14 Best mystery books like The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill

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The Man in the Picture

By: Susan Hill

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary ghost story from a modern master, published just in time for Halloween. In the apa…

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1. The Mist in the Mirror

By: Susan Hill , Susan Hill

3.33

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

A terrifying ghost story by the author of The Woman in Black... One dark and rainy night, Sir Ja… read more

Similar categories in Susan Hill's The Mist in the Mirror book and Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • ghost stories
"The lamps were lit, and a good fire crackled in the great stone fireplace. There was a discreet chink of china, the brightness of silver teapot and muffin cover, the comforting smell mingled of steam…"

-Susan Hill, The Mist in the Mirror

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2. The Seance

By: John Harwood

3.87

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Wraxford Hall, a decaying mansion in the English countryside, has a sinister reputation. Once, a fa… read more

Similar categories in John Harwood's The Seance book and Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • gothic
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. The Giant, O'Brien

By: Hilary Mantel

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year Los Angeles TimesBest Book of the Year London, … read more

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  • fiction
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4. The Man in the Picture

By: Susan Hill

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary ghost story from a modern master, published just in time for Halloween. In the apa… read more

Similar categories in Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture book and Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • ghost stories
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5. The Travelling Bag: And Other Ghostly Stories

By: Susan Hill

4.10

Format: 224 pages,

From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s suburbia, the everyday … read more

Similar categories in Susan Hill's The Travelling Bag: And Other Ghostly Stories book and Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • ghost stories
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6. Devil's Day

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the Lancashire farm where he grew up to help gather the she… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Michael Hurley's Devil's Day book and Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • gothic
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror

7. 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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8. The Small Hand

By: Susan Hill

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Returning home from a client visit late one evening, Adam Snow takes a wrong turn and stumbles acro… read more

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9. Magic Cottage, Das Haus auf dem Land

By: James Herbert , Martin Eisele

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Midge und Mike, zwei junge Kunstler, haben ein romantisches Landhaus bezogen. Die magischen Krafte,… read more

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10. The Silent Companions

By: Laura Purcell

4.46

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country e… read more

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11. The Greatcoat

By: Helen Dunmore

3.27

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A terrifyingly atmospheric ghost story by the Orange-prize-winning Helen Dunmore. In the summer of … read more

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12. Covenant with the Vampire (The Diaries of the Family Dracul, #1)

By: Jeanne Kalogridis

4.42

Format: 344 pages,

A sensual, terrifying, incredibly accomplished first novel, this fascinating prequel to the classic… read more

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13. The Ghost Writer

By: John Harwood

4.50

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Viola Hatherley was a writer of ghost stories in the 1890s whose work lies forgotten until her grea… read more

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14. Headhunter (Special X, #1)

By: Michael Slade

4.60

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

IT BEGAN WITH HORROR. THEN IT GOT WORSE. There were still traces of extraordinary beauty in the wom… read more

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15. poyums

By: Len Pennie

4.58

Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition

And I have done more than just simply get by So much more than escape or survive Through the galv… read more

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16. The Mysterious Mr. Badman

By: W.F. Harvey

3.57

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

The note read: “Will the gentleman who took by mistake a copy of Bunyan’s Life and Death of Mr. Ba… read more

Similar categories in W.F. Harvey's The Mysterious Mr. Badman book and Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • mystery
  • fiction
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17. Into the Uncanny

By: Danny Robins

4.27

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

'A contemporary Van Helsing...' Sunday Times'King of true-life scary tales' Observer'A wonderfully … read more

Similar categories in Danny Robins's Into the Uncanny book and Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • ghosts
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • ghost stories
"the older I'd got, the more ghost had become an abstract concept, something impossibly fictional on a par with Hobbits, Jedi or getting a GP appointment"

-Danny Robins, Into the Uncanny

"Science itself can be quite negative because you essentially can never really prove a theory is correct, you can only prove it's wrong, so scientists are by definition sceptical because they spend a …"

-Danny Robins, Into the Uncanny

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18. 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 Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • gothic
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. The Black Feathers

By: Rebecca Netley

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Where ghosts tread, black feathers fall . . . When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and a… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Netley's The Black Feathers book and Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
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20. Nails and Eyes

By: Kaori Fujino

3.43

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans of The Memory Police, Tender is … read more

Similar categories in Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes book and Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • fiction
  • horror
"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

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21. The Whispering Muse

By: Laura Purcell

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambit… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's The Whispering Muse book and Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • gothic
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
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22. Lost in the Garden

By: Adam S. Leslie

3.73

Format: 446 pages, Paperback

"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more

Similar categories in Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden book and Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
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23. Schrader's Chord

By: Scott Leeds

4.06

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

Heart-Shaped Box meets The Haunting of Hill House in Schrader's Chord , Scott Leeds's chilling debu… read more

Similar categories in Scott Leeds's Schrader's Chord book and Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • fiction
  • horror
"Also ..." He nodded to the lone restaurant surrounded by trees. "... that looks like the s-sort of place that has pie." "And hot coffee," Ana added, closing her eyes and purring. Raymond smiled. "May…"

-Scott Leeds, Schrader's Chord

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24. Altern

By: Elke Heidenreich

3.64

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Alle wollen alt werden, niemand will es sein. Ist das nicht absurd? Das Leben lesen: Elke Heiden… read more

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25. You Know How the Story Goes

By: Thomas Olde Heuvelt

3.52

Format: 27 pages, ebook

It’s the same old story. Take a chance and pick up a hitchhiker. But only after midnight and only w… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Olde Heuvelt's You Know How the Story Goes book and Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • ghost stories
  • horror
  • fiction
  • ghosts
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26. The Last Catholic in America (Loyola Classics)

By: John R. Powers

3.82

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

“It is fast-moving and often downright funny.”—New York Times   “He has recaptured childish inn… read more

Similar categories in John R. Powers's The Last Catholic in America (Loyola Classics) book and Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • fiction
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27. The Belles of Positano

By: Kaya Quinsey Holt

3.64

Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition

Clara Belle is off to Italy. As the maid-of-honor for her sister's high-profile destination wedding… read more

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28. Dolly: A Ghost Story

By: Susan Hill

3.20

Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition

The remoter parts of the English Fens are forlorn, lost and damp even in the height of summer. At I… read more

Similar categories in Susan Hill's Dolly: A Ghost Story book and Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • ghost stories
"I tried to imagine her as the mother of a child, but simply could not. I felt sorry for any offspring she might produce."

-Susan Hill, Dolly: A Ghost Story

"I have always believed that places with a long history, especially those in which terrible events have taken place, retain something of those times, some trace in the air."

-Susan Hill, Dolly: A Ghost Story

"Places are often filled with their own pasts and exude a sense of them, an atmosphere of great good or great evil, which can be picked up by anyone sensitive to their surroundings."

-Susan Hill, Dolly: A Ghost Story

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29. Dead End Tunnel

By: Nick Roberts

4.22

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

Maverick Hall has spent years trying to forget the chilling events of his thirteenth birthday in th… read more

Similar categories in Nick Roberts's Dead End Tunnel book and Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • horror
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30. In The Night Wood

By: Dale Bailey

3.32

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

In this contemporary fantasy, the grieving biographer of a Victorian fantasist finds himself slippi… read more

Similar categories in Dale Bailey's In The Night Wood book and Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • gothic
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
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31. L'ultimo ospite

By: Paola Barbato

3.84

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

All'inizio è solo una sensazione, un fastidio. L'odore di polvere mista a muffa, certo. Ma anche qu… read more

Similar categories in Paola Barbato's L'ultimo ospite book and Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture

  • fiction

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3.33

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John Harwood

3.87

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Hilary Mantel

4.57

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4.20

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Bridget Collins

4.06

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Rebecca Netley

4.00

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Katie Lumsden

3.67

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Stacey Halls

3.94

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