A contemporary Gothic novel centered on an intimate domestic situation that becomes increasingly unsettling. The narrative sets up a close personal relationship under strain inside an enclosed setting, with mounting ambiguity about what is real and what may be psychological or supernatural.

A married couple moves into a house where ordinary domestic life is disrupted by persistent, unsettling occurrences. The book narrows on their relationship and the mounting psychological pressure of unexplained events, asking whether the threat is supernatural, psychological, or a collapse of trust between partners.

A newly placed woman at a secluded country house confronts eerie, inexplicable phenomena tied to the home’s past while she navigates grief, social scrutiny, and household secrets. The book sets up a slow-building collision between domestic routine and uncanny intrusions that heighten psychological strain.

A young woman travels to a remote family estate after receiving a desperate letter from her cousin claiming danger in her marriage. She must probe the household’s strange customs and hidden histories to determine whether the threat is supernatural, social, or criminal.

A compact, tense novel set around a single household where strange omissions and unsettling behaviors create a mystery of who can be trusted. Multiple perspectives and withheld information generate pressure: secrets accumulate inside the house while outside facts remain uncertain.

A married lesbian couple becomes emotionally distant after one partner returns from a disastrous deep-sea dive. The novel tracks the aftermath: attempts at reconnection, the survivor’s altered presence, and the slow accumulation of dread tied to the sea and loss.

A live-in nanny takes a job at a remote, high-tech Scottish house and later finds herself accused of a murder that occurred there.

Set in mid-20th-century England, the story focuses on a physician who becomes entwined with a once-grand house and its family as strange occurrences and social decline intensify. The pressure comes from the intersection of a medical, rational viewpoint with uncanny events tied to a deteriorating domestic world.

Set around a single house that becomes the locus of strange occurrences, the book follows characters drawn into unexplained phenomena and the effort to understand what’s happening.

A modern horror novella that reworks Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher: a retired soldier returns to an isolated ancestral house after learning a childhood friend is gravely ill, and finds the estate, its inhabitants, and the landscape corrupted by decay and strange forces.

A journalist-investigator pursues the murky death and legacy of a notorious film director whose work inspired a devoted, secretive subculture.

A psychological horror novel about a recently bereaved man living with smart, networked elements in his home that complicate — and possibly intrude upon — his mourning.