A narrative investigation into how animal infections jump into humans and create new epidemics, built from scientific case studies, interviews with researchers, and on-the-ground reportage.

A young woman from a Chinese-Malaysian community becomes involved in a ghost marriage ritual that asks her to negotiate between family expectations and a claim from the otherworld.

Set around wartime conflict in Ethiopia, the book follows characters caught up in the pressures of invasion and resistance. Its central orientation is toward people’s inner responses to violence and the ways ordinary lives and loyalties are tested by war.

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 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.

Set in the Arctic and rooted in Inuit experience, the novel follows an individual and their community as they face personal and collective pressures tied to survival, spiritual practice, and contact with outsiders.

A first-person memoir that looks closely at a relationship Machado calls the Dream House and how that relationship involved psychological abuse.

A woman who has left a life tied to intelligence work is living overseas when a chain of events forces secrets from her past back into play, putting family and identity at risk.

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.