14 must-read horror books like Lightsource by Bari Wood

Cover of Lightsource by Bari Wood

Lightsource

By: Bari Wood

3.48

Format: 318 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A physicist makes a great energy discovery - and disappears. Her research partner dies in a plane …

If you liked the horror plot in Lightsource by Bari Wood , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon

1. Harvest Home

By: Thomas Tryon

3.82

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

It was almost as if time had not touched the village of Cornwall Coombe. The quiet, peaceful place … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Tryon's Harvest Home book and Bari Wood's Lightsource

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"His heart's in the right place, but his tongue's an affliction."

-Thomas Tryon, Harvest Home

2. Fear

By: Ronald Kelly

4.15

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

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  • horror
Cover of Audrey's Door by Sarah Langan

3. Audrey's Door

By: Sarah Langan

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Built on the Upper West Side, the elegant Breviary claims a regal history. But despite 14B's astoni… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. Cold Moon Over Babylon

By: Michael McDowell

3.99

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Terror grows in Babylon, a typical sleepy Southern town with its throbbing sun and fog-shrouded swa… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon book and Bari Wood's Lightsource

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror

5. The Nest

By: Gregory A. Douglas , None

3.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Gregory A. Douglas's The Nest book and Bari Wood's Lightsource

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1) by Dan Simmons

6. Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

By: Dan Simmons

4.04

Format: 600 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It's the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, and five 12-year old boys are forming the bonds tha… read more

Similar categories in Dan Simmons's Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1) book and Bari Wood's Lightsource

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid."

-Dan Simmons, Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

7. A Nest of Nightmares

By: Lisa Tuttle

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Stories include: Bug House; Dollburger; Community Property; Flying to Byzantium; Treading the Maze;… read more

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8. The Rats (Rats, #1)

By: James Herbert

2.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For millions of years man and rats had been natural enemies. But now for the first time - suddenly,… read more

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9. The Lesser Dead

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.18

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I'm stealing from you what is most tr… read more

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10. The Running Man

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.90

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives... Ben Richard… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's The Running Man book and Bari Wood's Lightsource

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"...sie würden Christus persönlich überfallen, um ein Pfund Salami zu ergattern."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

11. Seductions

By: Ray Garton

4.09

Format: None pages,

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12. Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s

By: Grady Hendrix

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of the 1970s and '80s . . . if you dare. Page throu… read more

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13. Night Shift

By: Stephen King , John D. MacDonald

4.04

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by th… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Night Shift book and Bari Wood's Lightsource

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"She wasn't like a jukebox; you never had to put in a dime and she never came unplugged."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"If seven hundred monkeys typed for seven hundred years, one of them would turn out the works of Shakespeare,"

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"There are spiritually noxious places, buildings where the milk of the cosmos has become sour and rancid. This church is such a place; I would swear to it."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

Cover of Remember Me (Remember Me, #1) by Christopher Pike

14. Remember Me (Remember Me, #1)

By: Christopher Pike

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Shari Cooper hadn't planned on dying, but four floors is a long way to fall. Her friends say she fe… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Pike's Remember Me (Remember Me, #1) book and Bari Wood's Lightsource

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"Don’t be afraid, be terrified"

-Christopher Pike, Remember Me (Remember Me, #1)

"You think sex is dirty. You have a dirty mind."

-Christopher Pike, Remember Me (Remember Me, #1)

"Even from high above, I could feel Amanda's hate. Or perhaps it was another dimension of my Shadow, my own hate for her closing in on me. Despite all I had learned and seen, I wished to God someone w…"

-Christopher Pike, Remember Me (Remember Me, #1)

"But if you wish, you can imagine that the Shadow does wait for your return and that it does remember everything that has gone before and that it doesn’t let you accept yourself as perfect until you l…"

-Christopher Pike, Remember Me (Remember Me, #1)

15. Live Girls (Davey Owen #1)

By: Ray Garton

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Davey Owen was looking for a little entertainment. He finds instead a nightmare in the form of a be… read more

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16. Outer Dark

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he… read more

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17. Nothing But Blackened Teeth

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.66

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in … read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth book and Bari Wood's Lightsource

  • fiction
  • horror
"Every religion is a one-way relationship."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"The dead miss the sun. It's dark down there."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

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18. Long Lost

By: Jacqueline West

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Fiona has just read a book that doesn’t exist. When Fiona’s family moves to be … read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline West's Long Lost book and Bari Wood's Lightsource

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Handyman Method by Nick Cutter

19. The Handyman Method

By: Nick Cutter

3.27

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror. When a y… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Handyman Method book and Bari Wood's Lightsource

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"When prey dies in fear, hunters will say the meat tastes bitter."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"What of happiness, then? May we speak of the taste of joyful meat?"

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"Old memories were like land mines: dormant, forgotten, but forever deadly."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

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20. And Then I Woke Up

By: Malcolm Devlin

3.48

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Mira Grant and Stephen Graham Jones, Malcolm Devlin’s And Then I Woke Up is a c… read more

Similar categories in Malcolm Devlin's And Then I Woke Up book and Bari Wood's Lightsource

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"We were monsters once, and although we are not anymore, we know we remain unforgiven."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

". . . it’s those differences — even the smallest and most trivial — that scare us the most."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

"Relationships aren't scientific, they're not mathematical. They're chaotic, abstract, irrational."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

"Macey once told me that the worst way a story can end is by someone waking up and realising everything that happened was only a dream."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

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21. Lightsource

By: Bari Wood

3.48

Format: 318 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A physicist makes a great energy discovery - and disappears. Her research partner dies in a plane … read more

Similar categories in Bari Wood's Lightsource book and Bari Wood's Lightsource

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror

13 Best fiction books like Lightsource by Bari Wood

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Harvest Home

Thomas Tryon

3.82

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Audrey's Door

Sarah Langan

3.80

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Cold Moon Over Babylon

Michael McDowell

3.99

The Nest

Gregory A. Douglas , None

3.47

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13 must-read fiction books like Night Shift by Stephen King, John D. MacDonald

Transform Your Habits

Blaze

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.76

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Rage

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.73

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Roadwork

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

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Stephen King , Richard Bachman

4.14

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