18 Books That Are Just as Twisted as American Horror Story

Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves is by far the most terrifying haunted house story of the 21st century. It's about a mysterious hallway that suddenly appears in the house of an unsuspecting family. They begin to explore unimaginable and physically impossible depths and unlock horrors they never could have conceived. While House of Leaves isn't about a hotel per se, the novel depicts the house itself as a monster, and as you know, Hotel Cortez seems to have a certain power of its own.