If being snowbound in the Overlook—where Room 217, the hedge animals, and that hissing boiler made the hotel feel alive—had you riveted, you’ll love how The Haunting of Hill House makes Hill House itself a malign presence. As Eleanor joins Dr. Montague’s small group, the cold spots, knocking on walls, and messages scrawled inside the house echo the Overlook’s predatory attention on Jack, Wendy, and Danny. It’s intimate, oppressive, and lets the house work on the characters the way the Overlook worked on Jack.

If what gripped you in The Shining was Jack’s alcoholism and resentment being weaponized by the Overlook—think the scrapbook in the boiler room, the wasp’s nest, and his murderous fixation with the roque mallet—The Elementals delivers that same intimate corrosion. On a remote Alabama beach, the McCray and Savage families return to three Victorian houses; one is swallowing itself with sand and secrets. As India McCray explores and the adults circle old wounds, the haunting pries at their minds, much like the hotel pried at Jack’s.

If you savored how The Shining simmered—Danny’s redrum visions, the woman in 217, the hotel’s party that never ends—Ghost Story is a masterclass in slow-burn terror. The Chowder Society’s old sin returns in the shifting guise of Eva Galli/Alma Mobley, and each chapter tightens the noose the way each winter storm tightened around the Overlook. By the time the past collides with the present, the payoff hits with the same creeping inevitability that drove Wendy and Danny into the snowcat.

If you liked how The Shining let you slip between Jack, Wendy, Danny, and Hallorann to feel the Overlook closing in, The Terror uses multiple perspectives—Crozier, Goodsir, Hickey, and others—aboard the ice-locked Erebus and Terror to similar suffocating effect. The crew’s hunger, paranoia, and a stalking presence on the ice mirror the hotel’s relentless pressure: think Jack stalking the corridors with the roque mallet while Wendy and Danny navigate the labyrinth of hallways.

If the nail-biting survival in The Shining—Wendy barricading doors, Danny fleeing into the hedge maze, Hallorann fighting through the blizzard in the snowcat—was your jam, The Ritual traps four friends in a Scandinavian forest where something old and antlered is hunting them. The derelict house strung with effigies and the cult they stumble into shift the stakes from escape to endurance, echoing the Overlook’s escalation from eerie phenomena to a brutal, personal fight to live.