Books like The Sundial
The inhabitants of a decaying mansion become convinced the world will end and they will be the chosen survivors.
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Survivor
The last surviving member of a death cult hijacks a jet and narrates his life into its black box as the plane runs out of fuel over the Australian outback.
The Bird's Nest
Elizabeth Richmond, a meek museum clerk, starts receiving threatening letters she seems to have written herself, and her doctor discovers she is sharing her body with several other women.
The Birds and Other Stories
Stories of ordinary people confronting inexplicable menace, including the famous title story of birds turning on a coastal village.
Lost Lambs
The Flynns of a small coastal town are coming apart: the parents' open marriage is failing, and their three daughters each go off the rails, the youngest by investigating the shipping magnate who looms over the town.
The Lottery and Other Stories
Stories of suburban menace and domestic cruelty, anchored by the infamous title story of a village ritual.
Bunny
A lonely MFA student at an elite New England university is pulled into a clique of rich, saccharine girls who host strange rituals.
Cat's Cradle
A writer researching what the inventors of the atomic bomb did on the day it fell tracks down the children of one of them, and follows them to a Caribbean island where ice-nine, a substance that freezes all water it touches, is waiting.
The House of the Seven Gables
A curse laid during the Salem witch trials hangs over the Pyncheon family's gloomy house, where an impoverished old maid opens a cent shop and waits for her brother to come home from prison.
White Noise
A professor of Hitler Studies at a Midwestern college faces an 'airborne toxic event' and discovers that the white noise of American consumer culture can't drown out the fear of death.
The Bog Wife
For generations the Haddesleys of West Virginia have buried their patriarch in the bog in exchange for a wife to carry on the line. When their father dies and no bride rises for the eldest son, his siblings start to come apart.
Rouge
After her mother's death, a woman obsessed with skincare is drawn into a Los Angeles spa offering treatments that are something other than cosmetic.
Dr. No
A mathematics professor whose specialty is nothing is hired by a billionaire who wants to become a Bond villain and needs help stealing the nothing kept in Fort Knox.