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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Gathering
Dan Poblocki · 219 pages
Some houses are more than just haunted . . . they're hungry. Dash, Dylan, Poppy, Marcus, and Azumi don't know this at first. They each think they've been summoned to Shadow House for innocent reasons. But there's nothing innocent about Shadow House. Something within its walls is wickedly wrong. Nothing--and nobody--can be trusted. Hallways move. Doors vanish. Ghosts appear. Children disappear.
Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games
Joe Hill · 218 pages
Following a shocking death that dredges up memories of their father's murder, Kinsey and Tyler Locke are thrown into choppy emotional waters, and turn to their new friend, Zack Wells, for support, little suspecting Zack's dark secret. Meanwhile, six-year-old Bode Locke tries to puzzle out the secret of the head key, and Uncle Duncan is jarred into the past by a disturbingly familiar face. Open you
Coraline
Neil Gaiman · 176 pages
When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.
The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
Mary Downing Hahn
In the nineteenth century, ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.
The Dead End
Mimi McCoy · 174 pages
"Casey Slater can't believe her bad luck. Instead of the perfect summer vacation she'd planned, Casey is in a remote country town, where her parents are restoring an old, creaky, creepy house. Worst of all, everyone in town thinks the house is haunted. Soon Casey thinks so, too--a vase explodes, a china cabinet falls over on its own--and it seems like the ghost doesn't want them there. Casey t
The Fearsome Foursome
Amicus Arcane · 255 pages
Welcome, foolish mortals, to Disney Press' spookiest chapter book series yet: Tales from the Haunted Mansion! Based on the attractions from the Disney Parks, each new book tells the story of one of the Haunted Mansion's 999 ghosts. With two-color illustrations throughout and a beautiful three-piece cloth cover, the books are designed to look like they came straight from the library in the Haunted
77 Shadow Street
Dean Koontz · 552 pages
"Bad things are starting to happen at the Pendleton, an eerie building with a tragic past. The Pendleton stands on the summit of Shadow Hill, a palace built in the late 19th century as a tycoon's dream home. But its grandeur has been scarred by episodes of madness, suicide and mass murder. Since being converted into luxury apartments in the 70s, however, the Pendleton has been at peace. For its fo
Diary of a Haunting
M. Verano · 316 pages
Following her parents high-profile divorce, Paige and her brother are forced to move to Idaho with their mother, and Paige doesn t have very high hopes for her new life. The small town they ve moved to is nothing compared to the life she left behind in LA. And the situation is made even worse by the drafty old mansion they ve rented that s filled with spiders and plenty of other pests that Paige
Anna Dressed in Blood
Kendare Blake
For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.
Night of the Soul Stealer
Joseph Delaney · 512 pages
Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding Anglezarke Moor but soon discovers the reason for his master's decision, as they tangle with two dangerous witches and struggle to keep a dark mage from resurrecting an ancient evil.
Bad Girls Don't Die
Katie Alender
Alexis thought she led a typically dysfunctional high school existence. Dysfunctional like her parents' marriage; her doll-crazy twelve-year-old sister, Kasey; and even her own anti-social, anti-cheerleader attitude. When a family fight results in some tearful sisterly bonding, Alexis realizes that her life is creeping from dysfunction into danger. Kasey is acting stranger than ever: her blue eyes
The Black
D.J. MacHale · 405 pages
Cooper Foley, who has a knack for getting into trouble, ends up in the middle of a border war between the worlds of the living and the dead, trying to find out about the mysterious Morpheus Road.
The Amityville Horror
Jay Anson · 256 pages
On December 18, 1975, a young family of five moved into their new home, complete with finished basement, swimming pool, and a boathouse. Twenty-eight days later, they fled in terror, leaving most of their belongings behind. The fantastic story of their experiences was widely publicized on network television, newspapers, and national magazines. But the Lutz family never disclosed the full detail
The Grownup
Gillian Flynn · 71 pages
A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits t
Jade Green
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · 169 pages
While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings.
The Wicked, Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House
Mary Chase, Peter Sis · 144 pages
Known by her classmates as a liar, a loudmouth, and a bad-tempered person, Maureen Swanson gets a good taste of her own medicine when she enters the abandoned Messerman mansion and is given the fright of her life by the seven mean-spirited ghosts that reside within its crumbling walls.
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941
Lauren Tarshis · 86 pages
Sand flew up into Danny's eyes. And then from behind him, a huge explosion seemed to shatter the world. The force lifted Danny off his feet and threw him onto the ground. And then Danny couldn't hear anything at all.
Cirque Du Freak
Darren Shan · 266 pages
As Darren faces the final showdown with his archenemy, Steve Leopard, he seeks a way to trick destiny and avoid the requirement that one of them die and the other become Lord of the Shadows, fated to destroy the world.
Doctor Sleep
Stephen King · 532 pages
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 paranormals. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless; mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone
Hell House
Richard Matheson · 256 pages
Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newpaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death. Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been
The Haunting of Gillespie House
Darcy Coates · 240 pages
Elle is thrilled to spend a month minding the beautiful Gillespie property. Over an hour's drive from the nearest town, the aging mansion is ideal for someone seeking solitude. But as she explores her new home, Elle makes a startling discovery: there's a graveyard nestled deep in the woods, containing a generation of the house's residents... all who died the same year. Then things start to go v
The Curse of The House on Cypress Lane: Book 0- The Beginning
James Hunt · 384 pages
Nightmare House
Douglas Clegg · 301 pages
Once you cross its threshold, Harrow will never let you go. Claiming his inheritance, a young man unlocks long-buried secrets of an occultist’s dark mansion, awakening a nest of hungry ghosts in this spine-tingling supernatural horror novel of the house of infinite hauntings. For fans of haunted houses and ghost stories.