Books like “Ghost Eaters”

What to read after “Ghost Eaters” by Clay McLeod Chapman: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
The House Next Door
Anne Rivers Siddons · 1978
Similar atmosphere: “Southern Gothic” and “Creeping Dread”
- Southern Gothic
- Creeping Dread
A new house is built beside the Kennedys in their quiet Atlanta neighbourhood. Over two years the families who move in are destroyed by scandal and violence, and even visitors are touched. Colquitt begins to believe the house itself is malevolent, and decides to warn the world.
2
The Spite House
Johnny Compton · 2023
Similar atmosphere: “Southern Gothic” and “Creeping Dread”
Eric Ross is on the run with his two daughters, taking whatever work he can find. He answers an ad offering a large sum to anyone who will stay in the Masson House, a spite house in Texas said to be the state's most haunted, and record what happens there. The house may also hold answers about his family.
3
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones · 2020
Similar atmosphere: “Body Horror” and “Creeping Dread”
Years ago four Blackfeet men shot an elk on land they had no right to hunt. Now something is stalking them across the reservation, taking them one by one, in a story about grief, guilt and the debts that follow a person home.
4
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Grady Hendrix · 2020
Similar atmosphere: “Southern Gothic” and “Creeping Dread”
- Southern Gothic
- Creeping Dread
Patricia, a suburban housewife in 1990s Charleston, joins a true-crime book club that becomes the only excitement in her week. When a new neighbour is suspected of preying on local children, the women try to convince a town that would rather not listen, and then take matters into their own hands.
5
What Moves the Dead
T. Kingfisher · 2022
Similar atmosphere: “Body Horror” and “Creeping Dread”
- Body Horror
- Creeping Dread
Alex Easton travels to the Ushers' decaying manor to see a childhood friend who is dying. Madeline's body is changing in ways the doctors cannot explain, down to the hairs on her arms, the local hares behave strangely, and the tarn beside the house seems to be watching.
6
The Reformatory
Tananarive Due · 2023
Similar atmosphere: “Southern Gothic” and “Creeping Dread”
Florida, 1950. Twelve-year-old Robert is sent to a brutal reform school after a scuffle with a white teenager. He can see ghosts, including the boys who died there, and the warden wants to use that ability. Outside, his sister works with a lawyer to bring him home.
7
The Elementals
Michael McDowell · 1981
Similar atmosphere: “Southern Gothic” and “Creeping Dread”
- Southern Gothic
- Creeping Dread
Two related families spend a summer at Beldame, a lonely stretch of Alabama coast where three Victorian houses face the Gulf. The third house is slowly drowning in sand, and something inside it has been waiting for the children since they were small.
8
The Troop
Nick Cutter · 2014
Similar atmosphere: “Body Horror” and “Creeping Dread”
- Body Horror
- Creeping Dread
Five boys and their scoutmaster camp on a remote island for a weekend. A starving stranger arrives by boat, carrying a parasite that turns the body against itself. As the infection spreads, the small group's most immediate danger becomes one of the boys themselves.
9
Ghost Story
Peter Straub · 1979
Similar atmosphere: “Creeping Dread”
- Ghost Story
- Creeping Dread
Four elderly friends in a small New York town have spent a lifetime telling each other ghost stories at their club. Now something from a winter forty years earlier, a death they all helped to hide, has returned to collect the debt.
10
The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty · 1971
Similar atmosphere: “Body Horror” and “Creeping Dread”
- Body Horror
- Creeping Dread
An actress's young daughter falls ill with symptoms no doctor can explain, and the doctors eventually suggest a religious explanation. A priest trained in exorcism is asked to help, and he must confront both the thing in the room and his own wavering faith.
11
Heart-Shaped Box
Joe Hill · 2007
Similar atmosphere: “Creeping Dread”
- Ghost Story
- Creeping Dread
Aging rock star Judas Coyne collects macabre curiosities. When he buys a haunted suit online, the dead man tied to it begins to stalk him and the women in his life. To survive, Jude must confront the violence in his own past. A supernatural horror about guilt and revenge.
12
Hell House
Richard Matheson · 1971
Similar atmosphere: “Creeping Dread”
- Ghost Story
- Creeping Dread
A dying millionaire funds an expedition to the notorious Belasco House, a mansion in Maine where every previous attempt to study its hauntings ended badly. The group includes a physicist, a medium and two survivors, and the house begins to work on their most private fears.