Books like House of Leaves
A tattoo-parlour apprentice finds a dead blind man's manuscript about a family's house that is bigger inside than out, and his footnotes about his own unraveling grow around it.
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White Is for Witching
In a house in Dover that resents strangers, a girl with pica who eats chalk grieves her mother, and the house itself takes a turn telling the story of the women it has kept.
Lunar Park
Bret Easton Ellis writes himself into a horror novel, as a married father in the suburbs whose house begins to change and whose past, Patrick Bateman included, seems to come for him.
The Little Stranger
In the summer of 1947 a country doctor is called to Hundreds Hall, the decaying Warwickshire house he once glimpsed as a boy, and becomes entangled with the family whose fortunes and nerves are failing.
The Haunting of Hill House
A scholar of the supernatural invites three guests to spend a summer at Hill House, a notoriously haunted mansion, and the house begins to work on Eleanor, the loneliest of them.
The Unconsoled
A concert pianist arrives at a European hotel for a performance and discovers that the building, the city, and his schedule are shifting according to a dream logic he can't control.
The Silent Companions
Newly widowed and pregnant, Elsie Bainbridge arrives at her late husband's crumbling country estate, where a locked garret holds a painted wooden figure that looks uncannily like her.
Kill Creek
Four famous horror writers are invited to spend Halloween night in the Finch House, a notorious haunted house in Kansas, for a live web stream.
A Head Full of Ghosts
Fifteen years after her older sister's apparent possession was turned into a reality TV show, Merry Barrett tells a writer what really happened in their house when she was eight.
The New York Trilogy
Three linked novellas about detectives in New York, a writer mistaken for a private eye, a man hired to watch a stranger and a critic sorting a vanished friend's manuscripts, which dissolve the line between detective and case.
Slade House
Every nine years, from 1979 to 2015, someone slips through a small iron door in a London alley into Slade House, a grand house that should not be there, starting with a boy and his mother, and each visitor is welcomed by someone who seems to know exactly what they want.
The September House
Margaret loves the big Victorian house she and her husband Hal bought, even though every September the walls bleed and the ghosts turn violent, so when Hal disappears and their grown daughter comes looking for him, Margaret has to keep the house's rules and her own secrets.
Ghost Story
In the small town of Milburn, New York, four elderly men who call themselves the Chowder Society meet to tell ghost stories, and after the strange death of a fifth member, a winter of nightmares tells them that a secret from their youth has come back.