29 Top horror books like Chigger Lives Here by Michael Handy

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Chigger Lives Here

By: Michael Handy

4.04

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

Chigger is the bad one. And it’s time for him to take his medicine.Our narrator awakens in Smithfie…

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1. Heart-Shaped Box

By: Joe Hill

3.84

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An aging death-metal rock god, Judas Coyne, is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"The dead pull the living down."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"You're a sympathetic sonofabitch, you know that?". "You want sympathy, go fuck James Taylor."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

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2. Horns

By: Joe Hill

3.93

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Love requires Context."

-Joe Hill, Horns

"I am; I was. I want to be."

-Joe Hill, Horns

"Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask."

-Joe Hill, Horns

"[...] In a lot of ways, I guess Satan was the first superhero."

-Joe Hill, Horns

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3. The Ritual

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.59

Format: 418 pages, Paperback

Four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"For Anne and our cub, for making me and my life less beastly"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right then, they screamed in alarm from times before symbols and language could depict such things that h…"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

4. 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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5. Maeve Fly

By: C.J. Leede

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's Maeve Fly book and Michael Handy's Chigger Lives Here

  • fiction
  • horror
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

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6. Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

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7. The Weejee Man

By: NP Cunniffe

3.65

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

A nerve-shredding slice of rural horror for fans of Adam Nevill and Andrew Michael Hurley. Force… read more

Similar categories in NP Cunniffe's The Weejee Man book and Michael Handy's Chigger Lives Here

  • fiction
  • horror
"His face had grown dark, except for the reflection of the red fire in his eyes. The house, too, seemed to have filled with shadow, as if a storm was brewing outside. Jim’s eyes beamed red from the sh…"

-NP Cunniffe, The Weejee Man

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8. 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

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  • fiction
  • horror
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9. In The Tall Trees

By: Angel N. Van Atta

4.33

Format: 132 pages, Kindle Edition

Mella lives in a tiny house in the middle of a dense forest with her mommy and her baby brother, Pe… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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10. The Boyfriend: Every Parents Worst Nightmare

By: D.E. McCluskey

3.98

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Lisa Quinn has a boyfriend...Sean Knight.She is just 16 years old and he is her first. He's handsom… read more

Similar categories in D.E. McCluskey's The Boyfriend: Every Parents Worst Nightmare book and Michael Handy's Chigger Lives Here

  • horror
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11. Aurora

By: David Koepp

3.79

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace a… read more

Similar categories in David Koepp's Aurora book and Michael Handy's Chigger Lives Here

  • fiction
  • horror
"on September 4, 1882, Thomas Edison would turn on the generators at Pearl Street Station, in Lower Manhattan, activating America's first power grid. Human beings were on the path to total electrical …"

-David Koepp, Aurora

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12. The Church Beneath the Roots

By: Felix Blackwell

4.25

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

Long before the events of Stolen Tongues… On the Cold Valley Indian Reservation, in the shadow of … read more

Similar categories in Felix Blackwell's The Church Beneath the Roots book and Michael Handy's Chigger Lives Here

  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Cadaverous

By: Jay Bower

4.17

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

When darkness falls, the nightmare begins...Step into the twisted world of Gaige Penrod. This self-… read more

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  • horror
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14. Cursed

By: Leigh Kenny

3.97

Format: 121 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever agreed to something without understanding the consequences? What would you do if a cu… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Kenny's Cursed book and Michael Handy's Chigger Lives Here

  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Maggie's Grave

By: David Sodergren

4.06

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

The small Scottish town of Auchenmullan is dead, and has been for years. It sits in the shadow of a… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's Maggie's Grave book and Michael Handy's Chigger Lives Here

  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Puzzle House

By: Duncan Ralston

3.58

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Six strangers arrive at the home of preeminent puzzle master Alexei Vasiliev for the reading of his… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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17. Jones 1963

By: Devin Cabrera

3.85

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In the once-tranquil town of Briarwood, 1963 marked the year when peace shattered into chaos. A lif… read more

Similar categories in Devin Cabrera's Jones 1963 book and Michael Handy's Chigger Lives Here

  • horror
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18. A Dark and Rising Tide

By: Debra Castaneda

4.12

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

When a massive storm surge hits the central coast of California, the ferocious surf destroys buildi… read more

Similar categories in Debra Castaneda's A Dark and Rising Tide book and Michael Handy's Chigger Lives Here

  • fiction
  • horror
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19. By the Light of Dead Stars (Beyond the Lost Coast, #1)

By: Andrew Van Wey

4.26

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

On the Lost Coast, some things should never be found. When tragedy shatters thirteen-year-old Ze… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Van Wey's By the Light of Dead Stars (Beyond the Lost Coast, #1) book and Michael Handy's Chigger Lives Here

  • fiction
  • horror
"But maybe that’s all adults really were, just big kids with more responsibility and a lot of practice covering it up."

-Andrew Van Wey, By the Light of Dead Stars (Beyond the Lost Coast, #1)

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20. How Much To..?

By: Matt Shaw

3.50

Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition

A group of strangers are pitted against one another in Matt Shaw’s latest extreme horror. The Game… read more

Similar categories in Matt Shaw's How Much To..? book and Michael Handy's Chigger Lives Here

  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Echoes of Home

By: M.L. Rayner

3.92

Format: 262 pages, ebook

After accepting a generous opportunity to start afresh, Leslie Wills, a young man from Stoke-on-Tre… read more

Similar categories in M.L. Rayner's Echoes of Home book and Michael Handy's Chigger Lives Here

  • fiction
  • horror
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22. Bunker Dogs

By: Gage Greenwood

4.20

Format: 265 pages, ebook

Don't just fear what you're hiding from, fear what you're hiding with. Cassie's night of babysi… read more

Similar categories in Gage Greenwood's Bunker Dogs book and Michael Handy's Chigger Lives Here

  • fiction
  • horror
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23. Haunted: End of Days

By: Lee Mountford

4.59

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

The final book in the Haunted saga.Sarah Pearson has returned home. Back to the place it all starte… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Night Terrors Vol. 1 by Peter Cronsberry

24. Night Terrors Vol. 1

By: Peter Cronsberry

3.86

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

Terror stalks the night… An old woman’s obsession with youth leads her to purchase a cursed appl… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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25. Burden

By: Matt Duchossoy

3.89

Format: 85 pages, None

Ellen’s son hates her. Her husband wants a divorce. Her only solace is in her work. A nightshift… read more

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  • horror
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26. Bright Triad (The Brightness Trilogy #1)

By: Daniel Zeigler

3.98

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

A gene therapy project to cure the criminal mind. A monster on the loose. A desperate race to under… read more

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27. Hollow: A Linkville Horror Series

By: Mike Salt

4.04

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

In the depths of a vast, foreboding cave, where silence whispers of unspeakable horrors, three frie… read more

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  • horror
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28. Home

By: Ben Young

4.38

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

Death can invade any home. The town of Oak Hollow, Ohio is dying. Jobs are scarce, crime is ramp… read more

Similar categories in Ben Young's Home book and Michael Handy's Chigger Lives Here

  • horror
Cover of Tides of Darkness (Beyond the Lost Coast, #2) by Andrew Van Wey

29. Tides of Darkness (Beyond the Lost Coast, #2)

By: Andrew Van Wey

4.55

Format: 458 pages, Kindle Edition

Among the ashes some cinders still burn. After the fire of Raven’s Valley consumed their community—… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Van Wey's Tides of Darkness (Beyond the Lost Coast, #2) book and Michael Handy's Chigger Lives Here

  • horror
Cover of Chigger Lives Here by Michael Handy

30. Chigger Lives Here

By: Michael Handy

4.04

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

Chigger is the bad one. And it’s time for him to take his medicine.Our narrator awakens in Smithfie… read more

Similar categories in Michael Handy's Chigger Lives Here book and Michael Handy's Chigger Lives Here

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of In the Eyes In the Shadows by Gage Greenwood

31. In the Eyes In the Shadows

By: Gage Greenwood

4.87

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

His obsession with death was unhealthy, but it didn't become dangerous until death became obsessed … read more

Similar categories in Gage Greenwood's In the Eyes In the Shadows book and Michael Handy's Chigger Lives Here

  • horror

20 Best fiction books like Chigger Lives Here by Michael Handy

Transform Your Habits

Heart-Shaped Box

Joe Hill

3.84

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Horns

Joe Hill

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Ritual

Adam L.G. Nevill

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

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21 must-read horror books like Cadaverous by Jay Bower

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Mine

L.M. Kaplin

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Inside The Devil's Nest

John Durgin

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Gollitok

Andrew Najberg

3.84

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Beast of Burden: A Horror Novella

Judith Sonnet

3.82

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