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.

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.

Monstrilio collects fiction that links magical-realism logic to elements of horror and fantasy, placing queer experience and desire at its center.

Set against the legacy of a notorious reform school, the novel follows characters who confront buried atrocities and the supernatural traces those abuses may have left behind.

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.

In an isolated northern chateau, a baron’s doctor dies under suspicious circumstances and the Interprovincial Medical Institute sends a replacement. The Institute is revealed to have colonized physicians' minds across generations while tending the remnants of humanity.

A married lesbian couple becomes emotionally distant after one partner returns from a disastrous deep-sea dive. The novel tracks the aftermath: attempts at reconnection, the survivor’s altered presence, and the slow accumulation of dread tied to the sea and loss.

Two adults in a contemporary urban setting become entangled with a dangerous werewolf presence that complicates their intimate relationship and daily lives.

A working-class father faces desperate circumstances after his young daughter's illness and loss of income, and accepts work from a former colleague in the criminal underworld.

A modern horror novella that reworks Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher: a retired soldier returns to an isolated ancestral house after learning a childhood friend is gravely ill, and finds the estate, its inhabitants, and the landscape corrupted by decay and strange forces.

A contemporary story about witches and everyday life that places supernatural elements inside familiar social settings. The central pressure comes from a character's collision with witchcraft and its consequences for relationships, reputation, and safety within a community.

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 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 compact, tense novel set around a single household where strange omissions and unsettling behaviors create a mystery of who can be trusted. Multiple perspectives and withheld information generate pressure: secrets accumulate inside the house while outside facts remain uncertain.

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 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 young woman travels to a remote family estate after receiving a desperate letter from her cousin claiming danger in her marriage. She must probe the household’s strange customs and hidden histories to determine whether the threat is supernatural, social, or criminal.

Set in an alternate 1920s American South, the novella follows Maryse Boudreaux and other Black women hunters as a rising supernatural evil—manifestations tied to the Ku Klux Klan—threatens their community.

Set in a rural Southern backwater, the novel follows Miranda Crabtree, who runs contraband for a local preacher-sheriff to survive and to protect an old woman and a child who fled his home years earlier. Miranda faces escalating danger when she’s asked to make one last, fraught delivery involving that same preacher.

A largely domestic story turns uncanny when a portal appears in or near a museum-adjacent setting, leading the female protagonist into an alternate dimension populated by monsters and strange landscapes.

An irreverent, high-stakes locked-house tale shaped by necromancy: a reluctant swordswoman is thrust into a deadly contest inside an ancient, secretive estate where bodies, bones, and rival houses shape who survives.

A group of men from the Blackfeet Nation are haunted years after a hunting incident in which a pregnant elk was killed. The book follows multiple perspectives as the consequences of that event — supernatural and social — return to demand reckoning.

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 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.

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

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.

A contemporary father and husband faces an escalating crisis when ordinary family life collides with an inexplicable disappearance and supernatural forces. The book tracks how personal grief and a search for answers intersect with occult intrusion, putting domestic stability, identity, and safety under pressure.

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 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.

Set in 1920s New York, the novella reworks an earlier Lovecraft tale by shifting perspective to a Black protagonist who becomes entangled with an occult text and a mysterious client.

Two grieving men find solace in fishing and become drawn to a local, haunted fishing spot whose history links to deeper, primordial forces. Their attempt to escape loss becomes entangled with an older, supernatural presence that tests what they will risk to reclaim what is gone.

A 2015 collection of short stories in which ghosts and the supernatural intersect with everyday lives. Each tale stages encounters—personal, domestic, or communal—where lingering grief, past wrongs, or unresolved ties create eerie, unsettling situations that reshape characters' present decisions.

A ragged group raised inside a mysterious library that holds strange powers must confront secrets about their teacher, the library’s rules, and the wider world beyond.

A compact English-set tale shaped by a disappearance and the effort to reconstruct what happened. The narrative assembles documents, testimony, and close third-person focus to press on how absence reshapes memory, suspicion, and local rumor.

A government research zone has been sealed off after decades of strange phenomena. A team of four unnamed female specialists enters as the twelfth expedition to survey the area and record observations.

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.

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

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

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

India Morgan Phelps (Imp) attempts to write her memoir while living with schizophrenia, anxiety, and OCD. Her account circles a romantic relationship with a transgender partner and a fixation on a mysterious, silent woman found beside a road.

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.

A member of a long-lived, blood-dependent species awakens with amnesia and physical injuries and must piece together who she is and how she relates to the human partners her kind depends on.

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.

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 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.

A contemporary marriage is strained when one partner harbors a secret tied to unnatural longevity. The setup places trust, love, and the ethical cost of living beyond normal limits against everyday domestic pressures, with a central tension anchored in secrecy and its consequences for a family and a community.

A middle-class African-American husband and father who has long believed he once cheated death faces renewed danger when his family becomes the target of racist threats. As external menace grows, his mental stability frays and supernatural phenomena begin to blur the line between waking life and the world of the dead.

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.