Books like The Shining
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.
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The Haunting of Hill House
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
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.
Pet Sematary
Doctor Louis Creed moves his family to rural Maine, where an old neighbour shows him the burial ground beyond the pet cemetery behind their house, a place that can bring the dead back, though not as they were.
Kill Creek
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.
Misery
A bestselling novelist is rescued from a car wreck by his self-proclaimed biggest fan, who imprisons him and demands he write the book she wants.
Hell House
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.
Slade House
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.
We Used to Live Here
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.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
A young woman who is thinking of ending her relationship with her boyfriend Jake rides with him through snowy farmland to meet his parents at their remote farm, and the visit, and the drive home, grow stranger and more frightening as the night goes on.
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.
Lunar Park
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.
Burnt Offerings
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.