Books like The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff

A struggling writer and recovering alcoholic, Jack Torrance takes over caretaking of the remote Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies, but a winter storm and the building’s malevolent past drive him toward madness, threatening his family's safety.

When car‑broking novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by his obsessive fan, former nurse Annie Wilkes, she forces him to return his favorite character, Misery, to life as she keeps him captive in her isolated cabin.

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown after a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital to cover the murders of two preteen girls, and must confront the trauma of her own past to uncover the truth.

A thrilling novel about a great white shark that preys on a small resort town.

Astronauts and researchers dive into the Marianas Trench, desperate to find a cure for the plague that has taken over the world.

Set in a quiet 1950s American suburb, two orphaned sisters, Meg and Susan, are held captive in their aunt’s basement as her deteriorating mental health begins to poison their family and the surrounding community.

In Harrow County, teenage Emmy discovers her life is intertwined with the restless spirits that haunt her woods, unlocking a dark connection to the land on her eighteenth birthday.

A suspenseful thriller by Lois Duncan that blends witchcraft and hard‑boiled detective stakes against the backdrop of California and New Mexico. As secrets unravel, the tension mounts in a chilling landscape of coastal glamour and desert mystery.

Violin: A haunting ghost novel of passion, music, and mystery from Anne Rice, a master of the macabre who returns to her roots of nineteenth-century Viennese opera and modern-day New Orleans with a tale that is both captivating and disturbingly beautiful.

A French crime thriller where detectives probe murders linked to the motion‑picture industry, exploring the clash of good and evil, and the darker side of cinema.

Falling: Two FBI Agents Hunt the Vanishing of an Infant

After a shocking accident, a celebrated children's author learns her reality is unraveling as ghostly ties force her to confront loss, psychological dread, and a haunting narrative that mirrors her own tragic story.

Four university friends venture into the Arctic Circle’s Scandinavian wilderness seeking escape, only to confront ancient rituals and deadly forces lurking among untouched forest.

Graphic‑novel horror that follows eighteen‑year‑old Emmy as she discovers her life is entwined with the ghosts and monsters of the woods around her home.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

A California psychology professor takes a fresh start at Duke University and, drawn into Rhine parapsychology experiments, teams with colleagues to investigate a haunted house, uncovering terrifying secrets.

Carlos Fuentes’ novel "Vlad" spins a tense, supernatural tale set in Mexico City, blending vampiric folklore with urban suspense and horror to explore the darker undercurrents of modern life.