37 Books like The Silver Eyes

Where He Can't Find You

by Darcy Coates

Something beneath this town has been taking people for a century. Now it has her sister.

3.87

19k+

🏘️ Small Town Horror 👥 Teen Friend Group 🚨 Rescue Mission 🔍 Missing Sister 🕯️ Contemporary Gothic

Where He Can't Find You 93%

Something beneath this town has been taking people for a century. Now it has her sister.

by Darcy Coates 2023

3.87

19k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Horror 👥 Teen Friend Group 🚨 Rescue Mission 🔍 Missing Sister 🕯️ Contemporary Gothic

Mister Magic

by Kiersten White • 2023

She remembers nothing of the children's show she starred in. The desert reunion has not forgotten.

3.55

30k+

📺 Haunted Media 🧠 Repressed Memories 👫 Childhood Reunion 💛 Found Family 💔 Sibling Grief

Mister Magic 93%

She remembers nothing of the children's show she starred in. The desert reunion has not forgotten.

by Kiersten White 2023

3.55

30k+ ratings

📺 Haunted Media 🧠 Repressed Memories 👫 Childhood Reunion 💛 Found Family 💔 Sibling Grief

Penpal

by Dathan Auerbach • 2012

A classroom balloon release yields only blurry photos of a boy, each showing him being watched.

3.86

63k+

👹 Creepypasta 👁️ Nosleep Horror 📸 Eerie Photographs 🔍 Missing Friend 🕵️ Childhood Stalker

Penpal 93%

A classroom balloon release yields only blurry photos of a boy, each showing him being watched.

by Dathan Auerbach 2012

3.86

63k+ ratings

👹 Creepypasta 👁️ Nosleep Horror 📸 Eerie Photographs 🔍 Missing Friend 🕵️ Childhood Stalker

Daphne

by Josh Malerman • 2022

Think of her, you die. A basketball star with severe anxiety can't control her thoughts.

3.37

6k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🌃 Urban Legend 😰 Anxiety As Horror 💀 Fear Made Flesh 🏚️ Small-Town Secrets

Daphne 92%

Think of her, you die. A basketball star with severe anxiety can't control her thoughts.

by Josh Malerman 2022

3.37

6k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🌃 Urban Legend 😰 Anxiety As Horror 💀 Fear Made Flesh 🏚️ Small-Town Secrets

El instituto

by Stephen King • 2019

A boy genius is kidnapped to an institute that weaponizes psychic children. No one leaves alive.

4.19

348k+

🧠 Psychic Children 🕵️ Government Conspiracy 🔒 Child Prisoners 🤝 Found Family 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

El instituto 92%

A boy genius is kidnapped to an institute that weaponizes psychic children. No one leaves alive.

by Stephen King 2019

4.19

348k+ ratings

🧠 Psychic Children 🕵️ Government Conspiracy 🔒 Child Prisoners 🤝 Found Family 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

All Hallows

by Christopher Golden • 2023

When lost children beg for help on Halloween, a neighborhood learns what hides in the dark.

3.52

13k+

🌲 Suburban Folk Horror 🎃 Halloween Horror 🏘️ Haunted Neighborhood 😱 Children In Peril 🔒 Family Secrets

All Hallows 92%

When lost children beg for help on Halloween, a neighborhood learns what hides in the dark.

by Christopher Golden 2023

3.52

13k+ ratings

🌲 Suburban Folk Horror 🎃 Halloween Horror 🏘️ Haunted Neighborhood 😱 Children In Peril 🔒 Family Secrets

The New Girl

by R.L. Stine • 1989

Everyone on Fear Street says the new girl is dead, but Cory has kissed her.

3.57

10k+

🔪 High School Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🖤 Obsessive Love 🔍 Dead Girl Mystery 👯 Sister Rivalry

The New Girl 92%

Everyone on Fear Street says the new girl is dead, but Cory has kissed her.

by R.L. Stine 1989

3.57

10k+ ratings

🔪 High School Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🖤 Obsessive Love 🔍 Dead Girl Mystery 👯 Sister Rivalry

The Sun Down Motel

by Simone St. James • 2020

A haunted motel swallowed her aunt. She takes the night shift, and the ghosts know why.

3.99

195k+

🕯️ Supernatural Mystery 🚺 Feminist Horror 🕰️ Dual Timeline 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 📋 Unsolved Disappearance

The Sun Down Motel 92%

A haunted motel swallowed her aunt. She takes the night shift, and the ghosts know why.

by Simone St. James 2020

3.99

195k+ ratings

🕯️ Supernatural Mystery 🚺 Feminist Horror 🕰️ Dual Timeline 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 📋 Unsolved Disappearance

The Staircase in the Woods

by Chuck Wendig • 2025

A dying man hustles his gang back to the woods where a staircase swallowed a friend.

3.54

25k+

🏚️ Haunted House Horror 🩸 Trauma Horror 👥 Friend Reunion Horror 🔍 Missing Person Mystery 🌀 Living House Horror

The Staircase in the Woods 91%

A dying man hustles his gang back to the woods where a staircase swallowed a friend.

by Chuck Wendig 2025

3.54

25k+ ratings

🏚️ Haunted House Horror 🩸 Trauma Horror 👥 Friend Reunion Horror 🔍 Missing Person Mystery 🌀 Living House Horror

We All Fall Down

by Natalie D. Richards • 2017

His punch shattered her. Now the haunted bridge where it happened is calling them both back.

2.94

9k+

🏚️ Haunted Small Town 🧠 Psychological Haunting 💕 Friends To Lovers 🩹 Trauma And Healing ⚖️ Guilt And Redemption

We All Fall Down 93%

His punch shattered her. Now the haunted bridge where it happened is calling them both back.

by Natalie D. Richards 2017

2.94

9k+ ratings

🏚️ Haunted Small Town 🧠 Psychological Haunting 💕 Friends To Lovers 🩹 Trauma And Healing ⚖️ Guilt And Redemption

Stranger Things, Season One

by Matthew J. Gilbert • 2025

When Will Byers disappears, his friends find a silent, powerful girl who knows what took him.

4.29

238

🏚️ Small-Town Horror 📺 Nostalgic Horror 👥 Found Family 👾 Kids Vs Monsters 🧠 Psychic Powers

Stranger Things, Season One 93%

When Will Byers disappears, his friends find a silent, powerful girl who knows what took him.

by Matthew J. Gilbert 2025

4.29

238 ratings

🏚️ Small-Town Horror 📺 Nostalgic Horror 👥 Found Family 👾 Kids Vs Monsters 🧠 Psychic Powers

Unspeakable Things

by Jess Lourey

Boys vanish. A girl hunts the predator. But her father's footsteps climb the stairs toward her room.

3.78

92k+

🏘️ Small Town Mystery 👧 Child Narrator 🔑 Dark Family Secrets 🤫 Conspiracy Of Silence 🌫️ Creeping Dread

Unspeakable Things 92%

Boys vanish. A girl hunts the predator. But her father's footsteps climb the stairs toward her room.

by Jess Lourey 2020

3.78

92k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Mystery 👧 Child Narrator 🔑 Dark Family Secrets 🤫 Conspiracy Of Silence 🌫️ Creeping Dread

Acceleration

by Graham McNamee • 2003

In the lost and found, a guilt-ridden teen uncovers a killer's diary and a countdown to murder.

3.74

5k+

🩸 Serial Killer Thriller 🔍 Teen Sleuths 💧 Survivor's Guilt 🛡️ Reluctant Hero 👥 Found Family

Acceleration 91%

In the lost and found, a guilt-ridden teen uncovers a killer's diary and a countdown to murder.

by Graham McNamee 2003

3.74

5k+ ratings

🩸 Serial Killer Thriller 🔍 Teen Sleuths 💧 Survivor's Guilt 🛡️ Reluctant Hero 👥 Found Family

Stranger Things

by Suyi Davies • 2022

Lucas Sinclair's fresh start meets Hawkins racism and a demon that feeds on trauma.

4.07

2k+

🏚️ Supernatural Small Town 🎒 Coming Of Age Horror 🔄 Code Switching 🎭 Small Town Racism 🏀 Basketball Identity

Stranger Things 91%

Lucas Sinclair's fresh start meets Hawkins racism and a demon that feeds on trauma.

by Suyi Davies 2022

4.07

2k+ ratings

🏚️ Supernatural Small Town 🎒 Coming Of Age Horror 🔄 Code Switching 🎭 Small Town Racism 🏀 Basketball Identity

Beyond the Phantom Glow

by Abe Moss • 2021

A psychic teen must destroy the cursed suitcase that returns the dead before her town vanishes.

4.45

389

👽 Cosmic Horror 💔 Grief Horror 🫂 Found Family 🧳 Cursed Object 🏘️ Small-Town Horror

Beyond the Phantom Glow 91%

A psychic teen must destroy the cursed suitcase that returns the dead before her town vanishes.

by Abe Moss 2021

4.45

389 ratings

👽 Cosmic Horror 💔 Grief Horror 🫂 Found Family 🧳 Cursed Object 🏘️ Small-Town Horror

Heart-Shaped Box

by Joe Hill • 2007

A rock star buys a haunted suit online; the ghost blames him for a woman's death.

3.84

155k+

📦 Haunted Object 🧠 Psychological Haunting 🏚️ Southern Gothic 👻 Vengeful Ghost 🔗 Generational Trauma

Heart-Shaped Box 91%

A rock star buys a haunted suit online; the ghost blames him for a woman's death.

by Joe Hill 2007

3.84

155k+ ratings

📦 Haunted Object 🧠 Psychological Haunting 🏚️ Southern Gothic 👻 Vengeful Ghost 🔗 Generational Trauma

Asylum

by Madeleine Roux

His summer dorm was once an asylum ward. Now something in the basement knows his name.

3.64

65k+

🏚️ Haunted Asylum 🫂 Found Family 🩸 Inherited Darkness 👁️ Possession Horror 🔍 Paranormal Investigation

Asylum 92%

His summer dorm was once an asylum ward. Now something in the basement knows his name.

by Madeleine Roux 2013

3.64

65k+ ratings

🏚️ Haunted Asylum 🫂 Found Family 🩸 Inherited Darkness 👁️ Possession Horror 🔍 Paranormal Investigation

Little Ghosts

by Gregg Dunnett • 2023

A murdered girl's ghost asks her brother to find a killer the police missed.

4.18

7k+

🖤 Supernatural Thriller 👻 Child Ghost 🔍 Unlikely Detectives 💔 Grief Horror 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

Little Ghosts 93%

A murdered girl's ghost asks her brother to find a killer the police missed.

by Gregg Dunnett 2023

4.18

7k+ ratings

🖤 Supernatural Thriller 👻 Child Ghost 🔍 Unlikely Detectives 💔 Grief Horror 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

Joyland

by Stephen King • 2013

A heartbroken student's carnival summer job unearths a ghost story that masks an unsolved murder.

3.93

181k+

🎪 Carnival Noir 🔍 Cold Case Murder 🎭 Villainous Mentor 👻 Psychic Child 🤝 Found Family

Joyland 93%

A heartbroken student's carnival summer job unearths a ghost story that masks an unsolved murder.

by Stephen King 2013

3.93

181k+ ratings

🎪 Carnival Noir 🔍 Cold Case Murder 🎭 Villainous Mentor 👻 Psychic Child 🤝 Found Family

Let's Split Up

by Bill Wood • 2024

A ghost-hunting dare ends in death. Four teens must find the killer hiding behind the legend.

3.56

10k+

🔪 Teen Slasher Mystery 🌲 Small Town Horror 👻 Urban Legend Horror 🎭 Masked Killer 💕 Friends To Lovers

Let's Split Up 91%

A ghost-hunting dare ends in death. Four teens must find the killer hiding behind the legend.

by Bill Wood 2024

3.56

10k+ ratings

🔪 Teen Slasher Mystery 🌲 Small Town Horror 👻 Urban Legend Horror 🎭 Masked Killer 💕 Friends To Lovers

My Heart Is a Chainsaw

by Stephen Graham Jones • 2021

A horror-obsessed teen outcast sees a slasher cycle devour her Idaho town while adults look away.

3.50

54k+

🪓 Slasher Horror 👧 Final Girl 👻 Vengeful Spirit 🏚️ Small Town Secrets 🎬 Meta Horror

My Heart Is a Chainsaw 91%

A horror-obsessed teen outcast sees a slasher cycle devour her Idaho town while adults look away.

by Stephen Graham Jones 2021

3.50

54k+ ratings

🪓 Slasher Horror 👧 Final Girl 👻 Vengeful Spirit 🏚️ Small Town Secrets 🎬 Meta Horror

The Undrowned

by K.R. Alexander • 2020

A bully pushes her friend into a cursed lake. She returns, and a vengeful haunting follows.

3.89

2k+

🧟 Supernatural Revenge 👊 Bully Protagonist 💔 Toxic Friendship 🌊 Cursed Lake 😨 Creeping Dread

The Undrowned 91%

A bully pushes her friend into a cursed lake. She returns, and a vengeful haunting follows.

by K.R. Alexander 2020

3.89

2k+ ratings

🧟 Supernatural Revenge 👊 Bully Protagonist 💔 Toxic Friendship 🌊 Cursed Lake 😨 Creeping Dread

80s Ghosts

by V.S. Lawrence • 2024

A ghost-hunting crew investigates a school where a 1987 fire trapped dozens of restless souls.

3.73

2k+

🔍 Paranormal Investigation 🏚️ Haunted School 👥 Ghost Hunting Crew 🔮 Psychic Medium 😈 Vengeful Spirit

80s Ghosts 91%

A ghost-hunting crew investigates a school where a 1987 fire trapped dozens of restless souls.

by V.S. Lawrence 2024

3.73

2k+ ratings

🔍 Paranormal Investigation 🏚️ Haunted School 👥 Ghost Hunting Crew 🔮 Psychic Medium 😈 Vengeful Spirit

Whistle

by Linwood Barclay • 2025

Her son's toy trains kill, and the creature behind them demands she take its place.

3.91

10k+

🖤 Supernatural Horror 🚂 Cursed Toys 🏚️ Small Town Horror 👩‍👦 Mother Son Bond 🌀 Psychological Unraveling

Whistle 92%

Her son's toy trains kill, and the creature behind them demands she take its place.

by Linwood Barclay 2025

3.91

10k+ ratings

🖤 Supernatural Horror 🚂 Cursed Toys 🏚️ Small Town Horror 👩‍👦 Mother Son Bond 🌀 Psychological Unraveling

Violet

by Scott Thomas • 2019

A widow takes her mute daughter to a decaying lake house where a childhood friend never left.

3.54

3k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🪦 Grief Horror 🎭 Imaginary Friend 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🔥 Slow Burn Horror

Violet 92%

A widow takes her mute daughter to a decaying lake house where a childhood friend never left.

by Scott Thomas 2019

3.54

3k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🪦 Grief Horror 🎭 Imaginary Friend 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🔥 Slow Burn Horror

by Stephen King

Seven outcast children confront an evil that wears a clown's face and sleeps beneath their town.

4.24

1.3M+

👁️ Cosmic Horror 🌲 Coming-Of-Age Horror 🏚️ Small Town Evil ⏳ Dual Timeline 🫂 Found Family

It 91%

Seven outcast children confront an evil that wears a clown's face and sleeps beneath their town.

by Stephen King 1986

4.24

1.3M+ ratings

👁️ Cosmic Horror 🌲 Coming-Of-Age Horror 🏚️ Small Town Evil ⏳ Dual Timeline 🫂 Found Family

Remember Me

by Christopher Pike • 2010

After a fatal fall, a teenage ghost knows she was murdered. Her killer is a friend.

4.14

10k+

🕵️ Teen Ghost Detective 👶 Switched At Birth 🕊️ Forgiveness After Death 🖤 Gothic Mystery 💕 Ghostly Love Story

Remember Me 91%

After a fatal fall, a teenage ghost knows she was murdered. Her killer is a friend.

by Christopher Pike 2010

4.14

10k+ ratings

🕵️ Teen Ghost Detective 👶 Switched At Birth 🕊️ Forgiveness After Death 🖤 Gothic Mystery 💕 Ghostly Love Story

Middle of the Night

by Riley Sager • 2024

His best friend vanished. Three decades later, a haunting on his childhood street demands answers.

3.67

191k+

🕵️ Cold Case 🏘️ Suburban Thriller 👻 Ghost Mystery 🤫 Accidental Death Cover-Up 😞 Childhood Guilt

Middle of the Night 91%

His best friend vanished. Three decades later, a haunting on his childhood street demands answers.

by Riley Sager 2024

3.67

191k+ ratings

🕵️ Cold Case 🏘️ Suburban Thriller 👻 Ghost Mystery 🤫 Accidental Death Cover-Up 😞 Childhood Guilt

Haunted

by James Herbert • 1988

A paranormal investigator takes a case at a crumbling manor. The dead have been expecting him.

3.78

9k+

🏚️ Haunted Manor 🧠 Psychological Horror 🔍 Paranormal Investigator 🖤 Unresolved Grief 🕯️ Slow Burn Horror

Haunted 91%

A paranormal investigator takes a case at a crumbling manor. The dead have been expecting him.

by James Herbert 1988

3.78

9k+ ratings

🏚️ Haunted Manor 🧠 Psychological Horror 🔍 Paranormal Investigator 🖤 Unresolved Grief 🕯️ Slow Burn Horror

Murder Road

by Simone St. James • 2024

Newlyweds pick up a dying hitchhiker on a dark road with a history of murdered girls.

3.68

60k+

👻 Paranormal Mystery 🖤 Ghost Story 🌑 Supernatural Thriller 💀 Vengeful Ghost 🏚️ Small Town Secrets

Murder Road 91%

Newlyweds pick up a dying hitchhiker on a dark road with a history of murdered girls.

by Simone St. James 2024

3.68

60k+ ratings

👻 Paranormal Mystery 🖤 Ghost Story 🌑 Supernatural Thriller 💀 Vengeful Ghost 🏚️ Small Town Secrets

The Cheerleaders

by Kara Thomas

Five cheerleaders died. Five years later, a sister digs up their secrets and awakens a killer.

3.74

57k+

🏚️ Small Town Secrets 🕵️‍♀️ Amateur Detective 📁 Cold Case 🤝 Unlikely Allies ⚠️ Predatory Adult

The Cheerleaders 91%

Five cheerleaders died. Five years later, a sister digs up their secrets and awakens a killer.

by Kara Thomas 2018

3.74

57k+ ratings

🏚️ Small Town Secrets 🕵️‍♀️ Amateur Detective 📁 Cold Case 🤝 Unlikely Allies ⚠️ Predatory Adult

The Third Eye

by Lois Duncan • 1984

A teenage babysitter's visions find a missing child, pulling her toward a truth she cannot escape.

3.86

4k+

🔮 Psychic Detective 😔 Reluctant Psychic 🧬 Psychic Inheritance 🔍 Missing Children 📼 1980s Setting

The Third Eye 92%

A teenage babysitter's visions find a missing child, pulling her toward a truth she cannot escape.

by Lois Duncan 1984

3.86

4k+ ratings

🔮 Psychic Detective 😔 Reluctant Psychic 🧬 Psychic Inheritance 🔍 Missing Children 📼 1980s Setting

Say Cheese and Die!

by R.L. Stine • 1992

Greg finds a camera in a haunted house, but its photos show disasters that come true.

3.79

30k+

📸 Cursed Object 🏚️ Abandoned House 😱 Kids In Peril 📷 Photograph Horror 🔄 Twist Ending

Say Cheese and Die! 92%

Greg finds a camera in a haunted house, but its photos show disasters that come true.

by R.L. Stine 1992

3.79

30k+ ratings

📸 Cursed Object 🏚️ Abandoned House 😱 Kids In Peril 📷 Photograph Horror 🔄 Twist Ending

Legacy

by Nick Roberts • 2025

A murdered psychologist. His name in her blood. The childhood predator he escaped is back.

4.37

1k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🔪 Serial Killer Thriller 👶 Childhood Trauma 🫂 Addiction Recovery 🔁 Cycles Of Abuse

Legacy 91%

A murdered psychologist. His name in her blood. The childhood predator he escaped is back.

by Nick Roberts 2025

4.37

1k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🔪 Serial Killer Thriller 👶 Childhood Trauma 🫂 Addiction Recovery 🔁 Cycles Of Abuse

Night Watcher

by Daphne Woolsoncroft • 2025

She survived a masked killer as a child. Now a caller dies on her radio show.

3.70

15k+

🗡️ Serial Killer Thriller 🔪 Final Girl 💔 Childhood Trauma 🔒 Family Secrets 😷 Masked Killer

Night Watcher 91%

She survived a masked killer as a child. Now a caller dies on her radio show.

by Daphne Woolsoncroft 2025

3.70

15k+ ratings

🗡️ Serial Killer Thriller 🔪 Final Girl 💔 Childhood Trauma 🔒 Family Secrets 😷 Masked Killer

Small Spaces

by Katherine Arden • 2018

Her class trip vanishes into mist where scarecrows walk and a smiling man bargains for souls.

4.01

30k+

🧒 Middle Grade Horror ☕ Cozy Horror 📖 Haunted Diary 💔 Grieving Protagonist 🤝 Dangerous Bargains

Small Spaces 91%

Her class trip vanishes into mist where scarecrows walk and a smiling man bargains for souls.

by Katherine Arden 2018

4.01

30k+ ratings

🧒 Middle Grade Horror ☕ Cozy Horror 📖 Haunted Diary 💔 Grieving Protagonist 🤝 Dangerous Bargains

A Box Full of Darkness

by Simone St. James • 2026

Twenty years after her brother vanished, a reluctant medium is summoned home by his ghost.

3.74

20k+

🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 🔍 Paranormal Mystery 👻 Medium Protagonist 👥 Siblings Reuniting 💔 Generational Trauma

A Box Full of Darkness 91%

Twenty years after her brother vanished, a reluctant medium is summoned home by his ghost.

by Simone St. James 2026

3.74

20k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 🔍 Paranormal Mystery 👻 Medium Protagonist 👥 Siblings Reuniting 💔 Generational Trauma

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