Books like The whispering rod by Nancy Kelley

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 young bride, the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter, arrives at Manderley on the Cornish coast and finds her new home haunted by the memory and housekeeper’s obsession with her mysterious, stylish predecessor—Rebecca.

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.

After her husband dies, newly widowed Elsie moves to her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge, only to find a mysterious painted figure that eerily mirrors her, stirring unsettling fears that threaten her fragile new life.

Set in a crumbling Georgian manor in rural Warwickshire, *The Little Stranger* follows a doctor arriving at a long‑standing family home where a death‑bed patient and chilling supernatural forces intertwine against the backdrop of post‑war Britain.

Orphaned Kit Tyler arrives in Connecticut Colony and finds freedom only in the company of the Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, but when their friendship is discovered, Kit faces mistrust and witchcraft accusations.

In Salem Village, 1691, young Josiah Hutchinson must lean on family and friends to support a beggar woman and her child amid growing tensions.

In Salem Village in 1689, young Puritans Josiah and Hope form unlikely friendships with a Quaker woman and a Wampanoag Indian who are excluded from their community.

Set in 1660 England, a young boy with a jailed father seeks refuge with his uncle running the Bedford jail, where he meets Puritan preacher John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress, and learns about faith and resilience.

In the whimsical town of Kenoska, a whispering newcomer tests the trust of the Spotlight Club, sparking a playful mystery as the young detectives uncover the secrets behind his strange habits and missteps.

Nancy Drew and her friends set up a base at a seaside yacht club to solve odd incidents at a bookstore and uncover the mystery behind a vanished marble statue.

In the south of France in the mid-1500s, a young apprentice meets a Huguenot family seeking refuge to worship in safety.

Evangeline, a gifted but trapped young woman, embarks on a daring escape from a political marriage to her cousin King Richard II's advisor, in search of freedom and true love.

"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.

Danny Sims, a stable boy in Massachusetts, enlists in the Fifty-Fourth Regiment to fight for the abolition of slavery.

Two sisters are captured by Native Americans in 1755.