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Books like Night Shift
Loved Night Shift by Stephen King? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from horror, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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The Haunting of Hill House
Four people spend a summer in a house that may be alive; the gold standard for the literary ghost story.
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Dracula
Letters and diaries trace a creeping invasion by an ancient predator; the novel that fixed the vampire in our imagination.
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Two sisters live shunned in a grand house after a family tragedy; eerie, sly and unforgettable.
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The Exorcist
The Exorcist is a 1971 horror novel by American writer William Peter Blatty. The book details the demonic possession of eleven-year-old Regan MacNeil, the daughter of a famous actress, and the two pri
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Interview with the Vampire
A vampire tells the centuries-long story of his making; lush, gothic and genre-defining.
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Intensity
Past midnight, Chyna Shepherd, twenty-six, gazed out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous soc
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The Queen of the Damned
The third book in The Vampire Chronicles, Queen of the Damned, follows three parallel storylines. The rock star Vampire Lestat prepares for a concert in San Francisco, unaware that hundreds of vampire
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Breaking Dawn
To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and
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A thin ghost and others
This volume of M.R. James's classic ghostly fiction contains: "Preface," "The Residence at Whitminster," "The Diary of Mr. Poynter," "The Episode of Cathedral History, "The Story of a Disappearance an
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The Haunted Bookshop
The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley is the delightful tale of the bookseller Roger Mifflin, the advertising man Aubrey Gilbert, and the lovely Titania Chapman who comes to work at Mifflin's Bro