The 10 books on this stack
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Tananarive Due 2023
Why it's on the stack
Properly scary · fierce and defiant
It shares this with 6 more books on this stack
Jim Crow Florida, 1950. Twelve-year-old Robert Stephens Jr., who for a trivial scuffle with a white boy is sent to The Gracetown School for Boys.
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Carissa Orlando 2023
Why it's on the stack
Unsettling from the first page · a haunted house
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
" A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable, twisty, and layered debut novel.
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Alice Sebold 2000
Why it's on the stack
It leaves you shaken · sad, but it leaves you hopeful
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
Susie Salmon is just like any other young American girl. She wants to be beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy from school.
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Richard Matheson 1971 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Properly scary · a haunted house
It shares this with 6 more books on this stack
For over twenty years, Belasco House has stood empty. Its shadowed walls have witnessed scenes of almost unimaginable horror and depravity.
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Sarah Waters 2009
Why it's on the stack
The truth comes out bit by bit · it leaves you thinking
It shares this with 5 more books on this stack
Abundantly atmospheric and elegantly told, *The Little Stranger* is Sarah Waterss most thrilling and ambitious novel yet.
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George Saunders 2017
Why it's on the stack
It ties your stomach in a knot · properly strange
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery.
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Susan Hill 1984
Why it's on the stack
It'll scare you · a haunted house
It shares this with 6 more books on this stack
An internationally acclaimed and haunting ghost story. "One of the strongest stories of supernatural horror...the work bursts into life and does not flag until the end."-- The Washington Post Arthur…
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Toni Morrison 1987
Why it's on the stack
The truth comes out bit by bit · a haunted house
It shares this with 5 more books on this stack
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free.
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Henry James 2003
Why it's on the stack
Properly scary · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
It shares this with 6 more books on this stack
The story starts conventionally enough with friends sharing ghost stories 'round the fire on Christmas Eve.
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Shirley Jackson 2002
Why it's on the stack
The truth comes out bit by bit · a haunted house
It shares this with 5 more books on this stack
Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted…