24 Best horror books like The Dead Inside by Laurel Hightower

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The Dead Inside

By: Laurel Hightower

4.20

Format: 422 pages, Paperback

Our identity is the essence of who we are … But what if our identity is threatened? What if our…

If you liked the horror plot in The Dead Inside by Laurel Hightower , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. Parasite

By: Darcy Coates

3.84

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

They're closer than you think... A guard discovers an unusual lifeform on her remote moon outpost. … read more

Similar categories in Darcy Coates's Parasite book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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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

Similar categories in Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 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. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

By: Stephen King

3.96

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

On Writing begins with King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. K… read more

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4. Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

4.00

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

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5. 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

Similar categories in Joe Hill's The Pram book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Splatterpunk's Basement of Horror by Jack Bantry

6. Splatterpunk's Basement of Horror

By: Jack Bantry

4.08

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

From the creator of Splatterpunk Zine, thirteen stories of classic splatterpunk by some of the fine… read more

Similar categories in Jack Bantry's Splatterpunk's Basement of Horror book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • horror
Cover of Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk

7. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

Similar categories in Shane Hawk's Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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8. Ankle Snatcher

By: Grady Hendrix

3.74

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Obey the rules. It’s the only way to survive the night in a short story about what hides in the dar… read more

Similar categories in Grady Hendrix's Ankle Snatcher book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) by Richard K. Morgan

9. Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

By: Richard K. Morgan

4.04

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited f… read more

Similar categories in Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • fiction
"You smoke?"

-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

"Catholics get on well with tyranny. It's in the culture."

-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

"Kültür, kirli hava gibidir. Farkında olmasanız dahi etkilenirsiniz."

-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

"What we thought of as personality was no more than the passing shape of one of the waves in front of me."

-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

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10. 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 Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. 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

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"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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12. 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

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • adult
  • fiction
  • 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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13. Big Bad

By: Chandler Baker

3.77

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

For a family trying to make an isolated farmhouse into a home, fear and rage are getting harder to … read more

Similar categories in Chandler Baker's Big Bad book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Best of Luck

By: Jason Mott

3.77

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Did you ever hear the one about the man with a string of bad luck? The worst is still to come in a … read more

Similar categories in Jason Mott's Best of Luck book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Ring Shout

By: P. Djèlí Clark

3.99

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

In America, demons wear white hoods. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America,… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's Ring Shout book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Who says all the fantasies with sword-wielding heroes and heroines have to be in Middle Earth, Westeros, or even our dreams of Africa past—“copper sun or scarlet sea?"

-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

"There were two brothers, Truth and Lie. One day they get to playing, throwing cutlasses up into the air. Them cutlasses come down and fast as can be-swish!-chop each of their faces clean off! Truth b…"

-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

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16. 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

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's It Waits in the Woods book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. We Spread

By: Iain Reid

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A new work of philosophical suspense. Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for deca… read more

Similar categories in Iain Reid's We Spread book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"The love I'd felt for him faded and detached. There was nothing to hold it in place. No more mystery. Nothing to learn. Wonder was replaced with awareness. By the end, it wasn't just familiarity. I h…"

-Iain Reid, We Spread

"We do not all blend together. We are not ruined, helpless, a burden. We are not the elderly. We are not old people. Now, still, we're unique. Distinct. Regardless of what we've produced or what happe…"

-Iain Reid, We Spread

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18. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Peele's Out There Screaming book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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19. Swordheart

By: T. Kingfisher

4.15

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle's estate… and, unfortunately, his… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Swordheart book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • adult
  • fiction
"Your god. Why a rat?"

-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart

"Zale steepled their fingers. “Do you want to talk about that?"

-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart

"Sarkis turned around and began to beat his forehead very gently against the wall. “The great god is punishing me,"

-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart

"The miller back home was like that,' she said. 'He had a little bit of power and he lorded it over everyone. Although there's less damage you can do with a mill than with a religious order."

-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart

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20. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

By: Nghi Vo

3.95

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1) book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

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21. Bloom

By: Delilah S. Dawson

3.90

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella from the New York… read more

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's Bloom book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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22. The Return

By: Rachel Harrison

3.38

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

An edgy and haunting debut novel about a group of friends who reunite after one of them has returne… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's The Return book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"I want to spread this moment on a cracker and eat it."

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

"I want to spread this moment on a cracker and eat it’s"

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

"It was her coping mechanism - tying ribbons over open wounds."

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

"You can't erase your past when there are pieces of it scattered inside other people."

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

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23. Season's Creepings: Tales of Holiday Horror

By: Ronald Kelly

4.10

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree... what lurks among thy branches... Christmas can be the most… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Kelly's Season's Creepings: Tales of Holiday Horror book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of Awake in the Night by Shauna Mc Eleney

24. Awake in the Night

By: Shauna Mc Eleney

4.17

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

Jessica and Nicole think they’ve finally found their dream house by the sea in the West of Ireland.… read more

Similar categories in Shauna Mc Eleney's Awake in the Night book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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25. In the Arctic Sun

By: Rowan Hill

4.25

Format: None pages, None

The trees of Alaska’s Arctic wilderness have always been Sarah’s sentries and her house, a fortress… read more

Similar categories in Rowan Hill's In the Arctic Sun book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • horror
Cover of The Nightmare Before Kissmas (Royals and Romance, #1) by Sara Raasch

26. The Nightmare Before Kissmas (Royals and Romance, #1)

By: Sara Raasch

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Red, White & Royal Blue meets The Nightmare Before Christmas in a sexy, quirky romcom where the gol… read more

Similar categories in Sara Raasch's The Nightmare Before Kissmas (Royals and Romance, #1) book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson

27. Guillotine

By: Delilah S. Dawson

4.02

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

The Menu meets Ready of Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New … read more

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's Guillotine book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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28. Tales of the Wythenwood

By: J.W. Hawkins

4.00

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

"If in any place, oddness and peculiarity are usual occurrences, then, strangeness in such a place … read more

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29. 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

Similar categories in Joe Hill's Ushers: A Short Story book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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30. The Dead Inside

By: Laurel Hightower

4.20

Format: 422 pages, Paperback

Our identity is the essence of who we are … But what if our identity is threatened? What if our… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside book and Laurel Hightower's The Dead Inside

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult

26 must-read fiction books like The Dead Inside by Laurel Hightower

Transform Your Habits

Parasite

Darcy Coates

3.84

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The Hellbound Heart

Clive Barker

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Pram

Joe Hill

3.77

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21 Top fiction books like The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1) by Nghi Vo

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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells

4.15

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Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

Seanan McGuire

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

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T. Kingfisher

4.00

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