Books like Perfect nightmare by John Saul

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.

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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.

Stephen King’s Revival follows a charismatic preacher’s rise and fall in a small New England town, exploring music, addiction, and religious fanaticism amid family drama and supernatural mystery.

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.

Stephen King’s thriller follows 12‑year‑old Luke Ellis after he is kidnapped and taken to The Institute, a secret facility that harvests children’s supernatural powers.

Petals on the Wind, released in 1980, continues the Dollanganger family saga after their escape from the attic in 1960, chronicling their trials and secrets through 1975.

In deserted Desperation, Nevada, a mining accident opens a portal to a night‑marish alternate reality, unleashing a creature that mimics townsfolk and draws a rag‑tag band of travelers into a fight between good and evil.

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

A tenacious detective, Milla Edge, navigates Mexico’s sinister baby‑smuggling ring, racing against authorities and a shadowy assassin to recover lost children and confront her own past.

Ellen, long forgiven her past, must face the carnival she left behind when the traveling show returns to town, forcing her to confront old wounds and the darkness she once fled.

Austin radio host Paris Bell faces a deadly threat when a jealous listener, “Valentino,” vows revenge after she advises his girlfriend. Racing against time, she teams with a police psychologist to stop the kidnapping and protect herself.

Thirteen‑year‑old Angel Sullivan moves to a quiet Massachusetts town, only to uncover a house haunted by an ancient, vengeful spirit that turns her and her new friend Seth into instruments of retribution.

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.

"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.

In the seemingly idyllic town of Prize City, a new family arrives and a shy teenager’s life is turned upside down by town secrets, a victorious high‑school football team, and a looming horror that threatens to unravel the community’s hidden darkness.

After surviving a brutal kidnapping, Abbie Devereaux must discover who held her captive in an airless shed and why she was targeted, as her memories fade and danger looms again.

A Baltimore homicide detective must unearth the truth behind a child's disappearance that echoes a decades‑old case involving two young girls and an abandoned infant, revealing that no one—including the children—is innocent.

When Carolyn Evans remarries and moves into Manhattan’s upscale Rockwell, she soon discovers a sinister presence stalking her family—nightmares, uncanny neighbors, and a dark secret about her husband threaten to unravel their idyllic life.

A tale of the petticoats between sisters and the haunting secrets of the dollager family, this novel will keep you on the edge of your seat with its psychological tension and spine-tingling plot twists.