9 must-read thriller books like Cold Moon Over Babylon by Michael McDowell

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Cold Moon Over Babylon

By: Michael McDowell

3.99

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Terror grows in Babylon, a typical sleepy Southern town with its throbbing sun and fog-shrouded swa…

If you liked the thriller plot in Cold Moon Over Babylon by Michael McDowell , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Wylding Hall

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.80

Format: 176 pages, ebook

When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their u… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hand's Wylding Hall book and Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon

  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"But mostly I'm just respectful of old ways. I believe things for a reason, and in the old days they did things for a reason. And if you don't understand why—well, you might end up opening a few doors…"

-Elizabeth Hand, Wylding Hall

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2. Harvest Home

By: Thomas Tryon

3.82

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

It was almost as if time had not touched the village of Cornwall Coombe. The quiet, peaceful place … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Tryon's Harvest Home book and Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
"His heart's in the right place, but his tongue's an affliction."

-Thomas Tryon, Harvest Home

3. Candles Burning

By: Michael McDowell , Tabitha King

3.97

Format: 112 pages,

After her father's horrific murder, Calley Dakin and her mother find themselves exiled to Pensacola… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's Candles Burning book and Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon

  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • southern gothic
  • paranormal
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4. Cold Moon Over Babylon

By: Michael McDowell

3.99

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Terror grows in Babylon, a typical sleepy Southern town with its throbbing sun and fog-shrouded swa… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon book and Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon

  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • southern gothic
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook

5. Black Ambrosia

By: Elizabeth Engstrom

3.50

Format: None pages,

Angelina is a killer. You'd never know it to look at her--until you look into her eyes. Angelina do… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Engstrom's Black Ambrosia book and Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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6. North American Lake Monsters

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.97

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous exp… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's North American Lake Monsters book and Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon

  • fiction
  • horror
"He imagined the room bathed in blood, himself striding through it, a raven amongst the carcasses. Strutting like any carrion king."

-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

"A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost end…"

-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

"Sounds rose from the earth. New sounds: cobwebs of exhalations, pauses of the heart, the monastic work of the worms translating flesh to soil, the slow crawl of rock. There was another kind of indust…"

-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

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7. Maynard's House

By: Herman Raucher

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Austin Fletcher, a disturbed young Vietnam War vet, is willed a small house deep in the woods of no… read more

Similar categories in Herman Raucher's Maynard's House book and Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • paranormal
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8. 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 Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • audiobook
"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

9. The Auctioneer

By: Ed Gorman , Joan Samson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Harrowing tensions explode in a series of events that could happen anywhere, to anyone, just as the… read more

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10. Elizabeth

By: None

4.36

Format: 303 pages,

From the flyleaf: Elizabeth thought that she was a young girl like any other girl - until the day t… read more

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11. When Darkness Loves Us

By: Elizabeth Engstrom

4.50

Format: 60 pages,

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12. Ghoul

By: Brian Keene

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

June 1984. Timmy Graco is looking forward to summer vacation, taking it easy and hanging out with h… read more

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13. In a Lonely Place

By: Karl Edward Wagner

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: xi * Introduction * Peter Straub * in 1 * Prologue to In the Pines ["Lonely Places"] * vi… read more

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14. 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 Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"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

15. Burnt Offerings

By: Robert Marasco

3.74

Format: 646 pages, Hardcover

Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so… read more

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16. The Haar

By: David Sodergren

4.17

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's The Haar book and Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon

  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi

17. 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 Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
" 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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18. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's You Like It Darker book and Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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19. A Child Alone With Strangers

By: Philip Fracassi

4.28

Format: 575 pages, Hardcover

When the young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by mile… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's A Child Alone With Strangers book and Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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20. Hell Hound

By: Ken Greenhall

3.91

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

‘What are the possibilities of my strength? That is a thought I have never had before. What if some… read more

Similar categories in Ken Greenhall's Hell Hound book and Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
"Does everyone have to have an obsession?' 'Certainly. It's your choice of one that determines whether you're sane or not."

-Ken Greenhall, Hell Hound

"As Jason drove through the twilight he wondered weather people really could love animals. No, he thought. What they love is themselves; a part of themselves they see reflected in the animal."

-Ken Greenhall, Hell Hound

"Trust is the ultimate weakness and a kind of madness.... It may be inevitable that anyone who lives in the town, even I, must become afflicted with moments of trust. It is something one must accept. …"

-Ken Greenhall, Hell Hound

Cover of Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

21. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House book and Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook

15 best-selling fiction books like Cold Moon Over Babylon by Michael McDowell

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Wylding Hall

Elizabeth Hand

3.80

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Thomas Tryon

3.82

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3.97

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Michael McDowell

3.99

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Wicked Stepmother

Michael McDowell , Dennis Schuetz , Axel Young

3.69

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James Herbert

3.90

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Bentley Little

3.66

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Michael McDowell

4.01

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