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 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.

Set in a near-future Orange County, the novel follows an undercover narcotics agent embedded in a household of drug users while concealing his identity from both the police and his targets.

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

A first-person account of growing up between Chinese folktales and American life, where family history and mythic stories intertwine with recollections of childhood.

Set in the mid-20th century American South, the novel follows Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer recovering from a physical accident while carrying a family's intergenerational wounds.

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.

Set in a farming community, the novel follows how the arrival or actions of a persuasive auctioneer alters local social bonds and everyday life. The central pressure comes from interpersonal influence, suspicion, and the erosion of trust among neighbors.

Four women from parallel worlds — each living under different social rules and gender expectations — come into contact and confront one another's lives. Their meetings force personal reevaluation and stage a sustained feminist interrogation of what 'being a woman' can mean across differing social systems.

Set in a near-future dystopia, the novel follows a skilled programmer pursued after years on the run; his escape relies on creating and deploying computer programs to confuse trackers and undermine the systems that control society.

Set against the political tensions of the early 1960s, an American intelligence officer, Paul Christopher, investigates the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

A tightly plotted conspiracy thriller about a young man drawn into a dangerous web of secrets connected to his brother and a larger, violent past.

A book-length series of linked essays that record extended, close observations of the natural world around a creek and turn those observations into philosophical and lyrical reflections on life, perception, and the human place in nature.

Set in a near future where disease is mostly cured, a woman given a terminal diagnosis becomes the object of a reality program that wants to televise her final days. She resists being packaged for entertainment, unaware that a reporter bearing covert cameras is recording her without consent.

Two contrasting societies — one organized around communal, anarchist principles and the other structured by more conventional hierarchy and market relations — come into contact.

A conscripted young soldier joins an elite force fighting an alien species in an interstellar war; relativistic travel stretches years into decades for those on Earth.

A standalone fantasy centered on magic and wizards, told with a fairy-tale cadence and inward focus. The narrative orbits a central character and the relationships they form with enchanted creatures and magical practice, with stakes rooted in personal consequences rather than sprawling political conflict.

A character-driven reconstruction of the three days around the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, told through the perspectives of historical military figures from both the Union and the Confederacy.

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.

Set in a near-future speculative scenario, the novel follows people living under acute strain from changing social orders and gendered power dynamics. The immediate pressure comes from desperate survival choices and fraught relationships between men and women living within constrained, dangerous circumstances.