30 Best horror books like The Five Turns of the Wheel by Stephanie Ellis

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The Five Turns of the Wheel

By: Stephanie Ellis

4.14

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

Stalking the landscape of rural England are the sons of Hweol, Lord of Umbra. Creatures with a tast…

If you liked the horror plot in The Five Turns of the Wheel by Stephanie Ellis , here is a list of 30 books like this:

Cover of NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

1. NOS4A2

By: Joe Hill

4.08

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New Y… read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's NOS4A2 book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • horror
"Everyone lives in two worlds,"

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"And he paddled away in his douche canoe."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"Sooner or later a black car came for everyone."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

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2. Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

By: Dan Simmons

4.04

Format: 600 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It's the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, and five 12-year old boys are forming the bonds tha… read more

Similar categories in Dan Simmons's Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1) book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • horror
"People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid."

-Dan Simmons, Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

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3. Last Days

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.75

Format: 531 pages, Paperback

When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult know… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's Last Days book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • horror
"...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me ."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at Alexandria."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

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4. Those Across the River

By: Christopher Buehlman

3.71

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whit… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Buehlman's Those Across the River book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • horror
"Violence like that is private, don't you think?"

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"That was a mean thought, and not funny at all. I let it turn to sand and blow out of my head."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"I mostly drink clear booze because the rest of it looks it's already been through a gentleman."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"But when I make a good [taxidermy] mount I feel like I beat God in a small way. As though the Almighty said, Let such critter be dead, and I said, 'Fuck You, he can still play the banjo."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

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5. 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

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Boys in the Valley book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • 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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6. The Only Good Indians

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.70

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

The creeping horror of Paul Tremblay meets Tommy Orange’s There There in a dark novel of revenge, c… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Only Good Indians book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • horror
"Names are stupid, though. Pretty soon he won't even need his."

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

"Lewis finds the fourteen-foot aluminum ladder under boxes in the garage, Three Stooges in into the backyard..."

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

"Dealing with cops is like being around a skittish horse: No sudden movements, nothing shiny or loud. Zero jokes."

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

"An elk mother, cornered, will slash with her hooves and tear with her mouth and even offer the hope of her own hamstrings, and if none of that works, she'll rise again years and years later, because …"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

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7. The Twisted Ones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.64

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds lo… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's The Twisted Ones book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • horror
"Perhaps Welsh fairies stole children and confiscated their vowels."

-T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

"It's a long drive. It's pretty, actually, if you go through West Virginia, but of course then you're in West Virginia."

-T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

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8. 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 Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • horror
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9. Little Eve

By: Catriona Ward

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

A heart-pounding tale of faith and family, with a devastating twist“A great day is upon us. He is c… read more

Similar categories in Catriona Ward's Little Eve book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • horror
"It is a kind of privilege, to witness the darkness."

-Catriona Ward, Little Eve

"I don't know which is worse - suffering or the memory of it. Memory, perhaps, because it does not end."

-Catriona Ward, Little Eve

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10. Gone to See the River Man

By: Kristopher Triana

3.67

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Super fans. Groupies. Stalkers. These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be t… read more

Similar categories in Kristopher Triana's Gone to See the River Man book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • horror
"That didn't matter, though. Her thoughts toward her were entirely justified. They'd always been there, but were suppressed by a guilt she'd now began to think she never should have felt in the first …"

-Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

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11. The Other Emily

By: Dean Koontz

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Number one New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz takes readers on a twisting jo… read more

Similar categories in Dean Koontz's The Other Emily book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • horror
Cover of A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

12. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • horror
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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13. 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

Similar categories in Brom's Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • 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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14. 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 Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • horror
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15. Cunning Folk

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Money's tight and their new home is a fixer-upper. Deep in rural South West England, with an ancien… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's Cunning Folk book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • horror
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16. The Creeper

By: A.M. Shine

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Superstitions only survive if people believe in them... Renowned academic Dr Sparling seeks help… read more

Similar categories in A.M. Shine's The Creeper book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • horror
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17. The Lighthouse Witches

By: C.J. Cooke

3.94

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found—but she's stil… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • horror
"She still doesn’t believe in magic. It’s a technology, she’s decided. Just one that she doesn’t understand yet."

-C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

"... the sky like polished silver, the ocean sinewy and muscular, crackling as it reached the stones at the edge of the causeway."

-C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

"Most people's pasts can be viewed like cleaved water left in the wake of a boat. Hers? It's a tangled weave of spider webs and nightmares, never to make sense."

-C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

"I went outside, taking in the sight of the grey ocean swaying beyond the cliffs, a mackerel sky troubled by seabirds swooping and screaming beneath the clap of the waves."

-C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

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18. 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

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Small Town Horror book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • horror
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19. 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

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Mary book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • horror
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20. Maggie's Grave

By: David Sodergren

4.06

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

The small Scottish town of Auchenmullan is dead, and has been for years. It sits in the shadow of a… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's Maggie's Grave book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • folklore
  • horror
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21. Veiled

By: Jeff Strand

3.83

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

The first time their eyes lock, it’s an amused and sympathetic look from Alice at the next table. S… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Strand's Veiled book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • horror
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22. Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Binge's Ascension book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • horror
"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

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23. Halloween Fiend

By: C.V. Hunt

3.58

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Strang isn’t the small, quaint town it appears to be. It’s haunted every night by a creature the to… read more

Similar categories in C.V. Hunt's Halloween Fiend book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • horror
"But no matter where I ran to or how loud I played the music, I could still hear a low chuckling coming from the thing on our front step."

-C.V. Hunt, Halloween Fiend

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24. The Darkening (The Darkening, #1)

By: Sunya Mara

3.58

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Vesper Vale is the daughter of revolutionaries. Failed revolutionaries. When her mother was caught … read more

Similar categories in Sunya Mara's The Darkening (The Darkening, #1) book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
"To do the one good thing that I must do, I find myself caught in a thousand small evils." I squeeze his hand until he looks at me. "I hope that one thing is worth it." "It is the only thing that matt…"

-Sunya Mara, The Darkening (The Darkening, #1)

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25. The Drowning Kind

By: Jennifer McMahon

3.82

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Be careful what you wish for. When social worker Jax receives nine missed calls from her older s… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer McMahon's The Drowning Kind book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • horror
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26. Churn the Soil

By: Steve Stred

3.77

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

Two hundred miles north of the town of Basco sits The Border. It’s a quiet, off-the-grid settlement… read more

Similar categories in Steve Stred's Churn the Soil book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • horror
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27. The Vile Thing We Created

By: Robert P. Ottone

3.64

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Lola and Ian had what they thought was the perfect relationship. Vacations. Fine dining. A healthy … read more

Similar categories in Robert P. Ottone's The Vile Thing We Created book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • horror
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28. Mosaic

By: Catherine McCarthy

3.93

Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition

Something wicked waits. When a stained-glass artist embarks upon the restoration of a church win… read more

Similar categories in Catherine McCarthy's Mosaic book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • horror
Cover of Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2) by A.M. Shine

29. Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2)

By: A.M. Shine

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

After her terrifying experience at the hands of the Watchers, Mina has escaped to a cottage on the … read more

Similar categories in A.M. Shine's Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2) book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • horror
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30. The Bog Wife

By: Kay Chronister

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this atmospheric Appalachian gothic, the Haddesley siblings of West Virginia must unearth long-b… read more

Similar categories in Kay Chronister's The Bog Wife book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • fantasy
  • horror
Cover of The Five Turns of the Wheel by Stephanie Ellis

31. The Five Turns of the Wheel

By: Stephanie Ellis

4.14

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

Stalking the landscape of rural England are the sons of Hweol, Lord of Umbra. Creatures with a tast… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel book and Stephanie Ellis's The Five Turns of the Wheel

  • folklore
  • fantasy
  • horror

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Joe Hill

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4.04

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3.00

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