Books like 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.
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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.
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.
Rosemary's Baby
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.
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.
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.
The Cabin at the End of the World
Seven-year-old Wen and her fathers, Eric and Andrew, are on holiday at a remote lakeside cabin in New Hampshire when four strangers carrying homemade weapons arrive and tell them they must make an unthinkable choice to prevent the end of the world.
Bird Box
Years after something began driving anyone who saw it to violence and suicide, Malorie sets out blindfolded down a river with two small children, in a post-apocalyptic thriller told in darkness.
The Bad Seed
When a boy drowns at a school picnic, Christine Penmark starts to wonder about her eight-year-old daughter Rhoda, a model child who wanted the medal he had won.
Hex
The people of Black Spring, a town in the Hudson Valley, live with a seventeenth-century witch whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut and who appears wherever she likes; they cannot stay away for long and must keep her secret, until some teenagers decide to film her.
Hidden Pictures
Mallory Quinn, fresh out of rehab, takes a job as nanny to five-year-old Teddy in a wealthy New Jersey suburb, and when the boy's stick-figure drawings give way to disturbingly skilled pictures of a woman being dragged into the woods, she wonders who is guiding his hand.
The Ritual
Four old university friends, now in their thirties and drifting apart, go hiking in northern Sweden, and when one of them is injured they take a shortcut through ancient forest, where they find a gutted animal hanging in the trees and an abandoned house full of old relics.
A Box Full of Darkness
Years after their youngest brother Ben vanished near the woods everyone avoids in the strange town of Fell, New York, the three estranged Esmie siblings, Violet, Vail and Dodie, come home when Ben seems to be calling them back.