8 must-read gothic books like Colonial Horrors by Graeme Davis

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Colonial Horrors

By: Graeme Davis

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This stunning anthology of classic colonial suspense fiction plunges deep into the native soil from…

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Cover of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Matthew Sweet

1. The Woman in White

By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet

4.01

Format: 672 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more

Similar categories in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White book and Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors

  • gothic
  • horror
  • classics
  • historical fiction
"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

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2. The Folcroft Ghosts

By: Darcy Coates

3.89

Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition

When their mother is hospitalized, Tara and Kyle are sent to stay with their only remaining relativ… read more

Similar categories in Darcy Coates's The Folcroft Ghosts book and Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors

  • supernatural
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. Communion: A True Story

By: Whitley Strieber

3.51

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On December 26, 1985, at a secluded cabin in upstate New York, Whitley Strieber went skiing with hi… read more

Similar categories in Whitley Strieber's Communion: A True Story book and Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors

  • supernatural
  • horror
"Humanity could be clutching the frail barque of an outmoded world view while the wind of the mind is swaying the stars into very real craft, and out of them is coming… a faint call for help from a la…"

-Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story

"Whomever or whatever the visitors are, their activities go far beyond a mere study of mankind. They are involved with us on very deep levels, playing in the band of dream, weaving imagination & reali…"

-Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story

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4. The Haunting of Gillespie House

By: Darcy Coates

3.69

Format: 192 pages,

Elle can't believe her luck; she's spending a month house-sitting the beautiful Gillespie property.… read more

Similar categories in Darcy Coates's The Haunting of Gillespie House book and Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors

  • gothic
  • supernatural
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Come Closer

By: Sara Gran

3.65

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more

Similar categories in Sara Gran's Come Closer book and Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors

  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

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6. The Woman in Black

By: Susan Hill , John Lawrence

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really litera… read more

Similar categories in Susan Hill's The Woman in Black book and Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors

  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror

7. Trouble Is My Business

By: Raymond Chandler

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold… read more

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8. This House is Haunted

By: John Boyne

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

1867. Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall on a dark… read more

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9. The Haunting of Blackwood House

By: Darcy Coates

4.40

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Could you survive a week in a haunted house? Mara is the daughter of spiritualists. Her childhood w… read more

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10. The House That Horror Built

By: Christina Henry

3.22

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifyi… read more

Similar categories in Christina Henry's The House That Horror Built book and Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors

  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. The Lost Village

By: Camilla Sten

3.54

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

The Blair Witch Project meets Midsommar in this brilliantly disturbing thriller from Camilla Sten, … read more

Similar categories in Camilla Sten's The Lost Village book and Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors

  • fiction
  • horror
"This isn't a movie. In a movie we would have hugged and been best friends again, now and forever. That's never going to happen. I think I'll be living with this dull pain for the rest of my life. I'l…"

-Camilla Sten, The Lost Village

"She's right. They all are. I can feel it in my bones, that fear, like a sour taste on my tongue. I want nothing more than to stay here, to give in to their reason. I've seen the movies, too—I know wh…"

-Camilla Sten, The Lost Village

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12. The Spite House

By: Johnny Compton

3.53

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife,… read more

Similar categories in Johnny Compton's The Spite House book and Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors

  • gothic
  • supernatural
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. All Hallows

By: Christopher Golden

3.55

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

With the 80's nostalgia of Stranger Things, this horror drama from NYT bestselling author Christoph… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Golden's All Hallows book and Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors

  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson

14. Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village

By: Maureen Johnson

4.01

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Thinking of a foray to a quaint English village? You'll think twice after reading this tongue-in-ch… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Johnson's Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village book and Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors

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15. Mrs. Caliban

By: Rachel Ingalls

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Now back in print, Mrs. Caliban is “totally unforgettable” ( The New York Times Book Review ) and “… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Ingalls's Mrs. Caliban book and Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors

  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Drugs,"

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

"Why do you call him a monster?"

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

"I can’t imagine living in a different time,"

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

"Still, people would notice a man with a green head. I guess I should get you a wig."

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

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16. The Whispering Dead (Gravekeeper, #1)

By: Darcy Coates

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Homeless, hunted, and desperate to escape a bitter storm, Keira takes refuge in an abandoned ground… read more

Similar categories in Darcy Coates's The Whispering Dead (Gravekeeper, #1) book and Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors

  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items by J.W. Ocker

17. Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items

By: J.W. Ocker

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An illustrated compendium that reveals the true stories behind the most infamous, creepy, and bizar… read more

Similar categories in J.W. Ocker's Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items book and Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors

  • folklore
  • supernatural
  • horror
Cover of Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow by Christina Henry

18. Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow

By: Christina Henry

3.72

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Everyone in Sleepy Hollow knows about the Horseman, but no one really believes in him. Not even Ben… read more

Similar categories in Christina Henry's Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow book and Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
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19. The House of Lincoln

By: Nancy Horan

3.73

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with The Ho… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Horan's The House of Lincoln book and Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Some day she [Ana Ferreira Evans] would write what she had learned about love in her widowhood. Love needs a place to go. Your heart doesn't stop making it when you lose the single adored person of y…"

-Nancy Horan, The House of Lincoln

"She [Ana Ferreira Evans] remembered a remark [Mrs.] Alsop had once made. Some people are willfully ignorant. They aren't stupid--they simply choose to be oblivious. That way they aren't responsible f…"

-Nancy Horan, The House of Lincoln

Cover of The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates

20. The Haunting of Leigh Harker

By: Darcy Coates

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

From bestselling gothic horror author Darcy Coates comes a chilling story of a quiet house on a for… read more

Similar categories in Darcy Coates's The Haunting of Leigh Harker book and Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors

  • gothic
  • supernatural
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Colonial Horrors by Graeme Davis

21. Colonial Horrors

By: Graeme Davis

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This stunning anthology of classic colonial suspense fiction plunges deep into the native soil from… read more

Similar categories in Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors book and Graeme Davis's Colonial Horrors

  • gothic
  • classics
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • folklore
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy

14 Top fiction books like Colonial Horrors by Graeme Davis

Transform Your Habits

The Folcroft Ghosts

Darcy Coates

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Haunting of Gillespie House

Darcy Coates

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Come Closer

Sara Gran

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The Woman in Black

Susan Hill , John Lawrence

3.85

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15 Top adult books like Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson

Transform Your Habits

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Elderly Lady #1)

Helene Tursten

3.76

Transform Your Habits

An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed (Elderly Lady, #2)

Helene Tursten

3.87

Transform Your Habits

How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

Kristen Perrin

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village

Maureen Johnson

4.01

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