A small ensemble of visitors gather at a large, notorious house where unsettling occurrences and interpersonal fractures intensify around the building itself.

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.

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 solitary solicitor recounts events tied to an eerie marshland house and a pale, dressed-in-black spectre whose presence arrives with grief and warning.

A lone, recovering writer in a modern city discovers evidence of an occult pattern—drawn from a found journal and strange urban phenomena—that suggests unseen entities connected to the city's emotional life.

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 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.

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

A 2023 historical novel that places a lone woman into a Western-era community where past traumas and local mysteries collide with uncanny phenomena. The book sets up a central pressure: an outsider's efforts to survive and make a home amid suspicion, danger, and signs that something otherworldly may be at work.

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

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.