15 Top fantasy books like Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due

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Ghost Summer

By: Tananarive Due

4.20

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, Amer…

"Letitia knew words were only part of who people were, and usually the least important part."

-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer

"Letitia knew words were only part of who people were, and usually the least important part."

-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer

"Letitia knew words were only part of who people were, and usually the least important part."

-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer

"She had learned long ago that the truth made people angry, and to speak of it was considered evil."

-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer

If you liked the fantasy plot in Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. After the People Lights Have Gone Off

By: Joe R. Lansdale , Stephen Graham Jones , None

3.68

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

This collection of fifteen stories taps into the horrors and fears of the supernatural as well as t… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Each moment, the world washes its hands of you, starts all over again. Easy as that. Wonderful as that."

-Joe R. Lansdale, After the People Lights Have Gone Off

"Thinking the bad instead of the good, defaulting to disaster instead of joy, letting the world infect you. And you know better. That's no way to live."

-Joe R. Lansdale, After the People Lights Have Gone Off

"That had been his secret Indian Trick to hunting, back then: to not hunt. The same way you never find your wallet when you're actually looking for it. Just, keep a rifle with you."

-Joe R. Lansdale, After the People Lights Have Gone Off

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2. Kabu Kabu

By: Nnedi Okorafor , Alan Dean Foster , Whoopi Goldberg

3.99

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Kabu Kabu - unregistered, illegal Nigerian taxis - generally get you where you need to go, but Nned… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Two footsteps do not make a path."

-Nnedi Okorafor, Kabu Kabu

"The Magical Negro rested his red cane on his shoulder and leisurely strolled into the forest to see if he could find him some hobbits, castles, dragons, princesses, and all that other shit."

-Nnedi Okorafor, Kabu Kabu

"We all must travel,' the driver said, keeping his eyes on the way ahead. His hands grasped the wheel firmly. 'It is the essence of all things, to move and change and keep going forward and backward a…"

-Nnedi Okorafor, Kabu Kabu

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3. Dark Corner

By: Brandon Massey

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From Brandon Massey, award-winning author of Thunderland, comes a terrifying new novel about a town… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Massey's Dark Corner book and Tananarive Due's Ghost Summer

  • paranormal
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

4. Within the Shadows

By: Brandon Massey

3.94

Format: 450 pages, Paperback

Be Careful What You Wish For At just thirty-one, Andrew Wilson has it all: close friends, a great h… read more

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5. Engraved on the Eye

By: Saladin Ahmed

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

Stories to Captivate the Imagination: Welcome to the worlds of Saladin Ahmed A medieval physician a… read more

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6. Don't Ever Tell

By: Brandon Massey

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dark Secrets... With a new identity, a new city to live in, and a wonderful new husband, Rachel Moo… read more

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7. Ghost Summer

By: Tananarive Due

4.20

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, Amer… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's Ghost Summer book and Tananarive Due's Ghost Summer

  • short story collection
  • ghosts
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"Letitia knew words were only part of who people were, and usually the least important part."

-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer

"She had learned long ago that the truth made people angry, and to speak of it was considered evil."

-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer

"In a cold place, there's no such thing as today, just tomorrow. Will it snow tomorrow? Will it be sunny tomorrow?"

-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer

"...you know everybody has a turn, and you just try to find something interesting every day to make you glad it hasn't happened yet."

-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer

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8. 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

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  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • thriller
  • horror
  • 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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9. Fırın Saldırısı

By: Haruki Murakami

3.50

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

Haruki Murakami’den açlık ve suçun doğası üzerine tuhaf, gizemli ve yer yer komik bir suç öyküsü… … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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10. Apex Magazine, Issue 120 May 2019

By: Jason Sizemore

3.59

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

Apex Magazine is an award-winning digital genre zine of short fiction. EDITORIAL Our Audacity by M… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. 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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  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
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12. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

Similar categories in Shane Hawk's Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology book and Tananarive Due's Ghost Summer

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • paranormal
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13. 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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  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • paranormal
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14. Lone Women

By: Victor LaValle

3.72

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more

Similar categories in Victor LaValle's Lone Women book and Tananarive Due's Ghost Summer

  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

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15. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • paranormal
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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16. Linghun

By: Ai Jiang

3.96

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

WELCOME HOME. Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian… read more

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  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"In HOME, Liam was a dream. Here, he's a flawed but beautiful reality. Whispers of our future together lull us both into a dreamless sleep. It's the first time we find such emptiness comforting."

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

"Feelings, emotions, experiences, are all part of humanity's shared language, and in Linghun, that shared language is grief. Grief is a language that tears us apart, but it is also what brings us toge…"

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

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17. 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

By: Sadie Hartmann

4.43

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

The Ultimate List of Must-Read Horror! Curious readers and fans of monsters and the macabre, get re… read more

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  • paranormal
  • anthologies
  • horror
"I love a good story about everyone dying."

-Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

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18. Nana

By: Brandon Massey

3.69

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

Missing for her daughter's entire life, Grace now wants to be called "Nana." And that's not all she… read more

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  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology by Circe Moskowitz

19. All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology

By: Circe Moskowitz

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the Dark. We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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20. We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2)

By: Cadwell Turnbull

4.00

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

In We Are the Crisis—the second book in the Convergence Saga from award-winning author Cadwell Turn… read more

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  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • science fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of The Black Girl Survives in This One by Desiree S. Evans

21. The Black Girl Survives in This One

By: Desiree S. Evans

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one. Celebrating a new generation of bes… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy

17 must-read fiction books like Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due

Transform Your Habits

After the People Lights Have Gone Off

Joe R. Lansdale , Stephen Graham Jones , None

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Kabu Kabu

Nnedi Okorafor , Alan Dean Foster , Whoopi Goldberg

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Dark Corner

Brandon Massey

0.00

Transform Your Habits

Ghost Summer

Tananarive Due

4.20

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21 must-read fiction books like All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology by Circe Moskowitz

Transform Your Habits

The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

Tananarive Due

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

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Out There Screaming

Jordan Peele

3.79

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Tender Beasts

Liselle Sambury

3.90

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