Books like 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.
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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.
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.
The Cliffs
Jane Flanagan, a Harvard archivist whose life is coming apart, goes home to the Maine coast and finds the abandoned Victorian house on the cliffs she loved as a girl now owned by a newcomer, who asks her to research its history.
We Do Not Part
A writer crosses a snowstorm to her injured friend's empty house on Jeju Island to save a pet bird, and finds herself among the ghosts of the 1948 massacre her friend's family survived.
Sister Creatures
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.
The Drowning Girl
India Morgan Phelps, a painter in Providence who lives with schizophrenia, sets out to write down what really happened when she met Eva Canning, a woman she found on a road beside the Blackstone River one night.
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.
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.
Beyond Black
Alison Hart, a professional medium working the dead-end towns around London's orbital motorway, hires a brittle assistant named Colette, while the spirit guides of her childhood refuse to leave her alone.
Let the Right One In
In a Stockholm suburb in 1981, a bullied twelve-year-old makes friends with the strange girl who moves in next door and only comes out at night, as a series of killings unsettles the neighbourhood.
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.
Gallant
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.