18 books like Skeleton crew

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After the People Lights Have Gone Off

After the People Lights Have Gone Off Stephen Graham Jones · 2014 · ★ 3.7 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A collection of stories that tap into the horrors and fears of the supernatural-- as well as the everyday. Shares American Horror tales, Short Stories

The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories Algernon Blackwood · 1906 · ★ 3.7 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Collection of short fiction horror stories by the weird fiction writer Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951). Shares Short Stories, Horror

Never Whistle at Night

Never Whistle at Night Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. · 2023 · ★ 3.8 · 444p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes many forms: for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai’po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuza, a witch that can transform into an owl. But what all these legends hold in common is the certainty that whistling at night can cause evil spirits to appear—and… Shares Short Stories, Horror

Great American Short Stories [34 stories] Reader's Digest Association · 1977 · 640p · ≈ 21h · Challenging Shares Islands, Short Stories, Horror with this book. Shares Islands, Short Stories, Horror

Full Dark, No Stars Stephen King · 2010 · ★ 4.1 · 487p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Full Dark, No Stars, published in November 2010, is a collection of four novellas by American author Stephen King, all dealing with the theme of retribution. One of the novellas, 1922, is set in Hemingford Home, Nebraska, which is the home of Mother Abagail from King's epic novel The Stand (1978), the town the adult Ben Hanscom moves to in It (1986), and the setting of the short story "The Last… Shares Insanity, Short Stories, Horror

Open Wide

Open Wide Jessica Gross Shares Horror with this book.

Kiss Slay Replay

Kiss Slay Replay Rachel Harrison Shares Horror with this book.

Relatos de la noche

Relatos de la noche Uriel Reyes · 2023 Shares Horror with this book.

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

It (Eso)

It (Eso) Stephen King Shares Horror with this book.

A Time to Die

A Time to Die Mark Wandrey They came from the night sky, lighting the heavens like the promise of salvation. But they didn't bring deliverance…they brought something far, far worse. Something that turns people into mindless, cannibalistic monsters. And it's spreading.A reporter follows her story of unspeakable horror south of the border and finds it's worse than she imagined.A wounded fighter pilot finally gets his chance… Shares Horror

Them

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

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

Craven Manor

Craven Manor Darcy Coates Daniel is desperate for a fresh start. So when a mysterious figure slides a note under his door offering the position of groundskeeper at an ancient estate, he leaps at the chance, even though it seems too good to be true. Alarm bells start ringing when he arrives at Craven Manor. The abandoned mansion is straight out of those old gothic mysteries: the front door hangs open, and leaves and… Shares Horror

Little Heaven

Little Heaven Nick Cutter “Beautifully written—menace drips from every page.” —Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling authorA “gripping and terrifying story…and one not to be missed” (Robert McCammon) from the acclaimed author of The Troop and The Deep!A trio of mismatched mercenaries—Micah Shughrue, Minerva Atwater, and Ebenzer Elkins, colloquially known as “the Englishman”—is hired by young Ellen Bellhaven for a… Shares Horror

50 Masterpieces of Gothic Fiction Vol. 1: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Picture Of Dorian Gray... (Halloween Stories)

50 Masterpieces of Gothic Fiction Vol. 1: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Picture Of Dorian Gray... (Halloween Stories) Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, EDGAR ALLAN POE, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, H.P. Lovecraft, Jane Austen, E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Bronte, Robert W. Chambers, Wilkie Collins, F. Marion Crawford, Walter de La Mare, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nikolai Gogol, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, Henry James, Franz Kafka & Robert Louis Stevenson Shares Horror with this book.

Reliquary

Reliquary Hannah Whitten Shares Horror with this book.

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

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