Books like The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
12 books with a reading profile close to The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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The Troop
by Nick Cutter
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
On Falstaff Island, Scoutmaster Tim Higgs leads five adolescent boys—Max, Newton, Ephraim, Shelley, and Kent—on a routine wilderness survival excursion.
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Horrorstör
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Set in the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio, the story follows Amy, a retail employee struggling with debt.
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Ankle Snatcher
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Marcus grows up believing his father is a murderer who killed his mother, but his father insists a supernatural monster dragged her under the bed.
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In the Tall Grass
by Stephen King
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Siblings Cal and Becky DeMuth are driving across Kansas when they stop beside a vast field of tall grass after hearing a young boy’s cries for help.
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5
Charlie the Choo-Choo
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Engineer Bob works for the Mid-World Railway Company and operates a 402 Big Boy steam locomotive named Charlie.
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There's Someone Inside Your House
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Makani Young moves from Hawaii to Nebraska to live with her grandmother, hoping to hide a traumatic incident from her past.
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Thinner
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Billy Halleck, an overweight lawyer, accidentally kills a Romani woman with his car but escapes legal consequences through his connections with a local judge and a police chief.
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8
A House with Good Bones
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Sam Montgomery, an archaeoentomologist, returns to her childhood home in North Carolina to find her mother, Edith, behaving with uncharacteristic skittishness.
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9
Murder Road
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
In 1995, newlyweds July and April are driving to a remote honeymoon cabin when they encounter a bleeding woman on a deserted Michigan road.
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The Burning Girls
by C.J. Tudor
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Reverend Jack Brooks moves to the rural village of Chapel Croft with teenage daughter Flo, hoping for a fresh start after a tragedy in their previous parish.
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11
What Lies in the Woods
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Twenty-two years ago, Naomi Shaw and her two best friends survived a brutal stabbing in the woods.
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Home Before Dark
by Riley Sager
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Maggie Holt grew up in the shadow of House of Horrors, a non-fiction book written by her father about their twenty days living in Baneberry Hall.
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