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24 alternatives to Nightmares!

The 1st in a trilogy where Charlie's stuck in his nightmares

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Nightmares! launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Nightmares! The Sleepwalker Tonic▲71
The sequel where Charlie escapes nightmares to find zombies
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
2
His Dark Materials Trilogy▲74
Philip Pullman's classic magical trilogy
2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →
3
Scream▲56
Chilling adventures in the science of fear
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
4
The Circle▲94
Be Afraid. Be very afraid
2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →
5
Train Dreams▲55
An American epic in miniature
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
6
Into the Brambles▲60
Dark fantasy based on modernized classical myth
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
7
The Book of Disquiet▲61
A haunting mosaic of dreams
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
8
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning▲57
The story of the Baudelaire orphans
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
9
Interview with the Vampire ▲75
Number 1 in series (Vampire Chronicles)
2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →
10
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy▲76
A dark, strange, adult fairy tale
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
11
Nightfall▲57
The dark will bring your worst nightmares to light
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
12
A Song of Shadows: A Charlie Parker Thriller▲55
Charlie works a case based out a WWII concentration camp
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
13
Archive 81 - Episode 3 - A Story in Cycles▲54
It's about exploitation, stories, and an ouroboros
2016 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →
14
Zac's Haunted House ▲54
A novel told entirely in gifs
2015 · kiddiepunk.com · its alternatives →
15
The Body of Chris▲66
A memoir of obsession, addiction, and madness
2015 · inkshares.com · its alternatives →
16
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories▲65
New and re-written short stories from Stephen King
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
17
Abomination▲59
"Game of Thrones by way of H.P. Lovecraft"
2015 · inkshares.com · its alternatives →
18
The Dark Forest▲71
Part to of the acclaimed Three-Body Problem
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
19
The Suffering▲55
The darkness will find you
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
20
Evil by Design▲68
Like Nir Eyal's "Hooked" but with more pictures, and evil.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
21
The Flicker Men: An Novel▲54
Modern "sci fi" thriller about science, theology, and fate
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
22
Wonderbook▲78
The Illustrated guide to creating imaginative fiction
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
23
Morning Short - "Asleep In Armageddon" By Ray Bradbury▲60
A psycho-thriller about an astronaut who crashes onto a....
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
24
Two Book Minimum - Jason Porter / Subhah Argarwal▲66
Discussing "Why Are You So Sad?" with a sad & a funny comic
2015 · its alternatives →

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