11 Top horror books like Next Door Lived A Girl by Stefan Kiesbye

Cover of Next Door Lived A Girl by Stefan Kiesbye

Next Door Lived A Girl

By: Stefan Kiesbye

3.54

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Low Fidelity press inaugural Novella Award, Next Door Lived a Girl is set in Wedersen…

"Did Ida never look for him?" Dieter asks. "She didn't believe in spirits." "And what became of Henry?" "Oh. From time to time you can still hear him calling. My father heard his voice himself." "Every Saturday night when he came home drunk," Frieda says."

-Stefan Kiesbye, Next Door Lived A Girl

If you liked the horror plot in Next Door Lived A Girl by Stefan Kiesbye , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell, Ruth Sepp

1. Fever Dream

By: Samanta Schweblin , Megan McDowell , Ruth Sepp

3.72

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream… A young woman named Amanda lies dyin… read more

Similar categories in Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"There’s only so much searching you can do, either a horse is there or it’s not."

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

"I’m just tired, that’s what I tell myself, and sometimes I’m afraid when I think that everyday problems might be a little more terrible for me than for other people."

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

"But I’m going to die in a few hours. That’s going to happen, isn’t it? It’s strange how calm I am. Because even though you haven’t told me, I know. And still, it’s an impossible thing to tell yoursel…"

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

"My mother always said something bad would happen. My mother was sure that sooner or later something bad would happen and now I can see it with total clarity, I can feel it coming toward us like a tan…"

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

Cover of The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock

2. The Devil All the Time

By: Donald Ray Pollock

4.13

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of characters f… read more

Similar categories in Donald Ray Pollock's The Devil All the Time book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • crime
"Some people were born just so they could be buried."

-Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

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3. The Wall

By: Shaun Whiteside , Marlen Haushofer

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on … read more

Similar categories in Shaun Whiteside's The Wall book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • fiction
"Even now I’m nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories."

-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall

"My only teacher is as ignorant and untrained as I am, for my only teacher is myself."

-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall

"Never again shall I sit above the alpine roses in the midday sun, listening to the great silence."

-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall

"External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom."

-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall

Cover of Pinocchio by John Boyne, Unknown, Monteiro Lobato, Carlo Collodi

4. Pinocchio

By: John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A timeless classic to be read over and over. This is the story of Pinocchio, filled with harrowi… read more

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  • fiction
"Hunger is the best cook."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!"

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

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5. The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)

By: Peter S. Beagle

4.16

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451450524 She was magical, beautiful beyond belief—and comp… read more

Similar categories in Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1) book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • fiction
  • young adult
"I love whom I love."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)

"The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)

"You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)

"I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)

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6. 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 Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • dark
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

Cover of I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison, Theodore Sturgeon

7. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

By: Harlan Ellison , Theodore Sturgeon

3.90

Format: 134 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven sto… read more

Similar categories in Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • fiction
  • horror
"I have no mouth. And I must scream..."

-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

"i loooveee ted i loove ted s much he is soooo hot"

-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

"Gespräche behagten ihm ebenso wenig wie das Leben."

-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

"I am ... cogito ergo sum ... I think, therefore I am."

-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

8. The Good People

By: Hannah Kent

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of Burial Rites, "a literary novel with the pace and tension of a thriller [that] t… read more

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9. Kiss of the Spider Woman

By: Manuel Puig

4.01

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glitt… read more

Similar categories in Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • fiction
"¿Qué pasa que a veces alguien dice algo y conquista para siempre a otra persona?"

-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman

"--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again."

-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman

"– Io non ci credo alla faccenda del godi e non pensare al domani, Molina. Nessuno gode senza pensare al domani. Va bene solo per il paradiso terrestre."

-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman

"—And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? —I don't know, but sometimes that kind of be…"

-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman

10. The Deadly Percheron

By: Jonathan Lethem , John Franklin Bardin

3.96

Format: None pages,

"The opening chapter defies description. Imagine one of those 1930s screwball comedies with the cra… read more

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11. Gilded Needles

By: Michael McDowell

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the Black Triangle, New York's decadent district of opium dens, gambling casinos, drunke… read more

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12. Die Känguru-Chroniken: Ansichten eines vorlauten Beuteltiers (Die Känguru-Chroniken, #1)

By: Marc-Uwe Kling

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

>>Ich bin ein Kanguru - und Marc-Uwe ist mein Mitbewohner und Chronist. Nur manches, was er uber mi… read more

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13. チェンソーマン 8 [Chainsaw Man 8]

By: Tatsuki Fujimoto

4.42

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

クァンシと特異課の間でデンジをめぐる攻防が続く中、不気味なサンタクロースが、真の目的へと動き始める!! 凶気と悪意に満ちた禁忌の契約が結ばれる時、悪魔さえも恐怖する、絶望の世界への扉が開く──。ドス… read more

Similar categories in Tatsuki Fujimoto's チェンソーマン 8 [Chainsaw Man 8] book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • fiction
  • horror
"So this is the power of darkness...it's magnificent."

-Tatsuki Fujimoto, チェンソーマン 8 [Chainsaw Man 8]

"I'll tell you the secret to making a sophisticated doll. Take the human you'll turn into a doll.....and add emotions only humans have. Adoration. Worship. Pity. And the secret ingredient: Guilt."

-Tatsuki Fujimoto, チェンソーマン 8 [Chainsaw Man 8]

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14. チェンソーマン 7 [Chainsaw Man 7]

By: Tatsuki Fujimoto

4.37

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

その姿が「恐怖!! デンノコ悪魔!!」としてTVで報道され、全世界に存在が知られることとなったデンジ!! イカれた凄腕の刺客達が、各国から東京に集結する中特異課は戦力を総動員し、デンジ防衛作戦を敷く… read more

Similar categories in Tatsuki Fujimoto's チェンソーマン 7 [Chainsaw Man 7] book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • fiction
  • horror
"El secreto para tener una vida feliz en este mundo... Es que la ignorancia es felicidad."

-Tatsuki Fujimoto, チェンソーマン 7 [Chainsaw Man 7]

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15. Night of the Mannequins

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.34

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Night of the Mannequins book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
"Moms are so oblivious. It’s like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

"The tornado the alarms had screamed about ... hadn't actually happened, but around here you never know. Better safe in the cellar than sorry halfway up the sky."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

"Sometimes you just know what you're doing is the only thing to be doing. That the world is conspiring all around you to make it happen, like, not just giving you permission, but herding you the direc…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

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16. Tentacle

By: Rita Indiana

3.58

Format: 144 pages, ebook

Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Blue Flag, Vol. 1 (Blue Flag, #1) by Kaito

17. Blue Flag, Vol. 1 (Blue Flag, #1)

By: Kaito

4.32

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An unexpected love quadrangle with a dash of unrequited love as two classmates, a boy and a girl, b… read more

Similar categories in Kaito's Blue Flag, Vol. 1 (Blue Flag, #1) book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Ceniza en la boca by Brenda Navarro

18. Ceniza en la boca

By: Brenda Navarro

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Diego salta desde un quinto piso y desde entonces esa imagen no deja de taladrarle la cabeza a su h… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza

19. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

By: Cristina Rivera Garza

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murde… read more

Similar categories in Cristina Rivera Garza's Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • crime
"Ahora sí es posible escribir lo inexpresable. Mejor dicho, ahora hay algo inexpresable y, luego entonces ahora es posible escribir."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"Éramos apenas unas niñas de dieciocho años, pero ahí íbamos junto con todos los demás, pidiendo lo imposible porque, ¿qué más se puede pedir a esa edad?"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the mu…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

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20. 青のフラッグ 5 [Ao no Flag 5]

By: Kaito

4.36

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

茜色の夕日に染まる秋の始まり──。 2学期になり、付き合い出した太一と二葉の関係は友達から少しずつ彼氏彼女に変わろうとしていた。そんな中、舞美が太一に急接近し、不安を隠せない二葉。そして真意の読め… read more

Similar categories in Kaito's 青のフラッグ 5 [Ao no Flag 5] book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • young adult
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21. 青のフラッグ 6 [Ao no Flag 6]

By: Kaito

4.52

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

木の葉が色づき、秋へと近づく──。 文化祭が始まり、太一と桃真は将来について話すうちに気持ちがすれ違う。そんな中、再び舞美と向き合った桃真は、彼女のまっすぐな気持ちに応え、重大な決断を下す。時の流… read more

Similar categories in Kaito's 青のフラッグ 6 [Ao no Flag 6] book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • fiction
  • young adult
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22. 青のフラッグ 7 [Ao no Flag 7]

By: Kaito

4.37

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

曇り空から降り注ぐ冷たい雨──。 文化祭での桃真の衝撃の「告白」から広がった噂に混乱し悩む太一。その影響は周囲にも広がり、傷を残していく。一方、桃真は兄・誠也から真っ直ぐな本音を聞かされる。それぞ… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of 青のフラッグ 8 [Ao no Flag 8] by Kaito

23. 青のフラッグ 8 [Ao no Flag 8]

By: Kaito

4.32

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

いくつ季節が過ぎてもきっと忘れない――。桃真は事件後初めて二葉と向き合うことに。一方、太一は突きつけられた答えの出ない悩みに苦しみ、桃真と距離を置く。そんな中、桃真が学校に来なくなり、太一と二葉は…… read more

Similar categories in Kaito's 青のフラッグ 8 [Ao no Flag 8] book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • fiction
  • young adult
"La vita è una serie di scelte, non ci resta che continuare a scegliere, ancora e ancora."

-Kaito, 青のフラッグ 8 [Ao no Flag 8]

Cover of 青のフラッグ 4 [Ao no Flag 4] by Kaito

24. 青のフラッグ 4 [Ao no Flag 4]

By: Kaito

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

夜空に花火が輝く夏休み──。 桃真の兄・誠也から、桃真の進路について本心を問いただしてほしいと頼まれた太一。だが話を切り出せないまま、桃真の退院日を迎えて…。一方、太一の誕生日が近いと知った二葉は… read more

Similar categories in Kaito's 青のフラッグ 4 [Ao no Flag 4] book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • coming of age
  • young adult
Cover of 青のフラッグ 3 [Ao no Flag 3] by Kaito

25. 青のフラッグ 3 [Ao no Flag 3]

By: Kaito

4.40

Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition

青空と入道雲が眩しい真夏──。 太一をかばい、怪我を負った桃真。甲子園を目指す桃真が試合に出られなくなったことへの罪悪感で、自分を責め続ける太一。2人は互いを想う気持ちからぶつかってしまう。心配し… read more

Similar categories in Kaito's 青のフラッグ 3 [Ao no Flag 3] book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of 青のフラッグ 2 [Ao no Flag 2] by Kaito

26. 青のフラッグ 2 [Ao no Flag 2]

By: Kaito

4.35

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

夏服に切り替わる初夏──。 体育祭を控えたクラスの係決めで応援団団長・桃真の推薦で副団長になった太一と二葉。桃真の期待に応えるため、2人は必死で練習を重ねる。だが当日、本番の舞台で二葉にアクシデン… read more

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  • coming of age
  • young adult
Cover of チェンソーマン 6 [Chainsaw Man 6] by Tatsuki Fujimoto

27. チェンソーマン 6 [Chainsaw Man 6]

By: Tatsuki Fujimoto

4.44

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

「遠くに逃げよう」…レゼの思いがけない言葉に心揺れるデンジの、純情の行方は──。そんな甘いひと時から急転直下、吹き荒れる爆殺の嵐! 恋も欲望も、人間も悪魔も全てを巻き込むド派手な血戦で、デンジとレゼ… read more

Similar categories in Tatsuki Fujimoto's チェンソーマン 6 [Chainsaw Man 6] book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • fiction
  • horror
"¡De todas las mujeres que conozco, cada una de ellas me ha intentado matar! ¡Todas quieren el corazón del motosierra! ¡¿Que hay del corazón de Denji?!"

-Tatsuki Fujimoto, チェンソーマン 6 [Chainsaw Man 6]

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28. To Be Devoured

By: Sara Tantlinger

3.82

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

What does carrion taste like? Andi has to know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and in… read more

Similar categories in Sara Tantlinger's To Be Devoured book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • dark
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar

29. The Map of Salt and Stars

By: Zeyn Joukhadar

3.92

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Nour es una niña de once años cuyo padre acaba de morir. Su madre, cartógrafa que dibuja los mapas … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Stories are powerful,"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"I don’t understand why we were shelled."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"The sea has a way of showing us ourselves,"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"The most important places on a map are the places we haven't been yet"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

Cover of A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enríquez

30. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

Similar categories in Mariana Enríquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Next Door Lived A Girl by Stefan Kiesbye

31. Next Door Lived A Girl

By: Stefan Kiesbye

3.54

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Low Fidelity press inaugural Novella Award, Next Door Lived a Girl is set in Wedersen… read more

Similar categories in Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl book and Stefan Kiesbye's Next Door Lived A Girl

  • coming of age
  • germany
  • adult
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • dark
  • horror
  • crime
"Did Ida never look for him?" Dieter asks. "She didn't believe in spirits." "And what became of Henry?" "Oh. From time to time you can still hear him calling. My father heard his voice himself." "Ever…"

-Stefan Kiesbye, Next Door Lived A Girl

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