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Books like The Silent Companions

12 books with a reading profile close to The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell. Clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.

1

The September House

by Carissa Orlando

Also escapist · horror, entertainment

Margaret refuses to leave her Victorian estate, even though every September the walls bleed and the resident ghosts become aggressive.
2

Brother Odd

by Dean Koontz

Also clear-cut and escapist · horror, entertainment

Odd Thomas seeks refuge from his supernatural burdens at St.
3

The Twisted Ones

by T. Kingfisher

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.
4

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.
5

Sign Here

by Claudia Lux

Also clear-cut and escapist · horror, entertainment

Peyote Trip is a cubicle-bound employee in the bureaucratic landscape of Hell, specifically working in the Deals Department.
6

The Lighthouse Witches

by C.J. Cooke

Also clear-cut and escapist · horror, entertainment

In 1998, single mother Liv arrives on the remote Scottish island of Lòn Mòr with her three daughters to commission a mural inside a decommissioned lighthouse.
7

The Cloisters

by Katy Hays

Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative

Ann Stilwell moves to New York for a summer internship at The Cloisters, a medieval museum wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
8

Needful Things

by Stephen King

Also clear-cut and escapist · horror, entertainment

Leland Gaunt arrives in Castle Rock, Maine, to open a shop called Needful Things.
9

We Sold Our Souls

by Grady Hendrix

Also 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.
10

Hell Followed With Us

by Andrew Joseph White

Also clear-cut and 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.
11

The Walking Dead Vol. 7: Calm before

by Robert Kirkman

Also clear-cut and escapist · horror, entertainment

Rick Grimes and his band of survivors establish a fragile domesticity within the fences of an abandoned penitentiary.
12

The Walking Dead, Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us (Comics)

by Robert Kirkman

Also clear-cut and escapist · horror, entertainment

Officer Rick Grimes leads a small group of survivors away from their makeshift campsite near Atlanta after a devastating attack.

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