9 must-read fantasy books like Idle Hands by Cassondra Windwalker

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Idle Hands

By: Cassondra Windwalker

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

You can call me Ella. You generally assign me a whole host of other preposterous monikers. I think …

If you liked the fantasy plot in Idle Hands by Cassondra Windwalker , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne

1. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. Crossroads

By: Laurel Hightower

3.91

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

How far would you go to bring back someone you love? When Chris's son dies in a tragic car cras… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's Crossroads book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Exhausted, but not tired enough to escape the torturous loop of pain that awaited her inactive brain..."

-Laurel Hightower, Crossroads

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3. 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 Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
"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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4. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Michael Hurley's Starve Acre book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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5. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

Similar categories in E.K. Sathue's youthjuice book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. The Woods All Black

By: Lee Mandelo

3.81

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's The Woods All Black book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

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7. We Used to Live Here

By: Marcus Kliewer

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Get Out meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original m… read more

Similar categories in Marcus Kliewer's We Used to Live Here book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Deliver Me book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
"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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9. Of Cattle and Men

By: Ana Paula Maia

3.97

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more

Similar categories in Ana Paula Maia's Of Cattle and Men book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

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10. The Devil and Mrs. Davenport

By: Paulette Kennedy

4.24

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

The bestselling author of The Witch of Tin Mountain and Parting the Veil mines the subtle horrors o… read more

Similar categories in Paulette Kennedy's The Devil and Mrs. Davenport book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. Dead End Tunnel

By: Nick Roberts

4.22

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

Maverick Hall has spent years trying to forget the chilling events of his thirteenth birthday in th… read more

Similar categories in Nick Roberts's Dead End Tunnel book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • horror
Cover of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima

12. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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13. The Harpy

By: Megan Hunter

3.31

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy has set her … read more

Similar categories in Megan Hunter's The Harpy book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Tinfoil Butterfly

By: Rachel Eve Moulton

3.29

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Emma is hitchhiking across the United States, trying to outrun a violent, tragic past, when she mee… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Eve Moulton's Tinfoil Butterfly book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Dear Hanna

By: Zoje Stage

3.73

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Bab… read more

Similar categories in Zoje Stage's Dear Hanna book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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18. Smothermoss

By: Alisa Alering

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that… read more

Similar categories in Alisa Alering's Smothermoss book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and u… read more

Similar categories in Leslie J. Anderson's The Unmothers book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. Where I End

By: Sophie White

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

My mother. At night, my mother creaks. The house creaks along with her. Through our thin shar… read more

Similar categories in Sophie White's Where I End book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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21. Idle Hands

By: Cassondra Windwalker

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

You can call me Ella. You generally assign me a whole host of other preposterous monikers. I think … read more

Similar categories in Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands book and Cassondra Windwalker's Idle Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

20 must-read fiction books like Idle Hands by Cassondra Windwalker

Transform Your Habits

Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Crossroads

Laurel Hightower

3.91

Transform Your Habits

My Darling Dreadful Thing

Johanna van Veen

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Starve Acre

Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

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21 Best fiction books like My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen

Transform Your Habits

Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Haunting of Velkwood

Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The House That Horror Built

Christina Henry

3.22

Transform Your Habits

My Darling Dreadful Thing

Johanna van Veen

3.89

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