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Books like Rosemary's Baby

Ira Levin · 1967 · US · horror
Book 1 of 2 in Rosemary's Baby
★ 4.06 Goodreads · 169,485 ratings

Rosemary Woodhouse and her husband Guy, a struggling actor, move into the Bramford, an old Manhattan apartment building with a dark history, and when Rosemary becomes pregnant, the elderly neighbours who have befriended them take an unusually close interest in the baby.

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12 books for readers of Rosemary's Baby

The Stepford Wives

Ira Levin · 1972 · US 96% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 62,530 ratings
shares: sinister, paranoid, marriage, psychological · easy read, intimate

Joanna Eberhart, a photographer, moves with her husband and children from New York City to the pretty Connecticut suburb of Stepford, where the other wives are beautiful, tireless and interested only in housework, and she begins to wonder why.

We Used to Live Here

Marcus Kliewer · 2024 · Canada 94% match ★ 3.58 Goodreads · 347,372 ratings
shares: sinister, paranoid, dread, psychological · intimate, suspenseful

Charlie and her girlfriend Eve are renovating an old house they bought cheaply, and when a family knocks one evening asking to look around the home the father grew up in, Charlie lets them in, and they do not seem to want to leave.

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Grady Hendrix · 2025 · US 94% match ★ 3.88 Goodreads · 158,096 ratings
shares: occult, dread, motherhood · easy read, intimate

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.

Hell House

Richard Matheson · 1971 · US 94% match ★ 3.67 Goodreads · 67,575 ratings
shares: occult, dread · easy read, intimate

A dying millionaire pays a physicist, his wife and two mediums to spend a week in the Belasco House in Maine, the most haunted building on earth, to prove whether anything survives death; the last group to try it ended in murder and madness.

Song of Kali

Dan Simmons · 1985 · US 94% match ★ 3.62 Goodreads · 16,789 ratings
shares: occult, dread, cult · easy read, dark

Robert Luczak, an American poet and editor, travels to Calcutta with his Indian wife and their baby daughter to collect a new manuscript by M. Das, a celebrated Bengali poet believed to have died years before.

Burnt Offerings

Robert Marasco · 1973 · US 94% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 10,529 ratings
shares: sinister, marriage · intimate, easy read

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.

A Dark Matter

Peter Straub · 2010 · US 94% match ★ 2.97 Goodreads · 5,230 ratings
shares: occult, 1960s, cult · dark, little action

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.

Where Are the Children?

Mary Higgins Clark · 1975 · US 93% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 63,076 ratings
shares: sinister, paranoid, motherhood · easy read, intimate

Seven years after she was tried for the deaths of her two small children in California, Nancy Harmon has a new husband and two more children on Cape Cod, and on the morning a newspaper exposes her past, they vanish from the backyard.

The Auctioneer

Joan Samson · 1975 · US 92% match ★ 3.72 Goodreads · 6,668 ratings
shares: sinister, dread · easy read, intimate

In Harlowe, a farming town in New Hampshire, a charming newcomer named Perly Dunsmore starts holding weekly auctions for the police fund, and the townspeople are asked to give a little more each time.

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson · 1959 · US 92% match ★ 3.81 Goodreads · 432,407 ratings
shares: dread, psychological · intimate, easy read

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.

A Demon in My View

Ruth Rendell · 1976 · UK 92% match ★ 3.81 Goodreads · 2,578 ratings
shares: apartment, sinister, psychological · intimate, easy read

Arthur Johnson, a respectable bachelor in a north London lodging house, has kept his urge to strangle women in check for years with a shop mannequin hidden in the cellar, until a psychology student with almost the same name moves in upstairs.

The Fireman

Joe Hill · 2016 · US 91% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 68,547 ratings
shares: dread, motherhood, cult · easy read, suspenseful

A spore called Dragonscale is spreading across the world, marking its victims with black and gold patterns before they burst into flame, and when school nurse Harper Grayson finds the marks on herself, pregnant and abandoned, she is taken in by a hidden community and a man called the Fireman.