Books like Horrorstör
12 books with a reading profile close to Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix. Practical, 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
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 Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Set in suburban Charleston during the 1990s, the story follows Patricia Campbell, a bored housewife whose life revolves around her children, her physician husband, and her true-crime book club.
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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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5
Creepshow
by Stephen King
Also practical and clear-cut · 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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The Ruins
by Scott Smith
Also practical and clear-cut · 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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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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Murder Road
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
In 1995, newlyweds July and April are driving to a remote honeymoon cabin when they encounter a bleeding woman on a deserted Michigan road.
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9
There's Someone Inside Your House
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Makani Young moves from Hawaii to Nebraska to live with her grandmother, hoping to hide a traumatic incident from her past.
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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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American Vampire, Vol. 1
by Scott Snyder
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Skinner Sweet is a sociopathic outlaw in the 1880s who becomes the first of a new species: the American vampire.
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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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