A fictional reimagining of a doomed overland expedition in the 19th-century American West that places characters under escalating scarcity and suspicion.

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

Pepper is involuntarily confined in a budget-strapped psychiatric hospital in Queens and insists he is not mentally ill.

A contemporary, character-focused novel centered on characters navigating fraught private relationships and ethical pressure in an American setting. The narrative opens from intimate vantage points and builds tension through choices, secrets, and the slow widening of consequences rather than by external action.

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 short, focused novella that focuses on a strained father–child relationship set against motifs of dance, clothing, and sleepwalking. The narrative applies fantastical or uncanny touches to private family dynamics and rites, creating a blend of cultural detail and subtle horror without sprawling plot breadth.

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.

Mackenzie, a Cree woman, copes with the aftermath of family deaths while her nightmares begin to leave physical traces in waking life.

A small group becomes trapped amid ruins on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and must improvise to stay alive against a hostile, escalating threat. The book stages survival under tightening physical and social constraints, asking how far people will go when environment and fear close in.

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.

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.

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