Books like Look for Me by Moonlight

Look for Me by Moonlight by Mary Downing Hahn reads as eerie, suspenseful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

What Look for Me by Moonlight is like to read

A brooding, isolated teen navigates a haunted inn and a seductive stranger, with atmosphere and family tension driving a slow uneasy dread rather than action. Best for: YA readers who enjoy gothic romance-tinged ghost stories with a lonely, alienated heroine..

Locked in time

Lois Duncan · 1985

A teenage outsider senses something deeply wrong at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation, and the dread builds through small oddities into genuine menace.

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Wait Till Helen Comes

Mary Downing Hahn · 1986

A tense, atmospheric ghost story blending family drama with supernatural horror, following a young protagonist's discovery that her new stepsister has become entangled with a malicious drowned spirit.

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Remember Me

Christopher Pike · 1989

A teen ghost narrates her own murder investigation from the other side, watching her friends turn suspect one by one — a fast, hooky YA thriller with a supernatural twist.

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The TALE OF THE RESTLESS HOUSE (ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK 3)

John Peel · 1995

Both explore ghosts

Window on the Square

Phyllis A. Whitney · 1962

Shares the romance thread

The Chase

Lisa Jane Smith · 1994

Shares the romance thread

The First Horror

Robert Lawrence Stine · 1994

A quick, chapter-cliffhanger YA haunted-house opener where twin sisters unravel a cursed home's secret.

creepy, not goryYAcliffhanger

The Seance

Joan Lowery Nixon · 1980

Both explore ghosts

A Tall Dark Stranger

Joan Smith · 1995

A light, witty Regency mystery-romance where amateur sleuthing and courtship banter intertwine, driven by comic village gossip and a suspiciously charming stranger.

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