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.

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

A novel that frames an alleged demonic possession as a matter for testing and judgment: characters confront religious belief, evidence, and moral responsibility as the question of Satan’s presence is treated almost legally.

An eighteen-year-old narrator lives with her agoraphobic sister and ailing uncle in an isolated family home long shunned by their village after a past tragedy. The novel records how the household maintains rituals and defenses while outside hostility and the characters’ secrets exert pressure on daily life.

Four investigators — a parapsychology-minded scientist, his wife, and two mediums — spend a week inside the most notorious haunted house to test whether life after death or malignant forces linger there.

A young girl experiences an escalating, violent form of possession that draws medical professionals and Catholic clergy into a struggle over diagnosis and deliverance.

Joanna Eberhart, a photographer and new mother, notices that the wives in her suburban Connecticut community are becoming unnaturally compliant and domestic.

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 troubled fashion model moves into a large New York brownstone divided into apartments and encounters strange disturbances centered on the building and its top-floor, blind Catholic priest.

A recently bereaved woman moves into a large London house to escape her marriage and start over, but strange occurrences and a séance convince her that the house may be haunted.

A mid-1970s novel by Ramsey Campbell that stages a creeping, uncanny threat within intimate domestic spaces.

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 man taking a winter caretaker post at an isolated mountain hotel brings his family to live on-site during the off-season.

A middle-aged woman in an affluent Atlanta suburb watches a striking modern house built next door and becomes convinced something malevolent resides within it.

Set around a haunted house in a rural or small-town environment, the narrative tracks how ordinary family life and local routines come under threat from uncanny, element-linked forces.

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.

Set in a future US where women's civil rights have been revoked, a group of female linguists—trained as interstellar translators—create a new language for women as a deliberate form of resistance.

An ancient, nonhuman presence aims to return to strength by manipulating human agents; decades later ordinary people in a rural community become entangled with that returning force.

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 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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.