditam nela, não em sua verdadeira influência sobre a realidade."

-Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Hex

"This is all it takes for people to plunge into insanity: one night alone with themselves and what they fear the most."

-Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Hex

"People desperately resisted the idea of their own death by looking away for as long as they could and avoiding the subject."

-Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Hex

"The events of the past days began to come back to him now, slow and fragmented, like pieces of driftwood washing ashore in the aftermath of a shipwreck."

-Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Hex

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16. The Martyr (Covenant of Steel #2)

By: Anthony Ryan

4.40

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Deadly feuds and ancient secrets spell war in the second novel of The Covenant of Steel, a new epic… read more

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"Old buildings are like aged carcasses . . . The flesh slips from the bones leaving gaps."

-Anthony Ryan, The Martyr (Covenant of Steel #2)

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17. Betty

By: Tiffany McDaniel

4.41

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl di… read more

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"The earth is warm enough."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

"A girl comes of age against the knife. She must learn to bear its blade. To be cut. To bleed."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

"Your life is what makes you rich,' they insisted. 'The people you love and the people who love you back."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

"She was born to a woman as telling as a dream and to a man who was a Cherokee, a moonshiner, and a mythmaker."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

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18. Unbound

By: Ash Ericmore

4.03

Format: 68 pages, Kindle Edition

Will is having one of those days. But not your average one of those days. It started badly and then… read more

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  • horror
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19. Out Behind the Barn

By: John Boden

3.96

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

The boys crept to the window and watched as Miss Maggie carried the long bundle into the barn, the … read more

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  • novella
  • horror
"Do cats like mustard?"

-John Boden, Out Behind the Barn

"Dirt is the closest thing to a womb a person can hope for."

-John Boden, Out Behind the Barn

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20. The Pale White

By: Chad Lutzke

4.09

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

After being held against their will in a house used for sex trafficking, three girls plan their esc… read more

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  • novella
  • horror
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21. 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

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  • horror
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22. Ferocious

By: Jeff Strand

4.02

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Rusty Moss has raised his niece Mia since she was a baby. Now that she's almost eighteen, he's worr… read more

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  • horror
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23. Cannibal Creator

By: Chad Lutzke

4.00

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

When a pair of collaborating authors take their families on a vacation to Barbados, their plans tur… read more

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  • horror
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24. Itch

By: Ash Ericmore

3.44

Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s an infection. It starts with a rash. Then you change. Something has come from the farms. So… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Wounds to Wishes: Tales of Mystery and Melancholy (Dark Tide Mysteries and Thrillers #1) by Chad Lutzke

25. Wounds to Wishes: Tales of Mystery and Melancholy (Dark Tide Mysteries and Thrillers #1)

By: Chad Lutzke

4.31

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

Three separate yet strangely connected novellas kick off Crystal Lake’s Dark Tide series with stori… read more

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  • novella
  • horror
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26. Slow Burn on Riverside

By: Chad Lutzke

4.22

Format: None pages, None

“Taking my mind for granted became my biggest regret.” When 18-year-old Jex moves into a new apa… read more

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  • novella
  • horror
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27. Olden

By: James Newman

4.06

Format: 52 pages, ebook

Trapped. In a room that smells of death and sickness. Your food is running low, along with your res… read more

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  • novella
  • horror
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28. Nightfall (Nightmareland Chronicles, #1)

By: Daniel Barnett

4.10

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

"Tomorrow died on the last morning of May. There were those who saw it happen, who watched the shad… read more

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  • novella
  • horror
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29. The Same Deep Water as You

By: Chad Lutzke

4.10

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

Music, beer, skateboarding, and tragedy star in this coming-of-age lesson on love and lust and the … read more

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  • novella
  • horror

10 best-selling novella books like Olden by James Newman

Transform Your Habits

The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

3.85

Transform Your Habits

A Dead Djinn in Cairo

P. Djèlí Clark

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Of Foster Homes and Flies

Chad Lutzke

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Out Behind the Barn

John Boden

3.96

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Transform Your Habits

The Pram

Joe Hill

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Ankle Snatcher

Grady Hendrix

3.74

Transform Your Habits

This Is Where We Talk Things Out

Caitlin Marceau

3.77

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Big Bad

Chandler Baker

3.77

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