Haunted Setting

The Housemaid

Freida McFadden · Horror

Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom.

psychological thriller · haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · trauma recovery

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier · Horror

With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs.

gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · haunted setting · second chance romance · trauma recovery

You Did Nothing Wrong

CG Drews · Horror

Single mother Elodie’s life has become a fairy tale.

haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Grady Hendrix · Horror

*‘I did an evil thing to be put in here, and I’m going to have to do an evil thing to get out.’* They call them wayward girls.

gothic atmosphere · witches · coming of age · dark academia · haunted setting

We Used to Live Here

Marcus Kliewer · Horror

As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can’t believe the killer deal they’ve just gotten on an old house in a picturesque…

haunted setting · psychological thriller · closed circle

A Box Full of Darkness

Simone St. James · Horror

“From the book’s chillingly creepy setting, which previously appeared in The Sun Down Motel (2020), to a nerve-jangling plot that effectively borrows…

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · closed circle

The Shining

Stephen King · Horror

Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start.

psychological thriller · haunted setting · high stakes survival

Play Nice

Rachel Harrison · Horror

Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so glamorous secret: she…

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · psychological thriller · demons · trauma recovery

Pet Sematary

Stephen King · Horror

Pet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. The novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1986

haunted setting · grimdark · psychological thriller

Beloved

Toni Morrison · Literary Fiction

Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their…

historical fiction · magical realism · trauma recovery · haunted setting · ghosts

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski · Horror

This is an alternate cover edition.

cosmic horror · psychological thriller · haunted setting · twist ending

On Sundays She Picked Flowers

Yah Yah Scholfield · Horror

“A ferociously talented writer. Scholfield writes with insight, beauty, and the wildness of real art.” —Victor LaValle, author of Lone Women In this…

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · psychological thriller · survival

The Library After Dark

Ande Pliego · Mystery & Thriller

A bookseller must escape the infamously haunted library that holds her darkest secrets, but with a murderer in her tour group, escaping alive is not…

locked room · psychological thriller · haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · twist ending

Hazelthorn

CG Drews · Horror

Evander has lived like a ghost in the forgotten corners of the Hazelthorn estate ever since he was taken in by his reclusive billionaire guardian,…

gothic atmosphere · coming of age · grimdark · dark academia · haunted setting

Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia · Horror

An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. . . . From the author of…

gothic atmosphere · cosmic horror · psychological thriller · haunted setting

Spoiled Milk

Avery Curran · Horror

“The haunted lesbian boarding school horror show we always wanted.

dark academia · gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · found family · paranormal romance

Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield · Horror

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe.

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · psychological thriller

The Keeper

Sarah Langan · Horror

Some believe Bedford, Maine, is cursed.

haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · small town

The Bewitching

Silvia Moreno-Garcia · Horror

“Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter…

gothic atmosphere · witches · haunted setting · multiple timelines · dark academia

'Salem's Lot

Stephen King · Horror

Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in the hopes that living in an old mansion, long the subject of town lore, will help him cast out his own…

gothic atmosphere · vampires · small town · haunted setting · redemption arc

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson · Horror

First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror.

haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · closed circle

A House With Good Bones

T. Kingfisher · Horror

**A contemporary Southern Gothic from award-winning master of modern horror T.

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · psychological thriller

What Moves the Dead

T. Kingfisher · Horror

When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers…

gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · haunted setting

Phantasma

Kaylie Smith · Fantasy

Welcome to Phantasma. There are only two rules to the game. Stay alive. And don’t fall in love. When Ophelia’s sister disappears, there is only one…

enemies to lovers · dark academia · haunted setting · forbidden romance · quest · twist ending

How to Sell a Haunted House

Grady Hendrix · Horror

When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home.

haunted setting · trauma recovery · revenge plot

The Staircase in the Woods

Chuck Wendig · Horror

While on a camping trip, five high-schoolers bound by an oath to always protect one another discover something in the middle of the forest: a…

haunted setting · closed circle · psychological thriller

The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty · Horror

THE CHILLING MOVIE WE COULD NOT FORGET ...

haunted setting · cosmic horror · psychological thriller · gothic atmosphere

Incidents Around the House

Josh Malerman · Horror

To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world.

haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · coming of age · psychological thriller

We Live Here Now

Sarah Pinborough · Horror

Award-winning author of New York Times bestselling breakout novel (and hit Netflix show) Behind Her Eyes returns with a haunting Gothic novel about a…

gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · haunted setting · trauma recovery

The Place Where They Buried Your Heart

Christina Henry · Horror

On an otherwise ordinary street in Chicago, there is a house.

haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · trauma recovery

Wife Shaped Bodies

Laura Cranehill · Horror

Sorrowland meets Manhunt in this literary horror debut in which an isolated newlywed—covered in mushroom growths like all the other wives in her…

gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · haunted setting · forbidden romance

Nestlings

Nat Cassidy · Horror

Ana and Reid need a break. The horrifically complicated birth of their first child has left Ana paralyzed, bitter, and struggling―with mobility,…

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · psychological thriller · urban fantasy

Diavola

Jennifer Thorne · Horror

Anna has two rules for the annual Pace family destination vacations: *Tread lightly and survive*.

dark academia · gothic atmosphere · haunted setting

Turn Off the Light

Jacquie Walters · Horror

Two women living centuries apart are bound by the same dark secret in this haunting novel that "upends everything you think you know about ghost…

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · multiple timelines · ghosts · twist ending

The Hollow Places

T. Kingfisher · Horror

Pray they are hungry. Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly…

cosmic horror · portal fantasy · psychological thriller · haunted setting · closed circle

The Fourth Wife

Linda Hamilton · Horror

The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas meets “Sister Wives” in a deliciously chilling, darkly romantic, historical gothic horror with a feminist slant, as a…

dark romance · gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · historical fiction · forbidden romance

Dead of Winter

Kealan Patrick Burke · Horror

Winter isn’t coming…it’s already here, and with it comes a horror no door can keep out.

haunted setting · high stakes survival · gothic atmosphere

The Silent Companions

Laura Purcell · Horror

**When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge, what greets her is far from…

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · ghosts · locked room · psychological thriller

Widow's Point

Richard Chizmar · Horror

Richard Chizmar, “one of horror’s indispensable writers” (Paste), and his son W.H.

psychological thriller · haunted setting · closed circle · cat and mouse

This House Will Feed

Maria Tureaud · Horror

Amidst the devastation of Ireland’s Great Famine, a young woman is salvaged from certain death when offered a mysterious position at a remote manor…

gothic atmosphere · historical fiction · haunted setting · survival

Hell House

Richard Matheson · Horror

Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die.

haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · closed circle

Model Home

Rivers Solomon · Horror

Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.

haunted setting · coming of age · gothic atmosphere · found family

House of Splinters

Laura Purcell · Horror

House of Splinters is the long-awaited prequel to bestselling and multi award-winning author Laura Purcell's gothic horror classic, The Silent…

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · closed circle

Bat Eater

Kylie Lee Baker · Horror

Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown.

haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · grimdark · cosmic horror

Our Sister's Keeper

Jasmine Holmes · Literary Fiction

Mississippi, 1927. The groanings are coming. No town is perfect, but East Cobb comes close. It's a wealthy all-Black Free Town--untouched by white…

historical fiction · haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · ghosts · closed circle

The Hacienda

Isabel Cañas · Horror

Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote…

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · historical fiction · forbidden romance

These Familiar Walls

C. J. Dotson · Horror

A spine-chilling, heart-pounding suburban horror novel at the heart of the genre, perfect for fans of T.

coming of age · haunted setting · psychological thriller · small town

The September House

Carissa Orlando · Horror

When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t…

haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · romantic comedy

House of Margins

Tlotlo Tsamaase · Mystery & Thriller

Serial the podcast meets The Other Black Girl in a haunted house, as young African author disappears after being invited to an exclusive writing…

missing person · psychological thriller · coming of age · closed circle · haunted setting

The Babysitter Lives

Stephen Graham Jones · Horror

The Babysitter Lives When high school senior Charlotte agrees to babysit the Wilbanks twins, she plans to put the six-year-olds to bed early and…

high stakes survival · haunted setting · ghosts

The Winter People

Jennifer McMahon · Horror

The New York Times bestselling author of The Invited will shock you with a simmering psychological thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and…

psychological thriller · haunted setting · ghosts · trauma recovery · multiple timelines

House of the Beast

Michelle Wong · Horror

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting

Hidden Pictures

Jason Rekulak · Horror

A wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.

psychological thriller · paranormal romance · haunted setting

What Feasts at Night

T. Kingfisher · Horror

After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war.

haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · dark romance

Nightwatching

Tracy Sierra · Horror

A footstep on the stairs. A second to react. What happens next will determine everything. Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a…

psychological thriller · locked room · haunted setting · survival

The Woman in Black

Susan Hill · Horror

In the process of settling an estate, Arthur Kipps finds himself confronted with some very unsettling matters.

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · ghosts · psychological thriller

My Darling Dreadful Thing

Johanna van Veen · Horror

*Spirits are drawn to salt, be it blood or tears.* Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see.

dark academia · gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · psychological thriller · found family

The Hill in the Dark Grove

Liam Higginson · Horror

Moving and chilling, The Hill in the Dark Grove is a story about a lost way of life and the terrifying lengths we go to to protect what we know.

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · grimdark · trauma recovery

The Fourth Princess

Janie Chang · Literary Fiction

From the internationally bestselling author of The Porcelain Moon comes a haunting Gothic novel set in 1911 China.

gothic atmosphere · historical fiction · missing person · psychological thriller · haunted setting

Mother Is Watching

Karma Brown · Horror

The chilling horror debut from a #1 international bestselling author—an art conservator’s obsession with a mysterious painting spirals into a…

gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · haunted setting

Hemlock

Melissa Faliveno · Horror

A woman haunted by a dark inheritance returns to the woods where her mother vanished, in this queer Gothic novel.

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · trauma recovery · coming of age

Horrorstor

Grady Hendrix · Horror

Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio.

haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · closed circle · survival

Grace

A.M. Shine · Horror

A haunting tale of ancient evil and long-buried secrets in an isolated Irish community from the author of hit horror novel The Watchers.

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · small town · closed circle

The Little Stranger

Sarah Waters · Literary Fiction

Abundantly atmospheric and elegantly told, *The Little Stranger* is Sarah Waterss most thrilling and ambitious novel yet.

psychological thriller · historical fiction · gothic atmosphere · haunted setting

Voices in the Snow

Darcy Coates · Horror

Clare remembers the cold. She remembers abandoned cars and children's toys littered across the road. She remembers dark shapes in the snow and a…

psychological thriller · gothic atmosphere · unreliable narrator · haunted setting

The Hounding

Xenobe Purvis · Horror

Even before the rumors about the Mansfield girls begin, Little Nettlebed is a village steeped in the uncanny, from strange creatures that wash up on…

gothic atmosphere · small town · haunted setting · psychological thriller · closed circle

13 Months Haunted

Jimmy Juliano · Horror

From Dead Eleven author Jimmy Juliano, a twisty, edge-of-your-seat novel about a unique haunting in the early 2000s Piper Lowery, a public library…

psychological thriller · haunted setting · twist ending · ghosts

The Good House

Tananarive Due · Horror

Award-winning author Due's spine tingling tale of supernatural suspense "weaves a stronger net than ever" (Kirkus Reviews") as a woman searches for…

haunted setting · found family · small town

The Black Farm

Elias Witherow · Horror

After the loss of a child along with a slew of agonizing misfortunes, Nick and Jess decide to end their lives.

psychological thriller · trauma recovery · haunted setting

Last Days

Adam Nevill · Horror

An unnerving, terrifying novel from a master of horror, Adam Nevill.

gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · haunted setting · grimdark

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James · Horror

The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.

haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · unreliable narrator

Night Shift

Stephen King · Horror

Stephen King has brought together nineteen of his most unsettling short pieces--bizarre tales of dark doing and unthinkable acts from the twilight…

cosmic horror · psychological thriller · haunted setting

The Last House on Needless Street

Catriona Ward · Horror

In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three.

gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · twist ending · haunted setting

Something in the Walls

Daisy Pearce · Horror

Newly minted child psychologist Mina has little experience.

haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller

Mean Spirited

Nick Roberts · Horror

An alcoholic teacher and father's world spirals out of control when a former student is killed and he is left with her dog and the dark presence that…

psychological thriller · haunted setting · trauma recovery · demons

The Willows

Algernon Blackwood · Horror

After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread…

gothic atmosphere · cosmic horror · psychological thriller · haunted setting

Home Before Dark

Riley Sager · Mystery & Thriller

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One of USA Today's Best Books of 2020 “A haunted house story—with a twist….[Sager] does not hold…

psychological thriller · gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · twist ending · closed circle

Funeral Song

Carly Racklin · Horror

"A grotesque beauty in the vein of Guillermo del Toro, matched only by Carly Racklin's elegant prose." —Rachel Bolton, author of Please Serve Cold…

gothic atmosphere · small town · haunted setting

Sarafina

Philip Fracassi · Horror

During one of the most violent battles of the Civil War, three brothers fighting for the Confederate army decide to go AWOL and make their way home,…

gothic atmosphere · historical fiction · haunted setting

The Tower of the Tyrant

J.T. Greathouse · Fantasy

In a terrorized kingdom where the ghosts of the past do not rest in peace, a sorceress comes calling.

grimdark · gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · morally grey character · ghosts

The Brides

Charlotte Cross · Horror

Before Dracula, there were the brides .

gothic atmosphere · ghosts · paranormal romance · haunted setting · twist ending

Knock Knock, Open Wide

Neil Sharpson · Horror

Knock Knock, Open Wide weaves horror and Celtic myth into a terrifying, heartbreaking supernatural tale of fractured family bonds, the secrets we…

gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · haunted setting · historical fiction

The Cold House

A.G. Slatter · Horror

When Everly’s husband and young daughter die in a car crash she finds out nothing is quite what she thought… Secrets, lies and grief collide in this…

haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · trauma recovery · twist ending

Midnight Rooms

Donyae Coles · Horror

“An immersive horror fairy tale marrying Crimson Peak to Pan’s Labyrinth upon strange foundations.

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · paranormal romance

Ghost Story

Peter Straub · Horror

In a seedy motel in Florida, a young man holds captive a little girl in a soiled pink dress.

gothic atmosphere · ghosts · psychological thriller · twist ending · haunted setting

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving · Horror

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · small town · love triangle

Withered Hill

David Barnett · Horror

'A terrific, unexpected twist' Guardian 'Withered Hill is the ultimate nightmare destination' Laird Barron InsideA year ago Sophie Wickham stumbled…

gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · amnesia · closed circle · haunted setting

Motherthing

Ainslie Hogarth · Horror

When Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with Ralph’s mother, Laura, Abby hopes it’s just what she and her mother-in-law need to finally connect.

dark academia · haunted setting · revenge plot · dark romance

A Head Full of Ghosts

Paul Tremblay · Horror

"The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute…

psychological thriller · haunted setting · unreliable narrator · trauma recovery

The Devil and Mrs. Davenport

Paulette Kennedy · Horror

The bestselling author of The Witch of Tin Mountain and Parting the Veil mines the subtle horrors of 1950s America in a gripping novel about a woman…

historical fiction · haunted setting · psychological thriller · trauma recovery

Crone

Keith Rosson · Horror

A haunting, fearsome story of a father searching for his missing daughter and finding darkness—both human and not—at every turn, from the author of…

missing person · psychological thriller · trauma recovery · haunted setting

The Graceview Patient

Caitlin Starling · Horror

Misery meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers in this genre-bending, claustrophobic hospital gothic from the bestselling author of The Death of Jane…

psychological thriller · gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · trauma recovery · closed circle

Bad Things Happen Here

Mark Morris · Horror

Hardcover with sprayed edges. A new chiller from multi award winning author of over 50 novels, winner of the New York Festival Radio Award for Best…

small town · closed circle · haunted setting · psychological thriller

The Other

Thomas Tryon · Horror

NYRB Classics presents the landmark psychological horror novel about 13-year-old twins living in a bucolic New England town—one good and the other…

psychological thriller · haunted setting · trauma recovery

The Bog Wife

Kay Chronister · Horror

. . Pick this one up for its exquisite characterization, decaying settings and a dash of Southern gothic horror." —Kiersten White, The New York Times…

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · trauma recovery · psychological thriller

Hex House

Amy Jane Stewart · Horror

A feverishly told, dark and unsettling Scotland-set fairy-tale about a safe haven for women which transforms them into vessels of revenge, perfect…

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · forbidden romance · revenge plot · found family

The Forest of Missing Girls

Nichelle Giraldes · Horror

The forest is hungry, and her family's secrets are tangled in the trees...

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · psychological thriller · trauma recovery

CHROMATIC CREEP.

KADEN. LOVE · Horror

psychological thriller · haunted setting

I'll Watch Your Baby

Neena Viel · Horror

A suffocating and sharp narrative horror novel for fans of Victor LaValle and The Reformatory from "addictive" (Publishers Weekly) horror author…

dark academia · psychological thriller · morally grey character · haunted setting

Doctor Sleep

Stephen King · Horror

The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special twelve-year-old girl from a tribe of murderous…

survival · grimdark · haunted setting · high stakes survival · trauma recovery

No One Gets Out Alive

Adam Nevill · Horror

Darkness lives within . . . Cash-strapped, working for agencies and living in shared accommodation, Stephanie Booth feels she can fall no further. So…

haunted setting · psychological thriller · survival · trauma recovery

The Twisted Ones

T. Kingfisher · Horror

When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes.

haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · survival · closed circle

The Curse of Hester Gardens

Tamika Thompson · Horror

We Need to Talk about Kevin as if written by Jason Reynolds and Tananarive Due meets Model Home by Rivers Solomon in an innovative twist on the…

haunted setting · coming of age · trauma recovery · gothic atmosphere · survival

That Which Feeds Us

Keala Kendall · Horror

For the world’s wealthiest, Kōpaʻa Island Resort is more than a destination.

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · missing person · psychological thriller

Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell

Brandon Sanderson · Fantasy

Originally appearing in the Dangerous Women anthology and now available as a solo ebook, Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell is a chilling…

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · high stakes survival

House of Salt and Sorrows

Erin A. Craig · Fantasy

In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · slow burn