31 must-read horror books like XCRMNTMNTN by Andrew Hilbert

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XCRMNTMNTN

By: Andrew Hilbert

3.71

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

When a pile of sh*t from space lands near a renowned filmmaker’s set, inspiration strikes. Take a j…

If you liked the horror plot in XCRMNTMNTN by Andrew Hilbert , here is a list of 31 books like this:

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1. The Haar

By: David Sodergren

4.17

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more

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2. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

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"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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3. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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4. My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.54

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

You won’t find a more hardcore eighties-slasher-film fan than high school senior Jade Daniels. And … read more

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"Some girls just don't know how to die."

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"Is it really winning if everybody dies?"

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"Horror's not a symptom, it's a love affair."

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"We all become history at some point or another, right?"

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

Cover of Fever House (Fever House, #1) by Keith Rosson

5. Fever House (Fever House, #1)

By: Keith Rosson

4.03

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose … read more

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Cover of The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste

6. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

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"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

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7. The Spite House

By: Johnny Compton

3.53

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife,… read more

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8. The Devil Takes You Home

By: Gabino Iglesias

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father despera… read more

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9. Blood Sugar (Hard Case Crime)

By: Daniel Kraus

3.42

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

In a ruined house at the end of Yellow Street, an angry outcast hatches a scheme to take revenge fo… read more

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10. A Better World

By: Sarah Langan

3.63

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The author of Good Neighbors, “one of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American sub… read more

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11. 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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"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 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 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'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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12. Mary

By: Nat Cassidy

3.80

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invis… read more

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13. Becoming the Boogeyman

By: Richard Chizmar

4.13

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, haunting sequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller Chasing the Boogeyman—a tale… read more

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14. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

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15. A History of Fear

By: Luke Dumas

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devi… read more

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16. Conjuring the Witch

By: Jessica Leonard

3.81

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

There are witches in the woods. These are the words the reverend of the Lilin Assembly of Our L… read more

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17. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

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"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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

18. 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

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19. Rainbow Filth

By: Tim Meyer

3.79

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Rainbow Filth is a weirdo horror novella about a small cult that believes a rare psychedelic substa… read more

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20. The Last Haunt

By: Max Booth III

3.88

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

On the one-year anniversary of a young woman’s tragic death, an extreme haunted house attraction re… read more

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Cover of Even the Worm Will Turn (The Worm and His Kings, #2) by Hailey Piper

21. Even the Worm Will Turn (The Worm and His Kings, #2)

By: Hailey Piper

4.04

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

Four years after the events of The Worm and His Kings, Donna Ashton ekes out a life far removed fro… read more

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Cover of Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies by E. M. Roy

22. Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies

By: E. M. Roy

3.73

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

In the small town of Eston, Maine . . . weird things happen sometimes.Leo Bates knows what’s behind… read more

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Cover of White Trash and Recycled Nightmares by Rebecca Rowland

23. White Trash and Recycled Nightmares

By: Rebecca Rowland

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Foreword by Mary SanGiovanni A workaholic splits his time between home and hotel rooms until an … read more

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"I will grow monsters."

-Rebecca Rowland, White Trash and Recycled Nightmares

"A predator after her own heart."

-Rebecca Rowland, White Trash and Recycled Nightmares

"Every time I think about it, it makes me happy. Do you think I’m a monster?"

-Rebecca Rowland, White Trash and Recycled Nightmares

"Marriage is not a frozen tableau, however. It is always moving, even if the participants don’t sense its motion."

-Rebecca Rowland, White Trash and Recycled Nightmares

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24. Head Cleaner

By: David James Keaton

3.06

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

HEAD CLEANER is a hugely original blend of thriller, science fiction, and horror that takes our lov… read more

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25. Like Real

By: Shelly Lyons

4.16

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

In Shelly Lyons’s debut novel, LIKE REAL, Vic Moss—kenjutsu hobbyist and clueless Lothario—lets van… read more

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26. Polyphemus

By: Zachary Ashford

4.12

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

When lead vocalist of Polyphemus Stephen Oaks’s near-fatal on-stage overdose leaves them under pres… read more

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Cover of Hell Hath No Sorrow like a Woman Haunted by R.J. Joseph

27. Hell Hath No Sorrow like a Woman Haunted

By: R.J. Joseph

4.55

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Black women in these tales are women we all know. The mothers, wives, business owners, creative… read more

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Cover of XCRMNTMNTN by Andrew Hilbert

28. XCRMNTMNTN

By: Andrew Hilbert

3.71

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

When a pile of sh*t from space lands near a renowned filmmaker’s set, inspiration strikes. Take a j… read more

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29. Saint Grit

By: Kayli Scholz

4.12

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

One brooding summer, Nadine Boone pricks herself on a poisonous manchineel tree in the Florida back… read more

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Cover of What Happened Was Impossible by E.F. Schraeder

30. What Happened Was Impossible

By: E.F. Schraeder

3.58

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Everyone knows the woman who escapes a massacre is a final girl, but who is the final boy? What Hap… read more

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31. Cosmovorous

By: R.C. Hausen

4.47

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

The year is 1993. Esmeralda has been living on the fringes of society for as long as she can rememb… read more

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20 best-selling fiction books like You Like It Darker by Stephen King

Transform Your Habits

The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Eruption

Michael Crichton

3.91

Transform Your Habits

You Like It Darker

Stephen King

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The House That Horror Built

Christina Henry

3.22

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