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Books like Slade House

David Mitchell · 2015 · UK · horror
★ 3.81 Goodreads · 71,521 ratings

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.

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12 books for readers of Slade House

Kill Creek

Scott Thomas · 2017 · US 98% match ★ 3.75 Goodreads · 24,546 ratings
shares: haunting presence, supernatural, haunted house · easy read, cold

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.

The Shining

Stephen King · 1977 · US 98% match ★ 4.29 Goodreads · 1,780,439 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Shining
shares: haunting presence, claustrophobic, supernatural, haunted house · suspenseful, easy read

A family moves into a haunted hotel for the winter, and the building's malevolence feeds on a father's alcoholism and a son's psychic gift.

The Bone Clocks

David Mitchell · 2014 · UK 97% match ★ 3.85 Goodreads · 102,157 ratings
shares: immortal, supernatural, multiple narrators · speculative, little romance

A woman with psychic visions discovers she is at the centre of a war between immortals that spans centuries.

Lunar Park

Bret Easton Ellis · 2005 · US 95% match ★ 3.65 Goodreads · 31,620 ratings
shares: haunting presence, supernatural, haunted house · easy read, intimate

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 Silent Companions

Laura Purcell · 2017 · UK 95% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 50,833 ratings
shares: haunting presence, suspenseful, haunted house · easy read, suspenseful

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.

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson · 1959 · US 95% match ★ 3.81 Goodreads · 432,407 ratings
shares: haunting presence, supernatural, haunted house · easy read, intimate

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 Graveyard Apartment

Mariko Koike · 1986 · Japan 95% match ★ 3.26 Goodreads · 5,193 ratings
shares: haunting presence, claustrophobic, haunted house · easy read, intimate

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.

Hell House

Richard Matheson · 1971 · US 93% match ★ 3.67 Goodreads · 67,575 ratings
shares: haunting presence, claustrophobic, haunted house · easy read, cold

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.

White Is for Witching

Helen Oyeyemi · 2009 · UK 92% match ★ 3.53 Goodreads · 13,675 ratings
shares: haunting presence, multiple narrators, haunted house · uncanny, dark

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.

Gallant

V. E. Schwab · 2022 · US 92% match ★ 3.70 Goodreads · 156,478 ratings
shares: haunting presence, eerie, haunted house · easy read, intimate

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.

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski · 2000 · US 92% match ★ 4.09 Goodreads · 215,602 ratings
shares: haunting presence, haunted house · uncanny, suspenseful

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.

Sister Creatures

Laura Venita Green · 2025 · US 92% match
shares: eerie, supernatural, novel in stories · easy read, dark

Young women from Pinecreek, an isolated Louisiana town, try to outrun its damage in Munich, Baltimore and New York, and a shapeshifting presence that first surfaces in a stolen doll follows them wherever they go.