Books like Odd Thomas
Odd Thomas, a twenty-year-old short-order cook in the desert town of Pico Mundo, California, sees the lingering dead and does what he can for them, and when a stranger arrives trailed by a swarm of shadowy creatures that feed on pain, he knows something terrible is coming.
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Watchers
Hiking the Santa Ana foothills, Travis Cornell, a former Delta Force soldier convinced that everyone he loves dies, is befriended by a golden retriever of uncanny intelligence that has escaped a secret laboratory, and something else that escaped with it is hunting the dog.
Phantoms
Jenny Paige, a doctor, brings her teenage sister Lisa home to Snowfield, a ski town in the California mountains, and finds its five hundred residents dead or vanished.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Ichabod Crane, a gangly Connecticut schoolmaster, courts an heiress in a Dutch farming village on the Hudson and runs afoul of a burly rival and the local legend of a headless horseman.
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.
A Box Full of Darkness
Years after their youngest brother Ben vanished near the woods everyone avoids in the strange town of Fell, New York, the three estranged Esmie siblings, Violet, Vail and Dodie, come home when Ben seems to be calling them back.
Aunt Dimity's Death
Down on her luck in Boston, Lori Shepherd learns that Aunt Dimity, the heroine of her late mother's bedtime stories, was a real Englishwoman who has left her a Cotswolds cottage and a mystery to unravel.
Salem's Lot
A writer moves to a quiet Maine town and discovers that the respectable residents are being turned into vampires, one invitation at a time.
The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society
Sherry Pinkwhistle, a mild-mannered librarian in the sleepy upstate New York hamlet of Winesap, has a habit of solving the murders that keep happening around her, and lately she suspects a demon is behind them.
Cemetery Boys
Yadriel, a trans boy from a family of brujos in East Los Angeles, performs the ritual to summon a ghost to prove he is a real brujo, and ends up with the wrong one: Julian Diaz, his school's resident bad boy, who will not leave until he finds out how he died.
Summer of Night
In the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, a gang of eleven- and twelve-year-old boys on bicycles discover that something evil has woken in Old Central, the huge old school that is about to close for good.
The Dead Romantics
Florence Day, who secretly ghostwrites for a famous romance novelist and has stopped believing in love, goes home to the small Southern town where her family runs a funeral home for her father's funeral, and finds the ghost of her new editor waiting for her.
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.