🏷️ Haunted House
31 entries tagged with this trope
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 1959
Eleanor joins a paranormal investigation at Hill House. The house's malevolent influence affects her sanity in Jackson's masterpiece of psychological horror.
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020
A glamorous socialite travels to a decaying English mansion in the Mexican countryside to rescue her cousin. The house has secrets. The walls have fungi. You will not sleep well.
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski · 2000
A house that's bigger on the inside than the outside. A manuscript about a documentary that may not exist. The most terrifying novel ever written about architecture.
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski · 2000
A house that's bigger on the inside than the outside. A documentary about it that may not exist. A man reading about it who's losing his mind. The book itself is the horror.
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 1959
Whatever walked in Hill House, walked alone. Four people spend a summer investigating a supposedly haunted mansion. The horror is in what you're not sure you saw. The original.
Horrid
Katrina Leno · 2020
After her father dies, Jane and her mom move into an old family house in Maine. A house full of books. Books that weren't there before. Books that seem to multiply. YA gothic at its creepiest.
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987
A formerly enslaved woman is haunted by the ghost of her dead daughter. The prose is poetry. The horror is American history. Morrison won the Pulitzer for this and it wasn't enough.
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020
1950s Mexico. Noemí visits her cousin at a decaying English manor. The house is wrong. The family is wrong. The mushrooms in the walls are very wrong.
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski · 2000
A house that's bigger on the inside than the outside. The footnotes have footnotes. The text itself becomes a labyrinth. There is nothing else like this book.
The Sun Down Motel
Simone St. James · 2020
Viv took the night shift at a motel in 1982 and vanished. Thirty-five years later, her niece Carly gets a job at the same motel. Same ghosts. Same danger.
North Woods
Daniel Mason · 2023
One house in the New England woods, traced through centuries of inhabitants. From colonial settlers to modern times. Each chapter shifts form — poem, thriller, love story. Wildly inventive.
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Cassandra Khaw · 2021
A group of friends celebrate a wedding in a Heian-era Japanese mansion built on the bones of a bride. The house is hungry. Gorgeous, bite-sized horror.
Horrid
Katrina Leno · 2020
After her father's death, Jane moves into her mother's childhood home. The locked room upstairs is full of books. And something is reading them at night.
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020
Noemí travels to a decaying mansion in the Mexican countryside to rescue her cousin. The house is wrong. The family is worse. Gothic horror that gets under your skin.
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 1959
Whatever walked in Hill House, walked alone. Four people arrive to investigate. The house doesn't want them to leave. The original haunted house novel. Still terrifying.
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski · 2000
A house that is bigger on the inside than the outside. A documentary about that house. Footnotes about that documentary. A book that makes you feel genuinely unsafe reading it.
The Woman in Black
Susan Hill · 1983
A young solicitor visits a remote house to settle an estate. He sees a woman in black at the funeral. The locals won't talk about her. Classic British ghost story that delivers pure dread.
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020
Noemí receives a frantic letter from her newlywed cousin begging for help. She arrives at High Place, a decaying English manor in the Mexican countryside. The house has secrets in its walls.
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski · 2000
A house that's bigger on the inside than the outside. A documentary about the house. A man's notes about the documentary. A book about the notes. It will break your brain in the best way.
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020
A glamorous 1950s socialite investigates her cousin's strange new husband — in a decaying English manor in Mexico.
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 1959
The original haunted house novel. Nobody walks these halls alone.
The Whisper Man
Alex North · 2019
A father and son move to a new town. Children went missing there years ago. Now it's happening again. The whispers come at night.
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020
Noemí goes to rescue her cousin from a crumbling English-style manor in 1950s Mexico. The house has secrets. The walls have something worse.
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski · 2000
A house that's bigger on the inside. A documentary about it. A blind man's footnotes on the documentary. A madman's footnotes on those. This book will change how you see books.
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 1959
Four strangers arrive at Hill House to investigate the supernatural. The house is alive. Eleanor is unraveling. The original haunted house novel.
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Cassandra Khaw · 2021
Five friends spend the night in a Heian-era Japanese mansion built on the bones of a bride. The prose is gorgeous. The horror is relentless.
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 1959
Four people stay in a haunted house for a study. Hill House doesn't like visitors. The original haunted house novel. Still unmatched.
A House with Good Bones
T. Kingfisher · 2023
Sam visits her mom and finds the house has been redecorated in aggressive Southern grandmother chic. Something sinister is behind the lace curtains.
The Turn of the Key
Ruth Ware · 2019
Rowan takes a nannying job in a smart home in the Scottish Highlands. She's writing from prison now. The house might be haunted. Or someone might be watching.
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski · 2000
A house on Ash Tree Lane is slightly bigger on the inside than the outside. The footnotes spiral into madness. The most formally inventive horror novel ever written.
Bag of Bones
Stephen King · 1998
Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan loses his wife and retreats to their Maine lakehouse. It's haunted. It wants something from him. King's most literary horror novel.