Books like Creepshow
12 books with a reading profile close to Creepshow by Stephen King. Practical, outward-looking, growth-minded, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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1
In the Tall Grass
by Stephen King
Also practical and outward-looking · 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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2
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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3
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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4
Charlie the Choo-Choo
Also practical and outward-looking · horror, entertainment
Engineer Bob works for the Mid-World Railway Company and operates a 402 Big Boy steam locomotive named Charlie.
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5
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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6
Meddling Kids
Also practical and outward-looking · horror, entertainment
In 1977, the Blyton Summer Detective Club unmasked a costume-wearing criminal at Sleepy Lake, but the experience left the four pre-teens and their dog mentally scarred.
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7
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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8
Tick Tock
by Dean Koontz
Also practical and growth-minded · horror, entertainment
Tommy Phan, a successful Vietnamese-American detective novelist, returns home to find a mysterious, hand-stitched rag doll on his doorstep.
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9
Intensity
by Dean Koontz
Also practical and outward-looking · horror, entertainment
Chyna Shepherd, a young woman shaped by a traumatic childhood, survives a massacre at a remote farmhouse committed by a sociopathic killer named Edgler Vess.
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10
The Fog
Also practical and outward-looking · horror, entertainment
An earthquake in a Wiltshire village releases an ancient, chemical fog from a deep fissure in the earth.
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11
Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
In the quiet town of Archer’s Peak, children are vanishing into the woods, leaving behind only gruesome remains and one traumatized survivor named James.
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12
Goodnight Bush
by Erich Origen
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, accessible
Goodnight Bush is a political parody that reimagines the classic children’s bedtime story as a critique of George W.
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