Books like 20th Century Ghosts

20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill reads as lyrical, dark. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

You Like It Darker

Stephen King

Shares the grief thread

69% genome match

Into the Grey

Celine Kiernan · 2011

Shares the grief thread

73% genome match

Fragile Things

Neil Gaiman

Both explore memory & art

82% genome match

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury · 1962

Same horror feel

65% genome match

Merrick

Anne Rice

Shares the grief thread

77% genome match

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

David Wroblewski · 2008

Shares the grief thread

75% genome match

Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield

Shares the grief thread

73% genome match

The House with a Clock in Its Walls

John Bellairs · 1973

Both explore family

71% genome match

The Book of Lost Things

John Connolly · 2006

Both explore grief

72% genome match

Faerie Tale

Raymond E. Feist · 1988

Both explore family

70% genome match

Universal harvester

John Darnielle · 2017

Shares the grief thread

69% genome match

Coraline

P. Craig Russell · 2008

Both explore family

67% genome match