What Was That Noise? A Haunted House Reading List

The House Next Door Anne Rivers Siddons

The house next door appears to be haunted by a mysterious, all-pervasive evil, and the neighbors watch in horror as a succession of owners become engulfed by the same sinister force.

Five Mile House Karen Novak

Attempting to make a new start after her release from a mental hospital, Leslie Stone and her family settle in a small New England town where she becomes obsessed with the story of a woman accused of an unsolved nineteenth-century murder.

Homebody Orson Scott Card

After losing his daughter in a car wreck, Don Lark buries himself in the work of restoring a magnificent, long-neglected Southern mansion, but when he unearths an old tunnel in the cellar, he stirs up the demons of the house's tragic past.

The Dwelling Susie Moloney

A classic Victorian suburban house waits for its true love to realize that it is waiting for her to transform it into her home.

Hell House Richard Matheson

An aging millionaire seeking proof of life after death employs an unusual team of investigators to probe the mysteries of the supposedly haunted and evil Belasco House.

A Winter Haunting Dan Simmons

Returning to the small Illinois town of his childhood to pick up the pieces of his shattered life, and regain his confidence as a writer, Professor Dale Stewart leases an empty farmhouse of a long-dead friend, who had been murdered in the summer of 1960, but instead of finding peace and quiet, he finds that the house is haunted.

An American Haunting: The Bell Witch Brent Monahan

A witness to the only documented incident in which a spirit is credited with killing a human being, Richard Powell relates to his daughter the macabre tale of the Bell Witch that haunted the Bell family of Robertson County