haunted houses, spatial horror, and adjacent “something is going on with/in this structure” narratives! including nonfiction about actual places or analysis of the convention
created by writemeweird
last updated January, 2026
Woodworm
Layla Martínez
Home Sick Pilots, Volume 1: Teenage Haunts
Dan Watters
Linghun
Ai Jiang
Bad Houses
John Elizabeth Stintzi
Strange Houses
Uketsu
Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
Leila Taylor
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
We Used to Live Here
Marcus Kliewer
Plain Bad Heroines
Emily M. Danforth
Gallant
Victoria Schwab
Saint Juniper's Folly
Alex Crespo
Starling House
Alix E. Harrow
How to Sell a Haunted House
Grady Hendrix
The Spite House
Johnny Compton
The September House
Carissa Orlando
Delicious Monsters
Liselle Sambury
The Graveyard Apartment
Mariko Koike
The Good House
Tananarive Due
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
T. Kingfisher
The Villa, Once Beloved
Victor Manibo
Japanese Gothic
Kylie Lee Baker
White Smoke
Tiffany D. Jackson
Other Words for Smoke
Sarah Maria Griffin
The Invited
Jennifer McMahon
Parting the Veil
Paulette Kennedy
The Death of Jane Lawrence
Caitlin Starling
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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