Books like Spook by Steve Vance

A weary father and his young son journey across a bleak, post‑apocalyptic America, battling cannibals, starvation, and a harsh winter in a desperate quest for safety and a glimpse of remaining civilization.

Set centuries after a nuclear apocalypse, the monks of St. Matthew’s preserve the remnants of 20th‑century science, safeguarding knowledge for future generations amid a feudal society.

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.

Journalist Ed Malone and his companions encounter Professor Challenger in the Amazon, uncovering a prehistoric world where dinosaurs still roam.

In Dan Simmons’ chilling historical adventure, the Franklin expedition’s steamships Terror and Erebus are trapped in the Arctic for two years, where crew face starvation, mutiny, and a nameless terror lurking in the ice.

When the massive Fithp spacecraft from Alpha Centauri arrives in the Solar System, humanity faces a bold and terrifying challenge: an extraterrestrial species intent on conquering Earth.

A Vancouver woman slips into a coma that lasts almost twenty years, leaving her family, boyfriend, and newborn daughter to navigate a world that has moved on, in Douglas Coupland’s reflective New Age tale.

A young man's family falls apart after a violent attack on his mother, forcing them into a world of turmoil and uncertainty.

A Chilean woman embarks on a quest to find her lover in 1840s California's goldfields, facing numerous challenges and adventures along the way.

Seventeen‑year‑old Ginny leaves her Atlanta home to rescue her missing boyfriend, battling wolves, thieves, and an unforgiving winter.

In a post‑war future where humanity lives aboard the floating platform CIEL, a charismatic cult leader enforces a brutal regime while a rebellious young warrior named Joan holds the power to reshape the remnants of Earth.

"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 space opera adventure tale of soldiers for hire and a starship crew in a battle of honor against the forces of tyranny.

"What was the worst thing you've ever done? In the sleepy town of Milburn, New York, four old men gather to tell each other stories--some true, some made-up, all of them frightening. A simple pastime to divert themselves from their quiet lives. But one story is coming back to haunt them and their small town. A tale of something they did long ago. A wicked mistake. A horrifying accident. And they are about to learn that no one can bury the past forever ..."--