15 Best horror books like The Bog by Michael Talbot

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The Bog

By: Michael Talbot

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

To a small English village, it is a vast organic presence, as ancient as time itself and seething w…

If you liked the horror plot in The Bog by Michael Talbot , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6) by Terry Pratchett

1. Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.18

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingd… read more

Similar categories in Terry Pratchett's Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6) book and Michael Talbot's The Bog

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Bein’ human means judgin’ all the time,"

-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

"Do you understand what’s going on here?"

-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

"Everywhere I look, I see something holy."

-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

"Hah! The leopard does not change his shorts, my girl!"

-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

Cover of Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

2. Heart-Shaped Box

By: Joe Hill

3.84

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An aging death-metal rock god, Judas Coyne, is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals… read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box book and Michael Talbot's The Bog

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The dead pull the living down."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"You're a sympathetic sonofabitch, you know that?". "You want sympathy, go fuck James Taylor."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

Cover of Suffer the Children by John Saul

3. Suffer the Children

By: John Saul

3.72

Format: None pages,

Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found . One hundred years ago in Port Arbello a prett… read more

Similar categories in John Saul's Suffer the Children book and Michael Talbot's The Bog

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Last Days by Brian Evenson, Peter Straub

4. Last Days

By: Brian Evenson , Peter Straub

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Intense and profoundly unsettling, Brian Evenson's Last Daysis a down-the-rabbit-hole detective nov… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's Last Days book and Michael Talbot's The Bog

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5) by Terry Pratchett

5. Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.12

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork... ... a huge, rambling building, where masked figures and hooded … read more

Similar categories in Terry Pratchett's Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5) book and Michael Talbot's The Bog

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I AM IMPRESSED. “I have faith."

-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)

"You know, you're rather amusingly wrong."

-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)

"-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere."

-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)

"Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha! BEWARE!!!!! Yrs Sincerely, The Opera Ghost"

-Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)

Cover of Cold Moon Over Babylon by Michael McDowell

6. 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 Talbot's The Bog

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle

7. The Devil in Silver

By: Victor LaValle

4.10

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * The Washington Post * P… read more

Similar categories in Victor LaValle's The Devil in Silver book and Michael Talbot's The Bog

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. The Wicked

By: James Newman

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

AN ANCIENT EVIL RISES...BURNS...KILLS... After a fire consumes the Heller Home for Children, the re… read more

Similar categories in James Newman's The Wicked book and Michael Talbot's The Bog

  • fantasy
  • horror

9. Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches #4)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Discworld Novel. It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere-even on t… read more

Similar categories in Terry Pratchett's Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches #4) book and Michael Talbot's The Bog

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bog by Michael Talbot

10. The Bog

By: Michael Talbot

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

To a small English village, it is a vast organic presence, as ancient as time itself and seething w… read more

Similar categories in Michael Talbot's The Bog book and Michael Talbot's The Bog

  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

11. The King in Yellow

By: Robert W. Chambers

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more

Similar categories in Robert W. Chambers's The King in Yellow book and Michael Talbot's The Bog

  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

12. When Darkness Loves Us

By: Elizabeth Engstrom

4.50

Format: 60 pages,

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Similar categories in Elizabeth Engstrom's When Darkness Loves Us book and Michael Talbot's The Bog

13. The Happy Man: A Tale of Horror

By: Eric C. Higgs

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

From its profoundly unsettling first pages, The Happy Man, Eric C. Higg's' riveting vision of the n… read more

Similar categories in Eric C. Higgs's The Happy Man: A Tale of Horror book and Michael Talbot's The Bog

Cover of Boy's Life by Robert McCammon

14. Boy's Life

By: Robert McCammon

4.39

Format: 625 pages, Kindle Edition

An Alabama boy’s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the … read more

Similar categories in Robert McCammon's Boy's Life book and Michael Talbot's The Bog

  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end."

-Robert McCammon, Boy's Life

"After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation."

-Robert McCammon, Boy's Life

"See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in …"

-Robert McCammon, Boy's Life

Cover of Clown in a Cornfield (Clown in a Cornfield, #1) by Adam Cesare

15. Clown in a Cornfield (Clown in a Cornfield, #1)

By: Adam Cesare

3.74

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Quinn Maybrook just wants to make it until graduation. She might not make it to morning. Quinn a… read more

Similar categories in Adam Cesare's Clown in a Cornfield (Clown in a Cornfield, #1) book and Michael Talbot's The Bog

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Maggie's Grave by David Sodergren

16. 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 Michael Talbot's The Bog

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

17. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and Michael Talbot's The Bog

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. 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 Michael Talbot's The Bog

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It by Greg  Marshall

19. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

By: Greg Marshall

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets… read more

Similar categories in Greg Marshall's Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It book and Michael Talbot's The Bog

  • audiobook
Cover of The Loop by Jeremy Robert Johnson

20. The Loop

By: Jeremy Robert Johnson

3.41

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Stranger Things meets World War Z in this heart-racing conspiracy thriller as a lonely young woman … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Robert Johnson's The Loop book and Michael Talbot's The Bog

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Pack by David   Fisher

21. The Pack

By: David Fisher

3.39

Format: 213 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the August heat they frolicked on the beaches, fetched sticks, played with the children. Then… read more

Similar categories in David Fisher's The Pack book and Michael Talbot's The Bog

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror

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