Books like 'The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1'
Readers who enjoyed The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV, Álvaro Martínez Bueno & Jordie Bellaire also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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The Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury
18 ratingsDrunk, and in charge of a bicycle / introduction by Ray Bradbury--The night --Homecoming--Uncle Einar --The traveler --The lake --The coffin --The crowd --The scythe --There was an old woman --There will come soft rains --Mars is heaven --The silent towns --The earth men --The off season --The million-year picnic --The fox and the forest --Kaleidoscope --The rocket man --Marionettes, inc... -
The Hunted by Charlie Higson
16 ratingsThe Hunted is Charlie Higson's sixth terrifying installment in the thrilling The Enemy series. The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets - Crazed and hungry The others had promised that the countryside would be safer than the city. They were wrong...Categorized as:
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Light by Michael Grant
29 ratingsIt's been over a year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.In the time since every person over the age of fourteen disappeared from the town of Perdido Beach, California, countless battles have been fought: battles against hunger and lies and plague, and epic battles of good against evil... -
Execution by Alexander Gordon Smith
16 ratingsThe whole world has become a prison, and Alfred Furnace is its master. Monsters rule the streets, beasts of pure fury that leave nothing but murder and madness in their wake. Those who do not die are turned, becoming slaves to Furnace's reign of cruelty. It is a war to end all wars, one that will leave the planet in ruins. I am a monster too. I am one of Alfred Furnace's children... -
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Wolf 359 by Gabriel Urbina, Zach Valenti
6 ratingsLife's not easy for Doug Eiffel, the communications officer for the U.S.S. Hephaestus Research Station, currently on Day 448 of its orbit around red dwarf star Wolf 359. He's stuck on a scientific survey mission of indeterminate length, 7.8 light years from Earth... -
Death Sentence by Alexander Gordon Smith
18 ratingsAlex's second attempt to break out of Furnace Penetentiary has failed. This time his punishment will be much worse than before. Because in the hidden, bloodstained laboratories beneath the prison, he will be made into a monster. As the warden pumps something evil into his veins--a sinisterly dark nectar--Alex becomes what he most fears . . . a superhuman minion of Furnace... -
Fear by Michael Grant
32 ratingsIt's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear... -
Plague by Michael Grant
34 ratingsIt's been eight months since all the adults disappeared. GONE.They've survived hunger. They've survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, power struggles, and angry divides, there is a momentary calm in Perdido Beach... -
Fugitives by Alexander Gordon Smith
18 ratingsI am no longer trapped in the darkness. But the darkness is still trapped inside me. We did it. We cracked the gates, escaped from Furnace. We're out, but we're not free. Not yet. Now the whole city is in lockdown — the roads sealed, the police scouring every building. And there are worse things here — creatures of unimaginable fury hunting us down. An unholy army, sent by Alfred Furnace himself... -
Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith
20 ratingsFurnace Prison ...Where death is the least of your worries.Escape is just the beginning ...We thought we’d made it, we thought we were free. But we should have known there was no way out of Furnace.All we did was slip deeper into the guts of the prison: into solitary confinement, where the real nightmares live - the warden, the Wheezers, and something much, much worse.The clock’s ticking... -
Haunted in Death / Eternity in Death by J.D. Robb
8 ratingsFear, revenge and deadly superstition collide in these two exclusive J. D. Robb short stories. Haunted in Death Lieutenant Eve Dallas doesn't believe in ghosts. But when a very recent corpse shows up in a haunted abandoned nightclub, alongside the bones of the famous missing singer, Bobbie Bray, everyone is spooked - especially the new owner... -
Pandemic by Scott Sigler
18 ratingsThe explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Infected and Contagious.The alien intelligence that unleashed two horrific assaults on humanity has been destroyed. But before it was brought down in flames, it launched one last payload-a tiny soda-can-sized canister filled with germs engineered to wreak new forms of havoc on the human race... -
Three Days in Undead Shoes by Dee J. Holmes
6 ratingsOne woman. One Great Dane. A whole lot of zombies.Jane Finch wishes her problems ended with a bad commute and no coffee. Instead, she and Schrodinger, the Great Dane she’s supposed to be training, emerge from a locked room to discover a city changed for the dead... -
The Aleph Extraction by Dan Moren
8 ratingsAboard a notorious gangster's luxurious starliner, Simon Kovalic and his crew race to steal a mysterious artifact that could shift the balance of the war... -
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Project 731 by Jeremy Robinson
10 ratingsWASHINGTON D.C. HAS BEEN DESTROYED In the wake of a Kaiju assault that left the nation’s capital in ruins, Jon Hudson, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Fusion Center – Paranormal, is preparing his team for an uncertain future... -
Lies by Michael Grant
36 ratingsIt's been seven months since all the adults disappeared. Gone.It happens in one night. A girl who died now walks among the living; Zil and the Human Crew set fire to Perdido Beach; and amid the flames and smoke, Sam sees the figure of the boy he fears the most: Drake. But Drake is dead. Sam and Caine defeated him along with the Darkness—or so they thought... -
Elsewhere by Dean Koontz
24 ratingsThe fate of the world is in the hands of a father and daughter in an epic novel of wonder and terror by Dean Koontz, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach...Categorized as:
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The Last Town by Blake Crouch
34 ratingsWelcome to Wayward Pines, the last town.Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the town’s creator, is god. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get you killed... -
Hunger by Michael Grant
40 ratingsIt's been three months since everyone under the age of fifteen became trapped in the bubble known as the FAYZ.Three months since all the adults disappeared. GONE.Food ran out weeks ago. Everyone is starving, but no one wants to figure out a solution. And each day, more and more kids are evolving, developing supernatural abilities that set them apart from the kids without powers... -
Find Me by L.J. Baker
6 ratingsAgainst the odds, Andi is not only surviving in a world where flesh-eating undead hunt the living, but has managed to thrive. When she first went through the gates of the military base with Will, she thought it was their chance for a normal life. Well-- as normal as they could have during a zombie apocalypse. But life on the military base was nothing like she expected... -
Shadow Unit 6 by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear
6 ratingsThe FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity's worst nightmares. But there are nightmares humanity doesn't dream are real. The BAU sends those cases down the hall. Welcome to Shadow Unit. The Shadow Unit series was created by award-winning authors Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear... -
Mind Slide by Glenn Bullion
6 ratingsMason has the ability to "mind slide", the ability to project his consciousness. He can be anywhere in the world. Watching. Listening. Kelly tries to put that terrible night behind her. Kidnapped when she was a teenager, she still struggles to overcome the trauma. The details of her rescue were always a little sketchy. It was almost as if someone knew exactly where to find her... -
The Rage Colony by Shanon Hunt
6 ratingsThey promised purification.They delivered poison.One that hijacks the mind. A plague that will change humanity forever.From the author of The Pain Colony comes the highly anticipated second book in The Colony series.Investigative reporter Nick Slater could have been the best in the business if only he hadn’t gone off the rails chasing a conspiracy theory... -
The Best of Richard Matheson by Richard Matheson
12 ratingsThe first career retrospective of terrifying stories by "one of the greatest writers of the 20th century" (Ray Bradbury), edited by award-winning author Victor LaValle.Among the greats of 20th-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson... -
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Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson, Stephen King
18 ratingsRemember that monster on the wing of the airplane? William Shatner saw it on The Twilight Zone, John Lithgow saw it in the movie-even Bart Simpson saw it. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is just one of many classic horror stories by Richard Matheson that have insinuated themselves into our collective imagination... -
The Purge of Babylon by Sam Sisavath
18 ratingsOne night. That was all it took. Creatures that once lived in the shadows, hidden from humankind, have risen, spreading like a plague across the globe over the course of a single night. Their numbers growing exponentially through infection, these seemingly unkillable creatures have swallowed up whole cities and collapsed unprepared governments. Survivors call it The Purge... -
Intercepts by T.J. Payne
18 ratingsJoe works at a facility that performs human experimentation.His work just followed him home. The government wanted to unlock hidden abilities in the human mind.They put subjects in extreme sensory deprivation.All the test subjects went violently insane.But the research continued.Today it has been perfected.Almost perfected... -
Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne
24 ratingsAn ongoing journal depicting one man's personal struggle for survival, dealing with the trials of an undead world unfolding around him. An unknown plague sweeps the planet. The dead rise to claim the Earth as the new dominant species. Trapped in the midst of a global tragedy, he must make decisions...choices that that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them... -
The Prey by Andrew Fukuda
18 ratingsFor Gene and the remaining humans—or hepers—death is just a heartbeat away. On the run and hunted by society, they must find a way to survive in The Vast... and avoid the hungry predators tracking them in the dark. But they’re not the only things following Gene. He’s haunted by the girl he left behind and his burgeoning feelings for Sissy, the human girl at his side...Categorized as:
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City of the Dead by S.D. Perry, Timothy Stahl
18 ratingsLeon Kennedy, a rookie cop on a new assignment, and Claire Redfield, sister of the still-missing S.T.A.R.S. member Chris, arrive at Raccoon City to discover a necropolis. A botched attempt by the Umbrella Corporation to retrieve a devastating mutagenic weapon has resulted in a horrifying viral outbreak, transforming the city's population into the living dead. And all of them are hungry... -
The Trap by Andrew Fukuda
16 ratingsFrom author Andrew Fukuda comes The Trap, the explosive finale to The Hunt trilogy—perfect for fans of The Hunger Games!After barely escaping the Mission alive, Gene and Sissy face an impossible task: staying alive long enough to stop an entire world bent on their destruction...Categorized as:
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Please Remain Calm by Courtney Summers
15 ratingsIn this gripping sequel to THIS IS NOT A TEST, Rhys and Sloane are headed for a safe haven when they get separated along the way. Rhys is determined to reunite with Sloane until he discovers people who might need him more--people who offer him the closest he'll get to everything he's lost, if they can just hold on long enough... -
All These Monsters by Amy Tintera
10 ratingsFrom New York Times best-selling author Amy Tintera, a high-stakes sci-fi adventure about a teen girl who will do anything to escape her troubled home—even if that means joining a dangerous monster-fighting squad. Perfect for fans of Warcross and Renegades. Seventeen-year-old Clara is ready to fight back... -
Evolution by Teri Terry
10 ratingsA thrilling showdown brings the Dark Matter trilogy to a satsifying close. Shay is trapped at the Multiverse compound while looking for the real Callie, and an unforgiving Kai is her best chance at outsmarting Alex and saving countless lives.Shay has left Kai once again by following Alex to his Multiverse compound... -
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The Broken Room by Peter Clines, Timothy Andrés Pabon
8 ratings“Absolutely brilliant!” (Jonathan Maberry, New York Times best-selling author)The new supernatural thriller from New York Times best-selling author Peter ClinesYou can still owe the dead.Hector was the best of the best. A government operative who could bring armies to a halt and nations to their knees... -
What Doctor Gottlieb Saw by Ian Tregillis
8 ratingsGretel has wires in her head. Gretel likes to pick wildflowers. Gretel is one of the subjects on the farm, and she is Doctor Gottlieb's responsibility, but she knows something she isn't telling -- and if Doctor Gottlieb doesn't figure it out, it may be his body in a ditch next. This story is set in the world of Ian Tregillis's Milkweed series, which began with Bitter Seeds...Categorized as:
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The Void Protocol by F. Paul Wilson
8 ratingsF. Paul Wilson concludes his medical thriller trilogy featuring Rick Hayden and Laura Fanning as they confront the entities responsible for the supernatural events of Panacea and The God Gene.F... -
Paradox Valley by Gerri Hill
8 ratingsWas it an earthquake? A meteor? Or something else entirely?Running from a marriage proposal in Seattle, Dana Ingram returns to her parents’ farm in Western Colorado for a two-week vacation in Paradox Valley. Only a couple of days into it, however, a small earthquake leaves them without power. Cars won’t start, batteries don’t work and cell phones are useless... -
The Last Resort by Matt Drabble
6 ratingsFrom the Multi Award Winning & Best Selling author of "GATED" & "ASYLUM" with a highest Amazon Horror Author Ranking of 5th, comes comes a new trip to terror. The Paradise Resort is the ultimate in exclusive luxury island resorts. A private haven for only those deemed worthy enough to attend.Landon Verger is a titan of industry, a man who casts a long dark shadow and founder of Paradise... -
Nowhere to Land by Teretha Houston
6 ratingsThey have nowhere to run, nowhere to land, and they’re running out of sky.Quentin Kane hasn’t been a detective for years, but when a strange woman asks the air marshal to help bring down a shadowy organization, he gives in. But the next morning, he wakes up with no memory of the woman or the odd wooden box she gave him... -
Ancestor by Scott Sigler
18 ratingsOn a remote island in Lake Superior, scientists struggle to solve the problem of xenotransplantation -- using animal tissue to replace failing human organs. Funded by the biotech firm Genada, Dr. Claus Rhumkorrf seeks to recreate the ancestor of all mammals.By getting back to the root of our creation, Rhumkorrf hopes to create an animal with human internal organs... -
Extinction Horizon by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
18 ratingsThe worst of nature and the worst of science will bring the human race to the brink of extinction... Master Sergeant Reed Beckham has led his Delta Force Team, codenamed Ghost, through every kind of hell imaginable and never lost a man... -
Impact Winter by Travis Beacham
18 ratings"They came after the impact and the firestorms. When the sun went dark. Like they’d been there all along. Just waiting."From executive producers of The Walking Dead and Travis Beacham, the writer of Pacific Rim, comes a heart-stopping Audible Original featuring a brilliant British cast. It’s the near future and seven years since a comet hit the earth and blotted out the sun... -
Fall with Honor by E.E. Knight
14 ratingsIt's 2075 and the fight to liberate Earth from the mysterious Kurians continues in the grim seventh 'Vampire Earth' episode (after 'Valentine's Resolve'). Freedom fighter David Stuart Valentine is determined to overthrow the Kurian Occupation with the help of Sergeant Major Patel... -
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Virals by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs
29 ratingsTory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (of the Bones novels and hit TV show), is the leader of a ragtag band of teenage "sci-philes" who live on a secluded island off the coast of South Carolina...Categorized as:
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Blank: Life or Nothing by Richard C. Hale
10 ratingsThere’s a violence in me. My name is Lincoln Delabar. I was born without a face. Yes, you heard that right. Smooth, clear skin from my forehead to my chin.I see the world differently, yet it is still a place that holds wonder. At least most of the time. With my uniqueness comes a burden. My mind is powerful. Very powerful. And I have an obligation, a purpose, to see things in my own special way... -
Resident Evil: Retribution - The Official Movie Novelization by John Shirley
6 ratingsEVIL GOES GLOBALJust as she finds a safe haven, free from the Undead, Alice is kidnapped by her former employees - the Umbrella Corporation. Regaining consciousness, she finds herself trapped in the most terrifying scenario imaginable... -
Xperiment by Dan Skinner
6 ratingsMonsters aren't born... they're engineered. For nineteen-year-old, socially awkward Geoff Markham, the promise of a miracle pill to make him into the person he’d always wanted to be was everything he could have hoped for. At first, the experiment delivered on that promise. Geoff began to change, becoming more confident, stronger, even fearless. People began to admire him and find him attractive... -
The Unfamiliar Garden by Benjamin Percy
6 ratingsThe night the sky fell, Jack and Nora Abernathy’s daughter vanished in the woods. And Mia’s disappearance broke her parents’ already fragile marriage. Unable to solve her own daughter’s case, Nora lost herself in her work as a homicide detective... -
Monster by Soren Summers
6 ratingsBloodied corridors. Mangled bodies. Deranged test subjects. Just another day at Vertex, a corporation devoted to perfecting humanity by any means necessary. It's up to Jarod Samuels to keep the hallways pristine and safe, but scrubbing bloodstains and bagging bodies is losing its luster. Then someone new joins his department, this man with a huge ego and an even huger mouth...
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