I’d really like to find books that give the same feeling as the video game Control – creepy and paranormal, but not supernatural (no ghosts/vampires/ etc). More like weird phenomena, especially if it doesn’t try to wrap everything up neatly in the end.
Things like landscapes shifting, unexplained behavior changes, things that seem to happen for no reason, just a general unsettling feeling of wrongness. The stories “The Left-Right Game” and “The Northern Caves” are also along the same lines of what I’m looking for.
Thanks for any ideas!
by VaultTec_Lies
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Sounds a bit like Jeff Vandermeer: Annihilation and sequels (the Southern Reach trilogy).
Maybe “The Hollow Places” by T Kingfisher
Also, haven’t read it, but this sounds like “House of Leaves”
My two votes are already here, House of Leaves and Area x.
Also good chance you already know this, but control cribs a lot from the SCP series of microfiction, a lot of people consider it an SCP game. Even though the quality of writing is….Variable (especially dialogue) I have wiled away many an afternoon reading those, they are good clean fun.
The Laundry file series by Charles Stross
Bourne and the Southern Reach Series by Jeff Vandermeer