25 Best horror books like That Which Should Not Be by Brett J. Talley

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That Which Should Not Be

By: Brett J. Talley

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Miskatonic University has a long-whispered reputation of being strongly connected to all things occ…

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1. Ship of Fools

By: Richard Paul Russo

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Home to generations of humans, the starship Argonos has wandered aimlessly throughout the galaxy fo… read more

Similar categories in Richard Paul Russo's Ship of Fools book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • fiction
  • horror
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2. The Gone World

By: Tom Sweterlitsch

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Inception meets True Detective in this science-fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and stagger… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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3. The Black Farm

By: Elias Witherow , Thought Catalog

3.50

Format: 824 pages,

After the loss of a child along with a slew of agonizing misfortunes, Nick and Jess decide to end t… read more

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  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror

4. No One Gets Out Alive

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

4.50

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Darkness lives within ...Cash-strapped, working for agencies and living in shared accommodation, St… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's No One Gets Out Alive book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. That Which Should Not Be

By: Brett J. Talley

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Miskatonic University has a long-whispered reputation of being strongly connected to all things occ… read more

Similar categories in Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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6. Reanimators

By: Pete Rawlik

3.83

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

Two men, a bitter rivalry, and a quarter-century of unspeakable horrors. Herbert West's crimes agai… read more

Similar categories in Pete Rawlik's Reanimators book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • lovecraftian
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Who Goes There?

By: William F. Nolan , John W. Campbell Jr.

3.80

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

"Who Goes There?" is the novella that formed the basis of John Carpenter's film The Thing. Campbell… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

By: John Langan

4.06

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemp… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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9. Dead Sea

By: Tim Curran

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

THE SEA NEVER GIVES UP HER DEAD Take a journey into a place unknown to humanity. A space between sp… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • fantasy

10. 14

By: Peter Clines

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Padlocked doors. Strange light fixtures. Mutant cockroaches. There are some odd things about Nate's… read more

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11. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's The Fisherman book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

12. Carter & Lovecraft

By: Jonathan L. Howard

4.32

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

The start of a thrilling supernatural series that brings the H.P. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-… read more

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13. City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris, #1)

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Michael Moorcock

3.87

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You h… read more

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14. Streams of Silver (Forgotten Realms: Icewind Dale, #2; Legend of Drizzt, #5)

By: R.A. Salvatore

3.37

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

"Yer eyes'll shine when ye see the rivers runnin' silver in Mithril Hall!" Bruenor the dwarf, Wulfg… read more

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15. The Wendigo

By: Algernon Blackwood

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Algernon Blackwood's classic tale, The Wendigo. An influential novella by one of the most best-know… read more

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16. Agents of Dreamland

By: Caitlín R. Kiernan

3.35

Format: None pages, ebook

A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning… read more

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17. Maeve Fly

By: C.J. Leede

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's Maeve Fly book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

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18. 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

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  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
" 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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19. 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

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Nestlings book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • 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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20. 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 Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. There Is No Antimemetics Division

By: qntm

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, disc… read more

Similar categories in qntm's There Is No Antimemetics Division book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day."

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending."

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine, to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two…"

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"We don't have an Antimemetics Division," Clay says. "Yes, you do. We do." O5-8 says, "We have a Memetics Division, a Telekontainment Division, Fire Services, Ops-A, Ops-B, Personnel, D-personnel and …"

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

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22. The Luminous Dead

By: Caitlin Starling

3.66

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • fiction
  • horror
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23. The Broken Places

By: Blaine Daigle

None

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

When Ryne Burdette inherits his family's old hunting cabin deep in the Yukon wilderness, he wants t… read more

Similar categories in Blaine Daigle's The Broken Places book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
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24. The Church Beneath the Roots

By: Felix Blackwell

4.25

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

Long before the events of Stolen Tongues… On the Cold Valley Indian Reservation, in the shadow of … read more

Similar categories in Felix Blackwell's The Church Beneath the Roots book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Terminus (Threshold, #4) by Peter Clines

25. Terminus (Threshold, #4)

By: Peter Clines

3.85

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Murdoch’s past has finally come crashing down on him. His former girlfriend. His Family. He’s been … read more

Similar categories in Peter Clines's Terminus (Threshold, #4) book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • lovecraftian
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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26. Head Like a Hole

By: Andrew Van Wey

3.85

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

When you bury your past make sure that it’s dead. It’s the mid-nineties. Grunge and flannel are … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Van Wey's Head Like a Hole book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. Sister, Maiden, Monster

By: Lucy A. Snyder

3.58

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transfo… read more

Similar categories in Lucy A. Snyder's Sister, Maiden, Monster book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • lovecraftian
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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28. Red Rabbit

By: Alex Grecian

4.18

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

A folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by d… read more

Similar categories in Alex Grecian's Red Rabbit book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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29. 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

Similar categories in Megan Stockton's Lovely, Dark & Deep book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1) by Hailey Piper

30. The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)

By: Hailey Piper

3.75

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

New York City, 1990: When you slip through the cracks, no one is there to catch you. Monique learns… read more

Similar categories in Hailey Piper's The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1) book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"She’s part of the nothing now."

-Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)

"I think death is what happens when anyone meets a god."

-Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)

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31. I Found a Circus Tent in the Woods Behind My House (I Found Horror)

By: Ben Farthing

3.77

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

Lost in a labyrinth of circus tents... Dave and his four-year-old, Jacob, find a circus tent in … read more

Similar categories in Ben Farthing's I Found a Circus Tent in the Woods Behind My House (I Found Horror) book and Brett J. Talley's That Which Should Not Be

  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror

25 best-selling fiction books like That Which Should Not Be by Brett J. Talley

Transform Your Habits

Ship of Fools

Richard Paul Russo

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Gone World

Tom Sweterlitsch

3.33

Transform Your Habits

The Black Farm

Elias Witherow , Thought Catalog

3.50

No One Gets Out Alive

Adam L.G. Nevill

4.50

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20 best-selling fiction books like Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede

Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

Transform Your Habits

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

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

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Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

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