Books like 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.
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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Heart-Shaped Box
Ageing rock star Judas Coyne collects grim curiosities, so when an online auction offers a dead man's suit along with his ghost, he buys it, and the ghost that arrives in a heart-shaped box turns out to have a personal reason for coming.
Duma Key
Edgar Freemantle, a Minnesota building contractor who lost his right arm in a site accident, moves alone to Duma Key, a small island off the Florida coast, where he starts to paint, and finds his pictures can do things.
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.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
In the summer of 1970, fifteen-year-old Fern arrives pregnant and alone at Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, a home where families hide unwed girls until their babies can be given away, and a librarian's book on witchcraft puts power in the girls' hands for the first time.