Suspiciously Specific #8: haunted-house-novels, but the house isn't your grandma's gothic mansion...
- The Fiction Fox
- Oct 23
- 3 min read
Updated: 4 days ago
Genre: literary fiction
Pagecount: 304 pages
The haunted house is a modern-day appartment...
Max didn’t believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, he watches his girlfriend Hannah lost in grief in the flat they shared and begins to realise how much of her life was invisible to him.
Genre: sci-fi novella Pagecount: 115 pages
The haunted house is a fully-automated futuristic mansion, and the "ghost" haunting it is an AI...
The magnum-opus of a tech-genius architect - a fully automated house, run by an animate AI that's incorporated in its every wall - has stood empty for a year, following the death of its creator. The house proceeds as though nothing has changed, literally haunted by its own AI-presence that hasn't realised the abcense of its creator yet, but isolated from outside interferrence. Until one day, when the house makes a call to law-enforcement: there's a dead body inside the house, and the death needs investigation...
Genre: horror, comedy
Pagecount: 248 pages
The haunted house is a (knock-off) IKEA-store...
At the request of their manager, three employees of Orsk Cleveland (a large budget-furniture-store, obviously inspired by IKEA), stay overnight in order to investigate the strange sights, sounds and occurances that seem to suggest the store might be haunted.
Genre: horror novella
Pagecount: 118 pages
The haunted house is fully submerged at the bottom of a lake...
A young couple take their cano out for a first date on a lake, only to find a fully intact house submerged just under the water.
Genre: literary fiction
Pagecount: 304 pages
The house's attic is haunted by the ghost of a childrens book author...
A young mother is recovering from giving birth to her first child and navigating post-partum depression, sickness ánd the guilt over her unfinished dissertation, only to find herself haunted by the ghost of the quixotic children’s book writer Margaret Wise Brown - the subject of her dissertation.
Genre: literary fiction, magical realism
Pagecount: 304 pages
The "haunted house" is a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk.
In 1977, a woman grieving the loss of her brother ferries ill-faited passengers in her haunted car across the streets of Washington, DC. Alongside one of her passenger, she looks into the literal and spiritual ghosts that haunt their community.
Genre: sci-fi horror
Pagecount: 343 pages
The haunted house is a space-ship...
As part of a salvage mission, a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury space-cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended.
Genre: Horror, Novella
Pagecount: 131 pages
The haunted house is a trailor on an Navajo reservation, that's somehow bigger at night than it is at day.
Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees the ghost of a person that cannot be there, walking beside him. Over the course of a few nights, the boy tries to map out his house in an effort that puts his little brother in the worst danger, and puts him in the position to save them . . . at terrible cost.
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Pagecount: 362 pages
The house is haunted, not by humans, but friendly ghost-animals...
A Lipan Apache teen with the ability to raise the ghosts of animals (passed down through generations of her maternal grandmothers line), must use her wits and talents to solve the murder of her beloved cousin in a small-town that wants no prying eyes.
Genre: middle-grade horror
Pagecount: 277 pages
The attic is haunted, but it's a metaphor for chronic illness instead.
After her family has just moved into a new house, 12-year old Violet has to deal with not only the creepiness of her new house, but the ongoing changes in her own health (and disbelieve of others) as well.
Genre: horror
Pagecount: 343 pages
The house is very haunted, but we're used to it and the ghosts are kind of helpful...
An elderly woman refuses to leave her house, despite the violent hauntings that take place every September, like clockwork...
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