If the seductive, predatory supernatural force and its grisly wages hooked you, Barker’s The Hellbound Heart sharpens that edge. As Frank Cotton solves the Lemarchand puzzle and summons the Cenobites, desire turns into flayed flesh and existential doom, while Julia’s complicity drags everyone deeper. That same mix of temptation, taboo, and punishment that drives the horrors you enjoyed is here—intimate, shocking, and unforgettable.

If you liked being pulled through a grimy urban hunt for an inhuman predator, Falling Angel delivers a razor-edged noir plunge. PI Harry Angel’s search for missing crooner Johnny Favorite crosses voodoo ceremonies, secret histories, and a series of ritual murders—each clue tightening a trap. The way the case peels back layers of the city’s darkness mirrors the investigative descent you enjoyed.

If you were drawn to a lead who isn’t clean-handed—someone who keeps stepping over lines—meet Marty Strauss in The Damnation Game. Fresh out of prison, he takes a bodyguard job for a reclusive tycoon and is soon entangled with a Faustian gambler whose power feeds on human ruin. Marty’s survival depends on choices that corrode him, echoing the morally perilous path that gave the horror you enjoyed its bite.

If the psychological spiral—where pursuit becomes compulsion—was your favorite thread, Song of Kali will haunt you. Writer Robert Luczak goes to Calcutta seeking a lost poem and instead finds a cult, a corpse that won’t stay put, and a darkness that colonizes his mind. The way dread grows from inner fractures as much as from external menace mirrors the intimate, invasive terror you enjoyed.

If you liked how the uncanny insinuated itself into a recognizable world—never fully explained but undeniably predatory—The Red Tree is a perfect next step. Sarah Crowe’s found manuscript, the ancient tree on the property, and the mounting coincidences blur haunting and hallucination. That same sense of a malign presence stalking through everyday spaces gives the dread its stickiness.