Books like Dolly by Susan Hill

A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens’ allegorical novella about Ebenezer Scrooge, whose miserly ways are transformed through visits from Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

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.

In England’s schools, eleven‑year‑old Philip Noble must decide whether to honour his dead father’s request for vengeance while juggling bullies, a new crush and self‑doubt.

> The third installment of Anna Dean's charming mystery series opens with a visit to the ruins of an abbey where Penelope Lambe suffers a bad fall from the ancient stone steps. Before she slips into unconsciousness, Penelope manages to say, "I saw her.... It was her." Soon people are certain that she saw the Grey Nun, a ghost reputed to walk the abbey's ruins. Miss Dido Kent, however, does not approve of ghosts. Disregarding everyone else's assumptions, and endeavoring to take her mind off the troubles of her family, Dido turns her energy toward solving the mystery. But events start to seem more sinister when a human skeleton is found at the abbey. Is Miss Lambe's accident connected to this discovery? Everyone is relying on Dido to find out. A captivating continuation of the Dido Kent series: rich in suspense, historical detail, and, most of all, characters.

Fiction, Ghost story, Setting - England

After Maureen O'Donnell discovers her boyfriend butchered in her living room, she becomes the chief suspect in a brutal murder case that unravels her life, drawing a Scottish detective into a tangled web of crime and hidden motives.

In 1867, governess Eliza Caine arrives at Gaudlin Hall in Norfolk, where a hidden past and unseen forces threaten her, the children, and the house itself.

A modern children's adaptation of Dickens' classic, where a miserlike figure is visited by three ghosts who recount his past, present, and future, revealing the true spirit of Christmas.

When 11‑year‑old Jon Whitcroft arrives at a boarding school at Salisbury Cathedral, he and his new friend Ella team up to summon the ghost of Sir William Longspee, hoping the knightly spirit can protect them from a hostile group of ghosts.

Modern career woman Eleanor, a costume designer for a Jane Austen festival, is swept back into Regency England by haunted ghost sisters, where she thwarts a Napoleonic spy, converses with Austen, and falls for a rakish lord.

When a childhood mistake sets off a chain of vengeance, former schoolboy William Bellman bargains with a mysterious partner to run a macabre business—and the past never truly dies in the quiet streets of nineteenth‑century England.

After his mother’s death, Will moves in with his cousin Becky and her family, where he must adjust to a new home and a haunting by the ghost of a child coal miner.

A 1940s collection of three intertwined crime thrillers featuring a mysterious woman in black, a college professor turned sleuth, and a photographer‑actress duo racing to stop a deadly plot.