Books like Preacher, Book 1
12 books with a reading profile close to Preacher, Book 1 by Garth Ennis. Escapist; a moderate read.
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Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas (Comics)
by Garth Ennis
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Jesse Custer, a disillusioned Texas preacher, becomes the accidental host to Genesis, a supernatural entity born from the illegal union of an angel and a demon.
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Night Shift
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Night Shift is a collection of twenty short stories that showcase the physicalization of mundane fears into lethal threats.
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Insomnia
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Set in Derry, Maine, the story follows Ralph Roberts, an elderly widower suffering from worsening sleeplessness.
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Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1: Dog and Chainsaw
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Denji is a teenager so poor that he has sold his organs and works as a devil hunter, paying off his dead father's debts to the yakuza with the help of his pet, Pochita, a small chainsaw devil.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bury Your Gays
by Chuck Tingle
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
In Chuck Tingle's "Bury Your Gays," a group of gay characters are determined to avoid dying for the sake of queer representation, even if their attempts involve increasingly absurd and over-the-top scenarios.
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