Books like The Troop
12 books with a reading profile close to The Troop by Nick Cutter. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Set in suburban Charleston during the 1990s, the story follows Patricia Campbell, a bored housewife whose life revolves around her children, her physician husband, and her true-crime book club.
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2
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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3
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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4
Creepshow
by Stephen King
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Creepshow is a comic book collection of five horror stories written by Stephen King and illustrated by Bernie Wrightson, adapted from the 1982 film.
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5
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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6
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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7
Cold Fire
by Dean Koontz
Also clear-cut and escapist · horror, entertainment
Jim Ironheart lives under the command of a persistent internal voice that compels him to travel across the country to prevent specific, imminent tragedies.
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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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9
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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10
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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11
The Ruins
by Scott Smith
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
In the sweltering heat of the Yucatan Peninsula, four American tourists—Jeff, Amy, Eric, and Stacy—join a Greek traveler and a German man named Mathias to locate a missing brother at a remote archaeological dig site.
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12
Intensity
by Dean Koontz
Also practical and clear-cut · horror, entertainment
Chyna Shepherd, a young woman shaped by a traumatic childhood, survives a massacre at a remote farmhouse committed by a sociopathic killer named Edgler Vess.
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