Books Like Annihilation Where the Landscape Is the Antagonist
Weird fiction's best trick: no villain, just a place operating on rules nobody agreed to. Bring tolerance for unanswered questions.
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1. Borne
by Jeff VanderMeer
Same author, ruined city, a creature you will become attached to.
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2. The Train Between Worlds On this site
by Simran Mehta
The train does not explain itself, and the passengers have stopped expecting it to. Book One of three.
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3. Roadside Picnic
by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The Zone. The origin text for most of this subgenre.
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4. The Fisherman
by John Langan
Grief, fishing, and something enormous underneath. Quietly one of the best horror novels of the last decade.
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5. The Loney
by Andrew Michael Hurley
A stretch of English coast that is wrong in a way nobody will name.