24 Best horror books like Spirits of the Dead by Keith Gilman

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Spirits of the Dead

By: Keith Gilman

3.23

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

What would you do to save someone you loved? Husband and father Jon Levande has to ask himself that…

If you liked the horror plot in Spirits of the Dead by Keith Gilman , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. Penpal

By: Dathan Auerbach

3.86

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

Penpal began as a series of short and interconnected stories posted on an online horror forum. Befo… read more

Similar categories in Dathan Auerbach's Penpal book and Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
"Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves"

-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

"Memories extend our lives backward through time, making them feel longer."

-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

"Our loved ones pass away or simply leave our lives forever too soon, and we think to ourselves, “I wasn’t ready for you to leave. It just wasn’t time,"

-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

"We want so badly to be happy – to live the kinds of lives that we always hoped we’d live – that we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were."

-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

2. The Bird Eater

By: Ania Ahlborn

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Audio CD

Twenty years ago, the mysterious death of his aunt left Aaron Holbrook orphaned and alone. He aband… read more

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3. Kill Creek

By: Scott Thomas

3.54

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

At the end of a dark prairie road, nearly forgotten in the Kansas countryside, lies the Finch House… read more

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4. Gerald's Game

By: Stephen King

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Gerald und Jessie Burlingame haben sich in ihr einsames Sommerhaus zuruckgezogen. Gerald mochte dem… read more

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5. Dark Harvest

By: Norman Partridge

4.02

Format: 982 pages,

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, … read more

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6. Philadelphia Noir

By: Carlin Romano

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

"It's a collection enhanced by an unerring sense of place . . . that will please the most discrimin… read more

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7. Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2)

By: Richard Chizmar

3.78

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

Something evil has swept into the small western Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the lates… read more

Similar categories in Richard Chizmar's Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2) book and Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
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8. The Pram

By: Joe Hill

3.77

Format: 58 pages, Kindle Edition

A husband’s obsessive desire for a child leads to an unexpected manifestation of his yearning in a … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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9. The Reformatory

By: Tananarive Due

4.47

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sen… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's The Reformatory book and Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Looking Glass Sound

By: Catriona Ward

3.49

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Looking Glass Sound is the newest twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, the interna… read more

Similar categories in Catriona Ward's Looking Glass Sound book and Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
"Potatoes make everything okay."

-Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

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11. 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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  • fiction
  • 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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12. The Lost Village

By: Camilla Sten

3.54

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

The Blair Witch Project meets Midsommar in this brilliantly disturbing thriller from Camilla Sten, … read more

Similar categories in Camilla Sten's The Lost Village book and Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
"This isn't a movie. In a movie we would have hugged and been best friends again, now and forever. That's never going to happen. I think I'll be living with this dull pain for the rest of my life. I'l…"

-Camilla Sten, The Lost Village

"She's right. They all are. I can feel it in my bones, that fear, like a sour taste on my tongue. I want nothing more than to stay here, to give in to their reason. I've seen the movies, too—I know wh…"

-Camilla Sten, The Lost Village

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13. All Hallows

By: Christopher Golden

3.55

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

With the 80's nostalgia of Stranger Things, this horror drama from NYT bestselling author Christoph… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Unsinkable

By: Jenni L. Walsh

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER The Titanic was only the beginning. What she survived has become… read more

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  • fiction
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15. The Gathering

By: C.J. Tudor

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secret… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Tudor's The Gathering book and Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Gwendy's Final Task (The Button Box, #3)

By: Stephen King

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The final book in the New York Times bestselling Gwendy’s Button Box trilogy from Stephen King and … read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Gwendy's Final Task (The Button Box, #3) book and Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
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17. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

Similar categories in Johanna van Veen's My Darling Dreadful Thing book and Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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18. Dead of Winter

By: Darcy Coates

3.85

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

From bestselling author Darcy Coates comes Dead of Winter, a remote cabin in the snowy wilderness t… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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19. The Woods are Waiting

By: Katherine Greene

3.43

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Lisa Jewell and Ruth Ware, Katherine Greene’s debut thriller is a dark descent … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Playground

By: Aron Beauregard

3.48

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

ONCE IN A LIFETIME Three low-income families have been given a handsome retainer to join Geraldi… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"But, I’m-I’m your mother!"

-Aron Beauregard, Playground

"She now looked like an ad for gape porn."

-Aron Beauregard, Playground

"Greg turned around, shooting laser beams though the most disappointing sperm he’d ever unleashed."

-Aron Beauregard, Playground

"The wheels were turning in all their heads, but the one with the dead hamster inside spoke first."

-Aron Beauregard, Playground

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21. 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 Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead

  • 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

Cover of The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor

22. The Burning Girls

By: C.J. Tudor

4.02

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

An unconventional vicar moves to a remote corner of the English countryside, only to discover a com… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Tudor's The Burning Girls book and Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
"You’re not protecting me when you keep stuff from me, you’re just worrying me."

-C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

"Comfort always dispels rage more quickly than shouting does. [the Rev. Jack Brooks]"

-C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

"...confessing one truth can be a good way to deflect from others. [the Rev. Jack Brooks]"

-C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

"The Church isn’t just for those who believe in God. It’s for those who don’t have anything to believe in. The lonely, lost and homeless. A place of refuge."

-C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

Cover of The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

23. The Centre

By: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who atten… read more

Similar categories in Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi's The Centre book and Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
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24. The Weekend Retreat

By: Tara Laskowski

3.45

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Three couples. Three days. A family getaway to die for. Every year, the illustrious Van Ness sib… read more

Similar categories in Tara Laskowski's The Weekend Retreat book and Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead

  • fiction
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25. Just Like Home

By: Sarah Gailey

3.35

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Here is something that she controls, here is something that responds to her with the kind of frantic immediacy she always wanted from the world"

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"Tenderness was a foreign, forgotten thing that she hadn't encountered since before everything went wrong. She did not want it. Not now. Not from him."

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"Is one possible without the other? I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them."

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them. There’s the thin hate we have for strangers. (...) And then there’s the thick,…"

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

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26. Let Him In

By: William Friend

3.36

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

William Friend’s haunting debut Let Him In is a creeping, gothic psychological suspense about a you… read more

Similar categories in William Friend's Let Him In book and Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
"They say that grief numbs, but I still feel everything and mostly it hurts."

-William Friend, Let Him In

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27. Hemlock Island

By: Kelley Armstrong

3.45

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A standalone horror novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong. Laney Kilp… read more

Similar categories in Kelley Armstrong's Hemlock Island book and Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
"Something as brief as our marriage should die like a roman candle. One blaze of glory, imprinted on the retina for a few moments and then fading. This wasn’t that. This was a flash fire, and I am sca…"

-Kelley Armstrong, Hemlock Island

Cover of The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro

28. The Haunting of Alejandra

By: V. Castro

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her fam… read more

Similar categories in V. Castro's The Haunting of Alejandra book and Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
"It occurred to Frances that perhaps everyone wore another set of clothing beneath their human skin, stitched together with all the things they hated about themselves and tried to hide."

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

"There are many times in life we feel there are no choices. Sometimes that is true. But I feel perhaps the true answers to the choices we must make find our way to us. Sometimes it is right away and a…"

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

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29. 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

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of I'll Be Waiting by Kelley Armstrong

30. I'll Be Waiting

By: Kelley Armstrong

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times Bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a spellbinding new tale of supernatur… read more

Similar categories in Kelley Armstrong's I'll Be Waiting book and Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Spirits of the Dead by Keith Gilman

31. Spirits of the Dead

By: Keith Gilman

3.23

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

What would you do to save someone you loved? Husband and father Jon Levande has to ask himself that… read more

Similar categories in Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead book and Keith Gilman's Spirits of the Dead

  • fiction
  • horror

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Transform Your Habits

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Dathan Auerbach

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2)

Richard Chizmar

3.78

Transform Your Habits

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Joe Hill

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Reformatory

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Mona Awad

3.56

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Maud Ventura

3.68

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Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

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