The Visible Filth

10 best books like The Visible Filth (Nathan Ballingrud): Come Closer, Goodbye, Paper Doll, Last Days, Song for the Unraveling of the World, The Fisherman, Doorbells at Dusk, A Collapse of Horses, Sefira and Other Betrayals, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies, Video Night

Come Closer

Author	Sara Gran
ISBN	0425210316

this is short and anything but sweet, somehow managing to pack a whole lot of creepiness into just under 200 pages.

it’s a story of a woman’s disintegration as she is invaded by a demonic presence that insinuates itself into her body and mind, slowly and irrevocably supplanting her free...

Goodbye, Paper Doll

Author	Anne Snyder
ISBN	0451159438

(Excript from back cover)
Anorexia Nervosa...
That was the doctor's diagnosis. But seventeen-year-old Rosemary Norton knew better. She wasn't sick; the doctor and her parents were only worryworts. Jason, who said he loved her, was just like the rest of the boys; all he cared about was her...

Last Days

Author	Brian Evenson
ISBN	0980226007

Intense and profoundly unsettling, Brian Evenson’s Last Days is a down-the-rabbit-hole detective novel set in an underground religious cult. The story follows Kline, a brutally dismembered detective forcibly recruited to solve a murder inside the cult. As Kline becomes more deeply involved...

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,...

The Fisherman

Author	John Langan
ISBN	1939905214

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other’s...

Doorbells at Dusk

Author

Evans Light

Halloween has always gone hand-in-hand with horror. The holiday gives many children their first taste of terror, the discovery and overcoming of fears. For those who find they love a good scare, that first taste can grow into a voracious appetite.

That might be why you’re looking at this...

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...

Sefira and Other Betrayals

Author	John Langan
ISBN	1614981922

John Langan’s new book is certain to solidify his place among the strongest voices in modern literary horror. Placed together within the same cover for the first time, a theme emerges from the tales that binds and unites them–and it is signaled in the title of the book.

“These are stories...

The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

Author	John Langan
ISBN	1614980543

John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemporary horror literature. Gifted with a supple and mellifluous prose style, an imagination that can conjure up clutching terrors with seeming effortlessness, and a thorough knowledge of the rich heritage...

Video Night

Author	Adam Cesare
ISBN	1619212277

Who knows more about fighting a monster invasion than a group of teenage horror fans?

Billy Rile is smart, adept at Nintendo and has a killer Hi-Fi setup. Life is good. But he has no idea that an alien life form has infected his town, a creature that overtakes and transforms its host.

It...

In the Valley of the Sun

Author

Andy Davidson

For readers of Joe Hill, Cormac McCarthy, and classic Anne Rice, a chilling tale of suspense and horror set deep in the Texas desert.

Travis Stillwell spends his nights searching out women in West Texas honky-tonks. What he does with them doesn’t make him proud, just quiets the demons for...

The Rust Maidens

Author	Gwendolyn Kiste
ISBN	1947654446

Something’s happening to the girls on Denton Street.

It’s the summer of 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, and Phoebe Shaw and her best friend Jacqueline have just graduated high school, only to confront an ugly, uncertain future. Across the city, abandoned factories populate the skyline; meanwhile...

Halloween Fiend

Author	C.V. Hunt
ISBN	1941918433

Strang isn’t the small, quaint town it appears to be. It’s haunted every night by a creature the townsfolk refer to as Halloween. Once the sun sets each day, Halloween emerges to collect its treats: a small, live offering from each household. The residents comply because no one wants to be the target...

Out Behind the Barn

Author	John Boden
ISBN	1727414020

(Thank you to the authors for sending me an advance copy in exchange for an honest review)

Oh my heart! Let me whip out my Horror Boxes Checklist and explain how in just over 100 pages, Chad Lutzke and John Boden seamlessly blended their unique, yet harmonious storytelling voice to tell a tale...