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.

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 gigantic cylindrical alien spacecraft enters the Solar System in the 2130s and a human exploration team intercepts it to investigate.

Two girls grow up together in a Black Ohio neighborhood and their friendship—shaped by class, family, and local expectations—becomes a lasting pressure that reshapes both their lives and the community around them.

Set during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the novel stages the prolonged siege of a fictional Indian town and follows the British residents who must endure shortages, disease risk, and the breakdown of familiar authority.

A young woman inherits a small private-investigations practice and confronts a suspicious death that forces her to take on a case that tests her competence and moral judgment. The plot focuses on unraveling motive and circumstance through interviews, legwork, and piecing together local relationships.

An eleven-year-old English boy discovers on his birthday that he belongs to an ancient group of guardians opposed to a rising Dark. Faced with recovering lost magical talismans and learning his new role, he must act quickly as the balance between Light and Dark tightens.

A retired art professor and collector secretly works as a professional assassin. He is pulled back into service to avenge the murder of an American agent, a mission that entwines high-altitude mountaineering with clandestine espionage and a fixation on art objects.

Set across the span of a single year, the novel follows multiple interlinked characters and institutions as environmental degradation and pollution escalate in the United States.

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

A grandmother, her six-year-old granddaughter Sophia, and the child's father spend a summer on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland as the family lives with the recent death of the mother.

On a forested alien world, an occupying human logging colony treats the native population as subjugated labor. Tensions escalate after an especially brutal crime, and a native leader mobilizes resistance against the colonists.

A compact nonfiction work that analyzes how images are seen and understood, arguing that social context and ideology shape visual meaning. It presents short, illustrated meditations and concrete image readings to show how advertising, reproduction, and historical habits influence perception and value judgments in art.

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.

Maurice follows a young man’s emotional and sexual development from school into adulthood in early 20th‑century England.

A tightly plotted political thriller about a professional assassin hired by a dissident French paramilitary group to carry out a high-profile killing. The book sets up a procedural duel between the lone contractor's meticulous preparations and the official security forces racing to identify and stop him.

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

A man’s dreams have the power to change the real world, and those around him — including a psychiatrist — must confront the consequences of shaping reality through unconscious wishes.

A girl taken as a child becomes the high priestess of a closed, sacred tomb complex and endures a life of ritual, solitude, and strict hierarchy.

Set in a Midwestern town during the Depression era, the novel follows a young Black girl who internalizes local and cultural standards of beauty and longs for blue eyes as a way to be seen as lovable.

A retelling of the early life of Merlin that frames his psychic visions and uncertain parentage within the fractured, post-Roman kingdoms of Britain.

An aging, small-time Boston criminal and informant navigates deals, betrayals, and legal pressure within the city's Irish-American underworld. The novel focuses on his day-to-day interactions, the negotiations between criminals and law enforcement, and the consequences of compromised loyalties.

Set in rural Georgia during the cotton/sharecropping era, the novel follows Grange Copeland and the consequences of his decisions across generations.

A first-volume autobiographical account of Maya Angelou’s early life, following her from early childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, through adolescence and into young motherhood. The narrative traces how encounters with racism, personal trauma, and steady literary influences shape her sense of self and dignity.

Billy Pilgrim, an American who served in World War II, experiences a fractured relationship with time after the war. The novel follows episodes of his life — including his capture and survival of the Allied firebombing of Dresden — presented out of chronological order.

Set in a Caribbean social world, the novel tracks characters whose private histories and public roles intersect with race, class, and the island’s social customs. Tensions arise as personal ambitions and generational expectations collide with broader questions about who belongs and who speaks for the community.