20 Top horror books like My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1) by Stephen Graham Jones

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My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.54

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

You won’t find a more hardcore eighties-slasher-film fan than high school senior Jade Daniels. And …

"Some girls just don't know how to die."

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"Some girls just don't know how to die."

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"Some girls just don't know how to die."

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"Is it really winning if everybody dies?"

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

If you liked the horror plot in My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1) by Stephen Graham Jones , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. 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 Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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2. Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

3.53

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's Episode Thirteen book and Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus book and Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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5. My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.54

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

You won’t find a more hardcore eighties-slasher-film fan than high school senior Jade Daniels. And … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1) book and Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Some girls just don't know how to die."

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"Is it really winning if everybody dies?"

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"Horror's not a symptom, it's a love affair."

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

"We all become history at some point or another, right?"

-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

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6. 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 Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"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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7. The Reformatory

By: Tananarive Due

4.47

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sen… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's The Reformatory book and Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) by T. Kingfisher

8. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

3.89

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) book and Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

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9. 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 Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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10. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

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11. Mister Magic

By: Kiersten White

3.59

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and di… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Mister Magic book and Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Magic never forgets the taste of your friendship."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"This version of him isn't perfect. None of them are. New isn't the same as perfect. Growing up isn't inherently loss, it's just change."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"I think you've told me thank you more in the last day than anyone else has in years. It's like--when there's a stack of dishes, if my husband actually does them , I tell him thank you. But when I do …"

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

Cover of A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

12. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones book and Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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13. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley book and Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Black Sheep

By: Rachel Harrison

3.60

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irr… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's Black Sheep book and Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?"

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

"I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch."

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

Cover of How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

15. How to Sell a Haunted House

By: Grady Hendrix

3.68

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—a… read more

Similar categories in Grady Hendrix's How to Sell a Haunted House book and Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Nice clean cut," Santos said, and Louise almost said thank you but managed to stop herself."

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

"Mom and Dad could've done it," he said. "They were grown-ups. We're just . . . tall children."

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

"But if we weren’t related, if we met today, we wouldn’t choose to be friends. We’re different people with different values, and we’re also adults who can choose who we want to spend our time with…"

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

"There were so many dolls in there, waiting for her. Somewhere, in a less rational part of her brain, Louise felt that nothing could look so human and exist for so long without starting to develop tho…"

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

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16. The Pallbearers Club

By: Paul Tremblay

3.10

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable—and unsettling—friendship, with blo… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Pallbearers Club book and Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Silver Nitrate book and Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. 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

Similar categories in Jordan Peele's Out There Screaming book and Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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19. 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 Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. 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 Stephen Graham Jones's My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook

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C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

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Chuck Tingle

3.94

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My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)

Stephen Graham Jones

3.54

Transform Your Habits

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Nat Cassidy

3.86

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Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

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