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There's a reason the ghost story is so popular. We spend our lives thinking about mortality, and the idea of life after death can be comforting. Not so when we're the ones living in a haunted house. Check out these horror novels about ghosts and hauntings.

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  • From Blackfoot author Stephen Graham Jones comes a compelling, melancholy novella about grief, dread, love, terror and a boy trying to map out his house after a devastating loss.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Tom Doherty Associates, 2017. — FIC JONES
  • This dark and intriguing reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel follows the experiences of a courageous socialite in 1950s Mexico who is drawn into the treacherous secrets of an isolated mansion.
    Book, 2020New York : Del Rey, [2020] — FIC MORENO
  • As Julie and James settle into their home and their marriage, the house and its surroundings become the locus of increasingly strange happenings. Together they embark on a search for the source of their mutual torment.
    Book, 2017New York : Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2017. — FIC JEMC
  • In this offbeat and darkly satirical horror novel, three employees at the Orsk furniture superstore volunteer to investigate its strange occurrences, but what they discover is more horrifying than they could have imagined.
    Book, 2014Philadelphia : Quirk Books, [2014] — FIC HENDRIX
  • Surviving the sinking of the Titanic, Annie takes a job as a nurse on the Britannic before encountering a fellow survivor who forces her to reckon with past demons. A chilling supernatural spin in a famous historical tragedy.
    Book, 2020New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2020] — FIC KATSU
  • Working to rebuild her law practice after her son commits suicide, Angela Toussaint journeys to the family home where the suicide took place and discovers an evil force that is driving locals to acts of violence.
    Book, 2004New York : Washington Square Press, 2004. — FIC DUE
  • Suffering from pica, which causes her to eat nonedible items, Miranda helps to run the family bed-and-breakfast while witnessing her community's hostilities toward outsiders, a malice that erupts in violent, destructive ways.
    Book, 2009New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2009] — FIC OYEYEMI
  • This stylistic novel follows the narrative of five different people who disappear through a mysterious door that leads to Slade House, owned by a peculiar brother and sister, and vanish completely from the outside world.
    Book, 2015New York : Random House, [2015] — FIC MITCHEL
  • After moving to a new apartment next to a cemetery, a Japanese family experiences terrifying occurrences that send the other residents fleeing their homes, leaving them alone with the dark evil residing in the basement.
    Book, 2016New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2016. — FIC KOIKE
  • An 80-year-old mansion harboring dark secrets comes to menacing life in this classic tale from Shirley Jackson that follows an anthropologist and three strangers staying there for the summer.
    Book, 2013New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2013. — FIC JACKSON
  • In this incomparable novel, Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family and their son sees the evil waiting for them.
    Book, 1977New York : Doubleday, [1977] — FIC KING
  • Echoes

    the Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories

    The spine-tingling collection of ghost stories - compiled by an editor who helped define the genre - includes stories from bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire and Paul Tremblay.
    Book, 2019New York : Saga Press, [2019] — FIC ECHOES
  • After fleeing South Africa, a young couple move into an apartment in Paris, but the strange sounds and mysterious occupants of the building lead them to question their sanity and their marriage.
    Book, 2016New York : Blumhouse Books/Anchor Books, [2016] — FIC GREY
  • When an effort to build her dream home is overshadowed by her rural property's violent past, a former history teacher becomes obsessed with the stories of local women who died under suspicious circumstances.
    Book, 2019New York : Doubleday, [2019] — FIC MCMAHON
  • In this unsettling thriller set in mid-1980s Iceland, a young woman seeks a new start in the secluded village of Skálar where a small community is desperate to protect its secrets.
    Book, 2021New York : Minotaur Books, 2021. — FIC RAGNAR
  • When David Caine, a celebrated skeptic of the supernatural, is invited by a friend to spend a month in the most haunted house in Virginia, he believes the case will be like any other. But the Alexander House is different.
    Book, 2018London : Flame Tree Press, [2018] — FIC JANZ
  • In this psychological horror novel with a literary twist, four horror authors agree to stay in the abandoned Finch House as a publicity stunt, but soon find themselves fighting for survival from the entity they awaken.
    Book, 2017San Francisco, California : Inkshares, Inc., [2017] — FIC THOMAS
  • Moving in with his reclusive artist aunt after his mother's death, 11-year-old Marcus learns the story of a local cottage from which a family disappeared during a hurricane, and meets a ghost with a mysterious agenda.
    Book, 2017New York : Bloomsbury, 2017. — FIC GODWIN
  • Struggling to maintain her sanity in the haunted corners of her decaying ancestral home, Sam takes in her pregnant sister before the appearance of a knife-wielding ghost boy reveals dangerous family secrets.
    Book, 2020New York : Crooked Lane, 2020. — FIC KAPLAN
  • Moving to a rural farmhouse in far upstate New York, Orla, a retired dancer, must protect her family from an unknown entity that is calling to them from the land, in the earth, beneath the trees... and in their minds.
    Book, 2020New York : Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2020. — FIC STAGE

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