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12 books with a reading profile close to How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix. Escapist; an easy read.

  1. 1 My Best Friend's Exorcism

    My Best Friend's Exorcism

    by Grady Hendrix

    Also escapist · horror, entertainment

    Set in 1988 South Carolina, the story follows high school sophomores Abby and Gretchen, whose lifelong bond is tested after a skinny-dipping trip goes wrong.

  2. 2 The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye

    The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye

    by Robert Kirkman

    Also escapist · horror, entertainment

    Police officer Rick Grimes wakes from a coma in a deserted Kentucky hospital to find a world collapsed under an infestation of reanimated, flesh-eating corpses.

  3. 3 The Saturday Night Ghost Club

    The Saturday Night Ghost Club

    by Craig Davidson

    horror, entertainment

    Set in 1980s Niagara Falls, the story follows twelve-year-old Jake Baker during a summer spent with his eccentric Uncle Calvin.

  4. 4 The Twisted Ones

    The Twisted Ones

    by T. Kingfisher

    Also escapist · horror, entertainment

    After her hoarder step-grandmother dies, Melissa, known as Mouse, travels to rural North Carolina to clear out a house overflowing with refuse.

  5. 5 Beauty Queens

    Beauty Queens

    by Libba Bray

    Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

    Fifty contestants for the Miss Teen Sweetheart pageant crash-land on a deserted island when their plane malfunctions.

  6. 6 Night Shift

    Night Shift

    by Stephen King

    Also escapist · horror, entertainment

    Night Shift is a collection of twenty short stories that showcase the physicalization of mundane fears into lethal threats.

  7. 7 Insomnia

    Insomnia

    by Stephen King

    Also escapist · horror, entertainment

    Set in Derry, Maine, the story follows Ralph Roberts, an elderly widower suffering from worsening sleeplessness.

  8. 8 Batman: A Death in the Family

    Batman: A Death in the Family

    by Jim Starlin

    Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

    In this narrative, Jason Todd, the second Robin, travels to the Middle East in search of his biological mother after being suspended from active duty by Batman.

  9. 9 Hell Followed With Us

    Hell Followed With Us

    by Andrew Joseph White

    Also escapist · horror, entertainment

    Benji is a sixteen-year-old transgender boy fleeing the Angels, a fundamentalist cult that triggered a biological apocalypse to cleanse the earth.

  10. 10 Sign Here

    Sign Here

    by Claudia Lux

    Also escapist · horror, entertainment

    Peyote Trip is a cubicle-bound employee in the bureaucratic landscape of Hell, specifically working in the Deals Department.

  11. 11 SPY×FAMILY 1

    SPY×FAMILY 1

    by Tatsuya Endo

    Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

    Twilight is a spy for the Westalis government, working undercover in the neighboring country of Ostania, which is on the verge of war with his own.

  12. 12 Spy x Family, Vol. 1

    Spy x Family, Vol. 1

    by Tatsuya Endo

    Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

    Master spy Twilight assumes the identity of Loid Forger to infiltrate an elite school and reach a high-ranking political target in the rival nation of Ostania.

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