Books Like Gerald's Game

Loved Gerald's Game by Stephen King? If its intense, psychological horror and tense and suspenseful hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with I'm Thinking of Ending Things, We Used to Live Here and Tender Is the Flesh. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Gerald's Game: Intense · Psychological Horror · Tense and Suspenseful · Female Lead · Survival Story

I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid

Psychological Horror · Psychological Thriller · Haunting · Horror · Isolated Location Horror

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We Used to Live Here
Marcus Kliewer

Psychological Horror · Horror · Tense and Suspenseful · Eerie · Isolated Location Horror

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Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica

Psychological Horror · Haunting · Horror · Graphic Medical Content · Body Horror

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The Summer I Died
Ryan C. Thomas

Isolated Location Horror · Survival Story · Horror · Intense · Body Horror

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The Eyes Are the Best Part
Monika Kim

Psychological Horror · Horror · Body Horror · Intense · Thriller

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Brother
Ania Ahlborn

Psychological Horror · Horror · Child Abuse · Intense · Sexual Assault Content

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MPD Psycho, Vol. 1
Eiji Otsuka, Sho-u Tajima

Psychological Horror · Graphic Medical Content · Psychological Thriller · Horror · Body Horror

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House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski

Psychological Horror · Haunting · Horror · Isolated Location Horror · Eerie

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Come Closer
Sara Gran

Psychological Horror · Horror · Marriage in Trouble · Eerie · Haunting

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Cold Eternity
S.A. Barnes

Isolated Location Horror · Horror · Eerie · Tense and Suspenseful · Psychological Horror

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Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Isolated Location Horror · Horror · Psychological Horror · Body Horror · Eerie

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None of This Is True
Lisa Jewell

Child Abuse · Psychological Thriller · Tense and Suspenseful · Marriage in Trouble · Sexual Assault Content

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NO EXIT
Taylor Adams

Locked In Together · Tense and Suspenseful · Intense · Survival Story · Isolated Location Horror

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Pretty Girls
Karin Slaughter

Sexual Assault Content · Psychological Thriller · Intense · Tense and Suspenseful · Violent

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Strange Sally Diamond
Liz Nugent

Childhood Trauma · Child Abuse · Psychological Thriller · Sexual Assault Content · Thriller

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One by One
Ruth Ware

Locked In Together · Tense and Suspenseful · Psychological Thriller · Isolated Location Horror · Intense

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Little Darlings
Melanie Golding

Psychological Thriller · Eerie · Horror · Tense and Suspenseful · Thriller

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Never Lie
Freida McFadden

Locked In Together · Psychological Thriller · Tense and Suspenseful · Marriage in Trouble · Thriller

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The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson

Childhood Trauma · Sexual Assault Content · Child Abuse · Tense and Suspenseful · Intense

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If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
Gregg Olsen

Childhood Trauma · Child Abuse · Intense · Trauma Recovery · Bleak

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