Books like The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman reads as unsettling, claustrophobic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings

Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1989

Shares the vspare thread

87% genome match

The houseguest and other stories

Amparo Dávila · 2018

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Apartment 16

Adam Nevill · 2010

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Cormorant

Stephen Gregory · 1986

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Dark Tales

Shirley Jackson · 2016

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

In the house in the dark of the woods

Laird Hunt · 2018

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Come Closer

Sara Gran · 1975

Shares the vspare + 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 vhypno thread

69% genome match

Los peligros de fumar en la cama

Mariana Enríquez · 2009

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Iain Reid · 2016

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Ghost Wall

Sarah Moss · 2018

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Siete casas vacías

Samanta Schweblin · 2015

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match