14 must-read mystery books like Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3) by Laird Barron

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Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3)

By: Laird Barron

4.12

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Ex-Mob enforcer and now private investigator Isaiah Coleridge pits himself against a rich and power…

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Cover of Dark Hollow (Charlie Parker, #2) by John Connolly

1. Dark Hollow (Charlie Parker, #2)

By: John Connolly

4.16

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Dark Hollow is a masterful second novel from a young Irish writer whose storytelling skills were es… read more

Similar categories in John Connolly's Dark Hollow (Charlie Parker, #2) book and Laird Barron's Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"What's seldom is wonderful."

-John Connolly, Dark Hollow (Charlie Parker, #2)

"The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It's knowing that other folks around you suffer and, no matter what happens to you, no matter how luc…"

-John Connolly, Dark Hollow (Charlie Parker, #2)

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

2. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • 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)

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3. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • 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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4. 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 Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3)

  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In by Joe R. Lansdale, Andres Guinaldo

5. Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In

By: Joe R. Lansdale , Andres Guinaldo

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

When a group of friends decided to spend a day at the world's largest Drive-In theater horror fest,… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In book and Laird Barron's Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3)

  • fiction
  • horror
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6. 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

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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. 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

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  • 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

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8. 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

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  • 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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9. 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 Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3)

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

10. 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 Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"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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11. 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 Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3)

  • audiobook
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) by Alastair Reynolds

12. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.36

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) book and Laird Barron's Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."

-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

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13. Beneath a Pale Sky

By: Philip Fracassi

4.19

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Beneath a Pale Sky collects eight stories of horror, including two original novelettes, that will t… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky book and Laird Barron's Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3)

  • audiobook
  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3) by Laird Barron

14. Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3)

By: Laird Barron

4.12

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Ex-Mob enforcer and now private investigator Isaiah Coleridge pits himself against a rich and power… read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3) book and Laird Barron's Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • noir
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Child Alone With Strangers by Philip Fracassi

15. 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 Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. The Hollow Kind

By: Andy Davidson

3.59

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Andy Davidson's epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2) by Matt Ruff

17. The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2)

By: Matt Ruff

3.94

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

“Another virtuoso blend of horror, action, and humor. . . . Fans will find this a worthy sequel.”— … read more

Similar categories in Matt Ruff's The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2) book and Laird Barron's Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3)

  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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

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  • 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. 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 Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Small Town Horror by Ronald Malfi

20. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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22. Red Rabbit

By: Alex Grecian

4.18

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

A folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by d… read more

Similar categories in Alex Grecian's Red Rabbit book and Laird Barron's Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3)

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

23. 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

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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
Cover of Briardark (Briardark, #1) by S.A. Harian

24. 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

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  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves

25. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

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  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Inconsolables by Michael Wehunt

26. 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

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  • 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 Siege (The Boy in the Iron Box, #5) by Guillermo del Toro

27. Siege (The Boy in the Iron Box, #5)

By: Guillermo del Toro

4.07

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

The mercenaries set an explosive scheme in motion to blow this bad dream to smithereens. But in par… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Risen (The Boy in the Iron Box, #4) by Guillermo del Toro

28. Risen (The Boy in the Iron Box, #4)

By: Guillermo del Toro

4.02

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

What has been awakened is unbound. The Boy is getting his first taste of freedom. As their comrades… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hunted (The Boy in the Iron Box, #3) by Guillermo del Toro

29. The Hunted (The Boy in the Iron Box, #3)

By: Guillermo del Toro

4.08

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

Their radio is sabotaged. The wolves are gathering outside. And for the increasingly desperate merc… read more

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  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Pit and the Box (The Boy in the Iron Box, #2) by Guillermo del Toro

30. The Pit and the Box (The Boy in the Iron Box, #2)

By: Guillermo del Toro

4.03

Format: 27 pages, Kindle Edition

On an isolated mountain, a stone labyrinth provides rough shelter for a band of mercenaries. At its… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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 Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3)

  • fiction
  • horror

31 must-read fiction books like Worse Angels (Isaiah Coleridge, #3) by Laird Barron

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Dark Hollow (Charlie Parker, #2)

John Connolly

4.16

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The Killing Kind (Charlie Parker, #3)

John Connolly

4.22

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Falling Angel

James Crumley , William Hjortsberg , Ridley Scott

3.91

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Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

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18 Best fiction books like Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) by Alastair Reynolds

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Alastair Reynolds

4.36

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Europa Deep

Gary Gibson

4.17

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The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2)

Cory Doctorow

4.13

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