Bookdriftopen the map →

Books like The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson · 1959 · US · horror
★ 3.81 Goodreads · 432,407 ratings

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.

Explore books like this on the map

12 books for readers of The Haunting of Hill House

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, dread, supernatural, haunted house · intimate, suspenseful

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.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson · 1962 · US 96% match ★ 3.90 Goodreads · 324,682 ratings
shares: unsettling, gothic, isolation, psychological · intimate, story-driven

Eighteen-year-old Merricat lives with her agoraphobic sister and frail uncle in the house where the rest of the Blackwoods were poisoned six years ago, until a cousin arrives and the village turns on them.

Ghosts

Edith Wharton · 1937 · US 96% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 1,248 ratings
shares: haunting presence, unsettling, gothic · intimate, story-driven

Ghost stories Wharton gathered at the end of her life, in which old houses, servants' bells and letters from the dead unsettle wealthy, well-mannered people who would prefer not to believe.

Kill Creek

Scott Thomas · 2017 · US 96% match ★ 3.75 Goodreads · 24,546 ratings
shares: haunting presence, dread, supernatural, haunted house · cold, intimate

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 Little Stranger

Sarah Waters · 2009 · UK 96% match ★ 3.57 Goodreads · 61,527 ratings
shares: haunting presence, unsettling, gothic, haunted house · intimate, unhurried

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.

Hangsaman

Shirley Jackson · 1951 · US 96% match ★ 3.75 Goodreads · 13,721 ratings
shares: unsettling, psychological, isolation · intimate, interior

A troubled young woman leaves home for college and begins to unravel in ways that may or may not be real.

White Is for Witching

Helen Oyeyemi · 2009 · UK 95% match ★ 3.53 Goodreads · 13,675 ratings
shares: haunting presence, unsettling, gothic, haunted house · uncanny, intimate

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.

The Silent Companions

Laura Purcell · 2017 · UK 94% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 50,833 ratings
shares: haunting presence, unsettling, gothic, haunted house · easy read, intimate

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.

Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020 · Mexico 94% match ★ 3.66 Goodreads · 471,909 ratings
shares: haunting presence, gothic · intimate, story-driven

In 1950s Mexico a glamorous socialite travels to a decaying mountain mansion after her newly married cousin writes that her English husband's family is poisoning her, and finds the house has designs of its own.

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski · 2000 · US 94% match ★ 4.09 Goodreads · 215,602 ratings
shares: haunting presence, unsettling, haunted house · uncanny, intimate

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.

The Woman in Black

Susan Hill · 1983 · UK 94% match ★ 3.76 Goodreads · 87,545 ratings
shares: haunting presence, dread, gothic · intimate, story-driven

A young London solicitor travels to a remote market town to settle the papers of a reclusive widow at Eel Marsh House, a building cut off by the tides, and sees a wasted woman in black at her funeral.

Don't Look Now

Daphne du Maurier · 1971 · UK 94% match ★ 3.82 Goodreads · 10,108 ratings
shares: dread, unsettling, gothic · intimate, easy read

Stories of grief, premonition, and dread, including the title novella of a couple haunted by their dead child in Venice.