Horror Aficionados discussion

Do you know of any books that nearly all center around activity in the character's home? Thriller/Horror/Mystery books in particular. I particularly like haunted house books but thrillers and mystery are just as welcome!

Misery took place and Anne Wilkes house

The haunted hotel in the shining.

The Cabin at the End of the World

Sick House by Jeff Strand
It's been a while since I read this but I think most of the action takes place in one house.

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.

A Head Full of Ghosts

The Red Tree (ignore the cover; it's a good book in spite of that)

The House Next Door (this is a bit of a cheat since it's, well, the house next door)

The Collected Fiction, Vol. 2: The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places

Deadfall Hotel

The Cormorant

The Harrowing

The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror (contains 2 novels, The Edge of Running Water is most like what you're looking for)

Softspoken

The Cypress House

Nyctophobia

Isis (relying on memory here, and it may not be reliable)

Apparently I like this premise, too.

The Troop takes place entirely on a very tiny island. The only thing in the island is a small house. This book is atmospheric on an extreme level.

My recommendations:

This just gave me a thought about books that take place not just solely in houses but solely anywhere such as a factory, warehouse, asylum, outside, etc. Off of that thought it also makes me wonder if there's any significance of basing a novel solely in one place.

Fourteen Days by our own Steven Jenkins takes place primarily in one house.

Here are some haunted house books for you:

Darcy Coates writes about haunted houses so here are a couple or so for you:







Another author that writes house hauntings is Ambrose Ibsen and here is a couple of books of his that you might like:





This book was a creepy ghost story by author Anthony M. Strong: