A family rents an isolated summer house to get away from city life, only to encounter a series of unusual experiences and unsettling personality changes among its members.

Set around a haunted house in a rural or small-town environment, the narrative tracks how ordinary family life and local routines come under threat from uncanny, element-linked forces.

Set against a mid-20th-century rural backdrop, the novel follows a Mexican woman who suffers a brutal, gendered assault and dies; her final cries summon a pre-Hispanic goddess whose return initiates bloody retribution against those who harmed her.

A small, remote English setting hosts a tightly observed family story in which religious rites, interpersonal strain, and mysterious occurrences create sustained unease.

A thirty-something woman travels to her deceased grandmother’s rural home to clear it out and discovers a relative’s writings and a second, unsettling manuscript that record obsessions with a forbidding local book.

Set around a Mexican hacienda, the narrative follows characters entangled in domestic power, inherited secrets, and unexplained phenomena. The central pressure is an escalating, intimate threat—social and supernatural—that forces private histories and loyalties into the open.

A troubled fashion model moves into a large New York brownstone divided into apartments and encounters strange disturbances centered on the building and its top-floor, blind Catholic priest.

A young girl experiences an escalating, violent form of possession that draws medical professionals and Catholic clergy into a struggle over diagnosis and deliverance.

A 1991 novel by Kathe Koja that focuses on an ordinary domestic life disturbed by an uncanny, physical mystery that draws the protagonists into escalating fixation and danger.

A contemporary American family becomes entangled with unexplained, possibly supernatural occurrences that surface long-buried trauma and danger. The story places intimate domestic fractures next to uncanny events, creating a pressure between ordinary family life and escalating, mysterious threat.

Set across multiple time periods beginning in the early 20th century, the novel places two close young women inside a secluded, quasi-religious community on a Scottish island.

Several loosely connected characters across different eras encounter anomalies that call into question the nature of reality, time, and memory.