The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

6 best books like The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (Laird Koenig): Burnt Offerings, The Other, Floating Dragon, Elizabeth, The Lottery and Other Stories; The Haunting of Hill House; We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Llama Destroys the World

Burnt Offerings
AuthorRobert Marasco
ISBN0440009286
Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire season for only $900, it's an offer that's too good to refuse. There's only one catch: behind a strange and intricately carved...
The Other
AuthorThomas Tryon
ISBN0440167361
Entranced and terrified, the reader of The Other is swept up in the life of a Connecticut country town in the thirties—and in the fearful mysteries that slowly darken and overwhelm it.

Originally published in 1971, The Other is one of the most influential horror novels ever written. Its impeccable...
Floating Dragon
AuthorPeter Straub
ISBN0425189643
I keep on being drawn back to Peter Straub for my Horror fix. With this author it isn’t just about the nasty stuff: it’s about the presentation. Floating Dragon is a case in point: not only does Straub expose our fears; he toys with them.

The plot in a nutshell
What you’ve got here is essentially...
Elizabeth
AuthorJessica Hamilton
ISBN1557850011
Elizabeth thought that she was a young girl like any other girl - until the day that she looked into the mirror and saw the truth. Her family wouldn't have believed it even if she had told them - which she had no intention of doing. Elizabeth had far different plans for them - and only God could help them. He...
AuthorShirley Jackson
ISBN0965011798
"The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable," writes A. M. Homes. "It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse." Jackson's characters-mostly unloved daughters...
Llama Destroys the World
AuthorJonathan Stutzman
ISBN1250303176
Meet Llama, the next great picture-book megastar, who has most definitely driven a bus and who loves tacos way more than you.

He also loves cake, and that’s where our story begins.

On Monday, Llama discovers a pile of cake, which he promptly eats.
On Tuesday, Llama squeezes into...
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