10 Best short stories books like Things That Never Happened by Scott Edelman

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Things That Never Happened

By: Scott Edelman

3.85

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Eight-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated writer Scott Edelman’s stories have been called “utterly unc…

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1. Come Closer

By: Sara Gran

3.65

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more

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  • horror
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

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2. A Head Full of Ghosts

By: Paul Tremblay

3.79

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-… read more

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  • horror
"On the morning of the exorcism, I stayed home from school."

-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

"Father Wanderly said, “Are we speaking with a demon right now?"

-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

"And I asked her about the holes in the walls and Mom tried to joke, saying, “Yes, Marjorie was sleep punching too."

-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

"Are you scared and confused like I am?" Her voice was as small as I'd ever heard it. "I think everyone is secretly like me."

-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

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3. The Hunger

By: Alma Katsu

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The Hunger is a tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical mome… read more

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  • horror
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4. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

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  • horror
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

5. Stolen Tongues

By: Felix Blackwell

4.25

Format: None pages,

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6. Four Past Midnight

By: Stephen King

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

You are strapped in an airline seat on a flight beyond hell. You are forced into a hunt for the mos… read more

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7. A Short Stay in Hell

By: Steven L. Peck

4.22

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

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8. 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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  • short stories
  • horror
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9. My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.54

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

You won’t find a more hardcore eighties-slasher-film fan than high school senior Jade Daniels. And … read more

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  • horror
"Some girls just don't know how to die."

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"Is it really winning if everybody dies?"

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"Horror's not a symptom, it's a love affair."

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"We all become history at some point or another, right?"

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

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10. This Is Where We Talk Things Out

By: Caitlin Marceau

3.77

Format: 93 pages, ebook

This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contempo… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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11. The Ferryman

By: Justin Cronin

3.93

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a… read more

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  • horror
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12. Big Bad

By: Chandler Baker

3.77

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

For a family trying to make an isolated farmhouse into a home, fear and rage are getting harder to … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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13. In Bloom

By: Paul Tremblay

3.08

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

There’s something in the water in this hallucinatory short story by Paul Tremblay, bestselling auth… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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14. It Waits in the Woods

By: Josh Malerman

3.72

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

Some chilling campfire tales ring too true to ignore. For one young woman, an urban legend calls he… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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15. Come with Me

By: Ronald Malfi

3.94

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

A masterful, heart-palpitating novel of small-town horror and psychological dread from a Bram Stoke… read more

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  • horror
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16. 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

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  • 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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17. Sundial

By: Catriona Ward

3.80

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Sundial is a new, twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • horror
"I don't know what it's like for other people, but love and nausea are often indistinguishable to me"

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Gdy coś ci zagraża, możesz zrobić trzy rzeczy: uciekać, walczyć albo spróbować się z tym zaprzyjaźnić."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Rozłąka z dzieckiem to doznanie niepodobne do żadnego innego. Człowiek ma wrażenie, że jest pusty w środku."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

"Dorosłe życie to bagno, w którym człowiek tkwi po uszy, gobelin wzajemnych pretensji tkany tak ciasno, że nie sposób go rozplątać."

-Catriona Ward, Sundial

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18. Twelve Nights at Rotter House

By: J.W. Ocker

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Felix Allsey is a travel writer with a keen eye for the paranormal, and he's carved out a unique, i… read more

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  • horror
"Where else was I wrong? It was the same question I had asked myself when I'd finally sloughed off Christianity. Where else was I fundamentally wrong about life and the universe and how everything wor…"

-J.W. Ocker, Twelve Nights at Rotter House

"Because you trust your house, right? It's your house. It protects you from the world and, even more important, all the people out there. It sees you naked every day. It knows your sins. It's the only…"

-J.W. Ocker, Twelve Nights at Rotter House

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19. 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

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  • horror
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20. Sister, Maiden, Monster

By: Lucy A. Snyder

3.58

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transfo… read more

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  • horror
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21. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

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  • horror
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22. Daphne

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

It’s the last summer for Kit Lamb: The last summer before college. The last summer with her high sc… read more

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  • horror
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23. Spin a Black Yarn

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the singular mind of the New York Ti… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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24. 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

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  • 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

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25. Midnight Under the Big Top: Tales of Madness, Murder, and Magic

By: Brian James Freeman

4.03

Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition

Featuring Stephen King, Joe Hill, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Neil Gaiman, Kelley Armstrong, Ro… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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26. Just Like Home

By: Sarah Gailey

3.35

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of… read more

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  • horror
"Here is something that she controls, here is something that responds to her with the kind of frantic immediacy she always wanted from the world"

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"Tenderness was a foreign, forgotten thing that she hadn't encountered since before everything went wrong. She did not want it. Not now. Not from him."

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"Is one possible without the other? I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them."

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them. There’s the thin hate we have for strangers. (...) And then there’s the thick,…"

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

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27. The Bell Chime

By: Mona Kabbani

3.36

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Novella of 2020 "Can you hear the bell chime… read more

Similar categories in Mona Kabbani's The Bell Chime book and Scott Edelman's Things That Never Happened

  • short stories
  • horror
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28. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

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  • horror
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29. Things That Never Happened

By: Scott Edelman

3.85

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Eight-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated writer Scott Edelman’s stories have been called “utterly unc… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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30. Infinity Dreams

By: Glen Hirshberg

3.69

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

There are people who collect coins, baseball cards, flashlights. They trade and sell them at conven… read more

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  • horror
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31. The Amnesiac’s Birthday

By: Terri Adamczyk

3.11

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

there is no anesthetic but amnesia; even amputation / leaves the severed limb as if it were a coal … read more

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3.79

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3.95

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