28 Best fiction books like Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall

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Rules for Vanishing

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.76

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

In the faux-documentary style of The Blair Witch Project comes the campfire story of a missing girl…

"What happened in the dark?"

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

"What happened in the dark?"

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

"I cannot tell if I am lying."

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

"I cannot tell if I am lying."

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

If you liked the fiction plot in Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall , here is a list of 28 books like this:

Cover of The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

1. The Twisted Ones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.64

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds lo… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's The Twisted Ones book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"Perhaps Welsh fairies stole children and confiscated their vowels."

-T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

"It's a long drive. It's pretty, actually, if you go through West Virginia, but of course then you're in West Virginia."

-T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

Cover of Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie

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 Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
Cover of Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

3. Home Is Where the Bodies Are

By: Jeneva Rose

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here com… read more

Similar categories in Jeneva Rose's Home Is Where the Bodies Are book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

4. Sawkill Girls

By: Claire Legrand

3.67

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep. He’ll follow you home, and he won’t let you sleep. … read more

Similar categories in Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane"

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"She saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane."

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep. He'll follow you home and won't let you sleep"

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

"Beware the woods and the dark, dank, deep. He'll follow you home, and he won't let you sleep."

-Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

Cover of Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano

5. Dead Eleven

By: Jimmy Juliano

3.72

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, h… read more

Similar categories in Jimmy Juliano's Dead Eleven book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
Cover of Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall

6. Rules for Vanishing

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.76

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

In the faux-documentary style of The Blair Witch Project comes the campfire story of a missing girl… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • ghosts
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"What happened in the dark?"

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

"I cannot tell if I am lying."

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

"What do you wear when you go to meet a ghost?"

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

"Do you want to know where Lucy went? She went to play the game. You can play, too. Find a partner. Find a key. Find the road. You have two days."

-Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing

Cover of What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) by T. Kingfisher

7. 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 Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"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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8. The September House

By: Carissa Orlando

3.92

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this c… read more

Similar categories in Carissa Orlando's The September House book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
"the stars shone in the sky, reminding me there were calm constants everywhere"

-Carissa Orlando, The September House

"Hal was familiar with anger. He preferred it. It was like a warm blanket to him. Something soft, and smelling of home"

-Carissa Orlando, The September House

Cover of The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste

9. 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 Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
"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

Cover of Mister Magic by Kiersten White

10. 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 Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • paranormal
"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

11. 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 Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"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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12. 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 Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
Cover of How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

13. 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 Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
"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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14. The Spite House

By: Johnny Compton

3.53

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife,… read more

Similar categories in Johnny Compton's The Spite House book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
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15. The Invocations

By: Krystal Sutherland

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . . Zara Jones believes in magic because the… read more

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"What if Savannah had found whatever it was she sold a piece of her soul to go looking for."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?" "Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. Th…"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going …"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

Cover of Where He Can't Find You by Darcy Coates

16. Where He Can't Find You

By: Darcy Coates

3.98

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

From USA Today bestselling horror/thriller author Darcy Coates comes the chilling legend of a monst… read more

Similar categories in Darcy Coates's Where He Can't Find You book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
Cover of Four Found Dead by Natalie D. Richards

17. Four Found Dead

By: Natalie D. Richards

3.45

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

At the movie theater where Jo works, the last show has ended. But the nightmare is just beginning. … read more

Similar categories in Natalie D. Richards's Four Found Dead book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly  Jackson

18. The Reappearance of Rachel Price

By: Holly Jackson

4.13

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A new true-crime fueled mystery thriller about a girl determined to uncover the shocking truth abou… read more

Similar categories in Holly Jackson's The Reappearance of Rachel Price book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Family first", Bel said. Not a threat, but a promise."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"The people who loved you, the ones who really cared, they would always come back. Sometimes, they even came back from the dead."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"They hadn't had time to say one word to each other, which was fine, because it was hard to be rude to someone with just one word."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"A little insensitive", she whispered, loud enough that Bel and Carter could hear. "Giving the man with dementia a book called The Memory Thief."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

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19. The Lake House

By: Sarah Beth Durst

3.40

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

Claire’s grown up triple-checking locks. Counting her steps. Second-guessing every decision. It’s j… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Beth Durst's The Lake House book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of All the Dead Lie Down by Kyrie McCauley

20. All the Dead Lie Down

By: Kyrie McCauley

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Haunting of Bly Manor meets House of Salt and Sorrows in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s … read more

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's All the Dead Lie Down book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
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21. Harrow Lake

By: Kat Ellis

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The daughter of a horror film director is not afraid of anything--until she gets to Harrow Lake. … read more

Similar categories in Kat Ellis's Harrow Lake book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
"They stop looking. Everyone stops looking."

-Kat Ellis, Harrow Lake

"When you're alone in the dark, impossible things grow bones and flesh."

-Kat Ellis, Harrow Lake

"It was a very meta way to die — Optimal, even: to become a story while making one."

-Kat Ellis, Harrow Lake

"My mother believed in monsters. At least, I think she did. But what do I know about my mother really?"

-Kat Ellis, Harrow Lake

Cover of You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn  Bayron

22. You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.59

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

At Camp Mirror Lake, terror is the name of the game . . . but can you survive the night?This heart-… read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
"I turn my Black ass right around and book it back to my cabin, where I close and lock the door."

-Kalynn Bayron, You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

Cover of Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

23. 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 Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Murder Road by Simone St. James

24. Murder Road

By: Simone St. James

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deser… read more

Similar categories in Simone St. James's Murder Road book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
Cover of We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

25. We Used to Live Here

By: Marcus Kliewer

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Get Out meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original m… read more

Similar categories in Marcus Kliewer's We Used to Live Here book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
Cover of Briardark (Briardark, #1) by S.A. Harian

26. Briardark (Briardark, #1)

By: S.A. Harian

3.80

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

Survival and cosmic horror collide in this new series, perfect for fans of LOST and House of Leaves… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Harian's Briardark (Briardark, #1) book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
Cover of Middle of the Night by Riley Sager

27. Middle of the Night

By: Riley Sager

3.74

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must … read more

Similar categories in Riley Sager's Middle of the Night book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of That's Not My Name by Megan Lally

28. That's Not My Name

By: Megan Lally

4.12

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

She thought she had her life back. She was wrong. It was a mistake to trust him. Shivering and … read more

Similar categories in Megan Lally's That's Not My Name book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert

29. The Bad Ones

By: Melissa Albert

3.66

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Goddess, goddess, count to five In the morning, who’s alive? In the course of a single winter’s… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Albert's The Bad Ones book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"Let's say your the girl who saved your best friends life. The person who apparently kept her alive With your love and your constancey. With your steadfast disregard for the worser parts of her nature…"

-Melissa Albert, The Bad Ones

Cover of Burden Falls by Kat Ellis

30. Burden Falls

By: Kat Ellis

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Riverdale meets Stephen King in the terrifying new thriller from the author of Harrow Lake. The … read more

Similar categories in Kat Ellis's Burden Falls book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • mystery thriller
  • ghosts
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
Cover of The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh

31. The Girls Are Never Gone

By: Sarah Glenn Marsh

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Dare Chase doesn’t believe in ghosts. Privately, she’s a supernatural skeptic. But publicly, she… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Glenn Marsh's The Girls Are Never Gone book and Kate Alice Marshall's Rules for Vanishing

  • ghosts
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
"I wonder whether Atheleen or Scarlett used to stay up late into the night, listening for the scrape of something unseen against their walls, or wake up breathless from nightmares about this place - t…"

-Sarah Glenn Marsh, The Girls Are Never Gone

12 Best fantasy books like Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall

Transform Your Habits

The Twisted Ones

T. Kingfisher

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Episode Thirteen

Craig DiLouie

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Sawkill Girls

Claire Legrand

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Rules for Vanishing

Kate Alice Marshall

3.76

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20 Top fiction books like How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

Transform Your Habits

Episode Thirteen

Craig DiLouie

3.53

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The Only One Left

Riley Sager

4.14

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Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Jeneva Rose

3.86

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Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

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