Legend says a demonic hound haunts the Baskerville family on the Dartmoor moors. Holmes and Watson look into the death of Sir Charles and protect his heir from whatever stalks the fog-bound landscape.
Too clever for Victorian society and blamed when three people die, Charlotte Holmes flees to London and takes the name Sherlock Holmes. With a kind widow, a police inspector and a man who loves her, she works the case while hiding who she really is.
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.
On the Yorkshire moors in 1674, Mercy Booth runs her father's sheep farm beside an old path used to carry the dead. Coins vanish, a shadow follows her through the fog, and a quiet stranger arrives looking for work. The house and the moor seem to hold a buried wrong.
In 1893 the newly widowed Cora Seaborne moves to a village on the Essex marshes, drawn there by reports of a winged serpent. A keen amateur naturalist, she befriends the local vicar, whose faith is tested as the rumours spread, while the doubtful and the devout hunt for signs. A slow, atmospheric story of belief and desire.
Mary Jekyll, orphaned and poor, sets out to find her father's old colleague, the missing Doctor Hyde. Instead she gathers a family of young women who are the daughters or creations of famous scientists, from Moreau and Jekyll to Rappaccini. Together they investigate a series of murders in Victorian London.
A snowstorm cuts off a small Dartmoor village, where a séance predicts the murder of a retired sea captain. When the prediction comes true, Emily Trefusis, engaged to the victim's nephew, starts asking the questions the police have missed.
Chloe arrives in a Suffolk village on the edge of Mockbeggar Woods to prepare the old church of Small Angels for her wedding. The villagers are uneasy, her fiancé is distant, and the woods at the edge of the village are stirring. Something that was banished long ago is waking, and the wedding, the village and Chloe are all in its path.
A young London lawyer is sent to a remote house to sort the papers of a dead client. In the town nearby he meets an unfriendly silence, a sea mist that cuts him off, and a woman dressed in black whose appearances are followed by the deaths of children.
After her mother's death, Mary Yellan goes to live with her aunt at Jamaica Inn on the bleak Bodmin Moor. Her uncle keeps the inn closed to travellers and answers to dangerous men from the coast. Mary must work out what her one remaining family is hiding before the moor and its secrets close over her.
A collection of Edith Wharton's ghost stories, written across her career and gathered in one volume. Old houses, railway carriages and country estates hold grudges, apparitions return with unfinished business, and the supernatural creeps into the lives of people who insist they do not believe in it.
In post-war England, a country doctor is drawn into the fading life of a once-grand family living in a decaying mansion. Strange events unsettle the house and its residents, and suspicion falls in every direction. An unnerving story about class, decline and things that may not be ghosts.
In the village of King's Abbot, the wealthy Roger Ackroyd is stabbed hours after learning a secret. Hercule Poirot, retired nearby to grow marrows, is drawn into the case, where everyone, including the narrator, seems to be telling less than the whole truth.
In 1873 Ohio, Sethe lives in a house still haunted by the daughter she lost. When a young woman who calls herself Beloved appears at the door, the family's buried past, and the cruelty of slavery, returns to claim what it is owed.
Twin sisters from a small Southern town where everyone is light-skinned choose opposite lives: one returns to raise a Black daughter, the other passes as white and hides her past. Across the decades, their daughters' paths unexpectedly cross.
Signa has been passed between guardians who wanted her inheritance, and death has followed her all her life. At Thorn Grove she finds a family in mourning and a mother's ghost who claims she was poisoned. To find the killer Signa works with Death himself, a shadow she has known since childhood and now cannot stop wanting.
A young man named Tatsuya arrives in a mountain village that still lives under the curse of eight murdered samurai and a hidden treasure. When poisonings and deaths follow him, Detective Kosuke Kindaichi investigates the village's old feuds and the truth behind the legend.
Sherlock Holmes is asked to guard a London art dealer who is being followed, and the case opens onto two mysteries: a gang known as the House of Silk, and a crime so dangerous that Watson can only set it down years later, in a final untold adventure.
When Judith Potts hears a shot while swimming in the Thames near her home, the police see nothing strange. She teams up with a dog walker and a vicar's wife to investigate, and the three amateur sleuths begin to uncover the town's secrets.
On New Year's Eve, thirteen-year-old Rebecca Shaw goes missing while walking with her parents near a village on the moors, and the search does not end. Over thirteen years the novel follows the villagers, the seasons and the wildlife around them as ordinary life continues beside an unresolved absence.
A young widow is sent to her late husband's crumbling estate and finds an eerie painted wooden figure that seems to move on its own. As the figures multiply, she begins to doubt her own mind. A gothic horror set in the English countryside, told through an asylum diary.
A young governess takes charge of two children at a remote country house and soon notices figures watching from the grounds and the tower. She becomes convinced the children are being influenced by something from beyond the grave, though no one else confirms what she sees.
After her father's death, Riley returns to their North Carolina house to settle his estate. Sorting through his papers, she finds evidence that her older sister, long believed to have killed herself as a teenager, may be alive and living under another name.
Editor Susan Ryeland receives the manuscript of the ninth Alan Conway mystery, but the last chapters are missing and the author is dead. As she reads the country-house puzzle inside the book, the writer's real quarrels and the missing pages draw her into a case of her own.
Start with “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, “A Study in Scarlet Women”, “Ghost Story”: they are the closest to “The Moor” in tropes and mood. Under each book in the list you will see what exactly it has in common.
How are similar books chosen?
We compare tropes (for “The Moor” these are Windswept Moors, Eccentric Detective, Ghost Story), genre, plot, era and tone. It is not “readers also bought”; it is similarity in the content itself.
Are there recent books in this list?
Yes. Among the newer ones are “A Study in Scarlet Women”, “The Coffin Path”, “The Essex Serpent”. Switch the “Modern” filter to keep only books from 2000 onward.
