“Growing Things” stands on its own, but if you’re familiar with Tremblay’s novels “A Head Full of Ghosts” and “Disappearance at Devil’s Rock,” you’ll find recurring characters, relationships that branch from one book to another, and story lines that tangle up, fusing his imaginary worlds as if by the twisting stalks of the growing things. But what truly connects these stories is Tremblay’s particular vision of the world. It is wide ranging, yet particular, cautionary and strangely daring. You can’t help feeling that he is a writer whose reach will continue to grow and grow and grow.

If you like “Growing Things,” you will also want to read Tremblay’s Bram Stoker Award-winning novel THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Morrow, paper, $15.99). Because this is a Tremblay novel, the characters are the kind of people you probably see every day, the millennial at the coffee shop or the couple at your child’s school. Here, we have Eric and Andrew and their adopted daughter, Wen, a perceptive girl whose “eighth birthday is in six days.” They are on a family vacation in northern New Hampshire, Eric and Andrew lounging by a lake, Wen catching grasshoppers, the day cloudless and perfect until Leonard, and his delusional crew of misfits, take them hostage in their cabin.

The group arrives carrying weapons and, although Andrew and Eric barricade the doors and windows, Leonard and crew force their way in, tie up Andrew and Eric and explain their twisted plan to save the world. Are they members of a cult? Not exactly. As it turns out, they met on an online message board only days before. They met in person for the first time just that morning. They have come together for the sole purpose of acting out their doomsday mission on an innocent family.

Only now, at this moment in time, when the internet is capable of engendering so much mass delusion with such efficiency, could this variety of crime occur. Andrew understands that “online groups reinforce and validate the delusions” of unstable people, and that he and his family are victims of such technology. In Tremblay’s hands, the story is less a home invasion novel than an exploration of what happens when extreme groups force their will on others by whatever means necessary. The result is a gripping, terrifying novel that is as suspenseful as it is heartbreaking. As the terrible consequences play out, one understands that delusional ideologues hurt the innocent most of all.

While the ecological disaster in the story “Growing Things” has a fairy-tale quality, Jack’s beanstalk gone wild, Naomi Booth’s SEALED (Titan, paper, $14.95), offers a more visceral version of just how bad things can get when the natural world turns on us. As a pandemic spreads through urban areas, Alice, who is heavily pregnant, and her partner, Pete, flee to the mountains. They hope to find respite from contagion, only to discover it is in full force in the countryside, local hospitals are overwhelmed, and they are stranded. The disease, called Cutis Sigillatis, or the “skin-sealing syndrome,” is particularly disturbing. For reasons that are not fully understood, a person’s skin knits over every orifice — eyes, ears, mouth and so on — until one suffocates or starves to death, “choked in our beds by our own skin.”