7 best-selling history books like Hellebore #7: The Ritual Issue by Maria J. Pérez Cuervo

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Hellebore #7: The Ritual Issue

By: Maria J. Pérez Cuervo

4.44

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Mummers with ill intentions, sacrificial May Queens, ecstatic trances. Folk horror is consistently …

If you liked the history plot in Hellebore #7: The Ritual Issue by Maria J. Pérez Cuervo , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Wolves in the Walls

By: Neil Gaiman , Dave McKean

4.04

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Lucy hears sneaking, creeping,crumpling noisescoming from insidethe walls. She is sure there are… read more

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  • horror
"Anyway, you know what they say about wolves," said her father. "If the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over." "Who says that?" asked Lucy. "People. Everybody. You know," said her father, and h…"

-Neil Gaiman, The Wolves in the Walls

"But eventually everything was back the way it had been before, except for Lucy's father's second-best tuba, which had sustained severe jam damage. So Lucy's father sold his second-best tuba and bough…"

-Neil Gaiman, The Wolves in the Walls

2. Love Poems

By: Carol Ann Duffy

5.00

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Whether writing of longing or adultery, seduction or simple homely acts of love, Carol Ann Duffy br… read more

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3. Nights at the Circus

By: Angela Carter

3.00

Format: 112 pages,

Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wa… read more

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4. The Beauty

By: Aliya Whiteley

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Somewhere away from the cities and towns, a group of men and boys gather around the fire each night… read more

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5. Dark Matter

By: Michelle Paver

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poo… read more

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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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  • 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. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

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  • horror
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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8. 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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  • horror
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9. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

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  • horror
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

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10. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

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"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

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11. When I Arrived at the Castle

By: Emily Carroll

3.69

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

"A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood." Like many before her tha… read more

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  • horror
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12. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

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  • horror
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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13. Nails and Eyes

By: Kaori Fujino

3.43

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans of The Memory Police, Tender is … read more

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  • horror
"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

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14. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

By the bestselling author of Storyland.Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous cl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • folklore
  • history
  • mythology
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15. The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast

By: Tom Holland

3.85

Format: 522 pages, Kindle Edition

Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys... there's a new history book in town. Fro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill

16. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World

By: Malcolm Gaskill

3.72

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. The Witches of Vardø

By: Anya Bergman

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Norway, 1662. A dangerous time to be a woman, when even dancing can lead to accusations of witchcra… read more

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18. Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

By: Daisy Johnson

3.75

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impos… read more

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  • folklore
  • mythology
  • horror
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19. The Kellerby Code

By: Jonny Sweet

3.51

Format: None pages, ebook

Edward is living in a world he can't afford and to which he doesn't belong. To camouflage himself, … read more

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20. Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

By: Richard Wells

3.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Damnable Tales is an illustrated collection of classic short stories drawing upon the haunted lands… read more

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  • folklore
  • horror
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21. Feral: A Short Story

By: Gemma Amor

3.90

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Margot. She's had enough. read more

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  • horror
Cover of The Virago Book of Witches by Shahrukh Husain

22. The Virago Book of Witches

By: Shahrukh Husain

3.49

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Book by read more

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  • mythology
  • horror
Cover of The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan (Tales of the Weird) by Michael Wheatley

23. The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan (Tales of the Weird)

By: Michael Wheatley

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Many writers in the early twentieth century particularly were fascinated by Pan as a figure of unbr… read more

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  • horror
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24. Weird Walk: Issue Four - Imbolc 2021

By: Alex Hornsby

4.38

Format: 48 pages, Magazine

Weird Walk Zine Issue Four 48 page A5 zine Printed on high quality recycled stock Abundant… read more

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  • history
  • folklore
  • nonfiction
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25. Hellebore #7: The Ritual Issue

By: Maria J. Pérez Cuervo

4.44

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Mummers with ill intentions, sacrificial May Queens, ecstatic trances. Folk horror is consistently … read more

Similar categories in Maria J. Pérez Cuervo's Hellebore #7: The Ritual Issue book and Maria J. Pérez Cuervo's Hellebore #7: The Ritual Issue

  • art
  • history
  • occult
  • folklore
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • mythology
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26. Murder Maps: Crime Scenes Revisited. Phrenology to Fingerprint. 1811-1911

By: Drew Gray

3.93

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Vivid and intriguing, Murder Maps plots the nineteenth century’s most dramatic murders from around … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Weird Walk: Issue Six - Winter 2022/23 by Alex Hornsby

27. Weird Walk: Issue Six - Winter 2022/23

By: Alex Hornsby

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Weird Walk Zine Issue Six 48 page A5 zine Printed on high quality recycled stock Here we com… read more

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28. Vastarien: Vol. 5, Issue 2

By: Jon Padgett

4.23

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

A Literary Journal is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligo… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Weird Walk: Issue Five - Samhain 2021 by Alex Hornsby

29. Weird Walk: Issue Five - Samhain 2021

By: Alex Hornsby

4.13

Format: 45 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • history
  • folklore
  • nonfiction
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30. Weird Walk: Issue Three - Midsummer 2020

By: Alex Hornsby

4.20

Format: 48 pages, Magazine

Rise up like the sun... 48 page A5 zine Printed on high quality recycled stock A midsummer n… read more

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  • folklore

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3.89

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Stacey Halls

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Kate Foster

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