Books like Between Two Fires
Between Two Fires is most extreme on THE THREAT — a supernatural threat at 010. Everything below is a book that lands near it on the same six axes, which is a different question from "what else is tagged horror". Ranked by distance, closest first.
That is Between Two Fires’s fingerprint. The list below is scored against it, not against genre.
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones · 2020 · Book
Shares a bleak, unforgiving tone.
78% shared signal
The Croning
Laird Barron · 2012 · Book
Shares a bleak, unforgiving tone.
72% shared signal
Books of Blood
Clive Barker · 1984 · Book
Shares a supernatural threat.
69% shared signal
The Fisherman
John Langan · 2016 · Book
Shares a supernatural threat.
68% shared signal
The Cipher
Kathe Koja · 1991 · Book
Shares explicit viscera.
68% shared signal
Pet Sematary
Stephen King · 1983 · Book
68% shared signal
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020 · Book
67% shared signal
The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor Lavalle · 2016 · Book
66% shared signal
Ring
Koji Suzuki · 1991 · Book
65% shared signal
Ghost Story
Peter Straub · 1979 · Book
63% shared signal
The Elementals
Michael McDowell · 1981 · Book
61% shared signal
The Shining
Stephen King · 1977 · Book
61% shared signal
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