Books like Desperation
12 books with a reading profile close to Desperation by Stephen King. Escapist; an easy read.
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The Mist
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
David Drayton and his young son, Billy, become trapped inside a local grocery store when an impenetrable white fog rolls over their lakeside town in Maine.
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2
The Twisted Ones
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
After her hoarder step-grandmother dies, Melissa, known as Mouse, travels to rural North Carolina to clear out a house overflowing with refuse.
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3
Sign Here
by Claudia Lux
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Peyote Trip is a cubicle-bound employee in the bureaucratic landscape of Hell, specifically working in the Deals Department.
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Needful Things
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Leland Gaunt arrives in Castle Rock, Maine, to open a shop called Needful Things.
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We Sold Our Souls
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Kris Pulaski was the lead guitarist for Dürt Würk, a heavy metal band on the verge of stardom in the 1990s until their lead singer, Terry Hunt, betrayed the group for a solo contract.
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The Walking Dead Vol. 7: Calm before
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Rick Grimes and his band of survivors establish a fragile domesticity within the fences of an abandoned penitentiary.
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The Walking Dead, Book One
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Sheriff Rick Grimes wakes from a coma to find an empty hospital and a world overrun by animated corpses.
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Preacher, Volume 2: Until the End of the World (Comics)
by Garth Ennis
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Jesse Custer, a Texas preacher possessed by a divine entity, travels across the American South with his assassin girlfriend Tulip O'Hare and the Irish vampire Cassidy.
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The Hunger
by Alma Katsu
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
In 1846, the Donner Party wilderness trek toward California falters as a series of unexplained disappearances and grisly deaths plague the wagon trail.
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Camp Damascus
by Chuck Tingle
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Chuck Tingle's novel takes place in a Christian conversion therapy camp called Camp Damascus, whose pastor claims to cure queer people.
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Hell Followed With Us
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Benji is a sixteen-year-old transgender boy fleeing the Angels, a fundamentalist cult that triggered a biological apocalypse to cleanse the earth.
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