Sarah Crowe moves from Atlanta to an old rural Rhode Island house and finds an unfinished manuscript left by a former tenant — a parapsychologist fixated on an ancient oak on the property.

A young woman on a tight budget takes a cheap apartment and soon experiences strange, threatening phenomena that suggest the place itself — and those connected to it — endanger her.

An unnamed young woman marries a wealthy widower and moves to his grand West Country estate, where she finds the household dominated by the presence and legend of his late first wife.

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

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 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.

Angela Toussaint returns to her late grandmother’s home in a small Washington town and confronts a legacy of grief, violent history, and supernatural threat tied to that house.

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.

A nested, epistolary metafiction: an editor-like narrator assembles and annotates a manuscript about a documentary called The Navidson Record, which recounts a family's discovery that their house contains impossible interior spaces.

Jane Eyre is a first-person bildungsroman that follows an orphaned woman's development from childhood into adulthood and her fraught attachment to the brooding master of a country estate.

After their parents die suddenly, a sister returns to handle estate matters and clashes with her estranged brother over how to dispose of the family home and belongings. Tensions among extended relatives, funeral choices, and the decision to clear out the house collide with uncanny occurrences tied to the property.