Books Set in New England
Novels and stories set in New England, mostly horror, demons & devils and gothic fiction. The most-read are Little Women (1848), Cell (2006) and The Haunting of Hill House (1959).
This list collects 94 books in this collection by 73 authors, published between 1837 and 2024. 2 are free to read and 2 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Cell
Stephen King
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
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The House of Seven Gables Readalong
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Dead Zone
Stephen King
Skeleton Crew
Stephen King
Redeeming Love
Francine Rivers
Full Dark, No Stars
Stephen King
The Tommyknockers
Stephen King
Revival
Stephen King
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson
The Mist
Stephen King
The Lottery, or The Adventures of James Harris
Shirley Jackson
Heaven and Earth
Nora Roberts
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
Young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dark Forces
Kirby McCauley, Dennis Etchison
Mooncakes
Suzanne Walker, Wendy Xu
40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition
Beverly Lawn, Joanne Diaz
The Raider
Jude Deveraux
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The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer
The Monstrumologist
Richard Yancey
Initiation
Lisa Jane Smith
The Wind in the Rose-bush
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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The Colour Out of Space
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
The Evil Inside
Heather Graham
Great American Short Stories
Wallace Stegner, Mary Stegner
Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition
X. J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe
ParaNorman
Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Literature, The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition
Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz
The 5th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories
Mary Danby, Daphne du Maurier
Fiction
R.S. Gwynn, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Under the Mistletoe
Sara Orwig, Heather Graham
In the House in the Dark of the Woods
Laird Hunt
The Rinehart Book of Short Stories
Clarence Lee Cline, C. L. Cline
The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature--Eighth Edition
Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood
The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Sixth Edition
Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition
Richard Bausch, R. V. Cassill
Best Short Stories -- Advanced Level
Raymond Harris, Katherine Mansfield
H. P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft
The Short Story
Beverly Lawn, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Evil Image
Patricia L. Skarda, Nora Jaffe
Amity
Micol Ostow
Beautiful
Christina Lauren
Bedtime Stories
Diana Secker Tesdell, Nathaniel Hawthorne
My Favorite Horror Story
Mike Baker, Martin H. Greenberg