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

A small, stranded community faces a dire survival problem and must decide how to preserve life when resources and choices are scarce. The book stages debates, factions, and a mounting moral pressure as the group confronts whether and how to continue as a social unit under extreme conditions.

A linked collection of short stories that reimagines traditional fairy tales and folk tales by amplifying their latent, often unsettling elements.

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.

A contemporary Black woman living in 1970s Los Angeles is repeatedly pulled back in time to a Maryland plantation in the early 19th century, where she encounters ancestors and must navigate slavery's social and moral realities to survive and return to her own time.

An extended piece of narrative journalism that follows postwar U.S. test pilots and the first astronauts selected for Project Mercury, probing why these men accepted extreme danger and how American aviation and space culture valorized risk.

A scholarly novice and his mentor arrive at an isolated medieval monastery where a string of mysterious deaths presents a locked-circle investigation.

Set in a far-future, quasi-medieval city, the novel follows Severian, an apprentice in a torturers' guild, whose expulsion forces him to leave his home and travel into a decaying world.

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.