Books like The Dark by Ellen Datlow

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.

Nothing, in all it's entirety.

When Libby Day’s family is brutally murdered, she blames her older brother Ben, who is imprisoned for life. Twenty‑four years later, a coaxing group suggests Ben’s innocence and forces Libby to revisit the night’s trauma and unravel the truth.

Two widowers in upstate New York pursue trout in Dutchman's Creek and uncover a dark, ancient secret tied to the Ashokan Reservoir, forcing them to confront loss and the price of reclaiming what they lost.

After leaving a turbulent life in Atlanta, Sarah Crowe moves to a remote Rhode Island home where she discovers a parapsychologist’s unfinished manuscript tied to an ancient oak. As the tree’s mystery unfolds, Sarah’s sanity and health are threatened by a long‑hidden revelation.

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.

Nightmares is a horror anthology of 24 short stories by authors such as Garth Nix, Livia Llewellyn, Richard Kadrey, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Laird Barron, Margo Lanagan, and Gene Wolfe, edited by Ellen Datlow.

"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 collection of ghost stories from American and English authors, spanning more than a century and featuring everything from modern-day tales to classic Victorian ghost stories.

A curated collection of ghost stories that rattles the present and unsettles the past, inviting readers to confront the unseen in everyday spaces.

Edward Dunning, a man of science, discovers he is victimized by an insidious curse after refusing to publish a paper on the occult by the reclusive Mr. Karswell.

An anthology of thirty contemporary short stories by leading American and English writers of ghost and horror fiction.