Mark Z. Danielewski 1998
- What it is
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A haunted house · it messes with your head
- Genre
- Horror Literary Mystery
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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Coming from House of Leaves? Start with Haunting of Hill House, Home Before Dark, The Woman in Black. 45 more below, each with why it fits.
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It'll scare you · a mystery you want to solve
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It'll scare you · horror in the countryside, with old rites
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It'll scare you · it leaves you thinking
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Readers put them together in Made you feel so scared you felt unsafe
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Properly scary · it stays with you
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Properly scary · a haunted house
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Properly scary · properly strange
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Properly scary · a mystery you want to solve
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Properly scary · a haunted house
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Properly scary and cerebral
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Grouped with yours in Horror told through the files someone left behind
Verity
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Properly scary · nobody is entirely good
13 books · Alike in just one
Only properly scary
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Properly scary · you need to know how it ends
Our Share of Night
Mariana Enríquez 2019
Grouped with yours in Experimental books that lose you on purpose
Dracula
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Grouped with yours in Horror told through the files someone left behind
Harvest Home
Thomas Tryon 2018
It'll scare you · horror in the countryside, with old rites
At the Mountains of Madness
H.P. Lovecraft 1971
Properly scary · you need to know how it ends
Devolution
Max Brooks 2020
A reader shelved it with yours in Horror told through the files someone left behind
The Patient
Jasper DeWitt 2020
It'll scare you · a mystery you want to solve
Lesser Dead
Christopher Buehlman 2014
Properly scary · pitch-black comedy
1984 and Animal Farm
George Orwell 1978
It'll scare you · a society that controls everything
Night Film
Marisha Pessl 2013
Grouped with yours in Experimental books that lose you on purpose
Bird Box
Josh Malerman 2001
Grouped with yours in Made you feel so scared you felt unsafe
The Hunger
Alma Katsu 2018
Properly scary · it tells it with no filter
1 book · Alike in just one
Only haunted house
Beloved
Toni Morrison 1987
The truth comes out bit by bit · it leaves you shaken
9 books · Alike in just one
Only cerebral
S.
J.J. Abrams 2013
Readers put them together in Experimental books that lose you on purpose
Vita Nostra
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You'll keep turning it over for days · it ties your stomach in a knot
The Vampire Tapestry
Suzy McKee Charnas 1980
You'll keep turning it over for days · you end up rooting for the wrong people
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer 2014
Nothing is quite what it seems · unsettling from the first page
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley 2006
In common with yours: story within a story · melancholic and unhurried
Trust
Hernán Díaz 2022
You'll keep turning it over for days · you end up rooting for the wrong people
The Raw Shark Texts
Steven Hall 2008
Readers put them together in Experimental books that lose you on purpose
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco 2003
Nothing is quite what it seems · it stirs you up inside
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Diane Setterfield 2006
The truth comes out bit by bit · it leaves you thinking
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