The King
The haunted Colorado hotel at the center of Jack Torrance’s unraveling.
Eleanor joins a psychic study in this decidedly “not sane” house.
Hill House
The vampire being interviewed in Anne Rice’s breakout debut.
Louis (Louis de Pointe du Lac)
Grady Hendrix’s novel about survivors of slasher massacres in group therapy.
Final Girls Support Group
Author most associated with the Cthulhu Mythos.
H.P. Lovecraft
King’s small-town vampire novel often shortened to a possessive place name.
'Salem's Lot (or Jerusalem's Lot)
Poe’s tale of a crumbling estate and its doomed siblings.
The Fall of the House of Usher
Swedish novel where bullied Oskar befriends a child vampire.
Let the Right One In
Home-invasion apocalypse dilemma at a remote cabin, by Paul Tremblay.
Cabin at the End of the World
Lovecraft’s witch-haunted Massachusetts town that later lent its name to a famous asylum in comics.
Arkham
The ancient, shapeshifting entity menacing Derry—famously seen as a clown.
Pennywise / It
The Cornish estate presided over by Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca.
Manderley
Koji Suzuki’s novel about a cursed videotape that kills viewers in seven days.
Catriona Ward’s twisty tale set near a forest, a missing child, and a watchful cat.
The Last House on Needless Street
The first Southern Reach novel about “Area X.”
Annihilation
This fictional Maine town anchors Cujo, The Dead Zone, and Needful Things.
Castle Rock
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s novel of spores, secrets, and a rotting Mexican manor.
Mexican Gothic
Stephen Graham Jones’s novel of an elk hunt’s revenge on four friends.
The Only Good Indians
T. Kingfisher’s Poe remix in which fungi creep around the Ushers.
What Moves the Dead
John Langan’s novel of grief, fish tales, and something very old in the water.
The Fisherman
King’s 1985 collection that includes the novella “The Mist.”
Skeleton Crew
The country house where Henry James’s unnamed governess tends two children.
Bly Manor
Clive Barker’s novella of a puzzle box and the Cenobites it summons.
Danielewski’s experimental novel about a house bigger on the inside.
Story where a meteor brings a hue no one can quite name, poisoning farm and family.
Color Out of Space