You’ve finished Frankenstein, and you’re ready for your next book to follow up on Mary Shelley’s spine-tingling monster-chasing classic. Here are a few books similar to Frankenstein that we love to keep the goosebumps coming.

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

If you’re looking for something with a similar sinister vibe, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson will keep your heart rate up. This book is a similar length as Frankenstein, but since it was written more recently (albeit in 1959), it will probably be an easier, faster read.

And we can’t mention The Haunting of Hill House without also mentioning one of our other favorite books, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, another Shirley Jackson novel that is an even shorter and faster read, a good option for any season, spooky or otherwise.

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca has been thrilling readers since 1938, and it’s a classic worth returning to whenever you want to relive the chaos and risk of falling in love without really knowing someone. This book isn’t about monsters that are created as much as the ones that haunt you from your past. Join the narrator, a newlywed young woman swept off her feet, in trying to figure out who exactly she has married in this dark-romance-turned-thriller. What secrets are her new husband hiding?

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Want to make a story creepy? Add children. That’s what Henry James’s narrator asserts in this 1898 gothic horror classic. Only about 40,000 words, this book probably won’t take you more than an afternoon to read, and you won’t have any trouble finishing it as you follow the story of a governess who is unsettled both by the supernatural happenings around her and by the eerie unknowns of the children in her care.