5 Top gothic books like Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne

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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…

If you liked the gothic plot in Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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2. 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 Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • 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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3. 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 Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • gothic
  • 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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5. The House That Horror Built

By: Christina Henry

3.22

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifyi… read more

Similar categories in Christina Henry's The House That Horror Built book and Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • 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

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8. The Gathering

By: C.J. Tudor

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secret… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Tudor's The Gathering book and Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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9. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

Similar categories in Johanna van Veen's My Darling Dreadful Thing book and Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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10. Ghost Station

By: S.A. Barnes

3.57

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Barnes's Ghost Station book and Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Small Town Horror

By: Ronald Malfi

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Small Town Horror book and Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The House of Last Resort

By: Christopher Golden

3.20

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

The next high concept horror novel from NYT bestselling author Christopher Golden. Across Italy,… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Golden's The House of Last Resort book and Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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14. 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 Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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18. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. 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 Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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20. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola

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

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3.86

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