17 best-selling horror books like MUSOS by Charlene Elsby

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MUSOS

By: Charlene Elsby

4.39

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Of course, I loved Laura. I loved her my whole life. At least, as much of it as I can remember. …

If you liked the horror plot in MUSOS by Charlene Elsby , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Mapping the Interior

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.79

Format: 131 pages, ebook

Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping t… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"I'm all right," I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Mapping the Interior

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2. The Sluts

By: Dennis Cooper

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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3. The Weight of This World

By: David Joy

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

Critically acclaimed author David Joy, whose debut, Where All Light Tends to Go, was hailed as "a s… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

4. Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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5. The Orchard Keeper

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, "The O… read more

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  • fiction
"See the hand that nursed the serpent."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

"The old man remembered it now with dim regret, and remembered such nights when the air was warm as a breath and the moon no dead thing."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

"A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and n…"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

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6. Cows

By: Matthew Stokoe

2.80

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Mother's corpse in bits, dead dog on the roof, girlfriend in a coma, baby nailed to the wall, and a… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Yeah, I'm a cow, man. Touch me."

-Matthew Stokoe, Cows

"Yeah, I'm a cow, man. Can you handle it?"

-Matthew Stokoe, Cows

"There were couples, too, together on the slashed seats, and they were the most densely coloured of all. Their belonging, their completeness, pushed them out from the background of safety glass and pr…"

-Matthew Stokoe, Cows

"There had been no love there, upstairs tonight, but it would come - Lucy would force it into being. She had no choice. She would never find her black lumps of poison or cut them out, and like Steven …"

-Matthew Stokoe, Cows

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7. Visions

By: Troy James Weaver

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A hypnotic descent from childhood to adulthood. A boy sees angels, finds love, loses it, and become… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Something Wicked This Way Comes

By: Ray Bradbury

None

Format: None pages, None

One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now feat… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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9. EVER

By: Blake Butler

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fiction. "Within the psychic architecture that is EVER, Blake Butler explores the way bodies swell … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

10. The Wasp Factory

By: Iain Banks

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed B… read more

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11. Less Than Zero

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more

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12. Negative Space

By: B.R. Yeager

3.72

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

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13. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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14. Castle Faggot

By: Derek McCormack

3.85

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

A dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Amygdalatropolis

By: B.R. Yeager

3.69

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Amygdalatropolis is a work of brilliant neurorealism in which the city is a Computer, a libidinal p… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"/1404er/ was born from video. His way into the threads. His eyes translating light from a stream. Before his eyes translated light from a stream he was only a person. Before the stream was a stream, …"

-B.R. Yeager, Amygdalatropolis

Cover of Forever by Thomas            Moore

16. Forever

By: Thomas Moore

4.44

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

SADNESS ALWAYS FINDS PEOPLE “I'm writing this instead of killing myself" states the narrator of … read more

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  • fiction
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17. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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18. Autumn Gothic

By: Brian Bowyer

4.26

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

In San Francisco, Sierra falls in love with her favorite author. After learning that Vivian Kane gr… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of So Beautiful and Elastic by Gary J.  Shipley

19. So Beautiful and Elastic

By: Gary J. Shipley

4.58

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

"Gary J. Shipley's So Beautiful and Elastic entwines elegant prose, blistering suspense, and art cr… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Pregaming Grief

By: Danielle Chelosky

4.61

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Evoking the spirit of Annie Ernaux — who in Simple Passion "experienced pleasure like a future pain… read more

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21. Captagon

By: Philip Best

4.21

Format: 60 pages, stapled booklet

None read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Generation Bloodbath by Paul  Curran

22. Generation Bloodbath

By: Paul Curran

4.20

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

“It could actually be told in ten words. That is what makes it so awful.” —​Maurice Blanchot, Deat… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Scumbag Summer: A Novel by Jillian Luft

23. Scumbag Summer: A Novel

By: Jillian Luft

4.72

Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s the summer of 2003 and an idealistic yet unambitious Florida college grad moves to Orlando—the… read more

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24. The Magician

By: Christopher Zeischegg

4.49

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

“Andrea’s gore was dark red, nearly brown, and smelled of meat and piss. She must have wet herself … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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25. Meth-DTF.

By: Shane Jesse Christmass

4.00

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

"One of the most ecstatic, deranged, and propulsive books I've read, Meth-DTF careens wildly throug… read more

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26. Creation: On Art and Unbecoming

By: Christopher Zeischegg

4.59

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"Creation is a stunning new collection by one of the most exciting living writers. Reading a Christ… read more

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27. Die Closer to Me

By: David Kuhnlein

4.56

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

David Kuhnlein's debut novella-in-stories Die Closer to Me follows Jo as she cares for her mother o… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of MUSOS by Charlene Elsby

28. MUSOS

By: Charlene Elsby

4.39

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Of course, I loved Laura. I loved her my whole life. At least, as much of it as I can remember. … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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29. Pacifier

By: Ira Rat

4.41

Format: 84 pages, None

Ira Rat's debut collection of 4 stories of "misfit fiction" flavored with transgressive horror and… read more

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  • horror
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30. Endless Now

By: Ira Rat

5.00

Format: 43 pages, Paperback

None read more

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31. The Medication

By: Ira Rat

4.89

Format: None pages, None

“Ira Rat’s poetry cuts straight to the core of me. There’s a flow that takes you and suddenly you f… read more

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Stephen Graham Jones

3.79

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Dennis Cooper

3.79

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David Joy

4.25

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Child of God

Cormac McCarthy

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Dennis Cooper

3.85

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