8 must-read thriller books like Floating Dragon by Peter Straub

Floating Dragon

By: Peter Straub

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Two monstrous evils. This quiet suburban town of Hampstead is threatened by two horrors. One is nat…

If you liked the thriller plot in Floating Dragon by Peter Straub , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Weekend by Christopher Pike

1. Weekend

By: Christopher Pike

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A brief vacation trip to a beautiful oceanside mansion in Mexico is turned into a nightmare by a my… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • suspense
  • horror
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2. Danse Macabre

By: Stephen King

4.20

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

The author whose boundless imagination & storytelling powers have redefined the horror genre, from … read more

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  • horror
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3. Black House (The Talisman, #2)

By: Stephen King , Peter Straub

3.93

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories t… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy

4. The Necromancer's House

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.40

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

Christopher Buehlman's new novel--one of uncommon horrors hiding behind the walls of the house next… read more

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  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

5. Floating Dragon

By: Peter Straub

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Two monstrous evils. This quiet suburban town of Hampstead is threatened by two horrors. One is nat… read more

Similar categories in Peter Straub's Floating Dragon book and Peter Straub's Floating Dragon

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
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6. Swan Song

By: Robert McCammon

4.10

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth'… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. A Winter Haunting

By: Dan Simmons

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marr… read more

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  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

8. Disappearance at Devil's Rock

By: Paul Tremblay

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy in this eerie ta… read more

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9. 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

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
"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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10. Children of the Dark

By: Jonathan Janz

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Will Burgess is used to hard knocks. Abandoned by his father, son of a drug-addicted mother, and ch… read more

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  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • horror

11. The Talisman (The Talisman, #1)

By: Stephen King , Peter Straub

4.12

Format: 652 pages,

On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a sile… read more

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12. The Mailman

By: Bentley Little

4.50

Format: 34 pages, Hardcover

It's the first day of summer in a small American town. We meet a school teacher, his wife, and thei… read more

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13. Triplanetary (Lensman, #1)

By: E.E. "Doc" Smith , None

3.43

Format: 232 pages,

Eddore and Arisia fought desperately to control the Universe. The ultimate battleground was a tiny,… read more

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14. Three Past Midnight: The Library Policeman

By: Stephen King , Ken Howard

4.14

Format: 200 pages,

This is the third gripping tale in the four-part audio series from Stephen King's best-selling book… read more

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15. The Ceremonies

By: T.E.D. Klein

3.86

Format: None pages,

Jeremy Freirs is a graduate student and teacher who decides to spend his summer working on his diss… read more

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16. Mr. Murder

By: Dean Koontz

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Martin Stillwater has a vivid imagination. It charms his loving wife, delights his two little daugh… read more

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17. Weaveworld

By: Clive Barker

4.00

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Clive Barker has made his mark on modern fiction by exposing all that is surreal and magical in the… read more

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18. The Damnation Game

By: Clive Barker

3.95

Format: 132 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There are things worse than death. There are games so seductively evil, so wondrously vile, no gamb… read more

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

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) book and Peter Straub's Floating Dragon

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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20. 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

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  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. The Handyman Method

By: Nick Cutter

3.27

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror. When a y… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • supernatural
"When prey dies in fear, hunters will say the meat tastes bitter."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"What of happiness, then? May we speak of the taste of joyful meat?"

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"Old memories were like land mines: dormant, forgotten, but forever deadly."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

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Weekend

Christopher Pike

3.66

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Black House (The Talisman, #2)

Stephen King , Peter Straub

3.93

The Necromancer's House

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4.40

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Peter Straub

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Blaze

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3.76

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Rage

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.73

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Jack Finney

3.89

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Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

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