18 books like Carrie

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Into Me, You See

Into Me, You See Jason O. Barnes Shares Horror with this book.

Shadows Over Innsmouth

Shadows Over Innsmouth Stephen Jones, H. P. Lovecraft, Basil Copper, Jack Yeovil, Guy N. Smith, Adrian Cole, D F Lewis, Ramsay Campbell, David Sutton, Peter Tremayne, Kim Newman, Brian Mooney, Brian Stableford, Nicholas Royle & David Lanford Shares Horror with this book.

Notes on an Execution

Notes on an Execution Danya Kukafka NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL • NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR“Defiantly populated with living women . . . beautifully drawn, dense with detail and specificity . . . Notes on an Execution is nuanced, ambitious and compelling.” —Katie Kitamura, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (Editors' Choice)"A searing portrait of the complicated women caught in the orbit… Shares Horror

Captain quad Sean Costello · 2001 · 550p · ≈ 18h · Moderate A tragic accident leaves Peter Gardner paralyzed from the neck down. The former prodigy of music, sports, and flying is confined to his hospital bed. As rage and hatred intensify, he fantasizes about leaving his broken body and traveling anywhere. Then, one day... he can! But by then he is a Frankenstein monster -- breaking all the rules of morality. Shares Horror

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What the Hell Did I Just Read

What the Hell Did I Just Read Jason Pargin & David Wong John Dies at the End's "smart take on fear manages to tap into readers' existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the next" (Publishers Weekly) and This Book is Full of Spiders was "unlike any other book of the genre" (Washington Post).Now, New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin is back with What the Hell Did I Just Read, the third installment of this black-humored thriller… Shares Horror

Mary Nat Cassidy · 2022 · ★ 4.0 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invisible. Unknown even to herself. But lately, things have been changing inside Mary. Along with the hot flashes and body aches, she can’t look in a mirror without passing out, and the voices in her head have been urging her to do unspeakable things. Fired from her job in New York, she moves back… Shares Horror

Floating Staircase

Floating Staircase Ronald Malfi "Deserves to stand alongside a Stephen King or a Dean Koontz—at their best . . . A mature horror yarn" from the award-winning author of Bone White (New York Journal of Books).   Horror writer Travis Glasgow and his wife, Jodie, have bought their first house in Westlake, Maryland, just steps from Travis's older brother's home. Travis is buoyed by the thought… Shares Horror

Apt Pupil Stephen King #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King's novella Apt Pupil, published in his 1982 collection Different Seasons, now available as a stand-alone edition!If you don’t believe in the existence of evil, you have a lot to learn. Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher, Mr. Dussander, and to learn all about… Shares Horror

Mr. Nice Guy Allisha McAdoo · 2019 Shares Horror with this book.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman’s first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys.This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real... Shares Horror

The Night House

The Night House Jo Nesbø & Neil Smith From the internationally best-selling author, a chilling fresh spin on the classic horror novel • When the voices call, don't answer.“In The Night House, the horror begins immediately. And it only keeps calling from there.”—Josh Malerman, New York Times best-selling author of Bird Box and Spin a Black YarnIn the wake of his parents’ tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard… Shares Horror

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "William Wilson," "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "Eleonora". Here too is a major… Shares Horror

The Only Good Indians

The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Stephen Graham Jones, the master of modern horror and New York Times bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, a novel of revenge and identity hailed by Stephen King as “thrilling, literate, scary, immersive” that is equal parts psychological horror and cutting sociopolitical commentary about the American Indian experience. From New York Times bestselling… Shares Horror

Nights of the Round Table

Nights of the Round Table Margery Lawrence Shares Horror with this book.

Victorian Psycho

Victorian Psycho Virginia Feito SOON TO BE A FEATURE FILM STARRING MAIKA MONROE, THOMASIN MCKENZIE AND JASON ISSACS A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The New Yorker, TIME, Bookpage, and the Chicago Public Library • The American Booksellers Association's #1 Indie Next Great Read for February 2025 "[A] savage thriller... Victorian Psycho offers a wickedly… Shares Horror

The Reformatory

The Reformatory Tananarive Due *Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner * New York Times Notable Book * Locus Award Finalist * Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the Shirley Jackson Award * “You’re in for a treat...one of those books you can’t put down...Due hit it out of the park.” —Stephen King A gripping, page-turning “masterpiece” (Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman) set in Jim Crow Florida that… Shares Horror

The Silence of the Lambs

The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris An ingenious, masterfully written novel, Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs is a classic of suspense and storytelling and the basis for the Oscar award-winning horror film starring Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter.A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname—Buffalo Bill—is stalking particular women. He has a purpose, but no one can… Shares Horror

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