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Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall

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In Rules for Vanishing, did you enjoy ...

... the found-footage case files, interview transcripts, and mixed-media creepiness?

The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich

If the stitched-together camcorder clips, texts, and interview files that documented Sara’s search for Becca and the rules of Lucy Gallows’ Road gave you chills, you’ll love how The Dead House builds dread through diary entries, therapy notes, police reports, and video transcripts. Like the contradictory evidence you sifted through after that night on the Road, this case file makes you question every page—and every witness.

... the fractured friend group forced to work together against a town’s monstrous legend?

The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman

If you were hooked by how Sara drags her estranged friends back together to face the Road’s trials and the Lucy Gallows legend, The Devouring Gray delivers that same volatile chemistry. A group of teens with messy histories must navigate dangerous woods, old family secrets, and a hungry entity beneath their town—where alliances shift as fast as the rules do on the Road.

... the urgent, rule-bound quest to rescue a missing loved one from a sinister folklore realm?

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

If what gripped you was Sara’s single-minded mission to find Becca by following the Road’s unforgiving rules, The Hazel Wood mirrors that nerve-tightening chase. Alice plunges into the Hinterland to save her mother, where dark fairy-tale logic twists like the Lucy Gallows legend—and every clue feels like a trap you still have to spring.

... reality-warping narratives where you can’t trust what’s recorded or remembered?

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

If you loved how Sara’s testimony and the footage never quite lined up once the Road bent reality, House of Leaves is that disorientation turned up to eleven. A home’s impossible corridors are documented in film and notes that contradict, redact, and loop back—much like the way the Lucy Gallows evidence keeps undermining itself.

... fairy-tale urban horror with sisterly secrets and jaw-dropping reveals?

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

If the Lucy Gallows myth and the truth about what really happened to Becca kept pulling the floor out from under you, House of Hollow will scratch that itch. Three sisters tied to something otherworldly unravel a trail of bodies, glamour, and rot—building to revelations as shocking as the Road’s last rule you didn’t realize you’d already broken.

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