Haunted: Perron Manor – Lee Mountford
Haunted house horror
Sisters Sarah and Chloe inherit a house they could never have previously dreamed of owning. It seems too good to be true.
Shortly after they move in, however, the siblings start to notice strange things: horrible smells, sudden drops in temperature, as well as unexplainable sounds and feelings of being watched.
All of that is compounded when they find a study upstairs, filled with occult items and a strange book written in Latin.
Their experiences grow more frequent and more terrifying, building towards a heart-stopping climax where the sisters come face to face with the evil behind Perron Manor. Will they survive and save their very souls?
“Back, after all these years. Back to the Devil’s House.”
The Invited – Jennifer McMahon
Haunted house horror
In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on forty-four acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams.
When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago.
With her passion for artifacts, Helen finds special materials to incorporate into the house – a beam from an old schoolroom, bricks from a mill, a mantel from a farmhouse – objects that draw her deeper into the story of Hattie and her descendants, three generations of Breckenridge women, each of whom died suspiciously.
As the building project progresses, the house will become a place of menace and unfinished business: a new home, now haunted, that beckons its owners and their neighbors toward unimaginable danger.
“You have a gift, the voices told her.”
The Exorcist’s House – Nick Roberts
Haunted house horror
In the summer of 1994, psychologist Daniel Hill buys a rustic farmhouse nestled in the rolling hills of West Virginia.
Along with his wife and teenage daughter, the family uproots their lives in Ohio and moves south. They are initially seduced by the natural beauty of the country setting. That soon changes when they discover a hidden room in the basement with a well, boarded shut and adorned with crucifixes.
Local legends about the previous owner being an exorcist come to light, but by then, all Hell has broken loose.
“The old man turned to face his home. One of his eyes twitched, and his palms began to clam up.”
The House of Long Shadows – Ambrose Ibsen
Haunted house horror
The house at 889 Morgan Road has been empty almost thirty years. Maybe it should have stayed that way.
Kevin Taylor is an internet-famous handyman on a mission: Find a house and renovate it in thirty days. By flipping a derelict house in a month’s time and chronicling the entire thing on video for his online subscribers, he seeks to impress a handful of network TV producers and become a star.
However, the problems that plague this property will require more than elbow grease to fix.
Shadows throughout the home are distorted, and an enigmatic trespasser keeps showing up in his footage. Worse still are the hideous voices that issue from otherwise empty rooms in the dead of night.
Amid mounting dangers, Kevin is forced to meet the house’s shadowed past head-on, a past, he begins to suspect, he wants nothing to do with. Armed only with the hearsay of locals and the frightening clues he’s uncovered within the home, he attempts to find out what led to the house’s abandonment while juggling his strenuous renovation projects.
What he uncovers is horrible beyond imagination. All signs seem to be pointing to one thing: Something in the house is awakening.
“Have you ever, as they say, slept the sleep of the dead? I have.”
The Suffering – MJ Mars
Haunted house horror
Recreating the séance that led to the infamous Victorian Suffering massacre seems like a good idea at the time. But Kyle Birbeck soon discovers that the ghosts his distant ancestor banished into the walls of Brackenby House in 1876 have been lurking, waiting for a chance to come out.
One by one the 5 terrifying ghosts latch onto each of the students who reside at Brackenby, preying on their deepest fears: A 3-eyed Incan giant. A member of the Hellfire Club who struck a deal with the devil to keep his fortune in the afterlife. A thieving factory hand who fell to his death, torturing them with endless footsteps. An oracle with a horde of dead sailors to do her bidding, and a 17th century axe-wielding executioner with a murderous hobby.
It’s up to Kyle and his friends to uncover the real secrets of the séance and banish the ghosts for good. But they soon come to realise it isn’t Brackenby House that’s haunted. They are. And the ghosts will stop at nothing to continue The Suffering.
“Trick-or-treat! So, what’s it like living in the Victorian murder house?”
The Nightmare Room – Chris Sorenson
Haunted house horror
New York audiobook narrator Peter Larson and his wife Hannah head to his hometown of Maple City to help Peter’s ailing father and to put a recent tragedy behind them. Though the small, Midwestern town seems the idyllic place to start afresh, Peter and Hannah will soon learn that evil currents flow beneath its surface.
They move into an old farmhouse on the outskirts of town, a house purchased by Peter’s father at auction and kept secret until now, and start to settle into their new life.
But as Peter sets up his recording studio in a small basement room, disturbing things begin to occur: mysterious voices haunt audio tracks, malevolent shadows creep about the house.
And when an insidious presence emerges from the woodwork, Peter must face old demons in order to save his family and himself.
“The boy woke to the sound of his own screams.”
The Third Floor – C. Dennis Moore
Haunted house horror
Welcome to Angel Hill, Missouri, a town that shot blood from the ground at its own groundbreaking. There are only two roads in or out of Angel Hill, and everything within those borders is subject to the whims of reality. Those who grew up here are immune to the town’s peculiarities.
Jack and Liz have just moved here, and for their young son, Joey, it’s almost like coming home again. As the Kitches settle into their new home, a large abandoned house in need of a lot of TLC, Angel Hill welcomes them the only way it knows how. Footsteps in the middle of the night. Voices on the phone. Their big empty house wasn’t so empty after all. There’s a presence, and it’s growing stronger. And angrier.
A hulking figure stalks the halls while childlike voices whisper in mourning. And there’s something unexplainable happening to Joey. His hair is shorter now, and his eyes … they didn’t used to be that color, did they? And that birthmark on his neck looks more like a scar every day.
Jack doesn’t want to believe his own eyes, but for Liz the threat is all too real, and it’s closing in. From the invisible shapes under the sheets, the eyes she feels on her constantly, and the banging coming from the third floor … is that something trying to get in? Or something wanting out?
“Even with a streetlamp in front of their house, it was dark.”
Her Home – Boris Bacic
Haunted house horror
Their mother is in a coma, and yet the house is anything but quiet at night.
Jill and Cheryl are two estranged sisters who are brought together after their mother with dementia mysteriously falls into a coma. Eager to return to their own lives, the sisters wait for an attorney to arrive and finalize the legal issues around the house. Forced to spend time together in their childhood home, the sisters begin experiencing strange phenomena in the house.
Creepy sounds carry through the walls at night, nightmares plague them in their sleep, and dark figures manifest themselves in the corner of their eyes, only to disappear when they look at them. The longer they spend in the house, the more they begin to realize that something unnatural is going on.
They follow in their mother’s footsteps to find the dark secret that drove her to lose her mind and finally fall into a coma. But the more they find out about the foreign darkness that inhabits the house, the more they start to realize that leaving the house will solve nothing, and they have only two choices.
Put their differences aside to defeat the evil in the house, or stay divided and share their mother’s fate.
“The last thing she saw was a face grinning at her before everything went dark.”
Hell House – Richard Matheson
Haunted house horror
For more than 20 years, Belasco House has stood empty. Its shadowed walls have witnessed scenes of unimaginable horror and depravity. All previous attempts to probe its mysteries have ended in murder, suicide, or insanity.
But now, a new investigation has been launched, bringing four strangers to the Maine mansion in search of the ultimate secrets of life and death.
A wealthy publisher, brooding over his impending death, has paid a physicist and two mediums to establish proof of life after death once and for all.
And for one terrible night, the group will investigate the property and learn exactly why the townsfolk refer to it as the Hell House.
“I thought Belasco’s heirs had it sealed of after what happened—”
The House of Smarba – Mike Duke
Haunted house horror
Debbie and Nathan Loch had the perfect family.
Their little boy Martin and his younger sister Bella were all they could have asked for, until the day Debbie watched helplessly as Bella’s life was ripped away in a horrific hit and run accident.
Plagued with grief, and afraid for her sanity, Debbie decides they are moving. However, shortly after transitioning into their new house, Martin begins having vivid dreams of a young boy named Malachi and his toy collection.
Martin has never seen toys like these before, but the descriptions he relates to his parents fill Debbie with concern. Nathan believes she is being overprotective after losing Bella, but Debbie is determined to solve the mystery of the antique toys and find out just who this Malachi kid really is.
What Debbie discovers is a rabbit hole that may drag the souls of her entire family kicking and screaming into the abyss of Hell itself.
“I’ve got a bunch of cool toys,” he said to Martin, still facing away. “Do you want to play?”
These Fleeting Shadows – Kate Alice Marshall
Haunted house horror
Helen Vaughan doesn’t know why she and her mother left their ancestral home at Harrowstone Hall, called Harrow, or why they haven’t spoken to their extended family since. So when her grandfather dies, she’s shocked to learn that he has left everything, the house, the grounds, and the money, to her. The inheritance comes with one condition: she must stay on the grounds of Harrow for one full year, or she’ll be left with nothing.
There is more at stake than money. For as long as she can remember, Harrow has haunted Helen’s dreams, and now those dreams have become a waking nightmare.
Helen knows that if she is going to survive the year, she needs to uncover the secrets of Harrow. Why is the house built like a labyrinth? What is digging the holes that appear in the woods each night? And why does the house itself seem to be making her sick?
With each twisted revelation, Helen questions what she knows about Harrow, her family, and even herself. She no longer wonders if she wants to leave, but if she can.
“I promise I will tell you the truth. But first, I need to lie.”
Gallows Hill – Darcy Coates
Haunted house horror
The Hull family has owned the Gallows Hill Winery for generations. Their wine wins awards. Their business prospers. Their family thrives. People whisper that the curse has awakened once more.
The sprawling old house has long been perched on top of a hill overlooking the nearby town, jealously guarding the estate’s secrets.
It’s been more than a decade since Margot Hull last saw her childhood home. She was young enough when she was sent away that she barely remembers its dark passageways and secret corners.
But now she’s returned to bury her parents and reconnect with the winery that is her family’s legacy, and the bloody truth of exactly what lies buried beneath the crumbling estate.
Alone in the sprawling, dilapidated building, Margot is forced to come face to face with the horrors of the past, and realize that she may be the next victim of a house that never rests.
“The casket lids remained closed for the funeral.”
The Bird Eater – Ania Ahlborn
Haunted house horror
Twenty years ago, the mysterious death of his aunt left Aaron Holbrook orphaned and alone. He abandoned his rural Arkansas hometown vowing never to return, until his seven-year-old son died in an accident, plunging Aaron into a nightmare of addiction and grief.
Desperate to reclaim a piece of himself, he returns to the hills of his childhood, to Holbrook House, where he hopes to find peace among the memories of his youth. But solace doesn’t come easy. Someone, or something, has other plans.
Like Aaron, Holbrook House is but a shell of what it once was, a target for vandals and ghost hunters who have nicknamed it “the devil’s den.” Aaron doesn’t believe in the paranormal, at least, not until a strange boy begins following him wherever he goes.
Plagued by violent dreams and disturbing visions, Aaron begins to wonder if he’s losing his mind. But a festering darkness lurks at the heart of Holbrook House, a darkness that grins from within the shadows, delighting in Aaron’s sorrow, biding its time.
“[Ghosts] don’t exist. If you believed in that stuff you would never have stayed in this house.”
