Toplin
10 best books like Toplin (Michael McDowell): The House Next Door, Concrete Island, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Lie With Me, Blood Rubies, Blood Secrets, Night Things, Elizabeth, The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One, The Auctioneer
| Author | Anne Rivers Siddons |
| ISBN | 0061008737 |
Thirty-something Colquitt and Walter Kennedy live in a charming, peaceful suburb of the newly bustling Atlanta. Life is made up of enjoyable work, long, lazy weekends, and the company of good neighbors. Then, to their shock, construction starts on the vacant lot next door, a wooded hillside they'd...
On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament in Concrete Island soon turns into horror as...
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
| Author | Hannah Arendt |
| ISBN | 0143039881 |
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publication. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s...
| Author | Philippe Besson |
| ISBN | 1501197878 |
The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald.
We drive at high speed along back roads,...
BLOOD RUBIES
It would bring bad luck, they said. But she split her pair of ruby earrings and gave one to each of her beautiful twin babies. Within hours she was burned to death in a fire. The twins lived.
KATHERINE
Raised by a poor, childless couple, Katherine was shy and withdrawn,...
| Author | Craig Jones |
| ISBN | 0345282388 |
When Irene Rutledge, a brilliant and beautiful young graduate student, meets the mysterious and fascinating Frank Mattison, the two soon fall in love and marry, despite the warnings of Irene’s family and friends. But after their marriage, dark secrets from Frank’s past emerge to threaten their...
| Author | Michael Talbot |
| ISBN | 0688071635 |
WELCOME TO LAKE HOUSE...
A sprawling Adirondack "great camp" with 160 rooms, each carpeted in evil and painted with human blood.
ENTER IF YOU DARE...
Explore the miles of dark, twisting hallways, reeking with the stench of death. Journey through a bizarre labyrinth into...
| Author | Jessica Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1557850011 |
Elizabeth thought that she was a young girl like any other girl - until the day that she looked into the mirror and saw the truth. Her family wouldn't have believed it even if she had told them - which she had no intention of doing. Elizabeth had far different plans for them - and only God could help them. He...
| Author | James D. Jenkins |
| ISBN | 1943910510 |
Spanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted.
Table of Contents
Foreword by James D. Jenkins and Ryan Cagle
Aunty Green by John Blackburn
Miss...
| Author | Joan Samson |
| ISBN | 1933618191 |
Harrowing tensions explode in a series of events that could happen anywhere, to anyone, just as they do to John Moore—whose days of freedom run out, who is stripped of his possessions, his courage, and his hopes, by the ominous presence of an insidious stranger impossible to resist.
Published...
4.5/5 STARS!
Bernard Taylor-I LOVE the guy! SWEETHEART, SWEETHEART is still my favorite from him, (and one of my favorite quiet horror tales of all time), but THE REAPING is another fine example of horror at its best!
An artist and father is invited out to a country manor to paint a portrait....
| Author | Ken Greenhall |
| ISBN | 0671421611 |
CHILDGRAVE is a beautifully written quiet horror story, with a sketchy small town lurking in the background. By the time the secrets of the town are revealed, it's too late for the reader to turn back.
As I get older, I find myself more and more drawn to quiet horror. I can do without gore and torture...
| Author | Thomas Page |
| ISBN | 0892560320 |
For a schizophrenic Native American, it is the spirit guide that will lead him back to the heritage he can no longer remember....a spirit he will kill to protect.
For a wealthy businessman looking for a purpose in life, sole survivor of a chance encounter with this spirit, it is a savage beast...
| Author | Nathan Aldyne |
| ISBN | 1555834345 |
A dead young hustler is found on the lawn of a queer-baiting legislator. Boston's political and queer communities are up in arms about the matter, and police are bent on finding the killer -- fast. Best friends Daniel Valentine and Clarisse Lovelace team up and hit the streets of Boston. Through a sinister...
| Author | Nathan Aldyne |
| ISBN | 1555834418 |
The two sometime-detectives from Vermilion have teamed up again for a summer of fun in Provincetown. While Valentine browses for Mr. Right, Clarisse nabs a hunky cop all her own. But suddenly suspicion burns hotter than the sun as a string of murders mars the merriment. And somewhere in the endless secrets,...
| Author | Elizabeth Engstrom |
| ISBN | 0688041752 |
Sally Ann is a bright and bubbling farm girl, still caught in the thrill of a brand-new husband and a shining future ahead. When a careless exploration leaves her trapped underground, she learns to live again in the absence of everything she once knew. Even driven by love and light, Sally Ann finds the...
| Author | Harry Kressing |
| ISBN | 0345317211 |
The Cook opens with Conrad, nearly seven feet tall, gaunt, and dressed all in black, arriving on his bicycle in the town of Cobb. He quickly secures a job as cook for the wealthy Hill family, winning their hearts and stomachs with his delectable dishes, and before long he has everyone around him eating...
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Two
| Author | James D. Jenkins |
| ISBN | 1943910774 |
Valancourt Books has earned a reputation as one of the foremost publishers of lost and rediscovered classics, reissuing more than 400 unjustly neglected works from the late 18th century all the way to the early 21st. In this second volume of rare horror stories, the editors of Valancourt Books have...
