If Ellerie’s winter-locked Amity Falls and the way "small favors" pit neighbor against neighbor hooked you, you’ll sink right into The Wicked Deep. In Sparrow, the drowned sisters return each summer to claim boys, and the town’s fear curdles into suspicion and betrayal—much like the fraying trust after the supply wagons vanish in Small Favors. The slow-igniting romance between Penny and Bo echoes Ellerie and Whitaker’s wary bond amid mounting dread, while the town’s shared guilt and whispered lore keep the tension taut.

If the eerie trades in the forest—those tempting "favors" that unravel Amity Falls—were your catnip, House of Hollow sharpens that edge. The Hollow sisters radiate an uncanny charm that feels like a living bargain, and following Grey’s disappearance, Iris peels back a world of doorways, horned men, and beauty that demands a price. Like Ellerie’s brush with the creatures beyond the tree line, every gift here has teeth, and every choice draws blood.

If Whitaker’s arrival in Amity Falls and the old stories about what waits in the woods gave you goosebumps, The Near Witch doubles down on that vibe. When a nameless boy appears in the wind-scoured village of Near and children begin vanishing, Lexi follows scraps of nursery rhyme lore into the moor. The way the danger unfurls—quiet visitations, footsteps at the window, a truth hiding in an old tale—mirrors the careful, creeping revelations that pull Ellerie deeper into the forest’s bargains.

If the escalating dread in Amity Falls—the accidents, the blame, the sense something is feeding on the town’s fear—had you riveted, Sawkill Girls is that feeling on an island with sharper teeth. Girls vanish on Sawkill Rock, and the Collector thrives on the town’s silence. As Marion, Zoey, and Val collide, the secrets they uncover echo the way Ellerie pieces together what the forest wants, and the cost of confronting it.

If you loved watching Ellerie shoulder responsibility—protecting her siblings, navigating first love with Whitaker, and facing the creature beyond Amity Falls—The Devouring Gray offers a similarly charged coming-of-age. Newcomer Violet Saunders learns her family’s legacy in Four Paths as a ravenous entity in the Gray threatens the town. Like Ellerie, Violet has to decide who she is and what she’ll risk to save people who don’t always deserve her trust.