Ghosts in the Machine - Evil/Haunted/Cursed Tech (12 books)

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A selection of horror stories that features modern technologies, appliances and machines that are cursed, haunted or AI gone rogue. All ages welcome as long as these titles support the theme. Examples include:

Vehicles - cars, trucks, buses
Machines
Computers
Videos
Cameras
Phones
Apps
Arcades/Video Games

For this list, we are not including tech horror stories with human villains, only tech horror stories with supernatural causes. Evil machines and appliances only. AI powered appliances can be included here, no robots or androids though. We already have lists for those types.

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1	Say Cheese and Die! (Goosebumps, #4) by R.L. Stine (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 29,683 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
1	Blood on Their Hands by Bob Brink (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 51 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Mangler by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 1,515 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author) 3.58 avg rating — 30,197 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Christine by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 263,763 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Say Cheese and Die-Again! (Goosebumps, #44) by R.L. Stine (Goodreads Author) 3.58 avg rating — 6,892 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Say Cheese - And Die Screaming (Goosebumps HorrorLand, #8) by R.L. Stine (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 2,414 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay (Goodreads Author) 3.26 avg rating — 47,256 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Demon Seed by Dean Koontz (Goodreads Author) 3.49 avg rating — 17,784 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Trucks by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) 3.45 avg rating — 834 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Burn the Negative by Josh Winning (Goodreads Author) 3.36 avg rating — 3,651 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Grin by D.W. Gillespie (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 121 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

12 books · 2 voters · list created December 1st, 2025 by Georgina Warren (votes) .

Tags: ai, camera, cars, computers, curse, evil, ghosts, haunted-tech, horror, machines, mystery, phone, possession, sinister, tech, technology, thriller, trucks

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message 1: by Georgina (last edited Dec 05, 2025 07:26AM) (new)

Dec 01, 2025 11:06AM

I will also share a list of cursed/haunted tech movies to support the theme:

Ghost in the Machine (1993) - All appliances
The Ring (2002) - Video cassette
Fear Dot Com (2002) - Website
Stay Alive (2006) - Video game
Sinister 1 and 2 (2012, 2015) - Super 8 film reels
Unfriended (2014) - Skype chat
Polaroid (2019) - Polaroid camera
Countdown (2019) - Phone app
A.M.I. (2019) - AI assistant
The Black Phone 1 and 2 (2021, 2025) - Rotary dial phone
Afraid (2024) - AI assistant

If the appliance runs on paranormal energy and contains ghosts or demons than it counts.

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message 2: by Georgina (last edited Dec 02, 2025 08:57AM) (new)

Dec 01, 2025 11:24AM

I was undecided about including A.M.I. since this film centers around an evil AI virtual assistant like Alexa or Siri. But there are several ways to interpret the villain of this film:

A demon
An AI gone rogue
The ghost of the protagonist's mother
The protagonist descending into madness

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