Books like Unwanted, The (Saul, John) by John Saul

Stephen King’s 1983 horror classic, *Pet Sematary*, explores the perilous intersection of death, resurrection, and the dark forces that linger in rural Maine.

When a forgotten mummy resurfaces in Boston’s Crispin Museum, forensic examiner Maura Isles and detective Jane Rizzoli uncover a modern murder hidden in ancient relic, and a serial killer stalking the museum’s darkest secrets.

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.

When Kara Marshall’s daughter vanishes during a home showing, she suspects a sinister intruder. Joined by a grieving neighbor, they uncover a stalking menace that preys on houses for sale, turning their community into a deadly hunt.

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 her mother’s death, teenage Sarah Crane faces foster care and a haunted art teacher’s mansion, where paintings and psychic visions reveal a dark family history that threatens to bring supernatural revenge into her life.

Soul‑shaking horror follows sixteen‑year‑old Cassie Winslow as she survives her mother’s death, moves to a new home in Cape Cod, and discovers terrifying, supernatural gifts that threaten her and the town of False Harbor.

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.

"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 Secret Cove, Maine, the violent legacy of a 19th‑century servant girl resurfaces during the town’s annual August Moon Ball, plunging the community into horror.