Books like Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories
12 books with a reading profile close to Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories by Richard Matheson. Practical, growth-minded, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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The Walking Dead, Vol. 6: This Sorrowful Life
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
In this volume, Rick Grimes and his group of survivors attempt to establish a permanent civilization within the fenced walls of an abandoned prison.
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The Walking Dead, Vol. 3: Safety Behind Bars (Comics)
Also practical and growth-minded · horror, entertainment
Rick Grimes and his group of survivors relocate from their exposed campsite to a fenced-in correctional facility.
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Sign Here
by Claudia Lux
Also practical and clear-cut · 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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We Sold Our Souls
Also practical and 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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Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
by Max Brooks
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Kate Holland and her husband move to Greenloop, a high-tech eco-community in the shadow of Mount Rainier.
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Cycle of the Werewolf
by Stephen King
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Set in the isolated town of Tarker’s Mills, this episodic novella tracks a year of monthly slaughters committed by a werewolf.
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Desperation
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Set along a desolate stretch of Nevada highway, the story begins when a corrupt local sheriff, Collie Entragian, abducts several travelers and imprisons them in the decaying town of Desperation.
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The Twisted Ones
Also clear-cut and 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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Preacher, Volume 2: Until the End of the World (Comics)
by Garth Ennis
Also growth-minded and 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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