From international bestselling author Catriona Ward comes The Last House on Needless Street, a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House. In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street lives a family of three. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but what is buried among the birches may just come back and haunt them all… Perhaps it was my mom raising me on Hardy Boys novels and horror films like A Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween when I was arguably too young to watch them, but my life-long love of horror had me watching films from The Hills Have Eyes (do not recommend) to The Ring and Audition. I consumed horror books by the stack, honing what I do and don’t like. Eventually this all led me to read The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Her seminal book relied on terror, on psychology, and on the tense relationships between characters and the mysterious Hill House to tap into our own innermost fears. Already read The Haunting of Hill House? Here are eight more literary horror books to claw at the back of your psyche. Want even more Shirley Jackson read-alikes? Try these authors like Shirley Jackson.
