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A frantic, found-footage descent into madness fueled by internet-age hubris and supernatural dread. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The Last Days of Jack Sparks.
- dread-soaked
- chaotic
- unsettling
- claustrophobic
- 01
Jay's Journal
Beatrice Sparks
A sensational, diary-format descent into teenage alienation, occult obsession, and inevitable tragedy.
- 02
How to Sell a Haunted House
Grady Hendrix
A darkly funny, puppet-infested nightmare about the horrors of real estate, grief, and the siblings you can't escape.
- 03
The Devil You Know
Mike Carey
A gritty, sarcastic descent into a haunted London where the ghosts are dangerous but the living are worse.
- 04
The Twisted Ones
T. Kingfisher
A deeply unsettling descent into backwoods terror, anchored by a fiercely relatable narrator and her very good dog.
- 05
The Burning Girls
C. J. Tudor
A dread-soaked descent into a claustrophobic village where the past refuses to stay buried.
- 06
Dead Silence
S.A. Barnes
A claustrophobic, dread-soaked descent into madness aboard a derelict luxury spaceliner where the ghosts of the past refuse to stay dead.
- 07
The Silent Companions
Laura Purcell
A masterclass in mounting dread that will make you look twice at the shadows in your own home.
- 08
Deadline
Mira Grant
A grief-fueled, adrenaline-spiked race against a corrupt system where the truth is deadlier than the infected.
- 09
Whispers Underground
Ben Aaronovitch
A wry, subterranean police procedural where dry British bureaucracy meets ancient, underground magic.
- 10
#MurderTrending
Gretchen McNeil
A campy, blood-soaked thrill ride that skewers internet culture and reality TV with the gleeful energy of a B-movie slasher.
- 11
Need
Joelle Charbonneau
A dread-soaked young adult thriller that traps its reader in an escalating web of digital promises and dangerous consequences.
- 12
The devil's detective
Simon Kurt Unsworth
A grim, supernatural noir where a weary investigator must navigate the ultimate corrupt bureaucracy to solve an escalating string of murders.
