Books like The Hunger by Alma Katsu

In 1893 Chicago, Erik Larson weaves the story of visionary architect Daniel Burnham and the cunning serial killer H.H. Holmes, whose crimes unfolded against the backdrop of the World’s Columbian Exposition.

The Passage is Justin Cronin’s 2010 debut novel that blends science‑fiction, horror, and dystopian themes as it follows humanity’s struggle against a virus‑transformed vampire‑like threat.

In seventeenth‑century Scotland, a moderate Presbyterian minister navigates religious conflict, civil war, and supernatural forces in a remote forest, wrestling with black magic and pre‑Christian nature worship amid plague and political turmoil.

In Dan Simmons’ chilling historical adventure, the Franklin expedition’s steamships Terror and Erebus are trapped in the Arctic for two years, where crew face starvation, mutiny, and a nameless terror lurking in the ice.

Two rival illusionists in 19th-century London engage in a deadly feud over a stage magic trick.

A dark New England mansion, the House of the Seven Gables, casts an ancestral curse over the Pyncheon family, revealing secrets, mysterious deaths, and a complex mix of gothic, historical, and moral themes.

The Monstrumologist follows a young apprentice as he investigates mysterious monsters in 19th-century New England, blending gothic adventure with supernatural mystery.

In 1946 Clanton, a respected war hero and farmer, Pete Banning commits the shocking murder of Reverend Dexter Bell—and says nothing. The case becomes the county’s most baffling crime.

A chilling tale of the Louisiana bayou and the supernatural in 1920s New Orleans.

A young doctor named Luke falls for an immortal woman whose past involves a betrayed lover and a centuries‑old Hungarian count who granted her eternal life. Their romance blurs the line between past and present.

A 16th‑century Lancashire tale of witchcraft, betrayal, and a family of powerful witches whose destiny hangs between Heaven and Hell.

In 1867, governess Eliza Caine arrives at Gaudlin Hall in Norfolk, where a hidden past and unseen forces threaten her, the children, and the house itself.

"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.

After Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark win the 74th Annual Hunger Games, a celebratory tour of the districts reveals a brewing rebellion while President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games, the Quarter Quell, threatening to reshape Panem.