Books like A Stir of Echoes
12 books with a reading profile close to A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson. Practical, growth-minded, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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Ankle Snatcher
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Marcus grows up believing his father is a murderer who killed his mother, but his father insists a supernatural monster dragged her under the bed.
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2
Horrorstör
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Set in the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio, the story follows Amy, a retail employee struggling with debt.
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3
In the Tall Grass
by Stephen King
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Siblings Cal and Becky DeMuth are driving across Kansas when they stop beside a vast field of tall grass after hearing a young boy’s cries for help.
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The Troop
by Nick Cutter
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
On Falstaff Island, Scoutmaster Tim Higgs leads five adolescent boys—Max, Newton, Ephraim, Shelley, and Kent—on a routine wilderness survival excursion.
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Creepshow
by Stephen King
Also practical and growth-minded · horror, entertainment
Creepshow is a comic book collection of five horror stories written by Stephen King and illustrated by Bernie Wrightson, adapted from the 1982 film.
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6
The Ruins
by Scott Smith
Also practical and growth-minded · horror, entertainment
In the sweltering heat of the Yucatan Peninsula, four American tourists—Jeff, Amy, Eric, and Stacy—join a Greek traveler and a German man named Mathias to locate a missing brother at a remote archaeological dig site.
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The Hollow Places
Also practical and escapist · horror, entertainment
Kara, recently divorced and living in her uncle’s museum of curiosities, discovers a hole in a drywall that leads into a concrete bunker and a landscape of endless islands amidst a dark river.
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8
A House with Good Bones
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Sam Montgomery, an archaeoentomologist, returns to her childhood home in North Carolina to find her mother, Edith, behaving with uncharacteristic skittishness.
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9
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Police officer Rick Grimes wakes from a coma in a deserted Kentucky hospital to find a world collapsed under an infestation of reanimated, flesh-eating corpses.
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Thinner
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Billy Halleck, an overweight lawyer, accidentally kills a Romani woman with his car but escapes legal consequences through his connections with a local judge and a police chief.
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11
The Burning Girls
by C.J. Tudor
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Reverend Jack Brooks moves to the rural village of Chapel Croft with teenage daughter Flo, hoping for a fresh start after a tragedy in their previous parish.
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What Lies in the Woods
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Twenty-two years ago, Naomi Shaw and her two best friends survived a brutal stabbing in the woods.
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