16 must-read horror books like Danse Macabre by Stephen King

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Danse Macabre

By: Stephen King

4.20

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

The author whose boundless imagination & storytelling powers have redefined the horror genre, from …

If you liked the horror plot in Danse Macabre by Stephen King , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Blaze

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.76

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the Flap: The last of the Richard Bachman novels, recently recovered and published for the … read more

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  • horror
"Blaze himself was pretty sure he himself was going to hell, as were most other people. It was a dirty world, and the longer you lived, the dirtier you got."

-Stephen King, Blaze

"Sometimes when he was in the country he would sleep in a barn and wake in the night and go out and look at the stars and there were so many, and he knew they were there before him, and they would be …"

-Stephen King, Blaze

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2. Rage

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.73

Format: 131 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A disturbed high-school student with authority problems kills one of his teachers and takes the res… read more

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  • horror
"Be'…"

-Stephen King, Rage

"You’re on, Ted,"

-Stephen King, Rage

"That was Dad's life, and I was the birdshit on his windshield."

-Stephen King, Rage

"If I knew what was making me do it, I probably wouldn't have to."

-Stephen King, Rage

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3. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

By: Jack Finney

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell d… read more

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  • horror
"Of course we could have failed; I could have wrecked her life; but that made me no different from any other man who might have done the same thing."

-Jack Finney, Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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4. Roadwork

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Barton Dawes’ unremarkable but comfortable existence suddenly takes a turn for the worst. Highway c… read more

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  • horror
"Wimmern war die letzte Zuflucht unbedeutender Männer."

-Stephen King, Roadwork

"The fucking you got was never worth the screwing you took."

-Stephen King, Roadwork

"Das Leben schien nur eine Vorbereitung auf die Hölle zu sein."

-Stephen King, Roadwork

"Haben Sie in meiner Nase gebohrt, als ich nicht hingesehen habe?"

-Stephen King, Roadwork

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5. The Bachman Books

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

4.14

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

Four novels from the inimitable - and unmistakable - master of terror and suspense... RAGE A h… read more

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  • horror
"I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much."

-Stephen King, The Bachman Books

"A nice street, Fred. A nice neighborhood. Oh, I know how the intellectuals sneer at suburbia - it's not as romantic as the rat-infested tenements or the hale-and-hearty back-to-the-land stuff. There …"

-Stephen King, The Bachman Books

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6. Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season

By: Stephen King , Stewart O'Nan

3.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Early in 2004, two writers and Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King, decided to chronicle t… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Rosemary's Baby

By: Ira Levin

3.56

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unawar… read more

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  • horror
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8. Danse Macabre

By: Stephen King

4.20

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

The author whose boundless imagination & storytelling powers have redefined the horror genre, from … read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • essays
  • horror
  • reference
  • books about books
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9. The House Next Door

By: Anne Rivers Siddons

3.88

Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Thirty-something Colquitt and Walter Kennedy live in a charming, peaceful suburb of the newly bustl… read more

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  • horror
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10. The Regulators

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.72

Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There's a place in Wentworth, Ohio, where summer is in full swing. It's called Poplar Street. Up un… read more

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  • horror
"Brad looked at his wife with that expression of love that is the sole property of people who have been married over ten years."

-Stephen King, The Regulators

11. Floating Dragon

By: Peter Straub

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Two monstrous evils. This quiet suburban town of Hampstead is threatened by two horrors. One is nat… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover

12. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film

By: Carol J. Clover

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • horror

13. Flesh

By: Richard Laymon

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Best Horror Novel of 1988 - Science Fiction Chronicle. 'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a tr… read more

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14. The Long Walk

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

4.08

Format: 370 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual gr… read more

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  • horror
"Love is a fake!"

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

"Another time, another place."

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

"Better to be dirty than dead."

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

"His eyes were as blank and bright as doorknobs."

-Stephen King, The Long Walk

15. The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror

By: David J. Skal

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Illuminating the dark side of the American century, The Monster Showuncovers the surprising links b… read more

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16. The Fog

By: James Herbert

2.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

A peaceful village in Wiltshire is shattered by a disaster which strikes without reason or explanat… read more

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17. Supernatural Horror in Literature

By: H.P. Lovecraft , E.F. Bleiler , Theodore Menten

4.36

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), the most important American supernaturalist since Poe, has had an incal… read more

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18. Ghost Story

By: Peter Straub

4.09

Format: 372 pages,

In life, not every sin goes unpunished. GHOST STORY For four aging men in the terror-stricken town … read more

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19. The Running Man

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.90

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives... Ben Richard… read more

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  • horror
"Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

"...sie würden Christus persönlich überfallen, um ein Pfund Salami zu ergattern."

-Stephen King, The Running Man

20. The Shrinking Man

By: Richard Matheson

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

While on holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidenta… read more

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21. Thinner

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wastin… read more

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  • horror
"Purpurfargade ansiktet"

-Stephen King, Thinner

"It's the people who aren't scared who die young."

-Stephen King, Thinner

"Things hurt more when you were alone, that was all."

-Stephen King, Thinner

"The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing."

-Stephen King, Thinner

22. Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King

By: Stephen King , Tim Underwood , Chuck Miller

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In this revealing and varied collection of interviews, Stephen King talks about his life, family, f… read more

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Cover of Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2) by Richard  Chizmar

23. Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2)

By: Richard Chizmar

3.78

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

Something evil has swept into the small western Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the lates… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness by Kenneth Schmitt

24. Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

By: Kenneth Schmitt

4.39

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

Quantum physics has shown us the way to mastery of life in our recognition of universal consciousne… read more

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"What is real for us is what we observe and recognize. We create our own experiences by our recognition and imagination, and we modulate the energies with our emotions."

-Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

"The birth of quantum physics brought science and spirituality into alignment. It was the realization by physicists that photons have consciousness, and not just limited consciousness, but awareness o…"

-Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

"This is a quantum universe. Everything in it is part of quantum theory, and universal consciousness is the first cause of it all. Everything is electromagnetic energy, and all of the energy patterns …"

-Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

"When we hold health and abundance in our self-identity, we create experiences of that quality. If we choose to be attuned to the energy of our heart and feel love and compassion, we create experience…"

-Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

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25. La route

By: Manu Larcenet

4.49

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

L'apocalypse a eu lieu. Le monde est dévasté, couvert de cendres et de cadavres. Parmi les survivan… read more

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  • horror

11 Top fiction books like Roadwork by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

Transform Your Habits

Roadwork

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

Transform Your Habits

The Eyes of the Dragon

Stephen King

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Desperation

Stephen King

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Dolores Claiborne

Stephen King

3.00

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