Books Like The Shining: Horror That Gets Under Your Skin

A recovering addict takes a nanny job and finds her quiet new household quietly curdling: the five-year-old in her care keeps drawing scenes of a murder he could not possibly have witnessed. Jason Rekulak turns that premise into a propulsive supernatural mystery, and his sharpest trick is printing the boy's crayon drawings right on the page, so the dread arrives through your own eyes. As with King's haunted hotel, the horror feeds on a flawed, sympathetic protagonist fighting to be believed while doubting what she sees. Fast, clever, and genuinely unnerving.