10 books for fans of The Amityville Horror
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Fire is Orange: Ten Disturbing Short Stories (The Color Series Book 3)
The Color Series • Book 3
by Scott Sigler
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Sigler unleashes his darkest imagination across ten horror shorts, featuring puppet masters, laundry demons, and a chilling new entry in his Kissyman saga.
★ 4.23 Goodreads (124 ratings) - 2
Darkness On The Edge Of Town: Stories of Pine Deep
Pine Deep
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Maberry weaves five stories through Pine Deep's cursed streets, including a veteran discovering his hometown harbors stranger wars than the Middle East. Each tale builds the mythology of this haunted place.
★ 4.09 Goodreads (338 ratings) - 3
The Imago Sequence
by Laird Barron
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Barron writes cosmic horror through the eyes of hardened men — ex-military, gangsters, drifters — who discover the universe contains things that make human violence seem quaint.
★ 3.99 Goodreads (4.9K ratings) - 4
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
by Laird Barron
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Cosmic horror meets hardboiled detective fiction in stories that probe the thin boundaries between reality and nightmare. Barron creates a unique voice in modern weird fiction.
★ 3.98 Goodreads (4.7K ratings) - 5
Weird Tales Magazine No. 370: Monster Issue (Weird Tales Magazine)
Weird Tales Magazine
by Jonathan Maberry, Various, Various Narrators
★ 3.76 Goodreads (21 ratings) - 6
Weird Tales Magazine No. 371: The Undead Issue
Weird Tales Magazine
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Horror anthology celebrating creatures that refuse to stay dead, featuring fresh takes on zombies, vampires, and mummies from both bestselling authors and emerging voices.
★ 2.83 Goodreads (6 ratings) - 7
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SNAFU: Contagion
SNAFU: An Anthology of Military Horror • Book 15
by Amanda J. Spedding, Geoff Brown, Jonathan Maberry
★ 4.40 Goodreads (25 ratings) - 9
Still of Night
Dead of Night • Book 3
by Jonathan Maberry, Rachael Lavin
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Heroes emerge from unexpected places during the zombie apocalypse: a weapon-loving high schooler transforms from victim to leader while a cosplayer becomes a real warrior.
★ 4.38 Goodreads (612 ratings) - 10
The Stand
by Stephen King
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A weaponized flu kills 99% of humanity, leaving survivors to choose between Mother Abagail's Boulder community or Randall Flagg's Vegas empire. King's sprawling apocalyptic masterpiece about rebuilding civilization.
★ 4.35 Goodreads (841.5K ratings)