16 must-read mystery books like Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes

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Where the Dead Wait

By: Ally Wilkes

3.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate an…

"Why would I want to die last?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

"Why would I want to die last?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

"You make a god of the things you fear or love. What could be more natural than that?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

"You make a god of the things you fear or love. What could be more natural than that?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

If you liked the mystery plot in Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. The Woodwitch

By: Stephen Gregory

4.81

Format: 539 pages,

Andrew Pinkney is a young English solicitor's clerk with boyish good looks and a gentle manner. But… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Gregory's The Woodwitch book and Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
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2. All the Fiends of Hell

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the mor… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's All the Fiends of Hell book and Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. 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

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) book and Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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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4. 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 Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"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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5. The Paleontologist

By: Luke Dumas

3.53

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

A haunted paleontologist returns to the museum where his sister was abducted years earlier and is f… read more

Similar categories in Luke Dumas's The Paleontologist book and Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"He had understood that, like the site of a nuclear tragedy, the place was uninhabitable for him now."

-Luke Dumas, The Paleontologist

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6. 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 Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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7. 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 Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
"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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8. 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 Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • survival
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
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9. A Haunting on the Hill

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.35

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hand's A Haunting on the Hill book and Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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10. Where the Dead Wait

By: Ally Wilkes

3.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate an… read more

Similar categories in Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait book and Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • gothic
  • survival
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Why would I want to die last?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

"You make a god of the things you fear or love. What could be more natural than that?"

-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait

Cover of Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes

11. 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 Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
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12. The Day of the Door

By: Laurel Hightower

4.13

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Once there were four Lasco siblings banded together against a world that failed to protect them. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's The Day of the Door book and Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Among the Living

By: Tim Lebbon

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestseller and author of Netflix’s The Silence comes a terrifying horror no… read more

Similar categories in Tim Lebbon's Among the Living book and Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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14. Indian Burial Ground

By: Nick Medina

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right an… read more

Similar categories in Nick Medina's Indian Burial Ground book and Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
"What happened in the cemetery causes us pain, not her. You understand that, don’t you?"

-Nick Medina, Indian Burial Ground

Cover of Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

15. 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 Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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16. The Bedmakers

By: Chad Lutzke

4.08

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

After two elderly men tire of their homelessness in downtown Chicago 1979, they hop a train in sear… read more

Similar categories in Chad Lutzke's The Bedmakers book and Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. 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 Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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18. The Parliament

By: Aimee Pokwatka

3.74

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

The Birds meets The Princess Bride in this tale of friendship, responsibility, and the primal force… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Pokwatka's The Parliament book and Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
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19. Heads Will Roll

By: Josh Winning

3.69

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Willow’s worst nightmare was being cancelled. But the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more tha… read more

Similar categories in Josh Winning's Heads Will Roll book and Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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20. Forgotten Sisters

By: Cynthia Pelayo

3.50

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

A city’s haunted history and fairy-tale horrors converge for two women in an addictive novel of psy… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Pelayo's Forgotten Sisters book and Ally Wilkes's Where the Dead Wait

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
"I can't speak. I can't think. words are water and everything melds into a sea of suffering."

-Cynthia Pelayo, Forgotten Sisters

"Some memories are far too painful to resuscitate, and so they remain floating somewhere in the depths of our hearts."

-Cynthia Pelayo, Forgotten Sisters

21 must-read fiction books like Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes

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The Woodwitch

Stephen Gregory

4.81

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All the Fiends of Hell

Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

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The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

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Nestlings

Nat Cassidy

3.86

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The House That Horror Built

Christina Henry

3.22

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Horror Movie

Paul Tremblay

3.45

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We Used to Live Here

Marcus Kliewer

3.84

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Bury Your Gays

Chuck Tingle

4.29

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