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12 books with a reading profile close to This is Not a Test (This is Not a Test, #1) by Courtney Summers. Inward-looking; an easy read.

  1. 1 Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

    Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

    by Shane Hawk

    horror, narrative

    Edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C.

  2. 2 Plain Bad Heroines

    Plain Bad Heroines

    by Emily M. Danforth

    horror, narrative

    Emily M.

  3. 3 You Like It Darker

    You Like It Darker

    by Stephen King

    horror, narrative

    This collection has twelve stories by Stephen King, in which ordinary people encounter the strange or the supernatural.

  4. 4 Hearts in Atlantis

    Hearts in Atlantis

    by Stephen King

    Also inward-looking · horror, narrative

    This collection consists of five interconnected narratives centered on the American generation that grew up during the Vietnam War.

  5. 5 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

    The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

    by Stephen Graham Jones

    horror, narrative

    Set against the late nineteenth-century decline of the American bison, the narrative follows an Indigenous protagonist tasked with tracking a predatory figure who targets commercial hide hunters.

  6. 6 Chlorine

    Chlorine

    by Jade Song

    Also inward-looking · horror, narrative

    Ren Yu is a competitive high school swimmer whose life is strictly defined by the harsh scent of bleach and the repetitive geometry of the pool.

  7. 7 Kiss Kiss

    Kiss Kiss

    by Roald Dahl

    horror, narrative

    In this collection of eleven short stories, characters navigate domestic traps, professional rivalries, and cruel coincidences.

  8. 8 Boy Parts

    Boy Parts

    by Eliza Clark

    horror, narrative

    Irina is a professional photographer in Newcastle who specializes in scouting attractive, often awkward men in public spaces to model for her provocative, voyeuristic portfolios.

  9. 9 Delta of Venus

    Delta of Venus

    by Anaïs Nin

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus is a groundbreaking collection of erotic short stories, commissioned in the 1940s by a private collector.

  10. 10 Sold on a Monday

    Sold on a Monday

    by Kristina McMorris

    narrative, literary

    Set in Depression-era America, the narrative begins when Ellis Reed, a struggling newspaper reporter, photographs two young children standing next to a sign offering them for sale.

  11. 11 Ghost Wall

    Ghost Wall

    by Sarah Moss

    horror, narrative

    Seventeen-year-old Silvie joins her father, Bill, on a historical reenactment camp in the Northumbrian wilderness.

  12. 12 Lone Women

    Lone Women

    by Victor LaValle

    horror, narrative

    Set in 1915, the story follows Adelaide Henry, a Black woman who flees California for the harsh plains of Montana after the suspicious deaths of her parents.

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