Tropes Haunted Setting

Haunted Setting

A place soaked in dread. Something terrible happened here. And it hasn't finished happening.

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    Stay Buried

    Jennifer McMahon · Horror

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Children on the Hill comes a queer folk horror in which a woman must confront decades of secrecy and…

    gothic atmosphere · trauma recovery · haunted setting · revenge plot

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Spoiled Milk

    Avery Curran · Horror

    “The haunted lesbian boarding school horror show we always wanted.

    dark academia · gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · found family · paranormal romance

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Our Wives Under the Sea

    Julia Armfield · Horror

    Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe.

    gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · psychological thriller

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Rebecca

    Daphne du Maurier · Horror

    With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs.

    gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · haunted setting · second chance romance · trauma recovery

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    The Housemaid

    Freida McFadden · Horror

    Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom.

    psychological thriller · haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · trauma recovery

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    We Used to Live Here

    Marcus Kliewer · Horror

    As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can’t believe the killer deal they’ve just gotten on an old house in a picturesque…

    haunted setting · psychological thriller · closed circle

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    On Sundays She Picked Flowers

    Yah Yah Scholfield · Horror

    “A ferociously talented writer. Scholfield writes with insight, beauty, and the wildness of real art.” —Victor LaValle, author of Lone Women In this…

    gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · psychological thriller · survival

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    And the Sea Gave Up the Dead

    William Friend · Horror

    For fans of Jennifer Thorne's Diavola and We Have Always Lived in the Castle comes William Friend's latest stunning novel where grief, mystery, and…

    gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · trauma recovery · ghosts · small town

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    The Winter Folk

    Jen Julian · Horror

    A woman returns to the mysterious lodge in the woods where she once worked, and to the inscrutable creature that bound her there, in this haunting…

    gothic atmosphere · slow burn · haunted setting · paranormal romance · trauma recovery

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    These Walls Remember

    Del Sandeen · Horror

    When two estranged sisters inherit a home possessed by the horrors of its dark past, they must work together to survive in this viscerally chilling…

    gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · ghosts · found family · psychological thriller

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    Phantasma

    Kaylie Smith · Fantasy

    Welcome to Phantasma. There are only two rules to the game. Stay alive. And don’t fall in love. When Ophelia’s sister disappears, there is only one…

    enemies to lovers · dark academia · haunted setting · forbidden romance · quest · twist ending

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit