24 must-read fiction books like Salt Water Tears (The Short Fiction of Brian A. Hopkins) by Brian A. Hopkins

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Salt Water Tears (The Short Fiction of Brian A. Hopkins)

By: Brian A. Hopkins

4.14

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

Salt Water Tears delivers 11 stories from Bram Stoker Award winning author Brian A. Hopkins. These …

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1. Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

By: John Langan

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated profess… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of A Night in the Lonesome October by Gahan Wilson, Roger Zelazny, James Warhola

2. A Night in the Lonesome October

By: Gahan Wilson , Roger Zelazny , James Warhola

4.18

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

All is not what it seems… In the murky London gloom, a knife-wielding gentleman named Jack prowl… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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3. The Fireman

By: Joe Hill

3.91

Format: 768 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a ch… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Fuck narrative elegance."

-Joe Hill, The Fireman

" Snuffleupagus was real. "

-Joe Hill, The Fireman

"Arson is almost as good as Prozac."

-Joe Hill, The Fireman

"Out of the frying pan and into the Fireman."

-Joe Hill, The Fireman

4. Little Heaven

By: Nick Cutter

3.85

Format: None pages,

An all-new epic tale of terror and redemption set in the hinterlands of midcentury New Mexico from … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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5. The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)

By: Jonathan Stroud

4.24

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in . . . For more than fifty ye… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
",,Plenty of time for a cup of tea. Then we find ourselves a ghost."

-Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)

"I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession."

-Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)

"Я багато що побачила в Кумб-Кері-Голлі цієї ночі, але ця квола посмішка на старечих лютих вустах була найстрашнішим з видовищ."

-Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)

"His dark eyes sparkled as he looked into mine. In that instant it was as if nothing in the world fascinated him as much as me."

-Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)

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6. Eon (The Way, #1)

By: Greg Bear

3.79

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

The 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashe… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of H.P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: Classic Tales of the Macabre by Stephen              Jones, Randy Broecker

7. H.P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: Classic Tales of the Macabre

By: Stephen Jones , Randy Broecker

5.00

Format: 176 pages,

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  • fiction
  • horror
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8. The Girl with All the Gifts

By: M.R. Carey

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every morning, Melanie … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

9. The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

By: Patrick Ness

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise … read more

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10. The Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more

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  • fiction
"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

11. The Haunted

By: Bentley Little

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Perry family's new house is perfect-except for the weird behavior of the neighbors, and that od… read more

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12. The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus, #1)

By: Jonathan Stroud

3.37

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Nathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of … read more

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13. The Little Sleep (Mark Genevich, #1)

By: Paul Tremblay

3.78

Format: None pages,

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14. The Whispering Skull (Lockwood & Co., #2)

By: Jonathan Stroud

4.05

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most haunted house in Eng… read more

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15. The Ceremonies

By: T.E.D. Klein

3.86

Format: None pages,

Jeremy Freirs is a graduate student and teacher who decides to spend his summer working on his diss… read more

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16. Hell Gate

By: Elizabeth Massie

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Beth's horror novel, Hell Gate, is a wild ride into the dark world of Coney Island in the early 190… read more

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17. Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

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18. The Pram

By: Joe Hill

3.77

Format: 58 pages, Kindle Edition

A husband’s obsessive desire for a child leads to an unexpected manifestation of his yearning in a … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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19. The Reformatory

By: Tananarive Due

4.47

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sen… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Night of the Mannequins

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.34

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Moms are so oblivious. It’s like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

"The tornado the alarms had screamed about ... hadn't actually happened, but around here you never know. Better safe in the cellar than sorry halfway up the sky."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

"Sometimes you just know what you're doing is the only thing to be doing. That the world is conspiring all around you to make it happen, like, not just giving you permission, but herding you the direc…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

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21. Hide

By: Kiersten White

3.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. The priz… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"What a generation long before her summoned and paid for, and what subsequent generations decided to make others pay for. Trickle-down economics. They got the economy, and the blood trickled down the …"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"Mack looks back at the maze that housed a monster that fed in youth and hope and stalled dreams. That ground up vulnerable people so the ones in power could keep their power, could keep their safety,…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"So now she's seen it. She [Mack] knows what's out there. It doesn't make any more sense than it did before, but at least she can move from horror, the fear of the unknown, and into terror, the fear o…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"He doesn't love you," she said matter-of-factly. "He didn't love your mother, either, and I don't want you to spend your whole life waiting for something he can't give. Men like that, people are thin…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

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22. Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

By: Brom

4.29

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"You will think me foolish. But I wanted to be a fairy queen, to run barefoot through the woods, to sing like a bird and fly through the trees." She smiled. "To be able to talk to the animals."

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

"He stared up into the trees, watched them sway in the soft breeze, watched the sun drift slowly across the sky, hour after hour, until it began to sink from view, trying to let go, to let his mind dr…"

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

"Buzzing filled his ears, and he watched several bumblebees bounce from flower to flower. He found their hum soothing, and there, at the moment, felt he could watch them forever. He drank in the scent…"

-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

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23. 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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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1) by Arkady Martine

24. A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

By: Arkady Martine

4.12

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to disco… read more

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  • fiction
"made in blood, acclaimed in sunlight."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"An end to empires. An immovable object to crash an impossible force upon, and break it."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"The problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

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25. The Exorcist's House

By: Nick Roberts

4.02

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 1994, psychologist Daniel Hill buys a rustic farmhouse nestled in the rolling hill… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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26. The Hollow Kind

By: Andy Davidson

3.59

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Andy Davidson's epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by a… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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27. Small Town Horror

By: Ronald Malfi

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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28. The Autumnal

By: Daniel Kraus

3.83

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Following the death of her estranged mother, Kat Somerville and her daughter Sybil flee a difficult… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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29. Dear Laura

By: Gemma Amor

3.61

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

Every year, on her birthday, Laura gets a letter from a stranger. That stranger claims to know the … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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30. Estate Sale

By: Mia Dalia

4.50

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

It has been said that every small town has a house on a hill, the one the witch lives in. But what… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Salt Water Tears (The Short Fiction of Brian A. Hopkins) by Brian A. Hopkins

31. Salt Water Tears (The Short Fiction of Brian A. Hopkins)

By: Brian A. Hopkins

4.14

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

Salt Water Tears delivers 11 stories from Bram Stoker Award winning author Brian A. Hopkins. These … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

21 Best horror books like Salt Water Tears (The Short Fiction of Brian A. Hopkins) by Brian A. Hopkins

Transform Your Habits

Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

John Langan

3.89

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A Night in the Lonesome October

Gahan Wilson , Roger Zelazny , James Warhola

4.18

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The Fireman

Joe Hill

3.91

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Nick Cutter

3.85

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The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3)

Justin Cronin

4.21

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The Passage (The Passage, #1)

Justin Cronin

4.05

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The Girl with All the Gifts

M.R. Carey

3.71

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Justin Cronin

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