2 books like The Vanishing

What to read after The Vanishing — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

House of Windows John Langan · 2009 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Moderate When a young writer finds himself cornered by a beautiful widow in the waning hours of a late-night cocktail party, he seeks at first to escape, to return to his wife and infant son, but the tale she weaves, of her missing husband, a renowned English professor, and her lost stepson, a soldier killed on a battlefield on the other side of the world, of phantasmal visions, a family curse, and a… Shares: Widows, Authors

Lisey's Story Stephen King · 2006 · ★ 3.7 · 608p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Two years after her husband's death, Lisey Landon decides it's time to go through his office to clear out his papers. Scott Landon was a bestselling novelist and Lisey has been besieged by people wanting to buy any of his unpublished work but she is determined not to let that happen. As she begins the process of cleaning, she is contacted by an unsavory character who claims that if she does not… Shares: Widows, Authors

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