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.

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.

Set in a farming community, the novel follows how the arrival or actions of a persuasive auctioneer alters local social bonds and everyday life. The central pressure comes from interpersonal influence, suspicion, and the erosion of trust among neighbors.

A detective who closely resembles a murder victim is asked to assume the victim’s identity to investigate her death from the inside.

A house in England exerts an active, hostile presence while a young twin, Miranda, contends with family loss and an ambiguous relationship to the dwelling. The novel combines ghostly and vampire-inflected elements to stage domestic dread and inheritance as intimate, supernatural pressure.

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

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.

After a pandemic that leaves civilians transformed into violent, vampiric beings, a lone survivor inhabits a ruined Los Angeles and endures daily assaults on sleep, sanity, and shelter.