Books similar to The Shining by Stephen King
Discover books connected to The Shining by Stephen King. Books from the same collection appear first, followed by works sharing at least three topics. Shared genres are used as an additional ranking factor.
This page contains 2 books connected to The Shining by Stephen King. The closest matches are determined primarily through shared thematic relationships.
The thematic comparison is based on the main topics connected with The Shining, including Alcoholism, descent into violence, domestic horror, evil influence, family tension, ghostly apparitions, haunted hotel, Isolation, Madness, malevolent presence, psychic powers, and psychological breakdown. Books without a shared collection must match at least three of these topics to appear in the list.
Genre similarity is used as an additional ranking signal through categories such as Detective short stories, Crime fiction, Detective fiction, Fiction, Prose, Short stories, Horror novels, and Horror Fiction. A shared genre alone is not enough for a book to appear on this page. Genres affect the order only when eligible books have the same number of shared topics.
Rating, rating count, views, and title are used only when the main collection, topic, and genre signals are equal. These additional criteria keep the ordering stable without replacing literary similarity as the main selection principle.
Some of the strongest matches are 1408, The Curse of Yig by and. These books appear near the beginning because they have the closest available combination of topic, and genre relationships with The Shining.