Books like Moon by James Herbert

1818 novel by Mary Shelley about young scientist Victor Frankenstein who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox experiment.

Flowers in the Attic, V. C. Andrews’ first Gothic novel, follows the Dollanganger siblings through Cathy’s first‑person voice.

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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.

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.

In the chilling third entry of the Dollanganger saga, half‑brothers Jory and Bart navigate jealousy, a new family secret, and a mysterious old neighbor, all while the family's dark past looms.

Heaven Leigh Casteel, the brightest girl in her mountain shanty, dreams of a better life while her cruel father schemes to ruin her and her siblings. In this first Casteel Family tale, hope clashes with oppression.

After a secret deep‑sea dive that nearly kills him, paleontologist Jonas Taylor recalls terrifying evidence of the ancient predator Carcharodon megalodon—and is forced back into the abyss to confront a living terror that could alter everything he knows.

Interview with the Vampire; The Queen of the Damned; Vampire Lestat: A series of vampire tales featuring Anne Rice's iconic vampire protagonist Lestat, set in 19th-century Italy and America, with an interview with the vampire character.

College friends Colin and Roy become bound by a dark game after Roy’s curiosity about death leads them into a terrifying conflict.

In Richard Laymon’s horror tale, a seemingly ordinary cellar hides a malevolent creature that draws unsuspecting tourists into a deadly mystery.

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.

In the quiet New Hampshire town of Cooper Falls, a black‑shadowed, green‑eyed creature stalks the full‑moon nights, feeding on flesh and spreading terror.

"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 chilling anthology of thirteen short stories that reveal hidden horrors lurking in everyday settings.

Matt Hunter leaves his family's Half-Moon Ranch to journey to England to buy a thoroughbred racehorse known as a killer, Dark Champion. By the time he returns to Diablo, Texas, his three siblings are married and his father freed from prison, having completed a ten year prison sentence for murdering his wife. Widow Juliana Rains returns to her hometown of Diablo seeking to learn how her mother died. In her gut she believes that her stepfather killed her mother, but lacks evidence. Besides finding the proof, she finds Matt. Juliana has never forgotten Matt nor he her. As they fall in love, her inquiries may prove deadly. Half Moon Ranch 1.Hunter's Moon-Bobbi Smith 2.Renegade Moon- Elaine Barbieri 3.Moon Racer-Constance O'Banyon 4.Dark of the Moon- Evelyn Rogers

After his mother dies, 12‑year‑old David escapes into the stories that once comforted him, only for myth and war to collide in a world where a Crooked Man and a faded king rule over wolves and hidden secrets.