I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.
Housesitting by Ray Garton.
Garton does a lot with so little: a simple housesitting job gone wrong. I suspected this would be a 'woman gets attacked' scenario and I was so, so wrong. Until the moment he started setting things up and even then I didn't see the surprise coming.
There's no real violence in a lot of ways: even the violence that does happen is in the past and isn't really what I usually think of when I think of this kind of horror. It's still creepy as all get out, though. I may need a break from these stories. They are incredibly intense!