31 must-read horror books like The Descent and Other Strange Stories by Joshua Rex

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The Descent and Other Strange Stories

By: Joshua Rex

4.21

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

In these eleven tales, a scout leader returns to the camp where he last believed in monsters—and fi…

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1. Those Across the River

By: Christopher Buehlman

3.71

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whit… read more

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  • horror
"Violence like that is private, don't you think?"

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"That was a mean thought, and not funny at all. I let it turn to sand and blow out of my head."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"I mostly drink clear booze because the rest of it looks it's already been through a gentleman."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"But when I make a good [taxidermy] mount I feel like I beat God in a small way. As though the Almighty said, Let such critter be dead, and I said, 'Fuck You, he can still play the banjo."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

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2. The Haar

By: David Sodergren

4.17

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more

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  • horror
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3. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

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  • horror
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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4. 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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  • short stories
  • horror
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5. 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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6. Gone to See the River Man

By: Kristopher Triana

3.67

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Super fans. Groupies. Stalkers. These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be t… read more

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  • horror
"That didn't matter, though. Her thoughts toward her were entirely justified. They'd always been there, but were suppressed by a guilt she'd now began to think she never should have felt in the first …"

-Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

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7. We Can Never Leave This Place

By: Eric LaRocca

3.52

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

"When you're given a gift, something else gets taken away." A precocious young girl with an unus… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"We can never leave this place," my mother told her. "It would hurt too much."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

"We can never leaves this places," my mother told her. "It would hurt to much."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

"How could you do this to me?' the creature asked. And the blind man said, 'I wanted to be the only one to hurry you."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

"I watched as blood swirled down my naked body in dark ribbons—tiny threads that had forever come undone from me and were sent to freedom."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

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8. The Pallbearers Club

By: Paul Tremblay

3.10

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable—and unsettling—friendship, with blo… read more

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  • horror
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9. Lone Women

By: Victor LaValle

3.72

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more

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  • horror
"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

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10. Blender Babies

By: Jon Athan

3.95

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

They called 'The Craze.' No one saw it coming. It started with isolated reports of people kidna… read more

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  • horror
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11. Mine

By: L.M. Kaplin

3.96

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

Chandler Henricks hates his life. Socially awkward and a near shut-in, Chandler spends his time car… read more

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  • horror
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12. In The Tall Trees

By: Angel N. Van Atta

4.33

Format: 132 pages, Kindle Edition

Mella lives in a tiny house in the middle of a dense forest with her mommy and her baby brother, Pe… read more

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  • horror
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13. Inside The Devil's Nest

By: John Durgin

4.03

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Real estate agent Anthony Graham has his family on the run after witnessing a murder at the hands o… read more

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  • horror
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14. Devil's Creek

By: Todd Keisling

3.82

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

About fifteen miles west of Stauford, Kentucky lies Devil’s Creek. According to local legend, there… read more

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  • horror
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15. Cursed

By: Leigh Kenny

3.97

Format: 121 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever agreed to something without understanding the consequences? What would you do if a cu… read more

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  • horror
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16. Puzzle House

By: Duncan Ralston

3.58

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Six strangers arrive at the home of preeminent puzzle master Alexei Vasiliev for the reading of his… read more

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  • horror
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17. Sister, Maiden, Monster

By: Lucy A. Snyder

3.58

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transfo… read more

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  • horror
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18. A Dark and Rising Tide

By: Debra Castaneda

4.12

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

When a massive storm surge hits the central coast of California, the ferocious surf destroys buildi… read more

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  • horror
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19. I Found Puppets Living In My Apartment Walls (I Found Horror)

By: Ben Farthing

3.88

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Can you tell me how to get... out alive?★★★★★ - "I can't remember the last time a book scared me an… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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20. Echoes of Home

By: M.L. Rayner

3.92

Format: 262 pages, ebook

After accepting a generous opportunity to start afresh, Leslie Wills, a young man from Stoke-on-Tre… read more

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  • horror
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21. On a Clear Day, You Can See Block Island

By: Gage Greenwood

4.07

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

They left the island, but the island never left them. Four years after the Keating family endure… read more

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22. Bunker Dogs

By: Gage Greenwood

4.20

Format: 265 pages, ebook

Don't just fear what you're hiding from, fear what you're hiding with. Cassie's night of babysi… read more

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  • horror
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23. Tent Revival: Book One of the Rebecca Mythos

By: Edmund Stone

3.18

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Salt Flat, Kentucky is a sleepy town where very little happens. But the illusion will be broken whe… read more

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  • horror
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24. Stuck

By: Ben Young

3.88

Format: 314 pages, ebook

Each death is unique. Will you recognize when yours begins? John Camden doesn't realize he's dying… read more

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  • horror
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25. The Child (The Children and The Gods #1)

By: Angel N. Van Atta

4.24

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarah is worried. More than worried. Sarah is terrified. Her young daughter Emma hasn't been hersel… read more

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  • horror
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26. Three-Smile Mile

By: Chad Lutzke

4.26

Format: None pages, ebook

Glover, Texas has three restaurants, two gas stations, and its very own underground crime syndicate… read more

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  • horror
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27. Beautiful Atrocities

By: Ross Jeffery

4.07

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

"Even though most of the stories contained in this collection deal with cruelty in some form, one m… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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28. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

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  • horror
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29. Spontaneous Human Combustion

By: Richard Thomas

3.65

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Best Fiction Collection With a foreword by Brian Evenson. In th… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"The first time they come to measure my son, he is only eleven years old. (From Within)"

-Richard Thomas, Spontaneous Human Combustion

"In the beginning, there was no pattern to the sacrifice, merely one more thing to clean up after a long, hard day—no reason to believe that I’d brought this upon myself. (Repent)"

-Richard Thomas, Spontaneous Human Combustion

"I’d been trying to find myself for what seemed like my whole life. Then a dark fate found me instead. I summoned something and drew its gaze down upon me. This is how the suffering began. (Nodus Toll…"

-Richard Thomas, Spontaneous Human Combustion

"When the red sea of rage washes over me, I picture a house on a hill, far away from the rest of the world, a band of oak trees around it, full of greenery, a singular whisper of smoke drifting up int…"

-Richard Thomas, Spontaneous Human Combustion

Cover of Hollow: A Linkville Horror Series by Mike Salt

30. Hollow: A Linkville Horror Series

By: Mike Salt

4.04

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

In the depths of a vast, foreboding cave, where silence whispers of unspeakable horrors, three frie… read more

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  • horror
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31. The Descent and Other Strange Stories

By: Joshua Rex

4.21

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

In these eleven tales, a scout leader returns to the camp where he last believed in monsters—and fi… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

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This Is Where We Talk Things Out

Caitlin Marceau

3.77

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We Can Never Leave This Place

Eric LaRocca

3.52

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Ben Farthing

3.88

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Ross Jeffery

4.07

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John Durgin

4.03

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Andrew Najberg

3.84

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Dan Franklin

4.03

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Debra Castaneda

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