If the way Charlie Manx turns love for a child into terror grabbed you, Pet Sematary will hit the same nerve. Like Vic fighting to keep Wayne out of Christmasland, Louis Creed makes one desperate choice to protect his family and unleashes something unforgiving. The creeping inevitability, the graveyard’s awful promise, and the way grief corrodes every safe place deliver the same gut-punch you felt riding in the Wraith.

You loved Vic McQueen hopping the Shorter Way Bridge and crossing a warped America to save Wayne from Manx; The Talisman sends Jack Sawyer on an equally dangerous trek through the Territories to save his mother. The roadside horrors, uncanny doubles of familiar places, and relentless forward motion echo the chase from the Wraith—only with a different brand of nightmare at every mile marker.

If Vic’s grit—surviving her own demons while outwitting Manx for Wayne—won you over, The Winter People offers a generational tangle of women facing a deadly secret in the Vermont woods. The story’s mothers and daughters make impossible choices in the face of grief and temptation, and the supernatural consequences feel as chilling and intimate as stepping over the threshold of Christmasland.

As with Vic tracking Manx across a very real America that hides the impossible, The Changeling plunges you into a secret New York of witches and folklore when Apollo’s child is taken. The mix of modern parenting anxieties, eerie clues, and a treacherous journey through the unseen scratches the same itch as hunting the Wraith via the Shorter Way.

If the price Vic pays for using her bridge—and the way Manx’s gifts devour what’s human—fascinated you, The Library at Mount Char turns that dial to eleven. Carolyn and her "siblings" wield impossible abilities learned from a terrifying Father, and every use of power twists the world and the wielder. It’s as brutal, strange, and mesmerizing as a tour through Christmasland’s darkest attractions.