Best Ghost Thrillers Books
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1. Later
Author: by Stephen King
Published at: Hard Case Crime (March 2, 2021)
ISBN: 978-1789096491
Part detective tale, part thrillertouching and genuine. The New York Times #1 bestselling author Stephen King returns with a brand-new novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood.
But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
LATER is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King’s classic novel It, LATER is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears.
2. The Wife Upstairs: A Novel
Author: by Rachel Hawkins
Published at: St. Martin's Press (January 5, 2021)
ISBN: 978-1250245496
Instant New York Times and USA Today BestsellerCompulsively readable… A gothic thriller laced with arsenic. EWOne of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021: CNN Newsweek Vulture PopSugar Parade BuzzFeed E! Online TimeOut Woman’s Day Goodreads She Reads Good Housekeeping CrimeReads Frolic Hello!
Mystery and Suspense January 2021 Indie Next Pick and #1 LibraryReads Pick A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, The Wife Upstairs pairs Southern charm with atmospheric domestic suspense, perfect for fans of B.A. Paris and Megan Miranda.Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estatesa gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives.
The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the side tables of her well-heeled clients. Where no one will think to ask if Jane is her real name. But her luck changes when she meets Eddie Rochester.
Recently widowed, Eddie is Thornfield Estates’ most mysterious resident. His wife, Bea, drowned in a boating accident with her best friend, their bodies lost to the deep. Jane can’t help but see an opportunity in Eddienot only is he rich, brooding, and handsome, he could also offer her the kind of protection she’s always yearned for.
3. Who is Maud Dixon?: A Novel
Author: by Alexandra Andrews
Published at: Little, Brown and Company (March 2, 2021)
ISBN: 978-0316500319
A “stylish and sharp” character-driven suspense novel, “with wicked hairpin turns,” about a famous novelist and a small-town striver locked in a struggle for fortune and fame. (Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Florence Darrow is a low-level publishing employee who believes that she’s destined to be a famous writer.
When she stumbles into a job the assistant to the brilliant, enigmatic novelist known as Maud Dixon whose true identity is a secret it appears that the universe is finally providing Florence’s big chance. The arrangement seems perfect. Maud Dixon (whose real name, Florence discovers, is Helen Wilcox) can be prickly, but she is full of pointed wisdom – not only on how to write, but also on how to live.
Florence quickly falls under Helen’s spell and eagerly accompanies her to Morocco, where Helen’s new novel is set. Amidst the colorful streets of Marrakesh and the wind-swept beaches of the coast, Florence’s life at last feels interesting enough to inspire a novel of her own.
4. The Shining
Author: by Stephen King
Published at: Anchor; Reprint edition (August 27, 2013)
ISBN: 978-0345806789
Before Doctor Sleep, there was The Shining, a classic of modern American horror from the undisputed master, Stephen King. Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing.
But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote …And more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.
5. Layla
Author: by Colleen Hoover
Published at: Montlake (December 8, 2020)
ISBN: 978-1542000178
A Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover comes a novel that explores life after tragedy and the enduring spirit of love. When Leeds meets Layla, he’s convinced he’ll spend the rest of his life with heruntil an unexpected attack leaves Layla fighting for her life.
After weeks in the hospital, Layla recovers physically, but the emotional and mental scarring has altered the woman Leeds fell in love with. In order to put their relationship back on track, Leeds whisks Layla away to the bed-and-breakfast where they first met.
Once they arrive, Layla’s behavior takes a bizarre turn. And that’s just one of many inexplicable occurrences. Feeling distant from Layla, Leeds soon finds solace in Willowanother guest of the B&B with whom he forms a connection through their shared concerns.
As his curiosity for Willow grows, his decision to help her find answers puts him in direct conflict with Layla’s well-being. Leeds soon realizes he has to make a choice because he can’t help both of them. But if he makes the wrong choice, it could be detrimental for all of them.
6. The Sleep Experiment: An edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller (World's Scariest Legends)
Author: by Jeremy Bates
Published at: Ghillinnein Books (July 7, 2019)
ISBN: 978-1988091389
From USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jeremy Bates comes the second STAND-ALONE book in the all-new WORLD’S SCARIEST LEGENDS series. For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Creepypastas. In 1954, at the start of the Cold War, the Soviet military offered four political prisoners their freedom if they participated in an experiment requiring them to remain awake for fourteen days while under the influence of a powerful stimulant gas.
The prisoners ultimately reverted to murder, self-mutilation, and madness.None survived. In 2018, Dr. Roy Wallis, an esteemed psychology professor at UC Berkeley, is attempting to recreate the same experiment during the summer break in a soon-to-be demolished building on campus.
He and two student assistants share an eight-hour rotational schedule to observe their young Australian test subjects around the clock. What begins innocently enough, however, morphs into a nightmare beyond description that no one could have imaginedwith, perhaps, the exception of Dr. Roy Wallis himself.
7. The Sun Down Motel
Author: by Simone St. James
Published at: Berkley (October 20, 2020)
ISBN: 978-0440000204
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSomething hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.
Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnt right at the motel, something haunting and scary.
Upstate New York, 2017. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously disappeared from the Sun Down before she was born. She decides to move to Fell and visit the motel, where she quickly learns that nothing has changed since 1982.
And she soon finds herself ensnared in the same mysteries that claimed her aunt.
8. The Lost Village: A Novel
Author: by Camilla Sten
Published at: Minotaur Books; Reprint edition (March 23, 2021)
ISBN: 978-1250249258
“Come for the mounting horror and scares, but stay for a devastating examination of the nature of family secrets.” – New York Times book reviewA Most Anticipated Book Goodreads * Publishers Weekly * Crime Reads * Popsugar * Bookish An Indie Next pick! A Library Reads Pick!
The Blair Witch Project meets Midsommar in this brilliantly disturbing thriller from Camilla Sten, an electrifying new voice in suspense. Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed The Lost Village, since she was a little girl.
In 1959, her grandmother’s entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were lefta woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newbornhave plagued her. She’s gathered a small crew of friends in the remote village to make a film about what really happened.
But there will be no turning back. Not long after they’ve set up camp, mysterious things begin to happen. Equipment is destroyed.People go missing. As doubt breeds fear and their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear to Alice: They are not alone.
9. The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
Author: by Shirley Jackson
Published at: Penguin Classics; 1st edition (November 28, 2006)
ISBN: 978-0143039983
The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror.
It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House.
At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powersand soon it will choose one of them to make its own. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
10. Home Before Dark: A Novel
Author: by Riley Sager
Published at: Dutton (June 30, 2020)
ISBN: 978-1524745172
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of USA Today’s Best Books of 2020Sager is a master of the twist and the turn…. You have to read to the very last page to find how who did what to whom and why.
Rolling Stone In this chilling thriller, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthboundand dangeroussecrets hidden within its walls?
Twenty-five years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. Three weeks later they fled in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors.
His horror memoir of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularityand skepticism. Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father’s book.
11. The Burning Girls: A Novel
Author: by C. J. Tudor
Published at: Ballantine Books (February 9, 2021)
ISBN: 978-1984825025
An unconventional vicar must exorcise the dark past of a remote village haunted by death and disappearances in this explosive and unsettling thriller from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man. A dark history lingers in Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, Protestant martyrs were betrayedthen burned.
Thirty years ago, two teenage girls disappeared without a trace. And a few weeks ago, the vicar of the local parish hanged himself in the nave of the church. Reverend Jack Brooks, a single parent with a fourteen-year-old daughter and a heavy conscience, arrives in the village hoping for a fresh start.
Instead, Jack finds a town rife with conspiracies and secrets, and is greeted with a strange welcome package: an exorcism kit and a note that warns, But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed and hidden that will not be known.
The more Jack and daughter, Flo, explore the town and get to know its strange denizens, the deeper they are drawn into the age-old rifts, mysteries, and suspicions. And when Flo begins to see specters of girls ablaze, it becomes apparent there are ghosts here that refuse to be laid to rest.
12. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Author: by Shirley Jackson
Published at: Penguin Classics; Deluxe ed. edition (October 31, 2006)
ISBN: 978-0143039976
Shirley Jackson’s beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family’s dark secretTaking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.
Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
13. American Traitor: A Pike Logan Novel (Pike Logan, 15)
Author: by Brad Taylor
Published at: William Morrow; 1st edition (January 5, 2021)
ISBN: 978-0062886064
Few authors write about espionage, terrorism, and clandestine hit squads as well as Taylor does. Houston Press Pike Logan is on the desperate hunt for a man who is about to betray his countryand ignite a horrific new world warin this pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer Brad Taylor Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill are enjoying a sunny vacation down under when they get disturbing news: their friend and colleague Clifford Delmonty is in serious trouble.
While working as a contractor at an Australian F-35 facility, the former Taskforce membercallsign Dunkinsaw something he shouldn’t have, and now he’s on the run from Chinese agents. Pike and Jennifer soon discover that Dunkin’s attackers are a dangerous link to a much larger scheme that could launch a full-on conflict between China and Taiwan.
In its quest for dominance, China is determined to reclaim Taiwana pivotal ally the United States has sworn to protect. Pike learns that the Chinese have a devious plan to bait the island nation into all-out war by destabilizing the government and manipulating an artificial intelligence defense system.
14. The Whisper Man: A Novel
Author: by Alex North
Published at: Celadon Books (August 20, 2019)
ISBN: 978-1250317995
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*”WORKS BEAUTIFULLY… If you like being terrified, The Whisper Man has your name on it.”The New York Times, Editor’s Pick”SUPERB”Publisher’s Weekly, Starred Review”BRILLIANT… Will satisfy readers of Thomas Harris and Stephen King.”Booklist, Starred Review”POIGNANT AND TERRIFYING”Entertainment WeeklyIn this dark, suspenseful thriller, Alex North weaves a multi-generational tale of a father and son caught in the crosshairs of an investigation to catch a serial killer preying on a small town.
After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town.Featherbank. But the town has a dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered five residents.
Until Frank Carter was finally caught, he was nicknamed “The Whisper Man,” for he would lure his victims out by whispering at their windows at night. Just as Tom and Jake settle into their new home, a young boy vanishes.
15. Imaginary Friend
Author: by Stephen Chbosky
Published at: Grand Central Publishing (October 1, 2019)
ISBN: 978-1538731338
Instant New York Times BestsellerOne of Fall 2019’s Best Books (People, EW, Lithub, Vox, Washington Post, and more)A young boy is haunted by a voice in his head in this acclaimed epic of literary horror from the author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Christopher is seven years old. Christopher is the new kid in town. Christopher has an imaginary friend. We can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us. Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with her child.
Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. It’s as far off the beaten track as they can get. Just one highway in, one highway out. At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down.
Then Christopher vanishes. For six long days, no one can find him. Until Christopher emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a treehouse in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again.
