Status Updates From The Weird: A Compendium of ...

Family by Joyce Carol Oates: This might actually be the first I’ve read from Oates. Just slowly escalating tension, and the feeling of being stalked by an unnerving and impossible to resolve menace. Ominous and tragic in the extreme, like if Grapes of Wrath was set in purgatory.

Finally picked this one back up and read through Elizabeth Hand's The Boy in the Tree. Definitely weird, a fun mix of science fiction and fantasy, menacing and appropriately dreamlike throughout.