25 Best horror books like Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

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Let the Right One In

By: John Ajvide Lindqvist

3.85

Format: None pages,

It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a tee…

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1. The Deep

By: Nick Cutter

3.42

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Troop—which Stephen King raved “scared the hell out of me and I co… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Deep book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"What are you so afraid of? said that same voice inside Luke’s head. Everything, another voice answered."

-Nick Cutter, The Deep

"Well, time works differently down here, boss. Sometimes I feel like I've lived a thousand lifetimes ... it's funny. The pain is constant. Sometimes it's so much that I can't stand it. I bite at mysel…"

-Nick Cutter, The Deep

"The water wasn't the same down here. Water is what runs out of the kitchen taps or a playground drinking fountain. It fills bathubs and pools and yes, of course, the ocean- but at a certain depth, wa…"

-Nick Cutter, The Deep

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2. Pet Sematary

By: Stephen King

4.07

Format: 580 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00K3NEE56. When the Creeds move into a beautiful old… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Pet Sematary book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"Sometimes dead is better"

-Stephen King, Pet Sematary

"Well, cats live as long as dogs,"

-Stephen King, Pet Sematary

"A man who lies about beer makes enemies"

-Stephen King, Pet Sematary

"The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch."

-Stephen King, Pet Sematary

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3. NOS4A2

By: Joe Hill

4.08

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New Y… read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's NOS4A2 book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"Everyone lives in two worlds,"

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"And he paddled away in his douche canoe."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"Sooner or later a black car came for everyone."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

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4. Heart-Shaped Box

By: Joe Hill

3.84

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An aging death-metal rock god, Judas Coyne, is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"The dead pull the living down."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"You're a sympathetic sonofabitch, you know that?". "You want sympathy, go fuck James Taylor."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

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5. Rosemary's Baby

By: Ira Levin

3.56

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unawar… read more

Similar categories in Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
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6. Horns

By: Joe Hill

3.93

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with … read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's Horns book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"Love requires Context."

-Joe Hill, Horns

"I am; I was. I want to be."

-Joe Hill, Horns

"Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask."

-Joe Hill, Horns

"[...] In a lot of ways, I guess Satan was the first superhero."

-Joe Hill, Horns

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7. The Hellbound Heart

By: Clive Barker

4.07

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. … read more

Similar categories in Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
"She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas"

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

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8. Let the Right One In

By: John Ajvide Lindqvist

3.85

Format: None pages,

It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a tee… read more

Similar categories in John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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9. 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

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's A Head Full of Ghosts book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"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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10. Carrie

By: Stephen King

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Carrie knew she should not use the terrifying power she possessed... But one night at her senior pr… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Carrie book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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11. 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 John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

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

-Scott Smith, The Ruins

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12. The Ritual

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.59

Format: 418 pages, Paperback

Four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic … read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Ritual book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"For Anne and our cub, for making me and my life less beastly"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right then, they screamed in alarm from times before symbols and language could depict such things that h…"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

13. The Haunting of Hill House

By: Shirley Jackson , None

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959,… read more

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14. ’Salem’s Lot

By: Stephen King

4.10

Format: 483 pages, Paperback

Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0450031063 Thousands of miles away from the s… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's ’Salem’s Lot book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"Sour cream! He had tasted it once and liked to puke."

-Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

"If a man dethrones God in his heart, Satan must ascend to His position."

-Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."

-Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

"There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number."

-Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

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15. The Troop

By: Nick Cutter

3.84

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

Once a year, scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a three-d… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Troop book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"Soldering iron, Max."

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"You’ve never heard of the tapeworm diet?"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"I been to hell ... I ain't afraid to go back"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"His fear was whetted to such a fine edge that he could actually feel it now: a disembodied ball of baby fingers inside his stomach, tickling him from the inside. That's what mortal terror felt like, …"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

16. Hell House

By: Richard Matheson

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Can any soul survive? Regarded as the Mount Everest of haunted houses, Belasco House has witnessed … read more

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17. Last Days

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.75

Format: 531 pages, Paperback

When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult know… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's Last Days book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me ."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at Alexandria."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

18. Christine

By: Stephen King , None

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

"This is the story of a lover's triangle...It was bad from the start. And it got worse in a hurry."… read more

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19. The Shining

By: Stephen King

3.69

Format: 47 pages, Paperback

Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-s… read more

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20. Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

By: Anne Rice

4.90

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal li… read more

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21. The Terror

By: Dan Simmons

1.33

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Iliumand Olympostransforms the true story of a legendary Arctic expeditio… read more

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22. Cujo

By: Stephen King

3.79

Format: 432 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Durante toda su vida Cujo fue un buen perro, un San Bernardo grandote, pacífico, juguetón y amante … read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Cujo book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"The monster nevers dies."

-Stephen King, Cujo

"There is no bad time for good news."

-Stephen King, Cujo

"No hago más que percibirle... sentirle... en todos los rincones."

-Stephen King, Cujo

"Aspiraba el olor de la locura en un viento que aún no había llegado."

-Stephen King, Cujo

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23. The Exorcist

By: William Peter Blatty

4.20

Format: 385 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Georgetown, Washington D.C. Actress and divorced mother Chris MacNeil starts to experience 'difficu… read more

Similar categories in William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"Keep away. The sow is mine."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"The child was slender as fleeting hope."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"The child was slender as a fleeting hope."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"In forgetting, they were trying to remember"

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

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24. 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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  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
" 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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25. The Only Good Indians

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.70

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

The creeping horror of Paul Tremblay meets Tommy Orange’s There There in a dark novel of revenge, c… read more

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  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Names are stupid, though. Pretty soon he won't even need his."

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

"Lewis finds the fourteen-foot aluminum ladder under boxes in the garage, Three Stooges in into the backyard..."

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

"Dealing with cops is like being around a skittish horse: No sudden movements, nothing shiny or loud. Zero jokes."

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

"An elk mother, cornered, will slash with her hooves and tear with her mouth and even offer the hope of her own hamstrings, and if none of that works, she'll rise again years and years later, because …"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

Cover of The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) by Stephen Graham Jones

26. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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27. 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

Similar categories in Stephen King's You Like It Darker book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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28. Tender Is the Flesh

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.79

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though no … read more

Similar categories in Agustina Bazterrica's Tender Is the Flesh book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"Carcass."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

"She had the human look of a domesticated animal."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

"un matadero debería ignorarse, fundirse con el paisaje y nunca llamarse por lo que realmente es."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

"No entiendo por qué nos parece atractiva la sonrisa de una persona. Con la sonrisa uno está mostrando el esqueleto"."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

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29. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Nestlings book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • paranormal
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

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30. 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

Similar categories in A.M. Shine's The Watchers (The Watchers, #1) book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"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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31. Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

By: Brom

4.29

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only… read more

Similar categories in Brom's Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery book and John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
"You will think me foolish. But I wanted to be a fairy queen, to run barefoot through the woods, to sing like a bird and fly through the trees." She smiled. "To be able to talk to the animals."

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

"He stared up into the trees, watched them sway in the soft breeze, watched the sun drift slowly across the sky, hour after hour, until it began to sink from view, trying to let go, to let his mind dr…"

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

"Buzzing filled his ears, and he watched several bumblebees bounce from flower to flower. He found their hum soothing, and there, at the moment, felt he could watch them forever. He drank in the scent…"

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

25 Best fiction books like Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Transform Your Habits

The Deep

Nick Cutter

3.42

Transform Your Habits

Pet Sematary

Stephen King

4.07

Transform Your Habits

NOS4A2

Joe Hill

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Heart-Shaped Box

Joe Hill

3.84

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21 Top fiction books like The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Transform Your Habits

The Deep

Nick Cutter

3.42

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A Head Full of Ghosts

Paul Tremblay

3.79

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The Ruins

Scott Smith

3.68

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The Fisherman

John Langan

3.91

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