Books like Pet Sematary
12 books with a reading profile close to Pet Sematary by Stephen King. Inward-looking and escapist; an easy read.
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’Salem’s Lot
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Writer Ben Mears returns to the Maine town of Jerusalem’s Lot to research the Marsten House, a hilltop mansion where he witnessed a traumatic event as a child.
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2
Just After Sunset
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Just After Sunset is a collection of thirteen stories that focus on the thin boundary between mundane reality and sudden, visceral terror.
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3
The Fisherman
by John Langan
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Widowers Abe and Dan attempt to manage their grief through marathon fishing trips in upstate New York.
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4
Ghost Story
by Peter Straub
Also escapist · 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.
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5
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1
by Mokumokuren
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Yoshiki and Hikaru are best friends in a small, isolated village in rural Japan.
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6
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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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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8
The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense
Also escapist · 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.
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9
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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10
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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11
Mexican Gothic
horror, entertainment
In 1950s Mexico, socialite Noemí Taboada travels to High Place, a decaying English mansion in the mountains, after receiving a frantic letter from her recently married cousin, Catalina.
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12
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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