Books like The House on the Strand
A man tries a hallucinogenic drug that sends his consciousness into 14th-century Cornwall, where obsession slowly overwrites his real life.
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My Cousin Rachel
A young Englishman becomes obsessed with his beautiful cousin Rachel, unable to determine whether she's an innocent widow or the woman who murdered his guardian.
The Scapegoat
An Englishman meets his French doppelgänger in a provincial railway bar, and wakes up having been forced to take over the stranger's life.
The Spire
Dean Jocelin, convinced he has been chosen by God, drives his medieval cathedral to build a four-hundred-foot spire on foundations that cannot bear it.
The Collector
A butterfly collector kidnaps a young art student and imprisons her in his cellar, convinced that captivity will make her love him.
Enduring Love
A man witnesses a balloon accident that kills a stranger, and the encounter triggers a stalker's obsessive love that he cannot prove or escape.
Doomsday Book
Kivrin, a history student at Oxford in 2054, is sent back to an English village in 1320, just as an epidemic breaks out in the Oxford of her own time.
The Crystal Cave
Merlin, the unwanted bastard son of a Welsh princess, tells of his childhood in fifth-century Britain, his gift of sight and the events that lead to the conception of Arthur.
The Little Stranger
In the summer of 1947 a country doctor is called to Hundreds Hall, the decaying Warwickshire house he once glimpsed as a boy, and becomes entangled with the family whose fortunes and nerves are failing.
The Sea, the Sea
Charles Arrowby, a celebrated theatre director, retires to a house on the rocks by the sea to write his memoirs, and there meets Hartley, the girl he loved as a boy, now an unremarkable married woman in the village.
Affinity
In 1874 a grieving gentlewoman begins visiting the women's wing of Millbank prison as a Lady Visitor and becomes fascinated by an inmate, a young spirit medium jailed after a seance went wrong.
Julia
After her daughter's death, Julia Lofting leaves her husband and buys a large empty house in Holland Park, where she keeps glimpsing a girl who looks like her daughter.
Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes
Cigano, an American drifter living rough in Rio de Janeiro after leaving prison clean of heroin, meets Narcisa, a poet and street addict, and falls for her.