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The Haunted Home

A shelter turned sinister, the familiar turned unfamiliar. The books on this list take place in, investigate, or explore the motifs of the classic horror setting. Selected by Sunnyvale Public Library staff. Click on a title to see more print, eBook and Audio options.

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  • Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends, Ila and Hannah. Since then, Alice's life has spiraled. She lives a haunted existence, selling videos of herself for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself to…
    Book, 2023New York : Nightfire/Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — SCI RUMFITT Alison
  • Discovering an extraordinary house at the bottom of a lake in their Michigan community, two teens fall passionately in love while struggling to choose between the property's ethereal freedoms and the safety of the world above.
    Book, 2021New York : Del Rey, [2021] — SCI MALERMAN Josh
  • Four visitors arrive at Hill House in search of evidence of a haunting. The house has its own plans for its guests. 1960 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. Also available in print.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2010Ashland : Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2010.
  • This graphic novel series follows three kids who move with their mother into their late father’s childhood home. In the vast manor, they discover keys with mysterious properties. A six volume complete series. Also available as eBook on hoopla.
    Graphic Novel, 2009San Diego, Calif. : IDW ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2009. — GN LOCKE V.1
  • At the end of a nondescript alley in Britain is the Slade House. Every nine years, the Slade House invites someone in. A surreal haunted house tale that spans five decades. Also available in eBook format on Libby and cloudLibrary.
    Book, 2015New York : Random House, [2015] — FIC MITCHELL
  • In this standalone graphic novel, an American Muslim woman moves into an apartment building haunted by monstrous spirits in the aftermath of a suspected terrorist bombing in one of its units. Fans of Jordan Peele’s GET OUT will love how the comic…
    Graphic Novel, 2018Portland, OR : Image Comics, [2018] — GN PICHETSHO
  • A dark, suspenseful ghost story in which a doctor is called to care for a patient in Hundreds Hall, home of the Ayres family for generations, and ignores the warnings of his patient and the family's maid that there is a supernatural presence…
    Book, 2009New York : Riverhead Books, 2009. — FIC WATERS
  • A compelling horror classic in which an alcoholic writer, his wife, and their young son move in to the Overlook Hotel to act as its caretakers through the winter. As the family encounters mysterious manifestations, the parents blame it on cabin…
    Book, 2013New York : Anchor Books, 2013. — FIC KING
  • A classic psychological gothic horror in which an unnamed young governess at a country estate in Essex attempts to protect her two charges from an evil that seeks to corrupt them.
    Book, 2003Doylestown, Penn. : Wildside Press, [2003?] — FIC JAMES Henry
  • From the writer of GONE GIRL, this atmospheric short story follows an unnamed sex worker-turned-con artist who is posing as a psychic when she is invited to one customer's unsettling Victorian home and encounters her equally unsettling teenage son.…
    Book, 2014New York : Crown Publishers, [2014] — FIC FLYNN
  • In this classic thriller, the unnamed narrator marries the wealthy and famous Maximilian de Winter, a year after the death of his first wife Rebecca. But when the narrator moves into Maxim's estate, she finds that Rebecca lives on in the…
    Book, 1971New York : Avon, 1971, c1938. — FIC DUMAURIER Daphne
  • Machado's poetic, entrancing memoir uses the tropes of the haunted house to narrate her abusive same-sex relationship and explore the specific unvoiced horrors of domestic abuse for gay and bisexual women, creating a bibliography where none existed.…
    Book, 2019Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2019] — 813.6 MAC
  • A wealthy man dies, leaving his house to his estranged and dysfunctional family—and to the spirits of two its previous inhabitants. Also available in eBook format on Libby, cloudLibrary and hoopla.
    Book, 2014New York, New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014] — FIC OLIVER
  • A troubled young couple seeks a fresh slate by moving into a new home in a small town, despite warnings from the towns inhabitants. Shortly after they move in, the house begins to shift before their eyes. A frightful page-turner.
    Book, 2017New York : Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2017. — FIC JEMC
  • The purportedly true story of the paranormal phenomena experienced by the Lutz family in 1975 after moving into the Amityville, Long Island house where Ronald DeFeo Jr. had killed six members of his family the previous year. Also available in…
    Book, 2005New York : Pocket Star Books, 2005, c1977. — 133.1297 A
  • A chilling British horror novel in which a young woman strapped for cash rents a cheap room from an eccentric landlord and begins to hear voices at night, pleading for help.
    Book, 2015New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 2015. — FIC NEVILL
  • A Gothic novel about a New England family in their claustrophobic ancestral home. Also available as audiobook CD, eBook and eAudiobook.
    Book, 1987Cutchogue, N.Y. : Buccaneer Books, c1987. — FIC HAWTHORNE Nathaniel