Books like Ghost Story

Ghost Story by Peter Straub reads as dark, immersive. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James · 1898

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Shining

Stephen King · 1977

Shares the vhypno thread

83% genome match

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury · 1962

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Dracula

Bram Stoker · 1897

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

83% genome match

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson · 1959

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Secret History

Donna Tartt · 1992

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Short Stories (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Masque of the Red Death / Pit and the Pendulum / Tell-Tale Heart)

Edgar Allan Poe · 1990

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Perfume

Patrick Suskind · 1985

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Interview with the Vampire

Anne Rice · 1976

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

Hannibal

Thomas Harris · 1999

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

69% genome match