Books like This House Is Haunted
12 books with a reading profile close to This House Is Haunted by John Boyne. Escapist; an easy read.
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1
We Sold Our Souls
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Kris Pulaski was the lead guitarist for Dürt Würk, a heavy metal band on the verge of stardom in the 1990s until their lead singer, Terry Hunt, betrayed the group for a solo contract.
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2
The Mist
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
David Drayton and his young son, Billy, become trapped inside a local grocery store when an impenetrable white fog rolls over their lakeside town in Maine.
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3
Desperation
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Set along a desolate stretch of Nevada highway, the story begins when a corrupt local sheriff, Collie Entragian, abducts several travelers and imprisons them in the decaying town of Desperation.
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4
Camp Damascus
by Chuck Tingle
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Chuck Tingle's novel takes place in a Christian conversion therapy camp called Camp Damascus, whose pastor claims to cure queer people.
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5
The Walking Dead, Book One
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Sheriff Rick Grimes wakes from a coma to find an empty hospital and a world overrun by animated corpses.
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6
The Hunger
by Alma Katsu
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
In 1846, the Donner Party wilderness trek toward California falters as a series of unexplained disappearances and grisly deaths plague the wagon trail.
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7
The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Rick Grimes and his group of survivors attempt to secure a permanent life within the walls of an abandoned prison, but their isolation ends when a helicopter crash leads them to the town of Woodbury.
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8
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.
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9
Hell House
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Physicist Lionel Barrett leads a small team into the Belasco House, a Maine estate notorious for decades of depraved violence and supernatural hostility.
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10
The Twisted Ones
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.
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11
Schweizerische Robinson
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
The narrative recounts the experiences of a Swiss pastor, his wife, and their four sons—Fritz, Ernest, Jack, and Franz—after their ship wrecks on a deserted tropical island.
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Preacher, Volume 2: Until the End of the World (Comics)
by Garth Ennis
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Jesse Custer, a Texas preacher possessed by a divine entity, travels across the American South with his assassin girlfriend Tulip O'Hare and the Irish vampire Cassidy.
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