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Books like The Shining 1977
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About The Shining
Books closest to The Shining
Pet Sematary 1983Also earnest, grave and bleak
The Lost Man 2018Also grave, earnest and classical in form
A Winter Haunting 2002Also grave, classical in form and earnest
The Fisherman 2016Also grave, classical in form and earnest
California 2014Also grave, classical in form and earnest
Bag of Bones 1998Also classical in form, grave and earnest
The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains 2014Also grave, earnest and classical in form
The Vessel 2022Also grave, classical in form and intimate
A House With Good Bones 2023Also classical in form, grave and earnest
Revelator 2021Also grave, classical in form and earnest
Through the Woods 2014Also grave, earnest and intimate
Apt Pupil 1984Also grave, classical in form and bleak
The same feel, in other forms
Films
The Orphanage 2007Also grave, classical in form and earnest
Prospect 2018Also grave, earnest and classical in form
The Ritual 2017Also grave, earnest and classical in form
Series
The Girl Before 2021Also grave, earnest and intimate
Black Bird 2022Also classical in form, grave and earnest
The Jury 2002Also grave, earnest and classical in form
Games
Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken 2025Also grave, earnest and bleak
A Chair in a Room: Greenwater 2016Also grave, earnest and bleak
Bad Faith 2022Also grave, earnest and bleak
Albums
- Dilaudid 2005Also grave, earnest and classical in form
- Le cose della vita 1973Also earnest, intimate and grave
- Stick Season 2022Also earnest, grave and classical in form
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