18 books like Nightmare Magazine, Issue 167 (August 2026)

What to read after Nightmare Magazine, Issue 167 (August 2026) — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

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The Cipher Kathe Koja Kathe Koja's classic, award-winning horror novel is finally available as an ebook. Nicholas, a would-be poet, and Nakota, his feral lover, discover a strange hole in the storage room floor down the hall - "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." It begins with curiosity, a joke - the Funhole down the… Shares Horror

Reliquary Hannah Whitten Shares Horror with this book.

How to Survive Camping: The Ancient Things

How to Survive Camping: The Ancient Things Bonnie Quinn Shares Horror with this book.

Shadows of the Stanley Hotel

Shadows of the Stanley Hotel Ritesh Sonvane Shares Horror with this book.

What Zombies Fear 1: A Father's Quest

What Zombies Fear 1: A Father's Quest Kirk Allmond Shares Horror with this book.

Dirty Job, A Christopher Moore · 2006 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as… Shares Horror

Voices in the Snow

Voices in the Snow Darcy Coates Clare remembers the cold. She remembers abandoned cars and children's toys littered across the road. She remembers dark shapes in the snow and a terror she can't explain. And then... nothing. When she wakes, aching and afraid in a stranger's gothic home, he tells her she was in an accident, a crash in the snow. He claims he saved her. Clare wants to leave, but a vicious snowstorm has blanketed… Shares Horror

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe Thomas Ligotti · 2015 · ★ 3.9 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Ligotti eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own brand of atmospheric horror, which shocks at the deepest, existential, levels. Ligotti's stories take on decaying cities and lurid dreamscapes in a style ranging from rich, ornamental prose to cold, clinical detachment. His raw and experimental work lays bare the unimportance of our world and the sickening madness of human consciousness. Like the… Shares Horror

Las estancias de Dzyan

Las estancias de Dzyan H. P. Blavatzky Shares Horror with this book.

Them W.H. Chizmar Shares Horror with this book.

Black Sheep Rachel Harrison A New York Times Best Horror Book of the Year A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle. Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly...something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the… Shares Horror

Bird Box Josh Malerman “[A] chilling debut . . . Malerman . . keeps us tinglingly on edge with his cool, merciless storytelling. . . . This earns comparisons to Hitchcock’s The Birds, as well as the finer efforts of Stephen King and cult sci-fi fantasist Jonathan Carroll.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a… Shares Horror

Penpal Dathan Auerbach In an attempt to make sense of his own mysterious and unsettling childhood memories, a man begins to reconstruct his past. As the games and adventures of his youth become engulfed by a larger story, he finds that it forms a tapestry of unbelievable horror that he never could have expected.  Each chapter completes a different piece of the puzzle for both you and the narrator, and by the end… Shares Horror

Essential Lovecraft

Essential Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft Essential Lovecraft features 13 of the horror masters' most terrifying novellas and short stories, including: The Dunwich Horror, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Call of Cthulhu, The Thing on the Doorstep, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Dreams in the Witch-House, Herbert West: Reanimator, The Shadow Out of Time, The Colour Out of Space, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Haunter of the Dark,… Shares Horror

The Vampire Armand

The Vampire Armand Anne Rice See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Anne Rice in Large Print* About Large PrintAll Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typefaceIn the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more… Shares Horror

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

Blood and Gold Anne Rice NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Vampire Chronicles continue as the great vampire Marius returns. The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet inti- mate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year existence. Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, kidnapped and… Shares Horror

House Infernal Edward Lee · 2007 · 369p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Horror with this book.

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