Books like Marina

A creeping, dread-soaked gothic in which a timid young bride is slowly suffocated by the ghost of her husband's first wife — atmospheric, jealousy-poisoned, and building to a genuinely shocking revelation.

An episodic coming-of-age told with fable-like warmth and gentle menace — each chapter a self-contained adventure as Bod ages toward the graveyard's edge.

A gothic tale of a foundling girl drawn to a crumbling mansion and the dark realm bleeding through its walls, trading on eerie atmosphere and slow-building dread rather than action.

An atmospheric middle-grade ghost story where a forbidden friendship stirs up a malevolent presence — creepy and suspenseful without tipping into gore.

A slow-burn gothic mystery where a biographer's pursuit of a novelist's hidden past unravels a tangled family history of twins, lies, and tragedy.

A hypnotic, first-person incantation from one of literature's strangest narrators — cozy and menacing at once, as ritual and superstition wall a fractured family off from a hostile village.

A disorienting post-death mystery that unfolds slowly in an eerie, abandoned suburbia while flashbacks bleed in — more existential puzzle than action, with dread and grief as the primary engines.

A slow-building gothic that curdles from atmospheric dread into visceral body horror, anchored by a sharp, glamorous heroine who refuses to be a passive victim.

A grief-soaked ghost story that unfolds slowly at a haunted lake house, narrated by a widowed novelist in King's chattiest confiding voice.