AmongReaders.com
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

The Nest

Kenneth Oppel · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❤️

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka · 95 pages

Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. "monstrous vermin") and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition.

AnxietyEerieHorrorChronic Illness
❤️

Breathe: A Ghost Story

Cliff McNish · 264 pages

When he and his mother move into an old farmhouse in the English countryside, asthmatic twelve-year-old Jack discovers that he can communicate with the ghosts inhabiting the house and inadvertently establishes a relationship with a tormented, malevolent spirit that threatens to destroy both his mother and himself.

EerieHorrorMiddle GradeChronic Illness
❤️

Don't Let the Forest In

C.G. Drews · 352 pages

AnxietyEerieHorrorMale Lead
❤️

All the Lovely Bad Ones

Mary Downing Hahn · 182 pages

TRAVIS AND HIS SISTER, Corey, can’t resist a good trick. When they learn that their grandmother’s quiet Vermont inn, where they're spending the summer, has a history of ghost sightings, they decide to do a little "haunting” of their own. But their supernatural pranks awaken something dangerous, something that should have stayed asleep. Only Travis and Corey can lay to rest the spiteful spirit they

EerieHorrorMiddle GradeMale Lead
❤️

Welcome to Camp Nightmare

R.L. Stine · 136 pages

Baffled at the series of strange, unexplained events taking place at summer camp in the desert wilderness, twelve-year-old Billy considers escaping the horrors forever.

EerieHorrorMiddle GradeMale Lead
❤️

The Haunting of Gabriel Ashe

Dan Poblocki · 282 pages

Since eighth-grader Gabriel Ashe moved into his grandmother's house he has been spending a lot of time playing in the woods with his new friend Seth, but the games Seth invents involve a child-eating monster called the Hunter, and Gabriel is not sure how much is imagination and how much real.

EerieHorrorMiddle GradeMale Lead
❤️

The Dead Boys

Royce Buckingham

Timid twelve-year-old Teddy Mathews and his mother move to a small, remote desert town in eastern Washington, where the tree next door, mutated by nuclear waste, eats children and the friends Teddy makes turn out to be dead.

EerieMiddle GradeHorrorMale Lead
❤️

Ghost in the Machine

Patrick Carman · 207 pages

Although forbidden to see each other, Ryan and Sarah continue their investigation of the mysterious happenings at the dredge by communicating through video clips, text messages, midnight meetings, and journaling. The reader may view videos on a website by using links and passwords found in the text.

EerieHorrorMiddle GradeMale Lead
❤️

Gerald's Game

Stephen King · 400 pages

An erotic game with handcuffs between husband and wife. One of them won't make it through the night. For the survivor, death would have been a blessing.

EerieAnxietyHorror
🙂

The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost

John Bellairs · 147 pages

Collapsed in a weird trance, Johnny Dixon is dying. Professor Childermass and Fergie soon learn the horrifying reason: Johnny is possessed by the spirit of the evil Warren Windrow. In a desperate effort to find a clue that will save Johnny's life, the professor and Fergie race to the gloomy Windrow estate. But demonic forces are waiting for them, and suddenly they're fighting for their own lives.

EerieMiddle GradeHorrorMale Lead
🙂

Attack of the Fiend

Joseph Delaney · 546 pages

When witches steal Tom's inheritance and kidnap his relatives, Tom, the Spook, and Alice set out for Pendle Hill, a particularly dangerous district, in hopes of preventing the three witch clans from uniting to raise the Fiend, the Devil himself, thus bringing about an age of darkness.

EerieHorrorMiddle GradeMale Lead
🙂

Little Darlings

Melanie Golding · 312 pages

EerieAnxietyHorror
🙂

Blackbriar

William Sleator · 217 pages

Danny is intrigued by Blackbriar's eerie, haunted atmosphere. And as he investigates the house's past and its connection with the strange fires sometimes seen on nearby ancient burial mounds, Blackbriar and its previous occupants exert a strange influence on him. Until, on the night of the full moon, while the bonfires are burning, and the naked figures are dancing, and his companions have been ki

EerieHorrorMiddle GradeMale Lead
🙂

Professor Gargoyle

Charles Gilman

HorrorEerieMiddle GradeMale Lead
🙂

The Book of Dead Days

Marcus Sedgwick · 273 pages

With the help of his servant and an orphan girl, a magician named Valerian searches graveyards, churches, and underground waterways for a book he hopes will save him from a pact he has made with evil.

EerieHorrorMiddle GradeMale Lead
🙂

The Night Gardener

Jonathan Auxier · 368 pages

Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.

EerieHorrorMiddle Grade
🙂

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.

HorrorEerieMiddle GradeMale Lead
🙂

The Dollhouse Murders

Betty Ren Wright · 149 pages

What kinds of secrets do dolls keep? Amy is terrified. She hears scratching and scurrying noises coming from the dollhouse, and the dolls she was playing with are not where she left them. Dolls can't move by themselves, she tells herself. But every night when Amy goes into the attic to check on the dollhouse, it is filled with an eerie light and the dolls have moved again! Are the dolls trying to

EerieHorrorMiddle Grade
🙂

The Black Book of Secrets

F.E. Higgins · 309 pages

EerieMiddle GradeHorrorMale Lead
🙂

The Dark

Lemony Snicket · 39 pages

A Globe & Mail 100 Selection Two bestselling talents shed new light on an age-old fear Lazlo is afraid of the dark. It hides in closets and sometimes sits behind the shower curtain, but mostly it lives in the basement. One night, when Lazlo’s nightlight burns out, the dark comes to visit him in his room. “Lazlo,” the Dark says. “I want to show you something.” And so Lazlo descends the basem

AnxietyEerieMale Lead
🙂

The Hunt for the Seventh

Christine Morton-Shaw · 273 pages

When his father starts a new job at Minerva Hall as gardener, twelve-year-old Jim discovers an ancient curse that needs to be unraveled before disaster happens.

EerieMiddle GradeHorrorMale Lead
🙂

Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror

Chris Priestley · 238 pages

EerieHorrorMiddle Grade
🙂

Cuckoo Song

Frances Hardinge

EerieHorrorMiddle Grade
🙂

The Guardians

Andrew Pyper · 349 pages

EerieHorrorChronic IllnessMale Lead
📖 New 2026 Kindles just released. See them on Amazon ↗