🏚️ Decaying New England

Stories set in the weathered towns and salt-worn landscapes of New England, where Puritan ghosts and economic decline shape a particular regional melancholy.

The Best of H.P. Lovecraft

by H.P. Lovecraft • 1963

Forbidden knowledge in New England: scholars learn the universe was never built for human minds.

4.30

30k+

🪐 Cosmic Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction 📜 Forbidden Knowledge

The Best of H.P. Lovecraft 89%

Forbidden knowledge in New England: scholars learn the universe was never built for human minds.

by H.P. Lovecraft 1963

4.30

30k+ ratings

🪐 Cosmic Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction 📜 Forbidden Knowledge

Floating Dragon

by Peter Straub • 2003

Toxic gas and ancient evil poison a Connecticut town. Four psychic survivors share a desperate song.

3.82

13k+

🖤 Literary Horror 🏘️ Small Town Horror 🌊 New England Horror

Floating Dragon 89%

Toxic gas and ancient evil poison a Connecticut town. Four psychic survivors share a desperate song.

by Peter Straub 2003

3.82

13k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Horror 🏘️ Small Town Horror 🌊 New England Horror

The Winter of Our Discontent

by John Steinbeck • 1961

A grocery clerk of fallen New England stock discovers the cost of trading integrity for success.

4.01

55k+

🖤 Moral Decline 🏘️ Small Town Corruption 😔 Quiet Desperation

The Winter of Our Discontent 88%

A grocery clerk of fallen New England stock discovers the cost of trading integrity for success.

by John Steinbeck 1961

4.01

55k+ ratings

🖤 Moral Decline 🏘️ Small Town Corruption 😔 Quiet Desperation

We Are Always Tender With Our Dead

by Eric LaRocca • 2025

After a massacre a boy patrols unburied corpses in a town where grief becomes ritual

3.30

2k+

🖋️ Literary Horror 🐦‍⬛ Cursed Town 🩸 Body Horror

We Are Always Tender With Our Dead Summary

We Are Always Tender With Our Dead 88%

After a massacre a boy patrols unburied corpses in a town where grief becomes ritual

by Eric LaRocca 2025

3.30

2k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Horror 🐦‍⬛ Cursed Town 🩸 Body Horror

Ghost Story

by Peter Straub • 1979

Four old friends tell ghost stories to bury their past. Now the past tells its own.

3.92

84k+

📚 Literary Horror 🏘️ Small Town Horror 🤫 Shared Dark Secret

Ghost Story 88%

Four old friends tell ghost stories to bury their past. Now the past tells its own.

by Peter Straub 1979

3.92

84k+ ratings

📚 Literary Horror 🏘️ Small Town Horror 🤫 Shared Dark Secret

The Last Policeman

by Ben H. Winters • 2012

Earth has six months left. A detective investigates a suicide that looks like murder.

3.77

36k+

🕵️ Pre-Apocalypse Mystery 🔍 Obsessive Detective 🖤 Melancholy Noir

The Last Policeman 88%

Earth has six months left. A detective investigates a suicide that looks like murder.

by Ben H. Winters 2012

3.77

36k+ ratings

🕵️ Pre-Apocalypse Mystery 🔍 Obsessive Detective 🖤 Melancholy Noir

The Bog Wife

by Kay Chronister • 2024

When their father dies, five siblings must revive an ancient bargain with a sickening bog.

3.57

16k+

🪵 Folk Horror 🕸️ Gothic Decay 🍄 Eco Horror

The Bog Wife 88%

When their father dies, five siblings must revive an ancient bargain with a sickening bog.

by Kay Chronister 2024

3.57

16k+ ratings

🪵 Folk Horror 🕸️ Gothic Decay 🍄 Eco Horror

Night Passage

by Robert B. Parker • 1997

An alcoholic ex-detective takes a chief's badge in a seaside town owned by a corrupt banker.

4.12

16k+

🥃 Alcoholic Detective 🏚️ Small Town Noir 💔 Divorced Detective

Night Passage 88%

An alcoholic ex-detective takes a chief's badge in a seaside town owned by a corrupt banker.

by Robert B. Parker 1997

4.12

16k+ ratings

🥃 Alcoholic Detective 🏚️ Small Town Noir 💔 Divorced Detective

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne • 1851

A spinster shields her freed brother from a scheming cousin inside their cursed New England mansion.

3.45

43k+

🏚️ Gothic Mansion 🩸 Ancestral Curse ⛪ Puritan New England

The House of the Seven Gables 88%

A spinster shields her freed brother from a scheming cousin inside their cursed New England mansion.

by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1851

3.45

43k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Mansion 🩸 Ancestral Curse ⛪ Puritan New England

Thinner

by Richard Bachman • 1984

After an unpunished fatal accident, a Romani's touch triggers a wasting that no doctor can halt.

3.78

229k+

🦴 Body Horror 🧿 Supernatural Curse ⚖️ Guilty Protagonist

Thinner 88%

After an unpunished fatal accident, a Romani's touch triggers a wasting that no doctor can halt.

by Richard Bachman 1984

3.78

229k+ ratings

🦴 Body Horror 🧿 Supernatural Curse ⚖️ Guilty Protagonist

’Salem’s Lot

by Stephen King • 1975

A writer returns to confront his childhood haunted house, only to find the town dying room by room.

4.10

667k+

🏘️ Small Town Horror 🦇 Vampire Infestation ✍️ Writer Protagonist

’Salem’s Lot 88%

A writer returns to confront his childhood haunted house, only to find the town dying room by room.

by Stephen King 1975

4.10

667k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Horror 🦇 Vampire Infestation ✍️ Writer Protagonist

Insomnia

by Stephen King • 1994

Sleep gone, an old widower sees the strings of fate. His neighbor is being pulled.

3.84

169k+

👁️ Cosmic Horror 👴 Elderly Protagonists 💕 Late In Life Romance

Insomnia 88%

Sleep gone, an old widower sees the strings of fate. His neighbor is being pulled.

by Stephen King 1994

3.84

169k+ ratings

👁️ Cosmic Horror 👴 Elderly Protagonists 💕 Late In Life Romance

Suicide of a Superpower

by Patrick J. Buchanan • 2011

America didn't fall; it jumped. The ideas shredding it are its own choices, not enemy blows.

4.05

844

📉 American Decline 🏛️ Paleoconservatism 🏭 Economic Nationalism

Suicide of a Superpower 87%

America didn't fall; it jumped. The ideas shredding it are its own choices, not enemy blows.

by Patrick J. Buchanan 2011

4.05

844 ratings

📉 American Decline 🏛️ Paleoconservatism 🏭 Economic Nationalism

Starling House

by Alix E. Harrow • 2023

A desperate woman takes a job inside a sentient house. Below the floors, old nightmares stir.

3.78

169k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic ⛰️ Appalachian Gothic 🏠 Sentient House

Starling House 87%

A desperate woman takes a job inside a sentient house. Below the floors, old nightmares stir.

by Alix E. Harrow 2023

3.78

169k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic ⛰️ Appalachian Gothic 🏠 Sentient House

The Cuck

by Aron Beauregard • 2022

Answering a risqué ad, two friends meet a voyeuristic old man whose gaze becomes a curse.

3.38

2k+

🩸 Extreme Horror 🦴 Body Horror 🦠 Parasitic Entity

The Cuck 87%

Answering a risqué ad, two friends meet a voyeuristic old man whose gaze becomes a curse.

by Aron Beauregard 2022

3.38

2k+ ratings

🩸 Extreme Horror 🦴 Body Horror 🦠 Parasitic Entity

Los elementales

by Michael McDowell • 1981

A funeral reunites a family on the Alabama coast. The third house was meant to stay buried.

3.98

24k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🌊 Gothic Seaside 👻 Haunted House

Los elementales 87%

A funeral reunites a family on the Alabama coast. The third house was meant to stay buried.

by Michael McDowell 1981

3.98

24k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🌊 Gothic Seaside 👻 Haunted House

Vigil Harbor

by Julia Glass • 2022

A bombing survivor returns to his coastal hometown, only to find the violence waiting there.

3.66

2k+

🌡️ Climate Fiction 🔍 Small Town Secrets 👁️ Multiple Perspectives

Vigil Harbor 87%

A bombing survivor returns to his coastal hometown, only to find the violence waiting there.

by Julia Glass 2022

3.66

2k+ ratings

🌡️ Climate Fiction 🔍 Small Town Secrets 👁️ Multiple Perspectives

The Next Civil War

by Stephen Marche • 2022

One in four Americans support secession. A journalist models the scenarios that could tip the rest.

3.68

2k+

🇺🇸 American Decline ⚡ Political Polarization ⚔️ Civil Conflict

The Next Civil War 87%

One in four Americans support secession. A journalist models the scenarios that could tip the rest.

by Stephen Marche 2022

3.68

2k+ ratings

🇺🇸 American Decline ⚡ Political Polarization ⚔️ Civil Conflict

Ghostland

by Colin Dickey • 2016

America's ghost stories are a map of its hidden anxieties, buried crimes, and abandoned dreams.

3.73

11k+

🐴 American Folklore 👁️ Freudian Uncanny 🎟️ Dark Tourism

Ghostland 87%

America's ghost stories are a map of its hidden anxieties, buried crimes, and abandoned dreams.

by Colin Dickey 2016

3.73

11k+ ratings

🐴 American Folklore 👁️ Freudian Uncanny 🎟️ Dark Tourism

Cell

by Stephen King • 2006

A signal drives cell phone users insane; one father crosses the burning world to save his son.

3.65

238k+

🧟 Survival Horror 🚗 Apocalyptic Road Trip 💻 Techno-Horror

Cell 87%

A signal drives cell phone users insane; one father crosses the burning world to save his son.

by Stephen King 2006

3.65

238k+ ratings

🧟 Survival Horror 🚗 Apocalyptic Road Trip 💻 Techno-Horror

Apartment 16

by Adam L.G. Nevill • 2010

An American inherits a London flat where something behind a locked door has waited for decades.

3.20

7k+

🖼️ Haunted Paintings 🏢 Sentient Building 🌀 Descent Into Madness

Apartment 16 87%

An American inherits a London flat where something behind a locked door has waited for decades.

by Adam L.G. Nevill 2010

3.20

7k+ ratings

🖼️ Haunted Paintings 🏢 Sentient Building 🌀 Descent Into Madness

North Woods

by Daniel Mason • 2023

A Massachusetts house holds three centuries of longing: the dead stay, the forest reclaims all.

4.10

118k+

📖 Polyphonic Novel 🏠 Place As Protagonist 👻 Haunted House

North Woods 87%

A Massachusetts house holds three centuries of longing: the dead stay, the forest reclaims all.

by Daniel Mason 2023

4.10

118k+ ratings

📖 Polyphonic Novel 🏠 Place As Protagonist 👻 Haunted House

What Moves the Dead

by T. Kingfisher • 2022

A soldier returns to a decaying manor: her friends are dying, and the lake is learning.

3.84

146k+

🍄 Fungal Body Horror 🏚️ Crumbling Gothic Manor 📜 Poe Retelling

What Moves the Dead 87%

A soldier returns to a decaying manor: her friends are dying, and the lake is learning.

by T. Kingfisher 2022

3.84

146k+ ratings

🍄 Fungal Body Horror 🏚️ Crumbling Gothic Manor 📜 Poe Retelling

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson • 1962

After arsenic killed their family, two sisters guard their decaying mansion with spells and silence.

3.91

303k+

🏚️ American Gothic 🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator

We Have Always Lived in the Castle Summary

We Have Always Lived in the Castle 87%

After arsenic killed their family, two sisters guard their decaying mansion with spells and silence.

by Shirley Jackson 1962

3.91

303k+ ratings

🏚️ American Gothic 🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator

Tell Me Everything

by Elizabeth Strout • 2024

In Maine, a lawyer walks with a writer, trading stories, as a disappearance tests their town.

3.98

102k+

🏘️ Small Town Maine 🔗 Interconnected Lives 🕰️ Aging And Loneliness

Tell Me Everything 87%

In Maine, a lawyer walks with a writer, trading stories, as a disappearance tests their town.

by Elizabeth Strout 2024

3.98

102k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Maine 🔗 Interconnected Lives 🕰️ Aging And Loneliness

The Drowning Girl

by Caitlín R. Kiernan • 2012

A schizophrenic painter and her girlfriend shelter a roadside ghost who sings them toward drowning.

3.70

6k+

🖋️ Literary Horror 🏚️ Gothic New England 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

The Drowning Girl 87%

A schizophrenic painter and her girlfriend shelter a roadside ghost who sings them toward drowning.

by Caitlín R. Kiernan 2012

3.70

6k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Horror 🏚️ Gothic New England 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

The Amulet

by Michael McDowell • 1979

A cursed amulet circulates through a dying Alabama factory town, leaving violent death in its wake.

3.92

3k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🏘️ Small Town Horror 💎 Cursed Object

The Amulet 87%

A cursed amulet circulates through a dying Alabama factory town, leaving violent death in its wake.

by Michael McDowell 1979

3.92

3k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🏘️ Small Town Horror 💎 Cursed Object

The Little Stranger

by Sarah Waters • 2009

A country doctor called to a decaying manor finds the house destroying the family from within.

3.57

60k+

🏚️ Haunted House 🌀 Unreliable Narrator ⚔️ Class Anxiety

The Little Stranger 87%

A country doctor called to a decaying manor finds the house destroying the family from within.

by Sarah Waters 2009

3.57

60k+ ratings

🏚️ Haunted House 🌀 Unreliable Narrator ⚔️ Class Anxiety

The Fall of the House of Usher

by Edgar Allan Poe • 1839

Summoned to a decaying mansion, a visitor finds friend and house bound together in shared madness.

3.84

90k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🏚️ Decaying Mansion 🏰 Isolated Setting

The Fall of the House of Usher 87%

Summoned to a decaying mansion, a visitor finds friend and house bound together in shared madness.

by Edgar Allan Poe 1839

3.84

90k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🏚️ Decaying Mansion 🏰 Isolated Setting

Old Country

by Matt Query • 2022

A veteran and his wife must follow cruel seasonal rituals to survive their new Idaho ranch.

3.67

9k+

🍂 Seasonal Horror 💔 Unresolved Guilt 🏚️ Haunted Land

Old Country 87%

A veteran and his wife must follow cruel seasonal rituals to survive their new Idaho ranch.

by Matt Query 2022

3.67

9k+ ratings

🍂 Seasonal Horror 💔 Unresolved Guilt 🏚️ Haunted Land

In the Country of Last Things. by Paul Auster

by Paul Auster • 1987

Anna searches a nameless, crumbling city for her brother while hunger and forgetting consume all.

3.91

16k+

✉️ Epistolary Dystopia 🏚️ Collapsing City 🤝 Found Family

In the Country of Last Things. by Paul Auster Summary

In the Country of Last Things. by Paul Auster 87%

Anna searches a nameless, crumbling city for her brother while hunger and forgetting consume all.

by Paul Auster 1987

3.91

16k+ ratings

✉️ Epistolary Dystopia 🏚️ Collapsing City 🤝 Found Family

The Devil Crept In

by Ania Ahlborn • 2017

His cousin vanishes in the woods; the boy who returns is not the one who left.

3.65

12k+

🏚️ Small-Town Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🤥 Unreliable Narrator

The Devil Crept In 87%

His cousin vanishes in the woods; the boy who returns is not the one who left.

by Ania Ahlborn 2017

3.65

12k+ ratings

🏚️ Small-Town Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🤥 Unreliable Narrator

Bad Dreams in the Night

by Adam Ellis • 2024

A person's nightmares pull them into a decaying house, where a family curse frays sanity.

4.19

8k+

🏚️ Haunted House Horror 🔮 Family Curse 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

Bad Dreams in the Night 87%

A person's nightmares pull them into a decaying house, where a family curse frays sanity.

by Adam Ellis 2024

4.19

8k+ ratings

🏚️ Haunted House Horror 🔮 Family Curse 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

Crossing to Safety

by Wallace Stegner • 1987

Two couples, one lifelong friendship, tested by ambition, illness, and a woman's relentless control.

4.16

52k+

🫂 Couple Friendship 📚 Academic Life ⏳ Lifelong Friendship

Crossing to Safety 87%

Two couples, one lifelong friendship, tested by ambition, illness, and a woman's relentless control.

by Wallace Stegner 1987

4.16

52k+ ratings

🫂 Couple Friendship 📚 Academic Life ⏳ Lifelong Friendship

When Darkness Loves Us

by Elizabeth Engstrom • 1985

Trapped in caverns beneath her farm, a teenage bride raises a son born to the dark.

4.01

2k+

🕳️ Gothic Underground 🦴 Body Horror 🌑 Feral Child

When Darkness Loves Us 87%

Trapped in caverns beneath her farm, a teenage bride raises a son born to the dark.

by Elizabeth Engstrom 1985

4.01

2k+ ratings

🕳️ Gothic Underground 🦴 Body Horror 🌑 Feral Child

The Children

by Melissa Albert • 2026

Raised inside their mother's fantasy novels, two siblings inherit her haunting and her hunger.

3.54

7k+

🖤 Gothic Family Curse 📖 Meta Horror Fiction 👥 Sibling Trauma Bond

The Children 87%

Raised inside their mother's fantasy novels, two siblings inherit her haunting and her hunger.

by Melissa Albert 2026

3.54

7k+ ratings

🖤 Gothic Family Curse 📖 Meta Horror Fiction 👥 Sibling Trauma Bond

Gwen, in Green

by Hugh Zachary • 1974

A gentle wife on a ravaged island becomes the bloody instrument of the land's revenge.

3.33

460

🪴 Ecological Horror 🩸 Carnivorous Plants 🏝️ Isolated Island

Gwen, in Green 87%

A gentle wife on a ravaged island becomes the bloody instrument of the land's revenge.

by Hugh Zachary 1974

3.33

460 ratings

🪴 Ecological Horror 🩸 Carnivorous Plants 🏝️ Isolated Island

And the Sea Called Her Name

by Joe Hart • 2015

The sea took her mother. Now his wife is vanishing, and the tide is pulling her under.

3.73

429

🌀 Cosmic Horror 🌊 Coastal Gothic 💔 Doomed Marriage

And the Sea Called Her Name 87%

The sea took her mother. Now his wife is vanishing, and the tide is pulling her under.

by Joe Hart 2015

3.73

429 ratings

🌀 Cosmic Horror 🌊 Coastal Gothic 💔 Doomed Marriage

North American Lake Monsters

by Nathan Ballingrud • 2013

Werewolves on a construction site, an angel in a broken home: the supernatural mirrors human grief.

3.95

7k+

🖤 Literary Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction 🔧 Working Class Horror

North American Lake Monsters 87%

Werewolves on a construction site, an angel in a broken home: the supernatural mirrors human grief.

by Nathan Ballingrud 2013

3.95

7k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction 🔧 Working Class Horror

Beneath the Poet’s House

by Christa Carmen • 2024

A widow's historic house hides séances, ghosts, and a writer whose muses never survive.

3.79

2k+

🏚️ Modern Gothic 👻 Haunted House 📚 Literary Horror

Beneath the Poet’s House 86%

A widow's historic house hides séances, ghosts, and a writer whose muses never survive.

by Christa Carmen 2024

3.79

2k+ ratings

🏚️ Modern Gothic 👻 Haunted House 📚 Literary Horror

Hatchet Island

by Paul Doiron • 2022

A gunshot from a remote seabird sanctuary sends a game warden searching for a missing director.

4.05

5k+

🌿 Eco-Thriller 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 💰 Wealthy Cover-Up

Hatchet Island 86%

A gunshot from a remote seabird sanctuary sends a game warden searching for a missing director.

by Paul Doiron 2022

4.05

5k+ ratings

🌿 Eco-Thriller 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 💰 Wealthy Cover-Up

The River Is Waiting

by Wally Lamb • 2025

After a morning of hidden drinking, a father reverses over his toddler son.

4.28

203k+

🔒 Prison Novel ⚖️ Corrupt Institution 😢 Parental Grief

The River Is Waiting 86%

After a morning of hidden drinking, a father reverses over his toddler son.

by Wally Lamb 2025

4.28

203k+ ratings

🔒 Prison Novel ⚖️ Corrupt Institution 😢 Parental Grief

The Toll

by Cherie Priest • 2019

A honeymooner loses his wife on a swamp bridge that the locals have appeased for generations.

3.41

4k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🔄 Cyclical Curse 👁️ Supernatural Predator

The Toll 86%

A honeymooner loses his wife on a swamp bridge that the locals have appeased for generations.

by Cherie Priest 2019

3.41

4k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🔄 Cyclical Curse 👁️ Supernatural Predator

The Left Behind

by Robert Wuthnow • 2018

Rural America's anger is grief: not for lost jobs, but for communities where belonging meant duty.

3.58

650

🏡 Rural America 😤 Cultural Resentment 🏙️ Urban Rural Divide

The Left Behind 86%

Rural America's anger is grief: not for lost jobs, but for communities where belonging meant duty.

by Robert Wuthnow 2018

3.58

650 ratings

🏡 Rural America 😤 Cultural Resentment 🏙️ Urban Rural Divide

Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

by Truman Capote • 1948

At a decaying Southern mansion, an orphan finds silence and a cousin who mirrors his strangeness.

3.74

18k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🕯️ Decaying Mansion

Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote Summary

Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote 86%

At a decaying Southern mansion, an orphan finds silence and a cousin who mirrors his strangeness.

by Truman Capote 1948

3.74

18k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🕯️ Decaying Mansion

The Hunger

by Alma Katsu • 2018

The Donner Party cuts through the mountains. By the first snow, something is feeding on them.

3.59

36k+

🏜️ Frontier Horror ❄️ Snowbound Isolation 💀 Ancestral Curse

The Hunger 86%

The Donner Party cuts through the mountains. By the first snow, something is feeding on them.

by Alma Katsu 2018

3.59

36k+ ratings

🏜️ Frontier Horror ❄️ Snowbound Isolation 💀 Ancestral Curse

The Dead Husband

by Carter Wilson • 2021

A widow returns to her childhood home, and her novel risks uncovering a deadly family secret.

3.67

2k+

🏚️ Domestic Thriller 🧠 Psychological Suspense ✍️ Writer Protagonist

The Dead Husband 86%

A widow returns to her childhood home, and her novel risks uncovering a deadly family secret.

by Carter Wilson 2021

3.67

2k+ ratings

🏚️ Domestic Thriller 🧠 Psychological Suspense ✍️ Writer Protagonist

American Supernatural Tales

by S.T. Joshi • 2007

A journey through two centuries of American supernatural fiction: Gothic shadows to cosmic dread.

4.01

1k+

🏚️ American Gothic 🌌 Cosmic Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction

American Supernatural Tales 86%

A journey through two centuries of American supernatural fiction: Gothic shadows to cosmic dread.

by S.T. Joshi 2007

4.01

1k+ ratings

🏚️ American Gothic 🌌 Cosmic Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction

Whistle

by Linwood Barclay • 2025

Her son's toy trains kill, and the creature behind them demands she take its place.

3.91

10k+

🖤 Supernatural Horror 🚂 Cursed Toys 🏚️ Small Town Horror

Whistle 86%

Her son's toy trains kill, and the creature behind them demands she take its place.

by Linwood Barclay 2025

3.91

10k+ ratings

🖤 Supernatural Horror 🚂 Cursed Toys 🏚️ Small Town Horror

Widow's Point

by Richard Chizmar • 2025

A ghost-hunting crew locks into Widow's Point lighthouse, where the dead have never stopped waiting.

3.76

5k+

🦑 Cosmic Horror 📜 Epistolary Horror 👤 Possession

Widow's Point 86%

A ghost-hunting crew locks into Widow's Point lighthouse, where the dead have never stopped waiting.

by Richard Chizmar 2025

3.76

5k+ ratings

🦑 Cosmic Horror 📜 Epistolary Horror 👤 Possession

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