Books like Elsewhere by William Peter Blatty

A struggling writer and recovering alcoholic, Jack Torrance takes over caretaking of the remote Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies, but a winter storm and the building’s malevolent past drive him toward madness, threatening his family's safety.

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 tense psychological thriller that pits FBI agent Clarice Starling against the notorious cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter as they collaborate to catch a new predator.

Amanda and Josh move into a creepy, possibly haunted house in Dark Falls, a town already filled with weirdness. When they try to make friends, they discover people who want to keep their eerie companionship forever.

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.

A young housewife and charismatic actor settle into a Manhattan Upper West Side apartment, only to find their dream home becomes a harrowing nightmare where unseen forces and ancient evils lurk.

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.

A chilling tale of an eleven‑year‑old's demonic possession and the two priests who confront it.

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.

A physicist and two mediums investigate a notorious Maine house, hoping to prove an afterlife, but the premises, known as the Hell House, reveal more than they bargained for.

A mother faces terror as a crazed woman and her followers threaten her child in this psychological thriller.

American Dorothy "Daisy" Miller charms in Switzerland and Italy, but her lively spirit and romance with the young American Winterbourne clash with the conservative norms of their fellow expatriates, prompting a critique of Anglo‑American cultural differences.

In a heavily warded manor, a necromancer’s loyal butler—fashioned from his beloved dog’s heart—must rally fellow sorcerers to protect a friend entangled with a formidable witch.

After becoming orphaned, Judith Sparrow moves in with her uncle where a teenage ghost haunts their house. As she navigates family secrets and eerie occurrences, Judith wonders if her small mistake is the cause.

A New York City novelist moves to a sprawling Victorian home on Long Island, where a mysterious presence begins to manipulate her manuscripts, computers, and personal thoughts, forcing her to confront questions of sanity, trust, and the possible supernatural.

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 collection of spooky tales for young readers featuring ghouls, ghosts, vampires, witches, mummies and monsters, presented in engaging prose and rhymes that turn bedtime into an adventurous frightful night.

When the Repairman Jack takes on a job to retrieve a stolen necklace, he is drawn into a concealed world of magic, winged monsters, and revenge, turning a routine recovery into a perilous adventure.

Joe Hill has been hailed as "a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction" (Washington Post); "a new master in the field of suspense" (James Rollins); "one of the most confident and assured new voices in horror and dark fantasy to emerge in recent years (Publishers Weekly); a writer who "builds character invitingly and plants an otherworldly surprise around every corner" (New York Times).This gifted and brilliantly imaginative author catapulted to bestsellerdom with the chilling Heart-Shaped Box and cemented his reputation with the prizewinning volume of short fiction 20th Century Ghosts. At last, the New York Times bestselling author returns with a relentless supernatural thriller that runs like Hell on wheels. . . .Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples.At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. But there was nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real.Once the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned musician and younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, he had security, wealth, and a place in his community. Ig had it all, and more—he had Merrin and a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic.But Merrin's death damned all that. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. And he was never cleared. In the court of public opinion in Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig is and always will be guilty because his rich and connected parents pulled strings to make the investigation go away. Nothing Ig can do, nothing he can say, matters. Everyone, it seems, including God, has abandoned him. Everyone, that is, but the devil inside. . . .Now Ig is possessed of a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look—a macabre talent he intends to use to find the monster who killed Merrin and destroyed his life. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. It's time for a little revenge. . . . It's time the devil had his due. . . .

"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 ..."--