9 Best weird fiction books like Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2) by Laird Barron

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Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

By: Laird Barron

3.99

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Ex-mob enforcer Isaiah Coledrige has hung out a shingle as a private eye in New York's Hudson Valle…

"God lit a candle and then made us. He was afraid of being alone in the dark."

-Laird Barron, Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

"God lit a candle and then made us. He was afraid of being alone in the dark."

-Laird Barron, Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

"I'm a wary believer in signs and portents. The universe is always muttering threats."

-Laird Barron, Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

"I'm a wary believer in signs and portents. The universe is always muttering threats."

-Laird Barron, Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

If you liked the weird fiction plot in Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2) by Laird Barron , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Killing Kind (Charlie Parker, #3) by John Connolly

1. The Killing Kind (Charlie Parker, #3)

By: John Connolly

4.22

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

When the discovery of a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the grim truth behind the disappearanc… read more

Similar categories in John Connolly's The Killing Kind (Charlie Parker, #3) book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"..her lips were as red as a stop light.."

-John Connolly, The Killing Kind (Charlie Parker, #3)

"The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness."

-John Connolly, The Killing Kind (Charlie Parker, #3)

"There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking to stretch across the abyss and make fatal contact…"

-John Connolly, The Killing Kind (Charlie Parker, #3)

"It was my first glimpse of the honeycomb world, my first inkling that the past never truly dies but is strangely, beautifully alive in the present. There is an interconnectedness to all things, a lin…"

-John Connolly, The Killing Kind (Charlie Parker, #3)

Cover of The Black Angel (Charlie Parker, #5) by John Connolly

2. The Black Angel (Charlie Parker, #5)

By: John Connolly

4.16

Format: 576 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When a young woman disappears from the streets of New York City, ties of friendship and blood inevi… read more

Similar categories in John Connolly's The Black Angel (Charlie Parker, #5) book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"But what of the lives that I had taken? Was I not equally culpable, and was that not why there now so many names, of both good men and bad, carved upon that palimpsest I bore, and for each of which I…"

-John Connolly, The Black Angel (Charlie Parker, #5)

"Theirs was a human evil, a product of their own flawed natures. Faulty genetics might have played a part in what they became, or childhood abuse. Tiny blood vessels in the brain corrupting, or little…"

-John Connolly, The Black Angel (Charlie Parker, #5)

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3. A Collapse of Horses

By: Brian Evenson

4.02

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

A stuffed bear's heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby; Reno keeps receding to the east no mat… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's A Collapse of Horses book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • mystery
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"Every time you think you have the world figured, trust me, that’s just when the world’s got you figured and is about to spring and break your back"

-Brian Evenson, A Collapse of Horses

Cover of Falling Angel by James Crumley, William Hjortsberg, Ridley Scott

4. Falling Angel

By: James Crumley , William Hjortsberg , Ridley Scott

3.91

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of murder, mystery, and the occult, Falling Angel pits a tough New York privat… read more

Similar categories in James Crumley's Falling Angel book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Her wavy, shoulder-length hair was the colour of polished mahogany."

-James Crumley, Falling Angel

"I like your eyes when you get mad," I said. "They glow like embers."

-James Crumley, Falling Angel

"I was examining the perfumed, coloured candles guaranteed to bring good fortune with continued use when a lovely mocha-skinned girl came in from the back room and stood behind the counter. She wore a…"

-James Crumley, Falling Angel

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5. The Gone World

By: Tom Sweterlitsch

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Inception meets True Detective in this science-fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and stagger… read more

Similar categories in Tom Sweterlitsch's The Gone World book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Jeff VanderMeer, Thomas Ligotti

6. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" (TheWashington Pos… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Experimental Film

By: Gemma Files

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Experimental Film is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois … read more

Similar categories in Gemma Files's Experimental Film book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
"Because stories lie hidden inside other stories, and we always know more about any given thing than we think we do, even if the only thing we think we know is nothing."

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"You could argue—as I have more than enough times, as part of my Film History lecture—that, no matter its actual narrative content, every movie is a ghost story. A film's production forms a time capsu…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in s…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"We're storytelling creatures. Give us a bunch of seemingly random images and we will try to organize them into a linear progression: tree, apple, head, bruise, gravity . . . a man sat under a tree, a…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

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8. The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

By: John Langan

4.06

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemp… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud

9. North American Lake Monsters

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.97

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous exp… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's North American Lake Monsters book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"He imagined the room bathed in blood, himself striding through it, a raven amongst the carcasses. Strutting like any carrion king."

-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

"A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost end…"

-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

"Sounds rose from the earth. New sounds: cobwebs of exhalations, pauses of the heart, the monastic work of the worms translating flesh to soil, the slow crawl of rock. There was another kind of indust…"

-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

Cover of They Lurk by Ronald Malfi

10. They Lurk

By: Ronald Malfi

3.79

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

COME CLOSER . . . Five terrifying collected horror novellas newly reissued from the "modern-day … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's They Lurk book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror

11. Sacculina

By: Philip Fracassi

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

When Jim's big brother Jack is released from prison, the brothers - along with their broken father … read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Sacculina book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

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12. Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Boys in the Valley book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

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13. 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 Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • lovecraftian
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) by Stephen Graham Jones

14. 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 Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"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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15. Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2) by Laird Barron

16. Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

By: Laird Barron

3.99

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Ex-mob enforcer Isaiah Coledrige has hung out a shingle as a private eye in New York's Hudson Valle… read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2) book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • noir
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"God lit a candle and then made us. He was afraid of being alone in the dark."

-Laird Barron, Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

"I'm a wary believer in signs and portents. The universe is always muttering threats."

-Laird Barron, Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

Cover of A Child Alone With Strangers by Philip Fracassi

17. A Child Alone With Strangers

By: Philip Fracassi

4.28

Format: 575 pages, Hardcover

When the young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by mile… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's A Child Alone With Strangers book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Sefira and Other Betrayals by John  Langan

18. Sefira and Other Betrayals

By: John Langan

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN: 1614981922 (ISBN13: 9781614981923) John Langan’s new book is c… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's Sefira and Other Betrayals book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • lovecraftian
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"The dread, blank as water, was that she had not yet heard the worst of Victoria's story, a groundless anxiety that, the instant she recognized it, she knew was true."

-John Langan, Sefira and Other Betrayals

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19. Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

By: Brian Evenson

3.89

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome le… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
" The world is a strange place , thought Haupt, alone in the dark, almost unbearably so. And yet, it is the only place I have. And I'm not even entirely sure I have it. "

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

"We did speak, occasionally, but gestured more often than moved our lips, and in general lived in that brusque and silent accord enjoyed, if enjoyed is the right word, by certain long-married couples."

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

"And there's another one, where you look yourself in the mirror and keep looking until you can see through your skin, and then you draw your own heart and send the drawing in a letter to someone else.…"

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

Cover of Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus by Stephen Graham Jones

20. Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.66

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw makes his… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Beast You Are: Stories by Paul Tremblay

21. The Beast You Are: Stories

By: Paul Tremblay

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of  The Pallbearers Club ,  A He… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Beast You Are: Stories book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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22. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • fiction
  • horror
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23. 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 Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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24. 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 Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson

25. The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

By: Brian Evenson

4.10

Format: 254 pages, ebook

“Here is how monstrous humans are.” A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurkin… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies by John  Langan

26. Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

By: John Langan

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Moon Lake (East Texas Gothic) by Joe R. Lansdale

27. Moon Lake (East Texas Gothic)

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.77

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

From an Edgar award-winning author comes the gripping and unexpected tale of a lost town and the da… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's Moon Lake (East Texas Gothic) book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by John Hornor Jacobs

28. A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

By: John Hornor Jacobs

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales—b… read more

Similar categories in John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
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29. The Inconsolables

By: Michael Wehunt

4.24

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

In his first collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt introduced the world to his singular voic… read more

Similar categories in Michael Wehunt's The Inconsolables book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • fiction
  • horror
"Well, my wife and child have moved out," Fulton told him, "and I've gotten back into vampires to fill the hole they left behind."

-Michael Wehunt, The Inconsolables

Cover of House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias

30. House of Bone and Rain

By: Gabino Iglesias

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME… read more

Similar categories in Gabino Iglesias's House of Bone and Rain book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) by Nathan Ballingrud

31. Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into th… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) book and Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

  • fiction
  • horror

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John Connolly

4.22

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John Connolly

4.16

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A Collapse of Horses

Brian Evenson

4.02

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Jon Padgett

3.90

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Brian Evenson

4.02

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Laird Barron

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