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Books like Mexican Gothic

12 books with a reading profile close to Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Balanced in tone; an easy read.

  1. 1 20th Century Ghosts

    20th Century Ghosts

    by Joe Hill

    horror, entertainment

    Joe Hill's first collection gathers fifteen stories of horror, fantasy and the odd.

  2. 2 Someone Like You [18 stories]

    Someone Like You [18 stories]

    by Roald Dahl

    horror, entertainment

    This gathering of short fiction centers on the dark side of human behavior, focusing on deceit, greed, and high-stakes wagers.

  3. 3 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

    The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

    by Stephen Graham Jones

    horror, narrative

    Set against the late nineteenth-century decline of the American bison, the narrative follows an Indigenous protagonist tasked with tracking a predatory figure who targets commercial hide hunters.

  4. 4 Pet Sematary

    Pet Sematary

    by Stephen King

    horror, entertainment

    Dr.

  5. 5 Plain Bad Heroines

    Plain Bad Heroines

    by Emily M. Danforth

    horror, narrative

    Emily M.

  6. 6 Happy Hour

    Happy Hour

    by Marlowe Granados

    entertainment, narrative

    Set in New York City during a sweltering summer, the story follows Isa Epley and her best friend Gala as they navigate the underground social hierarchies of the city without any stable income.

  7. 7 Nightmares and Dreamscapes

    Nightmares and Dreamscapes

    by Stephen King

    horror, entertainment

    This collection brings together twenty-four stories by Stephen King, ranging from horror to fantasy to near-comedy.

  8. 8 Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

    Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

    by Shane Hawk

    horror, narrative

    Edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C.

  9. 9 Black Buck

    Black Buck

    by Mateo Askaripour

    entertainment, narrative

    Darren Vender is a nineteen-year-old Black Brooklyn kid with a dead-end job at Starbucks, until a chance meeting with Rhett, the leader of a mostly white sales team at a start-up called Sumwun.

  10. 10 The Fisherman

    The Fisherman

    by John Langan

    horror, entertainment

    Widowers Abe and Dan attempt to manage their grief through marathon fishing trips in upstate New York.

  11. 11 French Exit

    French Exit

    by Patrick deWitt

    entertainment, narrative

    Frances Price is a New York widow whose husband died years earlier, leaving her a wealthy woman.

  12. 12 The Bandit Queens

    The Bandit Queens

    by Parini Shroff

    entertainment, narrative

    In a rural Indian village, Gehna remains an outcast because her neighbors believe she murdered her husband, Ramesh, who actually vanished years ago.

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