30 must-read horror books like The Apparition Phase by Will Maclean

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The Apparition Phase

By: Will Maclean

3.91

Format: 384 pages, ebook

An atmospheric and stunning literary debut, reminiscent of the gothic suspense of Shirley Jackson a…

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1. Wylding Hall

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.80

Format: 176 pages, ebook

When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their u… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hand's Wylding Hall book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
"But mostly I'm just respectful of old ways. I believe things for a reason, and in the old days they did things for a reason. And if you don't understand why—well, you might end up opening a few doors…"

-Elizabeth Hand, Wylding Hall

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2. Thin Air

By: Michelle Paver

5.00

Format: 384 pages,

In 1935, young medic Stephen Pearce travels to India to join an expedition with his brother, Kits. … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Paver's Thin Air book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • fiction
  • ghosts

3. Dark Matter

By: Michelle Paver

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poo… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Paver's Dark Matter book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

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4. Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Boys in the Valley book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

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5. 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 Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • fiction
  • horror
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6. 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 Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • ghosts
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • 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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7. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
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8. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

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9. The Apparition Phase

By: Will Maclean

3.91

Format: 384 pages, ebook

An atmospheric and stunning literary debut, reminiscent of the gothic suspense of Shirley Jackson a… read more

Similar categories in Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • ghost stories
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10. Wakenhyrst

By: Michelle Paver

3.87

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wa… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Paver's Wakenhyrst book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • paranormal
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11. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Michael Hurley's Starve Acre book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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12. The Whistling

By: Rebecca Netley

3.69

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Alone in the world, Elspeth Swansome has taken the position of nanny to a family on the remote Scot… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Netley's The Whistling book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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13. The Day of the Door

By: Laurel Hightower

4.13

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Once there were four Lasco siblings banded together against a world that failed to protect them. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's The Day of the Door book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • mystery
  • horror
  • fiction
  • ghosts
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14. The Creeper

By: A.M. Shine

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Superstitions only survive if people believe in them... Renowned academic Dr Sparling seeks help… read more

Similar categories in A.M. Shine's The Creeper book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. 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 Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. 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 Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. The Ghost Woods

By: C.J. Cooke

3.98

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folklore… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Cooke's The Ghost Woods book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • paranormal
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18. A Good House for Children

By: Kate Collins

3.60

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when he… read more

Similar categories in Kate Collins's A Good House for Children book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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19. The Toll House

By: Carly Reagon

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The past isn't always dead and buried . . . A house with history. That's how the estate agent de… read more

Similar categories in Carly Reagon's The Toll House book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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20. The Nothing That Is (Mr. Dinosaur #1)

By: Kyle Winkler

3.94

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

It's 1986. Cade McCall is an assistant manager for a catering business. Driving to work one morning… read more

Similar categories in Kyle Winkler's The Nothing That Is (Mr. Dinosaur #1) book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. We Used to Live Here

By: Marcus Kliewer

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Get Out meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original m… read more

Similar categories in Marcus Kliewer's We Used to Live Here book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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22. 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 Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • paranormal
  • horror
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23. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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24. The Hiding Place

By: Amanda Mason

3.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Nell Galilee, her husband and twelve year old step-daughter Maude rent a holiday cottage by the sea… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Mason's The Hiding Place book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • ghost stories
Cover of How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive by Craig DiLouie

25. How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

By: Craig DiLouie

3.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From Bram Stoker Award‑nominated author Craig DiLouie comes a darkly humorous horror novel that see… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of In the Lonely Hours by Shannon  Morgan

26. In the Lonely Hours

By: Shannon Morgan

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In a bewitchingly melancholy, thrillingly modern ghost story for readers of Eve Chase, Megan Shephe… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Morgan's In the Lonely Hours book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • paranormal
Cover of The Town The World Forgot (The Town That Shouldn't Exist Book 1) by Boris Bacic

27. The Town The World Forgot (The Town That Shouldn't Exist Book 1)

By: Boris Bacic

4.28

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

No one ever escapes from this town."Fans of the TV show From are going to love this!"Newlyweds Lisa… read more

Similar categories in Boris Bacic's The Town The World Forgot (The Town That Shouldn't Exist Book 1) book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Footage: A chilling psychological thriller by Stuart  James

28. The Footage: A chilling psychological thriller

By: Stuart James

3.61

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of The Blair Witch Project and The Ring. Five years ago, a group of friends stayed in a lo… read more

Similar categories in Stuart James's The Footage: A chilling psychological thriller book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • fiction
  • horror
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29. The Drowning House

By: Cherie Priest

3.55

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

A violent storm washes a mysterious house onto a rural Pacific Northwest beach, stopping the heart … read more

Similar categories in Cherie Priest's The Drowning House book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Through the Midnight Door by Katrina Monroe

30. Through the Midnight Door

By: Katrina Monroe

3.61

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

As emotional as it is haunting, Through the Midnight Door explores the sometimes-fragile bonds of s… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Monroe's Through the Midnight Door book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
Cover of The House of Long Shadows (House of Souls, #1) by Ambrose Ibsen

31. The House of Long Shadows (House of Souls, #1)

By: Ambrose Ibsen

4.03

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

The house at 889 Morgan Road has been empty almost thirty years. Maybe it should have stayed that w… read more

Similar categories in Ambrose Ibsen's The House of Long Shadows (House of Souls, #1) book and Will Maclean's The Apparition Phase

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

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Elizabeth Hand

3.80

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Michelle Paver

5.00

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4.18

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Nat Cassidy

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Jennifer Marie Thorne

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