21 must-read horror books like Crossroads by Laurel Hightower

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Crossroads

By: Laurel Hightower

3.91

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

How far would you go to bring back someone you love? When Chris's son dies in a tragic car cras…

"Exhausted, but not tired enough to escape the torturous loop of pain that awaited her inactive brain..."

-Laurel Hightower, Crossroads

If you liked the horror plot in Crossroads by Laurel Hightower , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Sour Candy

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

3.65

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different … read more

Similar categories in Kealan Patrick Burke's Sour Candy book and Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton's teeth fell out."

-Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

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2. Come Closer

By: Sara Gran

3.65

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more

Similar categories in Sara Gran's Come Closer book and Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

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3. Maeve Fly

By: C.J. Leede

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's Maeve Fly book and Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

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4. This Is Where We Talk Things Out

By: Caitlin Marceau

3.77

Format: 93 pages, ebook

This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contempo… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Marceau's This Is Where We Talk Things Out book and Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
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5. 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 Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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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6. Gone to See the River Man

By: Kristopher Triana

3.67

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Super fans. Groupies. Stalkers. These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be t… read more

Similar categories in Kristopher Triana's Gone to See the River Man book and Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"That didn't matter, though. Her thoughts toward her were entirely justified. They'd always been there, but were suppressed by a guilt she'd now began to think she never should have felt in the first …"

-Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

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7. 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 Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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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 Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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9. We Need to Do Something

By: Max Booth III

3.42

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM IFC … read more

Similar categories in Max Booth III's We Need to Do Something book and Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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10. Goddess of Filth

By: V. Castro

3.63

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

“Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash som… read more

Similar categories in V. Castro's Goddess of Filth book and Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Why the black lipstick? Is this goddess a Goth?"

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

"I have traveled a long way through light and volatile stardust. The stars in the night sky are moth holes in space-time and the bodies of the larvae between each hole are the means of travel"

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

"Be smart, but not too smart. Be beautiful, but not so pretty as to make other females mad. Be successful, but not bossy or overly ambitious. Nobody likes a mouthy brown woman. Be a declawed kitten."

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

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11. Crossroads

By: Laurel Hightower

3.91

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

How far would you go to bring back someone you love? When Chris's son dies in a tragic car cras… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's Crossroads book and Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Exhausted, but not tired enough to escape the torturous loop of pain that awaited her inactive brain..."

-Laurel Hightower, Crossroads

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12. The Laws of the Skies

By: Grégoire Courtois

3.39

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None o… read more

Similar categories in Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies book and Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"because it was him and him alone she didn't want to disappoint."

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"Was there nothing left in this world that was worth opening your eyes and fighting for?"

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"Even he who deserves to die, who deserves to be killed, doesn't deserve to be killed like that."

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"But she was in love, head over heels in love the way you are at age six, without knowing that this love would be as fleeting as it was powerful, and as powerful as it was secret, and misunderstood, a…"

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

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13. Bloom

By: Delilah S. Dawson

3.90

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella from the New York… read more

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's Bloom book and Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. 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 Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Any Man

By: Amber Tamblyn

3.86

Format: 288 pages, ebook

In her blazingly original and unforgettable debut novel "Any Man", Amber Tamblyn brings to startlin… read more

Similar categories in Amber Tamblyn's Any Man book and Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"People who live through sexual assault are a crash on the side of the road, and the American media is nothing more than cars slowing down just long enough to take a peek."

-Amber Tamblyn, Any Man

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16. The Clown Brigade

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.51

Format: 100 pages, Audiobook

It’s a brand-new day for Kyle: He’s flying across the country to meet a woman he connected with onl… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Clown Brigade book and Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces

By: Eric LaRocca

3.59

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the viral sensation Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes They Were… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces book and Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. Dear Laura

By: Gemma Amor

3.61

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

Every year, on her birthday, Laura gets a letter from a stranger. That stranger claims to know the … read more

Similar categories in Gemma Amor's Dear Laura book and Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. 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 Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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20. 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 Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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21. 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 Laurel Hightower's Crossroads

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

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Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Nestlings

Nat Cassidy

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Gone to See the River Man

Kristopher Triana

3.67

Transform Your Habits

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3.95

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This Is Where We Talk Things Out

Caitlin Marceau

3.77

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Jon Athan

3.95

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L.M. Kaplin

3.96

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Angel N. Van Atta

4.33

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