7 Best horror books like Why we're in Vietnam by Stephen King

Why we're in Vietnam

By: Stephen King

3.39

Format: None pages, None

Short Story published in 'Hearts in Atlantis'

If you liked the horror plot in Why we're in Vietnam by Stephen King , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Rage by Stephen        King, Richard Bachman

1. Rage

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.73

Format: 131 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A disturbed high-school student with authority problems kills one of his teachers and takes the res… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Rage book and Stephen King's Why we're in Vietnam

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Be'…"

-Stephen King, Rage

"You’re on, Ted,"

-Stephen King, Rage

"That was Dad's life, and I was the birdshit on his windshield."

-Stephen King, Rage

"If I knew what was making me do it, I probably wouldn't have to."

-Stephen King, Rage

Cover of Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther

2. Death Be Not Proud

By: John Gunther

3.86

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Death Be Not Proud chronicles Johnny Gunther's gallant struggle against the malignant brain tumor t… read more

Similar categories in John Gunther's Death Be Not Proud book and Stephen King's Why we're in Vietnam

"Live while you live, then die and be done with."

-John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud

"What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him."

-John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud

"(...) about one of his schools he said, "I would make the following criticisms. First, too much attention to marks. Second, too much religion. Third, no time for me to develop my own interests. Fourt…"

-John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud

Cover of Roadwork by Stephen        King, Richard Bachman

3. Roadwork

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Barton Dawes’ unremarkable but comfortable existence suddenly takes a turn for the worst. Highway c… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Roadwork book and Stephen King's Why we're in Vietnam

  • drama
  • fiction
  • horror
"Wimmern war die letzte Zuflucht unbedeutender Männer."

-Stephen King, Roadwork

"The fucking you got was never worth the screwing you took."

-Stephen King, Roadwork

"Das Leben schien nur eine Vorbereitung auf die Hölle zu sein."

-Stephen King, Roadwork

"Haben Sie in meiner Nase gebohrt, als ich nicht hingesehen habe?"

-Stephen King, Roadwork

4. The Machine Stops

By: E.M. Forster

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial… read more

Similar categories in E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops book and Stephen King's Why we're in Vietnam

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Regulators by Stephen        King, Richard Bachman

5. The Regulators

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.72

Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There's a place in Wentworth, Ohio, where summer is in full swing. It's called Poplar Street. Up un… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's The Regulators book and Stephen King's Why we're in Vietnam

  • fiction
  • horror
"Brad looked at his wife with that expression of love that is the sole property of people who have been married over ten years."

-Stephen King, The Regulators

6. Pop Art

By: Joe Hill

3.48

Format: None pages,

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7. The Complete Stories

By: Flannery O'Connor

5.00

Format: 144 pages,

The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental cont… read more

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8. The Running Man

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.90

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives... Ben Richard… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's The Running Man book and Stephen King's Why we're in Vietnam

  • fiction
  • horror
"Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"...sie würden Christus persönlich überfallen, um ein Pfund Salami zu ergattern."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

Cover of The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham

9. The Midwich Cuckoos

By: John Wyndham

3.91

Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitant… read more

Similar categories in John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos book and Stephen King's Why we're in Vietnam

  • fiction
  • horror
"…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?"

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context."

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that."

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, wom…"

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

Cover of Thinner by Stephen        King, Richard Bachman

10. Thinner

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wastin… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Thinner book and Stephen King's Why we're in Vietnam

  • fiction
  • horror
"Purpurfargade ansiktet"

-Stephen King, Thinner

"It's the people who aren't scared who die young."

-Stephen King, Thinner

"Things hurt more when you were alone, that was all."

-Stephen King, Thinner

"The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing."

-Stephen King, Thinner

11. Why we're in Vietnam

By: Stephen King

3.39

Format: None pages, None

Short Story published in 'Hearts in Atlantis' read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Why we're in Vietnam book and Stephen King's Why we're in Vietnam

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • drama

8 must-read fiction books like Why we're in Vietnam by Stephen King

Transform Your Habits

Rage

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Roadwork

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

The Machine Stops

E.M. Forster

3.57

Transform Your Habits

The Regulators

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.72

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11 Top fiction books like Roadwork by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

Transform Your Habits

Roadwork

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

Transform Your Habits

The Eyes of the Dragon

Stephen King

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Desperation

Stephen King

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Dolores Claiborne

Stephen King

3.00

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