Books like Handling the Undead
In a Stockholm heatwave, a strange electrical field wakes the city's recently dead, and their families have to decide what to do with them.
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Lost Boy, Lost Girl
Tim Underhill returns to Millhaven after his sister-in-law's suicide, and finds his fifteen-year-old nephew Mark fixated on an empty house in the neighbourhood with a terrible history.
The Boy on the Bridge
Twelve scientists and soldiers cross Britain in an armoured lab called the Rosalind Franklin, looking for a cure for the hungry plague, and Stephen Greaves, a gifted teenage boy among them, finds something new.
Let the Right One In
In a Stockholm suburb in 1981, a bullied twelve-year-old makes friends with the strange girl who moves in next door and only comes out at night, as a series of killings unsettles the neighbourhood.
Pet Sematary
Doctor Louis Creed moves his family to rural Maine, where an old neighbour shows him the burial ground beyond the pet cemetery behind their house, a place that can bring the dead back, though not as they were.
Starve Acre
After the death of their young son, a couple at an isolated Yorkshire farmhouse grieve in different ways: she turns to a group of spiritualists, and he digs in the field for the roots of an oak tree from local legend.
The Bog Wife
For generations the Haddesleys of West Virginia have buried their patriarch in the bog in exchange for a wife to carry on the line. When their father dies and no bride rises for the eldest son, his siblings start to come apart.
Julia
After her daughter's death, Julia Lofting leaves her husband and buys a large empty house in Holland Park, where she keeps glimpsing a girl who looks like her daughter.
The Fisherman
Abe, who took up fishing after his wife died, agrees to take Dan, a newly widowed coworker, to Dutchman's Creek in the Catskills, and at a diner on the way the cook tells them the story of the creek.
The Good House
Two years after her teenage son died at her late grandmother's house in Sacajawea, Washington, Angela Toussaint goes back to it, and learns why the women in her family were once feared there.
Bag of Bones
Four years after his wife's sudden death, the bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, unable to write, goes to their lake house in western Maine, where he is drawn into a young widow's fight to keep her daughter from the child's wealthy grandfather.
Our Lady of Darkness
Franz Westen, a widowed writer of weird fiction in San Francisco, spots a pale figure waving from a hilltop he can see from his window, and comes across an old book on the haunting powers of great cities.
Aliss at the Fire
In 2002, Signe lies on a bench in an old house by a fjord, remembering the November day in 1979 when her husband Asle rowed out onto the water and did not come back.