12 Best horror books like Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn

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Flowers for the Sea

By: Zin E. Rocklyn

3.43

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Flowers for the Sea is a dark, dazzling debut novella that reads like Rosemary's Baby by way of Oct…

If you liked the horror plot in Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Ballad of Black Tom

By: Victor LaValle

3.85

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more

Similar categories in Victor LaValle's The Ballad of Black Tom book and Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I wish I’d been more like my father,"

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

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2. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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3. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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4. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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5. Untethered Sky

By: Fonda Lee

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about… read more

Similar categories in Fonda Lee's Untethered Sky book and Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"I know this as much as God knows every creature, because I once thought there was no reason for me to be alive, no logic to survival, no meaning to be found past endurance of loss, yet there was."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

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6. 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 Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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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7. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) book and Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn

8. Flowers for the Sea

By: Zin E. Rocklyn

3.43

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Flowers for the Sea is a dark, dazzling debut novella that reads like Rosemary's Baby by way of Oct… read more

Similar categories in Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea book and Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • gothic
  • novella
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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9. The Scourge Between Stars

By: Ness Brown

3.59

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more

Similar categories in Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars book and Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 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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11. And What Can We Offer You Tonight

By: Premee Mohamed

3.60

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's And What Can We Offer You Tonight book and Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • novella
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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12. The Necessity of Stars

By: E. Catherine Tobler

3.79

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Plagued by the creeping loss of her memory, diplomat Bréone Hemmerli continues to negotiate peace i… read more

Similar categories in E. Catherine Tobler's The Necessity of Stars book and Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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13. Fireheart Tiger

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.40

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard returns with a powerful romantic fantasy that reads like The… read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's Fireheart Tiger book and Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Ssshhh. It's all right." And does it matter that it's not, if it gets them through the night?"

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

"Anyway, the fire doesn't matter. There will be other fires, my love, and we will survive them all."

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

"She says--because darkness needs to be faced, needs to be denied--"You would have given me so much, in exchange for me giving up everything."

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

"If love is what it takes to make her remember a girl in the midst of a fire, then how much can you trust her? How much can you trust that love?"

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

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14. The Past Is Red

By: Catherynne M. Valente

4.11

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Catherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Ci… read more

Similar categories in Catherynne M. Valente's The Past Is Red book and Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • novella
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The day I met her I knew I was never gonna be the girl from before I heard her voice ever again."

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

"The kind of hope I have doesn’t begin and end with demanding everything go back to the way it was when it can’t, it can’t ever, that’s not how time works."

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

"But you can't ever imagine what you're going to care about when you turn into the version of you that’s waiting on the other side of five years from now. That’s a stranger waiting to ambush you, and …"

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

"She listens, and I wish I could give her a little gold trophy for it, but I can’t, because of all the things Fuckwits gave trophies for, they never thought listening like nothing exists but time and …"

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

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15. And Then I Woke Up

By: Malcolm Devlin

3.48

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Mira Grant and Stephen Graham Jones, Malcolm Devlin’s And Then I Woke Up is a c… read more

Similar categories in Malcolm Devlin's And Then I Woke Up book and Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We were monsters once, and although we are not anymore, we know we remain unforgiven."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

". . . it’s those differences — even the smallest and most trivial — that scare us the most."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

"Relationships aren't scientific, they're not mathematical. They're chaotic, abstract, irrational."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

"Macey once told me that the worst way a story can end is by someone waking up and realising everything that happened was only a dream."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

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16. High Times in the Low Parliament

By: Kelly Robson

3.23

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Kelly Robson is back with fairies, scribes, and many many kisses in High Times in the Low Parliamen… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Robson's High Times in the Low Parliament book and Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. Cranberry Cove

By: Hailey Piper

3.76

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Something unspeakable is happening at Cranberry Cove. For decades, the chilling mystery within t… read more

Similar categories in Hailey Piper's Cranberry Cove book and Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg

18. The Four Profound Weaves

By: R.B. Lemberg

3.80

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Wind: To match one's body with one's heartSand: To take the bearer where they wishSong: In praise o… read more

Similar categories in R.B. Lemberg's The Four Profound Weaves book and Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed

19. The Siege of Burning Grass

By: Premee Mohamed

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A stunning meditation on war, nationalism, violence and courage by a rising star of the genre. T… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's The Siege of Burning Grass book and Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters by Aimee Ogden

20. Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters

By: Aimee Ogden

3.41

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Gene-edited human clans have scattered throughout the galaxy, adapting themselves to environments a… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Ogden's Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters book and Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) by Nathan Ballingrud

21. 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 Zin E. Rocklyn's Flowers for the Sea

  • gothic
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

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4.17

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4.24

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Martha Wells

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