15 must-read short stories books like The Lunchling by Jay Alexander

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The Lunchling

By: Jay Alexander

3.83

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

Orville and Ellie Taylor would do anything to get their son to eat his dinner. Lennon's a fussy kid…

If you liked the short stories plot in The Lunchling by Jay Alexander , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Mapping the Interior

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.79

Format: 131 pages, ebook

Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping t… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Mapping the Interior book and Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"I'm all right," I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Mapping the Interior

Cover of Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception (Books of Faerie, #1) by Maggie Stiefvater

2. Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception (Books of Faerie, #1)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

3.98

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Sixteen-year-old Deirdre Monaghan is a painfully shy but prodigiously gifted musician. She's about … read more

Similar categories in Maggie Stiefvater's Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception (Books of Faerie, #1) book and Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

3. Blanky

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

3.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In the wake of his infant daughter's tragic death, Steve Brannigan is struggling to keep himself to… read more

Similar categories in Kealan Patrick Burke's Blanky book and Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

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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 Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. 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 Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
"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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6. We Can Never Leave This Place

By: Eric LaRocca

3.52

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

"When you're given a gift, something else gets taken away." A precocious young girl with an unus… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's We Can Never Leave This Place book and Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"We can never leave this place," my mother told her. "It would hurt too much."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

"We can never leaves this places," my mother told her. "It would hurt to much."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

"How could you do this to me?' the creature asked. And the blind man said, 'I wanted to be the only one to hurry you."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

"I watched as blood swirled down my naked body in dark ribbons—tiny threads that had forever come undone from me and were sent to freedom."

-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place

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7. 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 Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

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

-Laurel Hightower, Crossroads

Cover of The Lunchling by Jay Alexander

8. The Lunchling

By: Jay Alexander

3.83

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

Orville and Ellie Taylor would do anything to get their son to eat his dinner. Lennon's a fussy kid… read more

Similar categories in Jay Alexander's The Lunchling book and Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Along the River of Flesh (Gone to See the River Man, #2) by Kristopher Triana

9. Along the River of Flesh (Gone to See the River Man, #2)

By: Kristopher Triana

3.96

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Having escaped from prison, serial killer Edmund Cox returns to his hometown of Killen. Entering th… read more

Similar categories in Kristopher Triana's Along the River of Flesh (Gone to See the River Man, #2) book and Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

  • fiction
  • horror
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10. 100% Match (Pocket Nasties)

By: Patrick C. Harrison III

3.11

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

Bart is thirty. He is bald. He is overweight. He wears glasses. He is a fry cook. He hates cats. An… read more

Similar categories in Patrick C. Harrison III's 100% Match (Pocket Nasties) book and Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces by Eric LaRocca

11. 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 Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories by Eric LaRocca

12. The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories

By: Eric LaRocca

3.74

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and autho… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories book and Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. 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 Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. #thighgap

By: Chandler Morrison

3.91

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Don’t read with the lights on…this is My Dark Library. A collection of novellas curated by Sadie… read more

Similar categories in Chandler Morrison's #thighgap book and Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. The Bell Chime

By: Mona Kabbani

3.36

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Novella of 2020 "Can you hear the bell chime… read more

Similar categories in Mona Kabbani's The Bell Chime book and Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. 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 Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"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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17. Below

By: Laurel Hightower

3.70

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO HELP A STRANGER? While driving through the mountains of West Virginia du… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's Below book and Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Grandpappy

By: Patrick C. Harrison III

3.59

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

Grandpappy is on hospice. Charles is going mad. Vile happenings are abound. You, reader, are not… read more

Similar categories in Patrick C. Harrison III's Grandpappy book and Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

  • fiction
  • horror
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19. The Visitor

By: Sergio Gomez

3.34

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

On Christmas, during one of the worst snowstorms Indiana has ever seen, five strangers are forced t… read more

Similar categories in Sergio Gomez's The Visitor book and Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Cirque Berserk

By: Jessica Guess

3.76

Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition

The summer of 1989 brought terror to the town of Shadows Creek, Florida in the form of a massacre a… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Guess's Cirque Berserk book and Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Petrified Women

By: Jeremy Ray

3.93

Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition

Some pranks go too far. This one could be deadly. Harley has the perfect boyfriend. Why can’t he… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Ray's Petrified Women book and Jay Alexander's The Lunchling

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

19 must-read fiction books like The Lunchling by Jay Alexander

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Mapping the Interior

Stephen Graham Jones

3.79

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This Is Where We Talk Things Out

Caitlin Marceau

3.77

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Gone to See the River Man

Kristopher Triana

3.67

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We Can Never Leave This Place

Eric LaRocca

3.52

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Transform Your Habits

This Is Where We Talk Things Out

Caitlin Marceau

3.77

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Blender Babies

Jon Athan

3.95

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Mine

L.M. Kaplin

3.96

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In The Tall Trees

Angel N. Van Atta

4.33

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