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• Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves

  Danielewski, Mark Z.,

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  Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The September House

  Orlando, Carissa,

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  A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable, twisty, and layered debut novel. When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street--for sale…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mexican Gothic

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,

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  After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She's not sure what she will find--her cousin's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A House With Good Bones

  Kingfisher, T.,

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  "Mom seems off." Her brother's words echo in Sam Montgomery's ear as she turns onto the quiet North Carolina street where their mother lives alone. She brushes the thought away as she climbs the front steps. Sam's excited for this rare extended…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Just Like Home

  Gailey, Sarah,

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  "Come home." Vera's mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories -- she's come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there, beneath…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Slade House

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  Mitchell, David (David Stephen),

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  Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Starling House

  Harrow, Alix E.,

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  I dream sometimes about a house I've never seen.... Opal is a lot of things--orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashier--but above all, she's determined to find a better life for her younger brother Jasper. One that gets them…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Elementals

  McDowell, Michael, 1950-1999,

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  After a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage, the McCray and Savage families look forward to a restful and relaxing summer at Beldame, on Alabama's Gulf Coast, where three Victorian houses loom over the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House Next Door

  Siddons, Anne Rivers

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  Step into the spellbinding world of The House Next Door, a Southern Gothic masterpiece blending suburban suspense, eerie hauntings, and the collision of Old and New South ideals, as a peaceful Atlanta neighborhood succumbs to the darkness of an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Spite House

  Compton, Johnny,

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  A terrifying Gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father's love, Johnny Compton's The Spite House is a stunning debut by a horror master in the making--The Babadook meets A Head Full of Ghosts in Texas Hill Country. Eric Ross is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Model Home

  Solomon, Rivers,

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  Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Piranesi

  Clarke, Susanna,

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  Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls lined with thousands upon thousands of statues. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; and waves thunder up staircases, while rooms are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Used to Live Here

  Kliewer, Marcus,

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  From an author "destined to become a titan of the macabre and unsettling" (Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author), a haunting debut about two homeowners whose lives are turned upside down when the house's previous residents…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Sell a Haunted House

  Hendrix, Grady,

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  New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past--and your family--can haunt you like nothing else. When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hell House

  Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013,

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  From Richard Matheson, author of I am Legend, comes his most frightening and shocking book, Hell House - an indisputable horror classic. For more than 20 years, Belasco House has stood empty. Its shadowed walls have witnessed scenes of unimaginable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rebecca

  Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989

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  In Monte Carlo, our unnamed heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at Manderley,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thistlefoot

  Nethercott, GennaRose,

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  The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist--have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849

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  "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores themes of madness, isolation, and decay. The narrator visits the gloomy, crumbling mansion of his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, who is suffering from a…Read moreRead more of this annotation