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Books like Nightmares and Dreamscapes

12 books with a reading profile close to Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.

  1. 1 Skeleton crew

    Skeleton crew

    by Stephen King

    horror, entertainment

    Skeleton Crew is a sprawling collection of twenty-two entries, including short stories and poems, that showcase a range of supernatural and psychological threats.

  2. 2 Revival

    Revival

    by Stephen King

    horror, entertainment

    Jamie Morton lives a life intertwined with music and tragedy, anchored by his lifelong connection to Charles Jacobs, a charismatic minister turned carnival healer.

  3. 3 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.

  4. 4 The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1

    The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1

    by Mokumokuren

    horror, entertainment

    Yoshiki and Hikaru are best friends in a small, isolated village in rural Japan.

  5. 5 Ghost Story

    Ghost Story

    by Peter Straub

    horror, entertainment

    In the isolated town of Milburn, New York, four elderly men known as the Chowder Society gather to share ghost stories, haunted by a collective memory from their youth.

  6. 6 The Hunger

    The Hunger

    by Alma Katsu

    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.

  7. 7 The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense

    The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense

    by Robert Kirkman

    horror, entertainment

    Rick Grimes and his group of survivors attempt to secure a permanent life within the walls of an abandoned prison, but their isolation ends when a helicopter crash leads them to the town of Woodbury.

  8. 8 Camp Damascus

    Camp Damascus

    by Chuck Tingle

    horror, entertainment

    Chuck Tingle's novel takes place in a Christian conversion therapy camp called Camp Damascus, whose pastor claims to cure queer people.

  9. 9 Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega

    Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega

    by Joe Hill

    horror, entertainment

    In this final volume, the Locke children face the physical and spiritual manifestation of Dodge, an ancient entity seeking to open the Black Door.

  10. 10 Hell Followed With Us

    Hell Followed With Us

    by Andrew Joseph White

    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.

  11. 11 Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft

    Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft

    by Joe Hill

    horror, entertainment

    Following the brutal murder of their father, the three Locke children—Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode—move with their mother to Keyhouse, an ancestral family estate in Lovecraft, Massachusetts.

  12. 12 Preacher, Volume 2: Until the End of the World (Comics)

    Preacher, Volume 2: Until the End of the World (Comics)

    by Garth Ennis

    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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