16 best-selling paranormal books like Lost Signals by John C. Foster, David James Keaton, Damien Angelica Walters, Betty Rocksteady, T.E. Grau, Josh Malerman, James Newman, Gabino Iglesias, Matthew M. Bartlett, Matt Andrew, Max Booth III, Tony Burgess, Lori Michelle, Scott Nicolay, Michael Paul Gonzalez, Paul Michael Anderson, Joshua Chaplinsky, Matthew Revert, Christopher Slatsky, Amanda Hard, Joseph Bouthiette Jr.

Cover of Lost Signals by John C. Foster, David James Keaton, Damien Angelica Walters, Betty  Rocksteady, T.E. Grau, Josh Malerman, James Newman, None, Gabino Iglesias, Matthew M. Bartlett, Matt Andrew, Max Booth III, Tony Burgess, Lori Michelle, Scott Nicolay, Michael Paul Gonzalez, Paul Michael Anderson, Joshua Chaplinsky, Matthew Revert, None, None, Christopher Slatsky, Amanda Hard, Joseph Bouthiette Jr., None, None, None

Lost Signals

By: John C. Foster , David James Keaton , Damien Angelica Walters , Betty Rocksteady , T.E. Grau , Josh Malerman , James Newman , None , Gabino Iglesias , Matthew M. Bartlett , Matt Andrew , Max Booth III , Tony Burgess , Lori Michelle , Scott Nicolay , Michael Paul Gonzalez , Paul Michael Anderson , Joshua Chaplinsky , Matthew Revert , None , None , Christopher Slatsky , Amanda Hard , Joseph Bouthiette Jr. , None , None , None

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

What's that sound? Do you feel it? The signals are already inside you. You never even had a chance.…

If you liked the paranormal plot in Lost Signals by John C. Foster, David James Keaton, Damien Angelica Walters, Betty Rocksteady, T.E. Grau, Josh Malerman, James Newman, None, Gabino Iglesias, Matthew M. Bartlett, Matt Andrew, Max Booth III, Tony Burgess, Lori Michelle, Scott Nicolay, Michael Paul Gonzalez, Paul Michael Anderson, Joshua Chaplinsky, Matthew Revert, None, None, Christopher Slatsky, Amanda Hard, Joseph Bouthiette Jr., None, None, None , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. The Last Days of Jack Sparks

By: Jason Arnopp

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jack Sparks died while writing this book. This is the account of his final days. In 2014, Jack Spar… read more

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  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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2. Come Closer

By: Sara Gran

3.65

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more

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  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

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3. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

By: Laird Barron

4.00

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

To the long tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, P… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Wisdom devours the weak."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

"Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

"I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

"...he was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

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4. Experimental Film

By: Gemma Files

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Experimental Film is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois … read more

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  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
"Because stories lie hidden inside other stories, and we always know more about any given thing than we think we do, even if the only thing we think we know is nothing."

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"You could argue—as I have more than enough times, as part of my Film History lecture—that, no matter its actual narrative content, every movie is a ghost story. A film's production forms a time capsu…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in s…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"We're storytelling creatures. Give us a bunch of seemingly random images and we will try to organize them into a linear progression: tree, apple, head, bruise, gravity . . . a man sat under a tree, a…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

Cover of Lost Signals by John C. Foster, David James Keaton, Damien Angelica Walters, Betty  Rocksteady, T.E. Grau, Josh Malerman, James Newman, None, Gabino Iglesias, Matthew M. Bartlett, Matt Andrew, Max Booth III, Tony Burgess, Lori Michelle, Scott Nicolay, Michael Paul Gonzalez, Paul Michael Anderson, Joshua Chaplinsky, Matthew Revert, None, None, Christopher Slatsky, Amanda Hard, Joseph Bouthiette Jr., None, None, None

5. Lost Signals

By: John C. Foster , David James Keaton , Damien Angelica Walters , Betty Rocksteady , T.E. Grau , Josh Malerman , James Newman , None , Gabino Iglesias , Matthew M. Bartlett , Matt Andrew , Max Booth III , Tony Burgess , Lori Michelle , Scott Nicolay , Michael Paul Gonzalez , Paul Michael Anderson , Joshua Chaplinsky , Matthew Revert , None , None , Christopher Slatsky , Amanda Hard , Joseph Bouthiette Jr. , None , None , None

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

What's that sound? Do you feel it? The signals are already inside you. You never even had a chance.… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • paranormal

6. Kill Creek

By: Scott Thomas

3.54

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

At the end of a dark prairie road, nearly forgotten in the Kansas countryside, lies the Finch House… read more

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7. A Sincere Warning About The Entity In Your Home

By: Jason Arnopp

3.27

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

"Dear friend, This is no chain letter, hoax or prank. It is a sincere warning about your home and t… read more

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8. The Cipher

By: Kathe Koja

3.54

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blo… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

9. Universal Harvester

By: John Darnielle

4.04

Format: None pages,

Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at… read more

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10. Behold the Void

By: Philip Fracassi

3.19

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

BEHOLD THE VOID Introduction by Laird Barron BEHOLD THE VOID is nine stories of terror that huddle … read more

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11. A Short Stay in Hell

By: Steven L. Peck

4.22

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

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12. Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

3.53

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more

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  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Everything the Darkness Eats

By: Eric LaRocca

2.78

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are co… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. You've Lost a Lot of Blood

By: Eric LaRocca

3.26

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

A disturbing new vision of terror from the author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

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  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

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16. Rules for Vanishing

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.76

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

In the faux-documentary style of The Blair Witch Project comes the campfire story of a missing girl… read more

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  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
"What happened in the dark?"

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

"I cannot tell if I am lying."

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

"What do you wear when you go to meet a ghost?"

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

"Do you want to know where Lucy went? She went to play the game. You can play, too. Find a partner. Find a key. Find the road. You have two days."

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

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17. 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

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  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Mister Magic

By: Kiersten White

3.59

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and di… read more

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  • paranormal
"Magic never forgets the taste of your friendship."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"This version of him isn't perfect. None of them are. New isn't the same as perfect. Growing up isn't inherently loss, it's just change."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"I think you've told me thank you more in the last day than anyone else has in years. It's like--when there's a stack of dishes, if my husband actually does them , I tell him thank you. But when I do …"

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

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19. 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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  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

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  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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21. Ghost Eaters

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One of Vulture's Best Horror Novels of 2022, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you… read more

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  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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22. The Children of Red Peak

By: Craig DiLouie

3.39

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Bram Stoker Award-nominated author Craig DiLouie brings a new twist to the cult horror story in a h… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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23. Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories

By: qntm

4.34

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

qntm has been writing science fiction for most of this millennium. His works start from elegant, de… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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24. Pine

By: Francine Toon

3.38

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

They are driving home from the search party when they see her. The trees are coarse and tall in… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"...she can’t shake the discomfort of last night. It has seeped into the daylight."

-Francine Toon, Pine

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25. The Rules of the Road

By: C.B. Jones

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Do you ever wonder why it is you sometimes see a single shoe on the side of the road? What happens … read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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26. Mean Spirited

By: Nick Roberts

4.41

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

An alcoholic teacher and father’s world spirals out of control when a former student is killed and … read more

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  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories by Andrew Cull

27. Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories

By: Andrew Cull

3.95

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Between April and August 2021 eighteen horror writers disappeared. Gathered together for the first … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
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28. Spin a Black Yarn

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the singular mind of the New York Ti… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
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29. They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces

By: Eric LaRocca

3.59

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the viral sensation Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes They Were… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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30. Where They Wait

By: Scott Carson

3.63

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Recently laid-off from his newspaper and desperate for work, war correspondent Nick Bishop takes a … read more

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  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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31. Curse of the Reaper

By: Brian McAuley

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Scream meets The Shining in this page-turning horror tale about an aging actor haunted by the slash… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

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