18 books like What Moves the Dead

The Children on the Hill
The Children on the Hill Jennifer McMahon · 2022 · ★ 3.9 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate **1978**: at her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when she's home with her cherished grandchildren, Vi and Eric, she’s just Gran—teaching them how to take care of their pets, preparing them home-cooked meals, providing them with care and attention and love. Then… Shares Gothic, Historical Fiction, Horror, Mystery
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Everville Clive Barker · 1994 · ★ 4.0 · 643p · ≈ 21h · Challenging Shares Horror, Mystery with this book.
A Bitter Cut
A Bitter Cut Anna Lee Huber · 2026 Lady Kiera Darby plans to spend the summer reconnecting with friends and family in anticipation of the betrothal of her beloved brother. But when a future in-law is implicated in a murder, the party takes a deadly turn. . . .July 1833. Lady Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage, are settling into their newly renovated home at Bevington Park in Warkwickshire with their young daughter. With… Shares Historical Fiction, Mystery
The Hacienda
The Hacienda Isabel Cañas · 2022 · ★ 4.0 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches... In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors… Shares Gothic, Historical Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
Diavola
Diavola Jennifer Thorne · 2024 · ★ 4.0 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Anna has two rules for the annual Pace family destination vacations: *Tread lightly and survive*. It isn’t easy when she’s the only one in the family who doesn’t quite fit in. Her twin brother, Benny, goes with the flow so much he’s practically dissolved, and her older sister, Nicole, is so used to everyone—including her blandly docile husband and two kids—falling in line that Anna often ends… Shares Gothic, Adult, Horror, Mystery
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Dracul Dacre Stoker · 2018 · ★ 4.5 · 516p · ≈ 17h · Moderate It is 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old Bram Stoker waits in a desolate tower to face an indescribable evil. Armed only with crucifixes, holy water, and a rifle, he prays to survive a single night, the longest of his life. Desperate to record what he has witnessed, Bram scribbles down the events that led him here... A sickly child, Bram spent his early days bedridden in his parents' Dublin home,… Shares Gothic, Historical Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
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Silver Under Nightfall Rin Chupeco · 2022 · ★ 4.5 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Remy Pendergast is many things: the only son of the Duke of Valenbonne (though his father might wish otherwise), an elite bounty hunter of rogue vampires, and an outcast among his fellow Reapers. His mother was the subject of gossip even before she eloped with a vampire, giving rise to the rumors that Remy is half-vampire himself. Though the kingdom of Aluria barely tolerates him, Remy’s father… Shares Gothic, Adult, Horror, Fantasy
The Stolen Queen
The Stolen Queen Fiona Davis · 2025 · ★ 3.9 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate **Egypt, 1936:** When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. But after an unbearable tragedy strikes, Charlotte knows her future will never be the same. **New York City, 1978:** Eighteen-year-old Annie Jenkins is thrilled when she lands an opportunity to work for iconic former Vogue… Shares Adult, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery
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Beguiled by Night Nicole Eigener · 2020 · 389p · ≈ 12h · Moderate **The convoluted chronicle of Vauquelin — a queer, ancient vampire — unfolds in a tapestry of paradoxes. Born into the tumultuous backdrop of elegant, monied, 17th-century France, an ill-fated broken carriage wheel alters the trajectory of his life for eternity.** After centuries of ennui, his blood-stained past provokes him to seek new horizons: he emigrates to the United States. There he… Shares Gothic, Historical Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
Mapping the Interior
Mapping the Interior Stephen Graham Jones · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 110p · ≈ 3h · Light Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew. The house is the kind of… Shares Novella, Adult, Horror, Fantasy
The Secret Book Society
The Secret Book Society Madeline Martin · 2025 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Moderate *You are cordially invited to the Secret Book Society…* **London, 1895**: Trapped by oppressive marriages and societal expectations, three women receive a mysterious invitation to an afternoon tea at the home of the reclusive Lady Duxbury. Beneath the genteel facade of the gathering lies a secret book club—a sanctuary where they can discover freedom, sisterhood, and the courage to rewrite… Shares Adult, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery
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Nuestra parte de noche Mariana Enríquez · 2019 · ★ 4.2 · 598p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Un padre y un hijo atraviesan Argentina por carretera, desde Buenos Aires hacia las cataratas de Iguazú, en la frontera norte con Brasil. Son los años de la junta militar, hay controles de soldados armados y tensión en el ambiente. El hijo se llama Gaspar y el padre trata de protegerlo del destino que le ha sido asignado. La madre murió en circunstancias poco claras, en un accidente que acaso no… Shares Adult, Historical Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
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The Reformatory Tananarive Due · 2023 · ★ 4.4 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Gracetown, Florida - June 1950 Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a… Shares Adult, Historical Fiction, Horror, Mystery
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Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. . . . From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes “a terrifying twist on classic gothic horror” (Kirkus Reviews) set in glamorous 1950s Mexico. After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí… Shares Gothic, Historical Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
The Fisherman
The Fisherman John Langan · 2016 · ★ 4.1 · 293p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other's company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found… Shares Horror, Fantasy, Mystery
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Thunder on the Right Mary Stewart · 1957 · ★ 4.4 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate **Artist Jennifer Silver has traveled to the picturesque, secluded Valley of the Storms in the French Pyrenees to meet with her young cousin Gillian, who is about to enter the Convent of Our Lady of the Storms.** She had come to the convent--a brooding cluster of ancient buildings nestled deep in the wild upper reaches of the Pyrenees--**to discover that the young woman has died in a dreadful… Shares Gothic, Adult, Mystery
Play Nice
Play Nice Rachel Harrison · 2025 · ★ 3.9 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so glamorous secret: she grew up in a haunted house. Well, not haunted. Possessed. After Clio’s parents' messy divorce, her mother, Alex, moved Clio and her sisters into a house occupied by a demon. Or so Alex claimed. That’s not what Clio’s sisters remember or what the… Shares Gothic, Horror, Mystery
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Ghost story Peter Straub · 1979 · ★ 4.0 · 507p · ≈ 16h · Moderate In a seedy motel in Florida, a young man holds captive a little girl in a soiled pink dress. He is anxious, tormented, introspective. She is calm, passive, strangely detached. She says her name is Angie Maule. Shares Horror, Mystery

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