Books like Asylum

Asylum by Madeleine Roux reads as creepy, suspenseful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Daughter of Darkness

V. C. Andrews · 2010

Shares the unreliable thread

72% genome match

Skeleton Crew

Stephen King

Shares the unreliable thread

69% genome match

Haunted

Robert Lawrence Stine · 1990

Shares the unreliable thread

69% genome match

The old Willis place

Mary Downing Hahn · 2004

Shares the unreliable thread

69% genome match

Suffer the children

John Saul · 1978

Shares the unreliable thread

71% genome match

Slawter

Darren Shan · 2006

Shares the unreliable thread

69% genome match

The Secret of Crickley Hall

James Herbert · 2006

Both explore trauma

66% genome match

Rock Paper Scissors

Alice Feeney · 2021

Shares the unreliable thread

69% genome match

Hunter's Moon & Other American Gothic Tales

Kevin J. Anderson · 1992

Same horror feel

63% genome match

20th Century Ghosts

Joe Hill

Same horror feel

61% genome match

Magic

William Goldman · 1976

Shares the unreliable thread

69% genome match

Full Tilt

Neal Shusterman · 2003

Both explore fear & trauma

75% genome match