18 books like The Voice of the Night

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Leave Myself Behind Bart Yates · 2003 · ★ 4.4 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate THE WORLD ACCORDING TO NOAH YORK: "Anybody who tells you he doesn't have mixed feelings about his mother is either stupid or a liar." "Real life seldom makes me cry. The only thing that gets to me is the occasional Kodak commercial." "Sometimes I feel like Michelangelo, chiseling away at all the crap until nothing is left but the exquisite thing in the middle that no one else sees until it's… Shares: Male friendship, Teenage boys, Friendship

From a Buick 8 Stephen King · 2002 · ★ 3.7 · 491p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Una novela sobre una fascinación enfermiza y peligrosa. Una novela de verdadero terror. Pensilvania, 1979. Llega un extraño a una gasolinera para repostar. Conduce un Buick modelo 1954 pero en perfecto estado. El conductor va al baño y nunca reaparece. La policía se hace cargo del coche, que ahora no funciona, y lo guarda en una nave detrás de la comisaría. Y aquí empieza una historia… Shares: Teenage boys, Horror, Thriller

Whispers Dean Koontz · 1960 · ★ 3.9 · 444p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "A MASTER STORYTELLER...his fast-paced plots are wonderfully fiendish, taking unexpected twists and turns."—The San Diego Union-Tribune For thirty-five years, Bruno Frye has lived in the shadow of the mother who made his heart beat with constant fear. And even though she died five years ago, the whispers still haunt him in the dark...enough to make him kill—and kill again... Hilary Thomas is one… Shares: Horror stories, Horror, Thriller

The Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem · 2003 · ★ 3.8 · 511p · ≈ 17h · Moderate This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that will become known as "gentrification." This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the most… Shares: Male friendship, Teenage boys, Friendship

The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones · 2019 · ★ 3.9 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Ten years ago outside Browning, Montana, four Blackfeet shot some elk, and then went on with their lives. It happens every year, it’s been happening forever, it’s the way it’s always been. But this time it’s different. Ten years after that fateful hunt, these men are being stalked, are being hunted themselves. By who? By . . . what? And why? Some hunting expeditions, they’re never really… Shares: Male friendship, Horror stories, Horror, Thriller

Night Chills Dean Koontz · 1976 · ★ 3.9 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Designed by top scientists and unleashed in a monstrous conspiracy, night chills are seizing the men and women of Black River--driving them to acts of rape and murder. The nightmare is real. And death is the only cure... Shares: Horror stories, Horror

Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury · 1962 · ★ 3.9 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury's unparalleled literary classic SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. The… Shares: Male friendship, Friendship, Horror

The Chosen Chaim Potok · 1966 · ★ 4.1 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Moderate It's about two jewish boys from different jewish sects with very differing doctrine. The kids meet in the unlikely circumstance of a baseball game, and a terrible accident, that leads them to be lifelong friends Shares: Male friendship, Teenage boys, Friendship

Danse Macabre Stephen King · 1980 · ★ 3.8 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate This is a non-fiction study of the horror genre including books, movies, television, etc. ([source][1]) ---------- Also contained in: Works (Danse Macabre / Salem's Lot / Shining [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/nonfiction/danse_macabre.html Shares: Horror, Thriller

Mystic river Dennis Lehane · 2001 · ★ 4.2 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to… Shares: Male friendship, Friendship, Thriller

In the Dark of the Night John Saul · 2006 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Summer vacation becomes a season in hell for an ordinary family who unwittingly stir something invisible, insidious, and insatiable from its secret slumber--unleashing a wave of horror only the darkest evil could create, that only a master of spine-tingling terror like John Saul could orchestrate. For deep in the shadows in the dark of the night lurks something as big as life . . . and as real as… Shares: Teenage boys, Horror, Thriller

A fine dark line Joe R. Lansdale · 2003 · ★ 4.1 · 307p · ≈ 10h · Moderate It is the summer of 1958 in Dewmont, Texas, a town the great American postwar boom passed by. The kids listen idly to rockabilly on the radio and waste their weekends at the Dairy Queen. And an undetected menace simmers under the heat that clings to the skin like molasses... For thirteen-year-old Stanley Mitchell, the end of innocence comes with his discovery of the mysterious long-ago demise of… Shares: Male friendship, Friendship, Thriller

Dreamcatcher Stephen King · 2001 · ★ 3.6 · 704p · ≈ 23h · Moderate Dreamcatcher is a 2001 science fiction horror novel by American writer Stephen King, featuring elements of body horror, suspense and alien invasion. Shares: Male friendship, Friendship, Horror, Thriller

If It Bleeds Stephen King · 2020 · ★ 4.0 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate A collection of four uniquely wonderful long stories, including a stand-alone sequel to the No. 1 bestseller THE OUTSIDER. News people have a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads'. And a bomb at Albert Macready Middle School is guaranteed to lead any bulletin. Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is working on the case of a missing dog - and on her own need to be more assertive -… Shares: Horror stories, Friendship, Horror, Thriller

The Damned Algernon Blackwood · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 110p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The Damned is a chilling tale of supernatural horror from one of the great masters of horror fiction, Algernon Blackwood. Shares: Horror

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Ambrose Bierce · 1913 · 67p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This book is about stories that encounters with the ghosts of the dead and dying. The spirits of the dead reach out to the living, to pass on a message or to pursue a killer. Shares: Horror

Darkness Comes Dean Koontz · 1984 · ★ 3.9 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A blizzard brings a city to a standstill-and ushers in an evil that defies imagination. Shares: Horror

The Manitou Graham Masterton · 1975 · ★ 3.7 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate It only grows at night. Karen Tandy was a sweet and unassuming girl until she discovers the mysterious lump growing underneath her skin. As the doctors and specialists are puzzling over the growth, Karen's personality is beginning to drastically change. The doctors decide there is only one thing to do, cut out the lump. But then it moved. Now a chain reaction has begun and everyone who comes… Shares: Horror

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