Books like Through the Woods

Through the Woods by Emily Carroll reads as eerie, haunting. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

In the house in the dark of the woods

Laird Hunt · 2018

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The houseguest and other stories

Amparo Dávila · 2018

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Insect God (The Vingear Works #2)

Edward Gorey · 1963

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Apartment 16

Adam Nevill · 2010

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Bear

Marian Engel · 1976

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Blood and Gold

Anne Rice

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

Dark Tales

Shirley Jackson · 2016

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Cormorant

Stephen Gregory · 1986

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Coraline

Neil Gaiman · 2002

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1892

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Darkness, I (Blood Opera Sequence)

Tanith Lee · 1994

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

The Seas

Samantha Hunt · 2004

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match