The most popular haunted house books

Haunted house books invite you in and lock the door. Cold spots, footsteps overhead and a history nobody wants to discuss build toward something worse. Some houses hold ghosts and some seem alive themselves. A classic setting for horror and gothic fiction.

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The Shining
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The Shining

Stephen King

1977 · 2025 edition

464 pages

Bag of Bones
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Bag of Bones

Stephen King

Published 1998

529 pages

The Hollow Boy
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The Hollow Boy

Jonathan Stroud

2013 · 2016 edition

416 pages

A Casa Infernal
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A Casa Infernal

Richard Matheson

1971 · 2009 edition

254 pages

Red Lily
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Red Lily

Nora Roberts

2002 · 2020 edition

334 pages

House of Secrets
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House of Secrets

Chris Columbus, Ned Vizzini

Published 2013

549 pages

The Seance
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The Seance

John Harwood

2008 · 2009 edition

336 pages