Books Like The Exorcist

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Hearing William Peter Blatty narrate his own novel is an unsettling experience in the best sense — he wrote this to disturb, and he reads it with the steady, deliberate calm of someone who knows exactly how much rope to let out before the bottom drops. Eliana Shaskan's complementary keeps the human elements from being swallowed whole, a counterweight that the thirteen-hour runtime has full room to develop. The books gathered here work in that same unhurried register — every one of them runs close to that length, giving the horror room to accumulate rather than rush, and the strongest-rated among them earn those marks the same way Blatty did: not through shock, but through an atmosphere that settles in and refuses to leave.

10 books for fans of The Exorcist

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    Curse of the Hallow Moon

    by Editingle Indie House, Mark Boutros, Asa Swift, Brandon Ebinger, Draven M, D.A. Schneider, Phil Hore, Jorge Arenas, Neha Tekwani, M.M. Ward, E.W. Farnsworth

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    Multi-author Halloween anthology where trick-or-treaters face rising dead, goblins, and supernatural frights. Classic horror elements across diverse spooky stories for the season.

    5.00 Goodreads (4 ratings)
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    All the Stars in the Sky

    Until the End of the World • Book 3

    by Sarah Lyons Fleming

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    Cassie Forrest has chosen hope over despair, but her final journey through the infected wasteland will test that decision. Fleming concludes her trilogy with emotional honesty about what survival actually costs.

    4.56 Goodreads (5.0K ratings)
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    Conversion Theory

    Zombie Theories • Book 3

    by Rich Restucci

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    Immunity to zombie plague makes one man both humanity's hope and its most hunted target. Restucci explores how survival instincts clash with moral obligations when civilization collapses completely.

    4.46 Goodreads (328 ratings)
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    And After

    Until the End of the World • Book 2

    by Sarah Lyons Fleming

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    Spring's arrival means millions of thawing zombies and disappearing Safe Zones threaten Cassie's hard-won sanctuary. Fleming balances farm life intimacy with apocalyptic scope in this gripping sequel.

    4.43 Goodreads (5.4K ratings)
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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)
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    Exodus

    Arisen • Book 5

    by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs

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    Five acres of flight deck become the battlefield for humanity's last stand against the largest zombie horde ever recorded. This floating fortress faces a siege that echoes the desperate urban warfare of Stalingrad.

    4.39 Goodreads (2.6K ratings)
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    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)
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    This Book Is Full of Spiders

    John Dies at the End • Book 2

    by David Wong, Jason Pargin

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    Invisible spiders are taking over people's brains, and the only witnesses are two guys no one believes. Wong escalates his reality-bending horror-comedy with government conspiracies and interdimensional parasites.

    4.26 Goodreads (34.6K ratings)
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    Full Dark, No Stars

    by Stephen King

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    King examines the darkness within regular people through four disturbing tales: a 1922 farmer's confession to murder, a bestselling author's deadly stalker encounter, and two other studies in moral corruption. Each story peels back the veneer of civilization to expose something rotten underneath.

    4.09 Goodreads (118.6K ratings)
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    Interview with the Vampire

    The Vampire Chronicles • Book 1

    by Anne Rice

    4.02 Goodreads (655.2K ratings)