At Lit Hub she tagged twenty books that are laced with sinister magic, including:
Laura van den Berg, The Third Hotel (Picador)Read about the other entries on the list.
Laura van den Berg has mastered the uncanny. In The Third Hotel, a widow goes to Havana to attend a film festival that her horror film scholar husband was supposed to be at. When she arrives, she is haunted by a man who looks exactly like her deceased husband. Reading this novel gives off the feeling of watching one of those Twilight Zone episodes. You sink into a story, and you catch the off-kilter details, and you wait for the twist.
--Marshal Zeringue