Books like Books of Blood
Books of Blood by Clive Barker reads as dark, experimental. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James · 1898
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69% genome match
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural
Bill Pronzini · 1981
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69% genome match
Ghost Story
Peter Straub · 1979
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69% genome match
Lasher
Anne Rice
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69% genome match
Cabal
Clive Barker
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69% genome match
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 1818
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69% genome match
The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe · 1914
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69% genome match
The Bloody Chamber
Angela Carter · 1978
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69% genome match
House of Salt and Sorrows
Erin A. Craig · 2019
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69% genome match
The Silent Companions
Laura Purcell · 2017
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69% genome match
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Montague Rhodes James · 1904
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69% genome match
A Head Full of Ghosts
Paul Tremblay · 2015
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69% genome match
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