28 Best horror books like Monstrum Poetica by Jezzy Wolfe

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Monstrum Poetica

By: Jezzy Wolfe

3.89

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

When was the last time you walked through the woods? Checked under your bed? Walked down into your …

If you liked the horror plot in Monstrum Poetica by Jezzy Wolfe , here is a list of 28 books like this:

1. How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend

By: None

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Who doesn't need to know How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend? From the first African-Am… read more

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2. Maeve Fly

By: C.J. Leede

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more

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  • horror
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

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3. 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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4. Dead Eleven

By: Jimmy Juliano

3.72

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, h… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente

5. Comfort Me with Apples

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.59

Format: 103 pages, Hardcover

Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their ho… read more

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  • horror
"Why doesn’t He love me like He loves you?"

-Catherynne M. Valente, Comfort Me with Apples

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6. 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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  • horror
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7. The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

By: A.M. Shine

3.93

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different… read more

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  • horror
"Every grudge, if it is to stand the test of time, relies on the certainty of a selective memory."

-A.M. Shine, The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

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8. Leech

By: Hiron Ennes

3.60

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s repla… read more

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  • horror
"Wherever we are, we want to be somewhere else."

-Hiron Ennes, Leech

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9. Mister Magic

By: Kiersten White

3.59

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and di… read more

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"Magic never forgets the taste of your friendship."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"This version of him isn't perfect. None of them are. New isn't the same as perfect. Growing up isn't inherently loss, it's just change."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"I think you've told me thank you more in the last day than anyone else has in years. It's like--when there's a stack of dishes, if my husband actually does them , I tell him thank you. But when I do …"

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

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10. Black Sheep

By: Rachel Harrison

3.60

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irr… read more

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  • horror
"How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?"

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

"I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch."

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

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11. Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

By: Katherine Arden

4.01

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debu… read more

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  • horror
"You might get to know characters in books, Ollie thought, but getting to know a human was an entirely different thing."

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

"You don't waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow."

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

"Other than her homework, Ollie was carrying Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, a broken-spined paperback that she'd dug out of he dad's bookshelves. She mostly liked it. Peter Blood outsmarted everyon…"

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

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12. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

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  • horror
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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13. The Spite House

By: Johnny Compton

3.53

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife,… read more

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  • horror
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14. Vampires of El Norte

By: Isabel Cañas

3.90

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the aut… read more

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  • horror
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15. Goddess of Filth

By: V. Castro

3.63

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

“Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash som… read more

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  • horror
"Why the black lipstick? Is this goddess a Goth?"

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

"I have traveled a long way through light and volatile stardust. The stars in the night sky are moth holes in space-time and the bodies of the larvae between each hole are the means of travel"

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

"Be smart, but not too smart. Be beautiful, but not so pretty as to make other females mad. Be successful, but not bossy or overly ambitious. Nobody likes a mouthy brown woman. Be a declawed kitten."

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

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16. Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

3.85

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more

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"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

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17. The Hollow Kind

By: Andy Davidson

3.59

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Andy Davidson's epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by a… read more

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  • horror
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18. All the Murmuring Bones

By: A.G. Slatter

3.94

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Long ago Miren O'Malley's family prospered due to a deal struck with the Mer: safety for their ship… read more

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  • horror
"A secret seldom survives being shared."

-A.G. Slatter, All the Murmuring Bones

"All the waters in the world are joined."

-A.G. Slatter, All the Murmuring Bones

"She's dead, taking all my answers with her."

-A.G. Slatter, All the Murmuring Bones

"The prince of assassins felled so low by a woman and a tiny knife."

-A.G. Slatter, All the Murmuring Bones

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19. The Woods All Black

By: Lee Mandelo

3.81

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more

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  • horror
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

Cover of When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen

20. When the Reckoning Comes

By: LaTanya McQueen

3.70

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

A haunting novel about a black woman who returns to her hometown for a plantation wedding and the h… read more

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  • horror
"What if we clamored and yelled, fought in every way we could? And what if we weren't alone? What if it was all of us together rising? Can you imagine it? Can you imagine what we could do?"

-LaTanya McQueen, When the Reckoning Comes

"Hush though, and listen. If you’re quiet, you can hear their whispers in the water calling to those left behind. Hush and you can hear them lurking, waiting for the day they can make their return."

-LaTanya McQueen, When the Reckoning Comes

"You’re a good girl. You’re so good, you’ve let the desire to be it overtake you. It’s defined who you are. …. You’ve always believed being this way was going to somehow save your life, but it’s stole…"

-LaTanya McQueen, When the Reckoning Comes

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21. Parasocial

By: Wendy Dalrymple

3.15

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Casey is nineteen, struggling and social media obsessed. When her favorite StreamVid star, Della, f… read more

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  • horror
Cover of I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

22. I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

By: Jamison Shea

3.72

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

There will be blood. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure … read more

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  • horror
"Twelve years of feeding this dream, cutting down anyone else who stood in my path, only to have the one girl I spared turn around and bite me. And she had the audacity to be mediocre."

-Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

Cover of The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

23. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

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  • horror
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24. Queen of Teeth

By: Hailey Piper

3.83

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award Within forty-eight hours, Yaya Betancourt will go from discoveri… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Fanged Dandelion by Eric LaRocca

25. Fanged Dandelion

By: Eric LaRocca

4.01

Format: 42 pages, Kindle Edition

A dark and deeply wounding portrait of a young queer man on the verge of splintering apart, Fanged … read more

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  • poetry
  • horror
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26. Bad Omens

By: Jessica Drake-Thomas

4.61

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

"Bad Omens by Jessica Drake-Thomas begets a canticle of death and resurrection, a spell for love an… read more

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  • poetry
  • horror
Cover of Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. by Angela Yuriko Smith

27. Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken.

By: Angela Yuriko Smith

4.67

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The willow is femininity, desire, death. Rebirth. With its ability to grow from a single broken bra… read more

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  • poetry
  • horror
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28. Monstrum Poetica

By: Jezzy Wolfe

3.89

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

When was the last time you walked through the woods? Checked under your bed? Walked down into your … read more

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  • poetry
  • horror
Cover of The Lies We Weave by Grace R. Reynolds

29. The Lies We Weave

By: Grace R. Reynolds

4.68

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Planted ambitions. Wounds that never heal. Cycles of generational trauma that keep us from breaking… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Under Her Skin: A Women in Horror Poetry Showcase, Vol. I by Lindy Ryan

30. Under Her Skin: A Women in Horror Poetry Showcase, Vol. I

By: Lindy Ryan

3.60

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Black Spot Books presents its inaugural Poetry Showcase, featuring the best in never-before-publish… read more

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  • poetry
  • horror

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4.01

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4.61

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4.67

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3.89

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3.78

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3.94

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3.86

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