27 must-read horror books like The Roots Grow Into the Earth: A Collection of Short Horror Stories by Bert S. Lechner

Cover of The Roots Grow Into the Earth: A Collection of Short Horror Stories by Bert S. Lechner

The Roots Grow Into the Earth: A Collection of Short Horror Stories

By: Bert S. Lechner

4.22

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

Bert S. Lechner's unique spin on cosmic horror comes to life in this collection of short horror sto…

If you liked the horror plot in The Roots Grow Into the Earth: A Collection of Short Horror Stories by Bert S. Lechner , here is a list of 27 books like this:

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1. The Ballad of Black Tom

By: Victor LaValle

3.85

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more

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  • horror
"I wish I’d been more like my father,"

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

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2. The Hellbound Heart

By: Clive Barker

4.07

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas"

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

3. Dark Harvest

By: Norman Partridge

4.02

Format: 982 pages,

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, … read more

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4. 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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  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

5. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

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  • horror
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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6. It Waits in the Woods

By: Josh Malerman

3.72

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

Some chilling campfire tales ring too true to ignore. For one young woman, an urban legend calls he… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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7. Dead Inside

By: Chandler Morrison

3.29

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

In this bleak and disturbingly erotic debut novel, iconoclast Chandler Morrison provides readers wi… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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8. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.14

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more

Similar categories in Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird book and Bert S. Lechner's The Roots Grow Into the Earth: A Collection of Short Horror Stories

  • short stories
  • horror
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

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9. Cursed

By: Leigh Kenny

3.97

Format: 121 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever agreed to something without understanding the consequences? What would you do if a cu… read more

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  • horror
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10. MAGICK: an extreme horror novella

By: Judith Sonnet

3.54

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

Dubbed "Magick Manor', it was once a brothel. Now, this strange, cube shaped house is known for its… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Lovely, Dark & Deep by Megan Stockton

11. Lovely, Dark & Deep

By: Megan Stockton

4.06

Format: 157 pages, Kindle Edition

Every year, Six Mile Island has a seasonal shutdown for serious weather. This year, the forecast is… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of I Found Puppets Living In My Apartment Walls (I Found Horror) by Ben Farthing

12. I Found Puppets Living In My Apartment Walls (I Found Horror)

By: Ben Farthing

3.88

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Can you tell me how to get... out alive?★★★★★ - "I can't remember the last time a book scared me an… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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13. 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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  • horror
"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

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14. The Visitor

By: Sergio Gomez

3.34

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

On Christmas, during one of the worst snowstorms Indiana has ever seen, five strangers are forced t… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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15. So Thirsty

By: Rachel Harrison

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in thi… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's So Thirsty book and Bert S. Lechner's The Roots Grow Into the Earth: A Collection of Short Horror Stories

  • horror
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16. Dying Sheep (1)

By: Jesse D'Angelo

4.36

Format: None pages, None

The year is 1980. Your phone line has been cut. Your tires have been slashed. You are completely is… read more

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  • horror
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17. Grey Noise

By: Marcus Hawke

3.86

Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition

Evan is just trying to get his store, REWIND VIDEO, up and running. Fate, unfortunately, often has … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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18. Chasing The Dragon

By: Mark Towse

4.63

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

A town on its knees, dread's bony fingers wrapping around its throat and squeezing, death rattles s… read more

Similar categories in Mark Towse's Chasing The Dragon book and Bert S. Lechner's The Roots Grow Into the Earth: A Collection of Short Horror Stories

  • horror
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19. Curbside Curses: The Yardsale Anthology

By: Nadine Stewart

4.50

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

The holidays have come and gone, and bit of spring cleaning is in the air. “Out with the old, in wi… read more

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  • horror
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20. Pocketknife Kitty

By: Shannon Riley

4.29

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Jamie is a thirty-year-old banker wedged between grief and newfound freedom. Through a domino casca… read more

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  • horror
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21. The Tickle Monster

By: David Washburn

3.82

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

There is comfort in the wholesomeness of family. Pure joy to be cherished in the innocence of a … read more

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  • horror
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22. Mischief Night (Mark Towse Books)

By: Mark Towse

4.11

Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition

Hallows' Eve. Lavish decorations adorn overly large houses with bags of expensive half-eaten candy … read more

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23. Muse

By: L.C.W. Allingham

4.14

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

Inspiration is a living thing and it is hungry... Terra Desmarais's success as the next big … read more

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  • horror
Cover of The Roots Grow Into the Earth: A Collection of Short Horror Stories by Bert S. Lechner

24. The Roots Grow Into the Earth: A Collection of Short Horror Stories

By: Bert S. Lechner

4.22

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

Bert S. Lechner's unique spin on cosmic horror comes to life in this collection of short horror sto… read more

Similar categories in Bert S. Lechner's The Roots Grow Into the Earth: A Collection of Short Horror Stories book and Bert S. Lechner's The Roots Grow Into the Earth: A Collection of Short Horror Stories

  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Born Of Bloodshed by A.D.  Jones

25. Born Of Bloodshed

By: A.D. Jones

4.50

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

Death truly had come to the village...Nothing exciting ever happens in the border towns of Scotland… read more

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  • horror
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26. Ushers: A Short Story

By: Joe Hill

4.31

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short sto… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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27. Black Widow Blues

By: Andrew Adams

4.55

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

Kimberly has a unique addiction. Eating spiders is both her only pleasure and destroying her from t… read more

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28. Madness in Tandem

By: Ryan J. Powell

4.14

Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition

TRIGGER This book contains graphic violence, gore, sex, vomit, and other acts that some may deem o… read more

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29. Shsskish: a novelette

By: Alana K. Drex

4.53

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

Winslow doesn’t appear on any maps. It lies down a certain cemetery road, hidden past a grove of tr… read more

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  • horror
Cover of B-Movie Bloodbath by Isaac Nightingale

30. B-Movie Bloodbath

By: Isaac Nightingale

4.47

Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition

I was nineteen years old when I was beaten to a pulp and left for dead. Imprisoned for a murder I … read more

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  • horror
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31. Devils That Prey

By: David Washburn

4.20

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Olivia Rose and her friends have just finished their first semester as college freshmen and are pla… read more

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  • horror

11 Top short stories books like The Roots Grow Into the Earth: A Collection of Short Horror Stories by Bert S. Lechner

Transform Your Habits

The Hellbound Heart

Clive Barker

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Pram

Joe Hill

3.77

Transform Your Habits

It Waits in the Woods

Josh Malerman

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Dead Inside

Chandler Morrison

3.29

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21 Top horror books like Chasing The Dragon by Mark Towse

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All the Fiends of Hell

Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Seven Rabbits

Timothy King

4.23

Transform Your Habits

In The Tall Trees

Angel N. Van Atta

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Kosa

John Durgin

4.23

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