Books like HEX by S.R. Fauth

1818 novel by Mary Shelley about young scientist Victor Frankenstein who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox experiment.

David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas weaves six linked narratives across time and place, exploring themes of fate, reincarnation, and the human impulse for power.

One Year After follows the surviving community of Black Mountain, North Carolina, a year after the nuclear attack that devastated the United States, as they attempt to restore technology and government while facing a controversial national draft.

When a coastal dog retrieves a bone that turns out to be human, Isa Wilde’s idyllic village of Salten is thrust into terror as her childhood friends uncover a dark secret, unraveling their shared past.

In the second book of the Dark Tide Rising series, the US Navy, Marines and Coast Guard rebuild after a bio‑weapon turns people into dangerous, mind‑broken infected. A 13‑year‑old Marine lieutenant and her 15‑year‑old sister command vessels in a gritty survival saga.

A semi‑pro gamer named Arnold is mistakenly resurrected into a fat farmer’s body in a fantasy world, where he must use his gaming knowledge to level up and find a second class, all while learning that farmers don’t earn experience from monsters.

Wenn ein Traumhaus in den Highlands zum Albtraum wird Rowan Caine nimmt eine Stelle als Kindermädchen in einem einsam gelegenen Haus in Schottland an, bei einer scheinbar perfekten Familie mit vier Töchtern. Doch ihr Traumjob wird für Rowan zum Albtraum. Die Atmosphäre im Haus ist extrem unheimlich. Sie fühlt sich ständig beobachtet – nicht nur von den Überwachungskameras, die in jedem Zimmer hängen. Dann findet sie die ominöse Warnung eines früheren Kindermädchens an die unbekannte Nachfolgerin Und es geschehen immer mehr beängstigende, unerklärliche Dinge. Auch das Verhalten der Kinder wird immer seltsamer – bis es schließlich einen tragischen Todesfall gibt. Und Rowan gerät unter Mordverdacht. Um ihre Unschuld zu beweisen, greift sie zu einem verzweifelten Mittel.

Dahlia Dutton takes on a salvaging job at Augusta Winthrow's sprawling estate, only to discover a restless spirit lurking in the house and a forgotten cemetery that keeps a dark secret alive.

In The Mechanical Crafter, a reborn man named Repair, a Metalman, must navigate a magic‑infused industrial city, earn XP in dungeons, and craft to outwit foes who seek his destruction.

Amid an alien invasion, college student Alan dives into an immersive virtual reality Game that becomes the key to humanity’s survival.

When a global apocalypse wipes out humanity, a lone wildlife researcher in Antarctica grapples with isolation and the strange persistence of the dead in a surreal “City,” where their continued existence relies on her memory.

Stephen King's collection "The End of the Whole Mess and other stories" gathers four tales—"The End of the Whole Mess," "The Doctor’s Case," "The Moving Finger," and "Home Delivery"—originally published in the anthology Nightmares & Dreamscapes.

Nightmares & Dreamscapes is a collection of eight Stephen King short stories, including ‘Chattery Teeth,’ ‘My Pretty Pony,’ ‘Sneakers,’ ‘Dedication,’ ‘The Doctor’s Case,’ ‘The Moving Finger,’ ‘The End Of The Whole Mess,’ and ‘Home Delivery,’ offering a mix of horror, satire, and speculative fiction.

Randidly Ghosthound felt lost and alone even before the System transformed the Earth. Before every person had to deal with the sudden presence of Levels, Skills, monsters, and the very real possibility of death... Due to unusual circumstances, Randidly starts in an isolated Dungeon far beyond his Level, forced to rely on the mysterious Traveler Shal in order to learn and survive with the dangerous new status quo for his world. But survive he does, only to leave the Dungeon and discover that while he experienced several hellish months in the Dungeon, only half a day passed on Earth. Randidly's capabilities are now more than enough to help build a small enclave of survivors, but that doesn't mean balancing his sense of responsibility against the plots of an unfriendly town will be easy. And although he doesn’t know it, he needs to prepare. Because the System has sent down a Tribulation, which waits in the shadows and monitors his every move...