If you loved
Books like Julia
A chilling exploration of maternal grief wrapped in a suffocating supernatural haunting. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Julia.
- dread-soaked
- claustrophobic
- sorrowful
- chilling
- 01
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James · 2003
A masterclass in creeping dread where every shadow hides a question and the greatest monster might be the narrator's own mind.
- 02
Ghost story
Peter Straub
A masterclass in creeping dread where the sins of the past slowly suffocate a snowbound town.
- 03
The Hellfire Club
Peter Straub
A dread-soaked descent into paranoia where literary obsessions manifest as real-world terror.
- 04
A Winter Haunting
Simmons · 2002
A claustrophobic, snow-muffled descent into a broken man's guilt-ridden psyche, where childhood ghosts refuse to stay buried.
- 05
Down a Dark Hall
Lois Duncan · 1974
A claustrophobic gothic mystery that wraps you in the suffocating dread of an isolated boarding school harboring dark, supernatural secrets.
- 06
The Silent Companions
Laura Purcell
A masterclass in mounting dread that will make you look twice at the shadows in your own home.
- 07
Among the Dolls
William Sleator
A shadowy, claustrophobic descent into a miniature nightmare where childhood frustrations take on a terrifying life of their own.
- 08
Lisey's Story
Stephen King · 2006
A haunting, deeply intimate descent into the secret language of a marriage and the terrifying monsters that hide in the shadows of grief.
- 09
A Head Full of Ghosts: A Novel
Paul Tremblay
A claustrophobic, dread-soaked descent into family tragedy that weaponizes the ambiguity between psychological collapse and supernatural horror.
- 10
The woman in black
Susan Hill
A masterclass in creeping dread that wraps you in a thick, suffocating fog of isolation and inescapable tragedy.
- 11
The Burning Girls
C. J. Tudor
A dread-soaked descent into a claustrophobic village where the past refuses to stay buried.
- 12
Children of the night
Dan Simmons · 1999
A chilling collision of modern medical science and ancient, blood-soaked folklore set against the bleak backdrop of post-Cold War Eastern Europe.
