6 must-read horror books like Gnaw by Tade Thompson

Cover of Gnaw by Tade Thompson

Gnaw

By: Tade Thompson

3.91

Format: 73 pages, Kindle Edition

Tara and Harry Newton have just bought the beautiful Irongrove Lodge, an ideal place to raise their…

If you liked the horror plot in Gnaw by Tade Thompson , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Penpal by Dathan Auerbach

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

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"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. Five Stories High: One House, Five Hauntings, Five Chilling Stories

By: K.J. Parker , Sarah Lotz , Tade Thompson , Nina Allan , Jonathan Oliver , None

2.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

One house, five hauntings, five chilling stories. Five Stories Highis a collection of five novellas… read more

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3. 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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"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 Skeleton Song (Wayward Children, #7.7) by Seanan McGuire

4. Skeleton Song (Wayward Children, #7.7)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.03

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions—slipping through the shadows under a be… read more

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Cover of You've Lost a Lot of Blood by Eric LaRocca

5. You've Lost a Lot of Blood

By: Eric LaRocca

3.26

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

A disturbing new vision of terror from the author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. … read more

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Cover of Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon

6. Sleepwalk

By: Dan Chaon

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a big hearted mercenary,… read more

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"There's a rare few that are able to drift through life without being owned by someone."

-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

"It was disconcerting to live in a time in which accepting reality required a suspension of disbelief."

-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

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7. 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

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"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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8. Golden State

By: Ben H. Winters

3.47

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Lazlo Ratesic is 54, a 19-year veteran of the Speculative Service, from a family of law enforcement… read more

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"They are Librarians, and they do not fuck around."

-Ben H. Winters, Golden State

"After all, they'll tell you, everything that happens belongs to the State, and a thought is just an event that happens in your head."

-Ben H. Winters, Golden State

"What we know of the past is enough to be afraid, enough to build this world, our good and golden world, around preventing a repeat of the mistakes that destroyed the world before."

-Ben H. Winters, Golden State

"Because just imagine--just imaging the alternative, the world in which a man encounters some scrap of information, about the murder rate in his neighborhood, or about the presence of troops on the no…"

-Ben H. Winters, Golden State

Cover of Gnaw by Tade Thompson

9. Gnaw

By: Tade Thompson

3.91

Format: 73 pages, Kindle Edition

Tara and Harry Newton have just bought the beautiful Irongrove Lodge, an ideal place to raise their… read more

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  • horror

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Nick Cutter

3.42

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Paul Tremblay

3.79

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3.68

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