Books like 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.
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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.
Burnt Offerings
Ben and Marian Rolfe and their son rent a grand old country house for the summer at an absurdly low price, on one condition: that they look after the owners' elderly mother, who never leaves her room.
The Haunting of Velkwood
Talitha Velkwood was one of three girls who got out when an anomaly swallowed her suburban street in the 1980s, leaving everyone else there as ghosts. Decades later a researcher persuades her to go back in.
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.
The Elementals
After a funeral in Mobile, the Savage and McCray families go to Beldame, three Victorian houses on a lonely spit of the Alabama coast, though the third has been empty for decades and is slowly filling with sand.
The Graveyard Apartment
Teppei and Misao Kano, their young daughter and their dog move into a brand-new apartment building in Tokyo that looks out over a cemetery, and as one neighbour after another moves out, they find that something lives in the basement.
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.
Gallant
Olivia Prior, a mute orphan at a grim school for girls, receives a letter from an uncle she never knew inviting her home to Gallant, the family estate, but no one there expected her, and the house holds a shadow that only she can see.
A Dark Matter
In 1966 a group of Madison teenagers followed a charismatic guru into a meadow for a ritual that left one boy dead. Decades later the writer Lee Harwell, married to one of them, sets out to learn what each of them saw.
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 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 Turn of the Screw
A young governess at a remote English country house becomes convinced that the two children in her care are being visited by the ghosts of two dead servants, or perhaps she is the one who is haunted.