The Ones That Got Away

10 best books like The Ones That Got Away (Stephen Graham Jones): The Twisted Ones, Full Throttle, Growing Things and Other Stories, In the Flesh, Song for the Unraveling of the World, A Collapse of Horses, Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell, The Visible Filth, Haunted Nights, Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors

The Twisted Ones

Author	T. Kingfisher
ISBN	1534429573

When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods.

When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be?

Answer:...

Full Throttle

Author	Joe Hill
ISBN	0062200674

In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including “In The Tall Grass,” one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.

A little...

Growing Things and Other Stories

Author	Paul Tremblay
ISBN	0062679147

A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.

A masterful anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing Things is an exciting...

In the Flesh

Author

Clive Barker

Terrifying and forbidding, subversive and insightful, Clive Barker's groundbreaking stories revolutionized the worlds of horrific and fantastical fiction and established Barker's dominance over the otherworldly and the all-too-real. Here, as two businessmen encounter beautiful and seductive...

Song for the Unraveling of the World

Author	Brian Evenson
ISBN	1566895480

A newborn's absent face appears on the back of someone else's head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he's after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia,...

A Collapse of Horses

Author	Brian Evenson
ISBN	1566894131

5 word review (not counting these words here, hidden in the parenthesis, but these stories were so weird and disturbing and burrowing, yes, burrowing, inside, inside you.)

Loved it. And blurbed it.

Here's my blurb!

“Brian Evenson's collection A Collapse of Horses is...

Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

Author	Nathan Ballingrud
ISBN	1534449922

A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis for the upcoming major motion picture—by Shirley Jackson Award–winning author Nathan Ballingrud, hailed as a major new voice by Jeff VanderMeer, Paul Tremblay, and Carmen Maria Machado—“one...

The Visible Filth

Author	Nathan Ballingrud
ISBN	0957548192

When Will discovers a cell phone after a violent brawl his life descends into a nightmare.

Affable, charismatic and a little shallow, he’s been skating across the surface of life in a state of carefully maintained contentment. He decides to keep the cell phone just until the owner returns...

Haunted Nights

Author	Ellen Datlow
ISBN	1101973838

Sixteen never-before-published chilling tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, co-edited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween.
In addition to stories about scheming jack-o'-lanterns,...

Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors

Author

Adam Nevill

A bestial face appears at windows in the night.
In the big white house on the hill angels are said to appear.
A forgotten tenant in an isolated building becomes addicted to milk.
A strange goddess is worshipped by a home-invading disciple.
The least remembered gods still haunt the oldest...