10 books for fans of Ghost Story
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010
Kyle Murchison Booth • Book 4
by Paula Guran, Kelley Armstrong, Holly Black, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Joe R. Lansdale, Stewart O'Nan, Sarah Pinborough, Norman Prentiss, Barbara Roden, Lucius Shepard, Peter Straub, Michael Shea, Kelly Link, Ekaterina Sedia, Catherynne M. Valente, Gerard Houarner, Gemma Files, Kurt Dinan, Elizabeth Bear, Roby Davies, Maura McHugh, Dale Bailey, Deborah Biancotti, Gary McMahon, Holly Phillips, John Mantooth, Marc Laidlaw, Margo Lanagan, Michael Marshall Smith, Nadia Bulkin, Nathan Ballingrud, Paul Tremblay, Peter Atkins, Sarah Monette, Seth Fried, Stephen Graham Jones, Steve Duffy, Steve Rasnic Tem, Suzy McKee Charnas, John Langan
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Darkness lurks everywhere — in small-town picnics, behind dumpsters where harpies dwell, and in The Nowhere where lost things go — across stories that find horror in the mundane.
★ 3.84 Goodreads (431 ratings) - 2
A Dark Matter
by Peter Straub
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Forty years after Spenser Mallon's cult ritual destroyed young lives in a Wisconsin meadow, the survivors still bear the scars—and now the charismatic predator may be back to finish what he started.
★ 2.97 Goodreads (5.1K ratings) - 3
The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine
by Peter Straub
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Two lovers, divided by decades but united by dark desires, spend twenty-five years trapped together on a yacht that never stops moving down the Amazon River.
★ 2.79 Goodreads (639 ratings) - 4
Instauration
The City • Book 3
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With Sunset Park destroyed and friends missing, the survivors must rebuild their strength in a new Safe Zone while plotting revenge against the forces that shattered their sanctuary.
★ 4.68 Goodreads (2.4K ratings) - 5
The Librarian Series: A Supernatural Horror Comedy (Strangely Scary Funny)
Strangely Scary Funny #1-4 • Book 1
by Brian Yansky
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A small-town librarian's duties extend beyond book checkout to protecting Eden's supernatural residents from otherworldly threats. Yansky balances light and dark humor with unique characters in this horror-comedy hybrid.
★ 4.37 Goodreads (126 ratings) - 6
Strange Highways and Other Stories
Dean Koontz: From the Vault
by Dean Koontz
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Koontz's collection spans decades of supernatural terror, anchored by 'Strange Highways' where a failing man gets one chance to rewrite the night that destroyed his life twenty years ago.
★ 4.36 Goodreads (1.5K ratings) - 7
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales
by H.P. Lovecraft, Les Edwards, Stephen Jones
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Lovecraft's essential cosmic horror stories featuring tentacled Cthulhu and his pantheon of alien deities, originally crafted for 1920s pulp magazines but now genre-defining classics.
★ 4.23 Goodreads (16.6K ratings) - 8
Doctor Sleep
The Shining • Book 2
by Stephen King
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Danny Torrance, now a recovering alcoholic janitor, must protect twelve-year-old Abra from psychic vampires who feed on children's pain. King crafts a worthy Shining sequel about trauma, addiction, and finding strength to face old demons.
★ 4.13 Goodreads (300.4K ratings) - 9
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NOS4A2
by Joe Hill
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Hill creates a supernatural highway where gifted individuals can travel through impossible routes, following Vic McQueen as she battles an immortal who steals children's souls. Christmas horror has never been this terrifying or personal.
★ 4.07 Goodreads (147.5K ratings)