12 must-read paranormal books like House of Windows by John Langan

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House of Windows

By: John Langan

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From John Langan (Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters) comes House of Windows, a chilling novel i…

If you liked the paranormal plot in House of Windows by John Langan , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Harvest Home

By: Thomas Tryon

3.82

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

It was almost as if time had not touched the village of Cornwall Coombe. The quiet, peaceful place … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Tryon's Harvest Home book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • gothic
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
"His heart's in the right place, but his tongue's an affliction."

-Thomas Tryon, Harvest Home

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2. Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.82

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

A bestial face appears at windows in the night. In the big white house on the hill angels are said … read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
"The world’s refusal to leave me out of its activities made me consider its destruction. Bring on the wave. Please, the asteroid."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors

"I thought to myself: this is how civilisation ends. Standards decline, accountability ends, the rule of law is impotent, the thugs take over and do what they will. And those of us softened by convent…"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors

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3. Occultation and Other Stories

By: Laird Barron

4.08

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, … read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's Occultation and Other Stories book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • fiction
  • horror
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4. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

By: Laird Barron

3.98

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Lai… read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • fiction
  • horror
"After years in the wilderness, he usually talked to himself."

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"Actually, coyotes are much scarier than wolves. Sneaky, sneaky little suckers. Eat you up. Lick the blood all up."

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"I hate puppets. Hate them. They descend from a demonic line parallel to mimes and clowns and are wholly of the devil, especially the lifelike variety."

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"I was accustomed to liars, bold-faced or wide-eyed, silver tongued or pleading, often with the barrel of my gun directed at them as they babbled their last prayers to an indifferent god, squirted the…"

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

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5. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" (TheWashington Pos… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • fiction
  • horror
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6. Last Days

By: Brian Evenson , Peter Straub

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Intense and profoundly unsettling, Brian Evenson's Last Daysis a down-the-rabbit-hole detective nov… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's Last Days book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

By: Laird Barron

4.00

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

To the long tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, P… read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's The Imago Sequence and Other Stories book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • fiction
  • horror
"Wisdom devours the weak."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

"Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

"I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

"...he was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

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8. Experimental Film

By: Gemma Files

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Experimental Film is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois … read more

Similar categories in Gemma Files's Experimental Film book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"Because stories lie hidden inside other stories, and we always know more about any given thing than we think we do, even if the only thing we think we know is nothing."

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"You could argue—as I have more than enough times, as part of my Film History lecture—that, no matter its actual narrative content, every movie is a ghost story. A film's production forms a time capsu…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in s…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"We're storytelling creatures. Give us a bunch of seemingly random images and we will try to organize them into a linear progression: tree, apple, head, bruise, gravity . . . a man sat under a tree, a…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

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9. The Croning

By: Laird Barron

3.73

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyon… read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's The Croning book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
"The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did."

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"Ramirez walked ahead with a torch he'd fashioned from a stick and some rags and by that queer and reddish light, devils, or the shadows of devils hooked to the shoes of the men and capered across the…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"The light in the gallery changed subtly and he whirled and saw someone approaching him from between the exhibit cases. The individual moved with alarming speed, bent low to the floor, but straighteni…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"They would, according to his experience of their traditions, suspect he was a demon, or demon-inhabited. Considering the volume of alcohol saturating his liver, that ancient gateway of spirits, of co…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

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10. House of Windows

By: John Langan

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From John Langan (Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters) comes House of Windows, a chilling novel i… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's House of Windows book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal

11. A God in the Shed

By: J.-F. Dubeau

3.32

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

-Move over True Detective. A rich, gothic story of murder and mystery, A God in The Shedis quite po… read more

Similar categories in J.-F. Dubeau's A God in the Shed book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror

12. The Necromancer's House

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.40

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

Christopher Buehlman's new novel--one of uncommon horrors hiding behind the walls of the house next… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Buehlman's The Necromancer's House book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. The Ritual

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.59

Format: 418 pages, Paperback

Four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic … read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Ritual book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"For Anne and our cub, for making me and my life less beastly"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right then, they screamed in alarm from times before symbols and language could depict such things that h…"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

14. City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris, #1)

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Michael Moorcock

3.87

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You h… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris, #1) book and John Langan's House of Windows

15. Ghost Story

By: Peter Straub

4.09

Format: 372 pages,

In life, not every sin goes unpunished. GHOST STORY For four aging men in the terror-stricken town … read more

Similar categories in Peter Straub's Ghost Story book and John Langan's House of Windows

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16. Last Days

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.75

Format: 531 pages, Paperback

When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult know… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's Last Days book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me ."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at Alexandria."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

17. December Park

By: Ronald Malfi

3.57

Format: 307 pages,

In the quiet suburb of Harting Farms, the weekly crime blotter usually consists of graffiti or the … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's December Park book and John Langan's House of Windows

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18. The Haar

By: David Sodergren

4.17

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's The Haar book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. All the Fiends of Hell

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the mor… read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's All the Fiends of Hell book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • fiction
  • horror
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20. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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21. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's You Like It Darker book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
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22. Helpmeet

By: Naben Ruthnum

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband from Manhattan to the upstate orchard estate… read more

Similar categories in Naben Ruthnum's Helpmeet book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
"This isn’t like the nose. That came off, like it was being picked at, pulled, tugged like taffy. This is from the inside. I can feel it when I’m going to sleep. Through the optic nerves. Drinking, ge…"

-Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet

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23. Looking Glass Sound

By: Catriona Ward

3.49

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Looking Glass Sound is the newest twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, the interna… read more

Similar categories in Catriona Ward's Looking Glass Sound book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
"Potatoes make everything okay."

-Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

Cover of The Vessel by Adam L.G. Nevill

24. The Vessel

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.73

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

'A watcher may remark that after sleeping for so long, the building appears to have been roused.' … read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Vessel book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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25. Gothic

By: Philip Fracassi

3.83

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

On his 59th birthday, Tyson Parks—a famous, but struggling, horror writer—receives an antique desk … read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Gothic book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
Cover of Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories by Brian Evenson

26. Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

By: Brian Evenson

3.89

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome le… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • fiction
  • horror
" The world is a strange place , thought Haupt, alone in the dark, almost unbearably so. And yet, it is the only place I have. And I'm not even entirely sure I have it. "

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

"We did speak, occasionally, but gestured more often than moved our lips, and in general lived in that brusque and silent accord enjoyed, if enjoyed is the right word, by certain long-married couples."

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

"And there's another one, where you look yourself in the mirror and keep looking until you can see through your skin, and then you draw your own heart and send the drawing in a letter to someone else.…"

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

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27. Rotten Tommy

By: David Sodergren

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

“Keep the door locked night and day…”It’s been forty years since Becky Sharp’s mother vanished with… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's Rotten Tommy book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • fiction
  • horror
"The enormous hand closed over his penis and testicles, squashing them in a vice-like grip. The man rose to his full stature and dragged John's limp body towards the staircase by his cock & balls. The…"

-David Sodergren, Rotten Tommy

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28. Small Town Horror

By: Ronald Malfi

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Small Town Horror book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • fiction
  • horror
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29. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
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30. Howls from the Dark Ages

By: P.L. McMillan

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Uncover the secret annals of untold history in these eighteen medieval manuscripts. Each tortured s… read more

Similar categories in P.L. McMillan's Howls from the Dark Ages book and John Langan's House of Windows

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
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31. Fat Cop

By: Johnny Ryan

3.60

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Upholding crime and corruption, one fast food joint at a time. FATCOP never passes up a possible gr… read more

Similar categories in Johnny Ryan's Fat Cop book and John Langan's House of Windows

27 best-selling fiction books like House of Windows by John Langan

Transform Your Habits

Harvest Home

Thomas Tryon

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors

Adam L.G. Nevill

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Occultation and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Laird Barron

3.98

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18 best-selling fiction books like The Croning by Laird Barron

Transform Your Habits

Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

John Langan

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Experimental Film

Gemma Files

3.56

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