15 Best thriller books like The Folly by Gemma Amor

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The Folly

By: Gemma Amor

3.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Award nominated author Gemma Amor comes an atmospheric gothic …

If you liked the thriller plot in The Folly by Gemma Amor , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Children of the Dark

By: Jonathan Janz

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Will Burgess is used to hard knocks. Abandoned by his father, son of a drug-addicted mother, and ch… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Janz's Children of the Dark book and Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • horror
Cover of Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne

2. 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 Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • 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

Cover of The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry

4. 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 Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"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 The Folly by Gemma Amor

7. The Folly

By: Gemma Amor

3.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Award nominated author Gemma Amor comes an atmospheric gothic … read more

Similar categories in Gemma Amor's The Folly book and Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • ghost stories
Cover of The Day of the Door by Laurel Hightower

8. 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 Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • adult
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9. 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 Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Spin a Black Yarn

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the singular mind of the New York Ti… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Spin a Black Yarn book and Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

By: Sadie Hartmann

4.43

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

The Ultimate List of Must-Read Horror! Curious readers and fans of monsters and the macabre, get re… read more

Similar categories in Sadie Hartmann's 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered book and Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • adult
  • horror
"I love a good story about everyone dying."

-Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

Cover of Midnight on Beacon Street by Emily Ruth Verona

14. Midnight on Beacon Street

By: Emily Ruth Verona

2.88

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A suspenseful and entertaining debut thriller—and love letter to vintage horror movies—in which a t… read more

Similar categories in Emily Ruth Verona's Midnight on Beacon Street book and Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2) by Brian  McAuley

15. Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2)

By: Brian McAuley

4.12

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Oh what fun it is to DIE! When Austin’s parents drag him and his little sister Fiona to a remote… read more

Similar categories in Brian McAuley's Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2) book and Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of Eynhallow by Tim McGregor

16. Eynhallow

By: Tim McGregor

4.29

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 – Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island… read more

Similar categories in Tim McGregor's Eynhallow book and Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

17. 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 Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of American Rapture by C.J. Leede

18. American Rapture

By: C.J. Leede

4.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. Sop… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's American Rapture book and Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Stay on the Line by Clay McLeod Chapman

19. Stay on the Line

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

4.25

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

After a small coastal town is devastated by a hurricane, the survivors gravitate toward a long out-… read more

Similar categories in Clay McLeod Chapman's Stay on the Line book and Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
Cover of Heavy Oceans by Tyler    Jones

20. Heavy Oceans

By: Tyler Jones

4.01

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

From Tyler Jones, author of MIDAS and BURN THE PLANS, one of Esquire’s Best Horror Books of 2022, c… read more

Similar categories in Tyler Jones's Heavy Oceans book and Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson

21. Guillotine

By: Delilah S. Dawson

4.02

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

The Menu meets Ready of Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New … read more

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's Guillotine book and Gemma Amor's The Folly

  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook

19 Best fiction books like The Folly by Gemma Amor

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Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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The Haunting of Velkwood

Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

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The House That Horror Built

Christina Henry

3.22

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This Wretched Valley

Jenny Kiefer

3.33

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The Woodwitch

Stephen Gregory

4.81

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Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

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Nestlings

Nat Cassidy

3.86

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The Haunting of Velkwood

Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

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