26 best-selling fiction books like In Dreams We Rot by Betty Rocksteady

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In Dreams We Rot

By: Betty Rocksteady

4.22

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Fiction like a fever dream… A voyeur suddenly becomes the one being watched, terrifying beasts a…

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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

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  • 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

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2. The Ruins

By: Scott Smith

3.68

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything th… read more

Similar categories in Scott Smith's The Ruins book and Betty Rocksteady's In Dreams We Rot

  • fiction
  • horror
"The Greek pissed and pissed and pissed."

-Scott Smith, The Ruins

3. Stolen Tongues

By: Felix Blackwell

4.25

Format: None pages,

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4. Mathilda

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

Mary Shelley's "Matilda" - suppressed for over a century - tells the story of a woman alienated fro… read more

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5. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

Similar categories in Shane Hawk's Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology book and Betty Rocksteady's In Dreams We Rot

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. 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

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  • 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

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7. Just Like Mother

By: Anne Heltzel

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A girl would be such a blessing... The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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8. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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9. You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism

By: Amber Ruffin

4.42

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers Amber Ruffin writes with her sister Lacey Lamar… read more

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"There are worse stories than this and better ones. The reaction always varies because you can only put up with what you can put up with when you can put up with it."

-Amber Ruffin, You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism

"I have never been able to understand why white people have such a low tolerance for hearing about racism. I mean, we have to live it! The least you could do is nod your head."

-Amber Ruffin, You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism

"We are not into trying to educate white America, but may we accidentally did. Maybe white readers learned that just because your Black friends aren't sitting you down, going over all their trauma wit…"

-Amber Ruffin, You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism

"There is no motivation for this action. It seems like this story is missing a part because people just aren’t this nonsensically cruel. But where you see no motivation, you understand racism a little…"

-Amber Ruffin, You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism

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10. We Need to Do Something

By: Max Booth III

3.42

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM IFC … read more

Similar categories in Max Booth III's We Need to Do Something book and Betty Rocksteady's In Dreams We Rot

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. Elena Knows

By: Claudia Piñeiro

4.08

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more

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  • fiction
"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"

-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows

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12. Crossroads

By: Laurel Hightower

3.91

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

How far would you go to bring back someone you love? When Chris's son dies in a tragic car cras… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Exhausted, but not tired enough to escape the torturous loop of pain that awaited her inactive brain..."

-Laurel Hightower, Crossroads

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13. Woman, Eating

By: Claire Kohda

3.46

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst human… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"I become aware of the duck blood circulating around my system; I can almost feel it, moving down my arms, reaching my fingertips, looping back up, searching for wings on my back."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"there always seems to be something that suffers of dies as a result of any form of food consumption, and once all suffering is whittled out of a human's diet, they can't survive themselves."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"The beginning of love, maybe, but not quite that either. The feeling that comes from being brought to almost-life by a person, of having tasted their blood, of feeling the rhythm of contractions, the…"

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

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14. Whalefall

By: Daniel Kraus

3.73

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eigh… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"There need be no struggle when we are all the same weight."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"But those three people waiting outside are the tones of Jay's voice, the organs in Jay's body."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"The simple sharing of hope, its weight not so heavy after all, is a wonder. A lifting. A rising. A surfacing."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"Jay's not sure he believes in therapy. He definitely doesn't believe in closure. People aren't doors. They're whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost ins…"

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

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15. Butter Honey Pig Bread

By: Francesca Ekwuyasi

4.31

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tel… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Ekwuyasi's Butter Honey Pig Bread book and Betty Rocksteady's In Dreams We Rot

  • fiction
"Death is only a doorway."

-Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread

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16. Gwen, in Green

By: Hugh Zachary

3.35

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

To the real estate man, Gwen and George seemed like any normal young couple. And, for that matter, … read more

Similar categories in Hugh Zachary's Gwen, in Green book and Betty Rocksteady's In Dreams We Rot

  • fiction
  • horror
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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

Similar categories in Catriona Ward's Sundial book and Betty Rocksteady's In Dreams We Rot

  • fiction
  • 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. Goblin

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie, a novella collection in which e… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"How can there be nothing?" he said, shaking his head. "Nothing doesn't make noise! Nothing doesn't wake you up! You know what does that?" he looked down the length of his booby-trapped rooms. "Someth…"

-Josh Malerman, Goblin

"One night at closing time in his second week at his second week on the job, a possible explanation popped up, unasked for. They know I’m not where I am supposed to be. Up here- he tapped his head – I…"

-Josh Malerman, Goblin

Cover of A Deadly Inside Scoop (An Ice Cream Parlor Mystery, #1) by Abby Collette

19. A Deadly Inside Scoop (An Ice Cream Parlor Mystery, #1)

By: Abby Collette

3.23

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

This book kicks off a charming cozy mystery series set in an ice cream shop--with a fabulous cast o… read more

Similar categories in Abby Collette's A Deadly Inside Scoop (An Ice Cream Parlor Mystery, #1) book and Betty Rocksteady's In Dreams We Rot

  • fiction
Cover of Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

20. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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21. Winterset Hollow

By: Jonathan Edward Durham

3.99

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to me… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Winterset Hollow was one of those timeless, inimitable books that was simple and pure and patently entertaining on the surface, but so much more underneath. It spoke about life and loss and struggle,…"

-Jonathan Edward Durham, Winterset Hollow

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22. Mothered

By: Zoje Stage

3.31

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

A claustrophobic psychological thriller about one woman’s nightmarish spiral while quarantined with… read more

Similar categories in Zoje Stage's Mothered book and Betty Rocksteady's In Dreams We Rot

  • fiction
  • horror
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23. The Saturday Night Ghost Club

By: Craig Davidson

3.85

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

A short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of "Stranger Things" and "S… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"You always fall hardest the first time, don’t you? There’s no bottom to it."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

"Our boy owes us nothing. No boy owes his parents. Parents owe their children everything, always and unconditionally, and that's just the way it goes."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

"Everybody could be doing something better without their lives. Name me one person who is doing the best, most righteous thing with their life this very minute."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

"As far as I was concerned, there was nothing wrong with being an odd duck. I figured some people have edges that don’t allow them to slot into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

Cover of The Scary Book of Christmas Lore: 50 Terrifying Yuletide Tales from Around the World by Tim Rayborn

24. The Scary Book of Christmas Lore: 50 Terrifying Yuletide Tales from Around the World

By: Tim Rayborn

3.60

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen…but do you recall the most petrifying Christmas fi… read more

Similar categories in Tim Rayborn's The Scary Book of Christmas Lore: 50 Terrifying Yuletide Tales from Around the World book and Betty Rocksteady's In Dreams We Rot

  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

25. Friday Black

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.05

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"We’re in How-It-Was class."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"Buy One Get One stops for no one."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"I locate: your life is in the hands of someone who doesn't even know you and thinks you don't deserve it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"You have to grab for happiness in places like this because there isn't enough to go around for everybody."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

Cover of The Inconsolables by Michael Wehunt

26. The Inconsolables

By: Michael Wehunt

4.24

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

In his first collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt introduced the world to his singular voic… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Well, my wife and child have moved out," Fulton told him, "and I've gotten back into vampires to fill the hole they left behind."

-Michael Wehunt, The Inconsolables

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27. At Home with the Horrors

By: Sammy Scott

4.26

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

Just when you thought it was safe to go home again… In this chilling collection of short fiction… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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28. The Companion

By: E.E. Ottoman

3.67

Format: 168 pages, ebook

New York, 1949 After years of trying to break into New York City's literary scene, Madeline Slau… read more

Similar categories in E.E. Ottoman's The Companion book and Betty Rocksteady's In Dreams We Rot

  • fiction
"He was silent for a moment, then said more quietly. 'But I know what you are talking about. I've felt like that before too. To be intimate with someone and feel not right afterward, too vulnerable an…"

-E.E. Ottoman, The Companion

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29. Disasterpieces

By: Wesley Southard

4.74

Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition

Disasters come in all shapes and sizes. They can be as intimate as a house fire. As unpredictable a… read more

Similar categories in Wesley Southard's Disasterpieces book and Betty Rocksteady's In Dreams We Rot

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Ghosts & Other Lovers by Lisa Tuttle

30. Ghosts & Other Lovers

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.96

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Lisa Tuttle (b. 1952) is an American-born science fiction, fantasy, and horror author. She has publ… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Tuttle's Ghosts & Other Lovers book and Betty Rocksteady's In Dreams We Rot

  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of In Dreams We Rot by Betty Rocksteady

31. In Dreams We Rot

By: Betty Rocksteady

4.22

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Fiction like a fever dream… A voyeur suddenly becomes the one being watched, terrifying beasts a… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

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