Books like The Phantom of the Opera

1. 

   We Have Always Lived in the Castle

   Shirley Jackson · 1962

   Because shares tags: classics, horror, mystery.

   Merricat guards sister Constance after arsenic deaths, until cousin Charles invades and fire frees them.

2. 

   The Hound of the Baskervilles

   Arthur Conan Doyle · 1902 · Sherlock Holmes #5

   Because shares tags: classics, mystery, horror.

   Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.

3. 

   The Green Mile

   Stephen King · 1996

   Because shares tags: horror, mystery, classics.

   Guard Paul Edgecombe watches John Coffey show healing miracles on death row in 1932 Louisiana.

4. 

   The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

   Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

   Because shares tags: classics, horror, mystery.

   A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves.

5. 

   Rebecca

   Daphne du Maurier · 1938

   Because shares tags: classics, mystery, romance.

   A shy bride at Manderley learns she competes with Maxim's perfect dead wife Rebecca.

6. 

   Lock Every Door

   Riley Sager · 2019

   Because shares tags: mystery, horror.

   Broke Jules apartment sits at the Bartholomew where another sitter vanished.

7. 

   Lady Midnight

   Cassandra Clare · 2016 · The Dark Artifices #1

   Because shares tags: romance, mystery.

   Emma and Julian hunt killer echoing old murders while parabatai love grows.

8. 

   Home Before Dark

   Riley Sager · 2020

   Because shares tags: horror, mystery.

   Maggie renovates haunted Baneberry Hall her father made famous.

9. 

   Club Dead

   Charlaine Harris · 2003 · Sookie Stackhouse #3

   Because shares tags: mystery, romance.

   Sookie hunts missing Bill in Jackson, posing with a werewolf at vampire Club Dead.

10. 

    Breakfast at Tiffany's

    Truman Capote · 1958

    Because shares tags: classics, romance.

    A writer recalls his 1943 neighbor Holly Golightly, wild and kind, in a Manhattan brownstone, plus three short stories from Capote's 1958…

11. 

    Annihilation

    Jeff VanderMeer · 2014 · Southern Reach #1

    Because shares tags: horror, mystery.

    Four women enter Area X on the twelfth expedition to map a breathing tower that writes on its walls and a lighthouse full of lost journals.

12. 

    Sophie's World

    Jostein Gaarder · 1991

    Because shares tags: mystery, classics.

    Sophie gets philosophy lessons by mail, then finds she is fiction in a father birthday book for Hilde.

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