Books like The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James reads as dark, experimental. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad · 1899

Shares the unreliable + maximal 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

71% genome match

Bunny

Mona Awad · 2019

Shares the unreliable + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins · 1859

Shares the unreliable + vornate thread

69% genome match

Arkham Asylum

Grant Morrison · 1920

Shares the unreliable + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls

Emilie Autumn · 2009

Shares the unreliable + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Last House on Needless Street

Catriona Ward · 2021

Shares the unreliable + vhypno thread

69% genome match

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson · 1962

Shares the unreliable + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Dust of Wonderland

Lee Thomas · 2007

Shares the unreliable + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Silent Companions

Laura Purcell · 2017

Shares the unreliable + vornate thread

69% genome match

Books of Blood

Clive Barker · 1984

Shares the maximal + vornate thread

69% genome match

Ghost Story

Peter Straub · 1979

Shares the vornate + vhypno thread

69% genome match