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Recommend me a creepy haunted house book please

26 replies

ILiveInSalemsLot · 06/09/2019 11:47

I love a good creepy book and do like a spooky house with weird goings on.
Any ideas?

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ILiveInSalemsLot · 06/09/2019 11:51

I’ve read The Little Stranger, This House is Haunted, The Woman in Black and Naomi’s Room.

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Herocomplex · 06/09/2019 11:54

We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson. Very chilling.

PaxtonsCrown · 06/09/2019 12:04

Agree with We Have Always Lived in the Castle. You could also try...
Wakenhyrst Michelle Paver
A House of Ghosts W.C. Ryan
The Silent Companions Laura Purcell

Herocomplex · 06/09/2019 12:57

Ooh they sound good PaxtonsCrown! Thanks

Herocomplex · 06/09/2019 13:00

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver was one of the most grippingly chilling books I’ve ever read I think. That isolation, dark and terror was so well described.

slipperyeel · 06/09/2019 14:26

Agree, Dark Matter is brilliant, very very creepy

Slate House by David Mitchell is fantastic

slipperyeel · 06/09/2019 14:28

Also The Turn of the Screw is you haven’t read it before

cortex10 · 06/09/2019 14:33

James Herbert's The Magic Cottage

timshelthechoice · 06/09/2019 15:01

Painted by Kirsten McKenzie
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
The Small Hand by Susan Hill

ILiveInSalemsLot · 06/09/2019 15:08

Great. So many to read. Thanks Smile

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bogoblin · 06/09/2019 15:21

The Haunting of Hill House, also by Shirley Jackson, of course!

Dark Matter is amazing - not spooky house but a book that is genuinely unsettling and scary!

Agree with Slade House too - different. Very good.

Ruth Ware's new one is good - The Turn of the Key. Not the kind of spooky house you expect but spooky all the same!
Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand also features an old country house.

I will have to check some of these out!

tripfiction · 07/09/2019 20:11

THIS! www.tripfiction.com/a-ghost-story-set-in-sussex/

The House on Cold Hill by Peter James!

ILiveInSalemsLot · 07/09/2019 21:02

Oh wow those look good too.

(Btw fab site. I’ve used it a few times.)

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Laquila · 07/09/2019 21:06

Ooh Paxtons I was just coming on here to recommend Wakenhyrst! I haven’t read any other Michelle Paver but Dark Matter is on my list.

Kurzgesagt · 08/09/2019 18:27

Mist in the mirror and the small hand by susan hill are excellent. Also one by her about a venetian painting, can't remember the exact name ( could have even been the mist in the mirror one I listened to them all as audiobooks as I walked the dog and they were gripping and it definitely reduced the monotony

MegBusset · 08/09/2019 18:28

House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski is creepy as all heck.

LoveMySituation · 08/09/2019 18:57

Op, I have no book suggestion wimp but what about this video Grin

(Thought of it the second I saw your titleGrin)

ILiveInSalemsLot · 08/09/2019 19:00

Er...I’m a bit scared....should I wait til the morning?

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LoveMySituation · 08/09/2019 19:03

No, perfectly safeGrin

ShirleyPhallus · 08/09/2019 19:04

Another vote for Dark Matter, it really is bloody fantastic

LoveMySituation · 08/09/2019 19:04

I'm taking no responsibility for the sight of Pete Burns pre surgery though Grin

ILiveInSalemsLot · 08/09/2019 19:16

Fab video. It’s got wolves and everything but the real horror is the over the top dramatics Grin

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RiddleyW · 08/09/2019 19:21

House of Leaves is fantastic!

pottypotamus · 08/09/2019 19:27

An unwanted guest by Shari Lapena is great. Full of suspense and spookiness 👍🏼

timshelthechoice · 08/09/2019 20:29

The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike
The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements
Last Days by Adam Neville
Shadow on the Wall by Jonathan Aycliffe