Books like Curtain of fear by Dennis Wheatley

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.

Shirley Jackson’s classic psychological horror, *The Haunting of Hill House*, follows a lonely woman drawn into an abandoned mansion whose malevolent presence ultimately consumes her.

A tense psychological thriller that pits FBI agent Clarice Starling against the notorious cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter as they collaborate to catch a new predator.

A young governess in a remote estate discovers that the souls of two children are threatened by the malevolent ghosts of a former governess and her lover.

A young housewife and charismatic actor settle into a Manhattan Upper West Side apartment, only to find their dream home becomes a harrowing nightmare where unseen forces and ancient evils lurk.

The Amityville Horror recounts the alleged terrifying paranormal experiences of the Lutz family at their Long Island home, sparking widespread debate and legal disputes over its authenticity.

A chilling tale of an eleven‑year‑old's demonic possession and the two priests who confront it.

A physicist and two mediums investigate a notorious Maine house, hoping to prove an afterlife, but the premises, known as the Hell House, reveal more than they bargained for.

An Oxford don turned amateur sleuth, Professor Gervase Fen, unravels a high‑stakes mystery that begins with the sudden death of a cathedral organist and expands into butterfly collecting, espionage, witchcraft, and a covert Nazi scheme.

In 1919 Inspector Ian Rutledge faces a chilling case when his former executionee’s widow claims her husband was innocent, forcing the former soldier to confront the ghosts of war and the murky line between justice and revenge.

When friends Duke de Richleau and Rex van Ryn learn that their colleague Simon Aron has vanished into Satanic cults, they must confront forces of darkness to rescue him and reclaim sanity.

Twenty-six meticulously crafted mystery short‑stories by Edmund Crispin feature the witty detective Gervase Fen and Scotland Yard’s Inspector Humbleby, blending clever puzzles, intricate alibis and inventive crimes.

In a small town, a despised biology teacher’s repeated unconsciousness puzzles the community—and teenage sleuth Carter Colborn, who suspects a sinister pattern behind the frightening "accidents."

A charismatic cognitive science director in a university college falls between his stable marriage and a widowed novelist, leading to revelations about the limits of understanding others.

At Castrevenford school, English professor Gervase Fen is asked to present at Speech Day, but the night before the event two staff members are found dead. Fen must unravel student romances, a kidnapping and a missing Shakespeare manuscript while the headmaster looks to him for justice.

Todas las almas cuenta la historia de los dos brumosos y singulares años que el narrador pasó en la Universidad de Oxford, una ciudad fuera del mundo y del tiempo. Y fuera de ambos viven los cautivadores personajes de esta novela: la amante casada del narrador, Clare Bayes, una mujer condicionada por algo a lo que asistió pero que no recuerda; el amigo Cromer-Blake, homosexual irónico que vive fabricando experiencias intensas para una vejez que prevé solitaria; el ya retirado y sagaz profesor Toby Rylands; el merodeador Alan Marriott, con su perro de tres patas y sus conocimientos sobre la «pareja espantosa» que todos tenemos; y muchos otros, algunos extraordinariamente divertidos, hasta llegar al personaje que viene de otro tiempo, el enigmático escritor John Gawsworth. En un mundo de secretos e intrigas, de ritos ceremoniosos y cenas disparatadas, de pasados ocultos y enfermizos presentes, el narrador va tejiendo su propia «perturbación» y su propia historia con la de los habitantes de la ciudad «conservada en almíbar», hasta descubrir que elementos tan dispares como un puente ferroviario sobre un río en la India, unos amantes desdichados, una carrera de espía o la diminuta isla de Redonda, pasarán a formar parte de su vida, marcada ya para siempre por esas relaciones inesperadas de amor y amistad entre todas las almas.

In the English village of Cotten Abbas, anonymous poisoned pen letters spark a deadly investigation that centres on Dr. Helen Downing and attracts the detective prowess of Oxford professor Gervase Fen.

Blaming is a psychological fiction set in England that focuses on the lives of widows.

A form-shifting narrative of a collector's return to traumatic pasts, challenging the discourse around art, love, life, and death in Acker's 'Great Expectations'.

In the sleepy English village of Sanford Angelorum, Oxford professor Gervase Fen runs for Parliament while uncovering a dark secret that fuels blackmail and threatens the town’s quiet life.