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The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson 1959 · Horror The refined, quiet classic of haunted-house fiction that this book builds on.
House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski 2000 · Horror A far stranger, more experimental take on a house that behaves impossibly.
Misery Stephen King 1987 · Horror Also King, also isolation and a writer in danger, but with a human threat.