Looking for a supernatural/haunted house “medium burn” horror with a few caveats.

So I’ve almost finished my current audible book and I want to go back to horror. The last horror book I read really disappointed me (Darcy Coates’ The Carrow Haunting) because there were no real stakes (literally no one dies just “go into a coma”) and things never seemed to properly escalate.

What I want is a haunted house or other supernatural novel that takes its time building up the tension but doesn’t overstay its welcome.

The Shining is pretty close to what I want though I think it may be a bit TOO slow of a burn.

The Haunting of Hill House is a book I liked the idea of but ultimately underwhelmed me with the scares.

The one other caveat I’d like to add is I don’t want a book that has a political ax to grind especially if it distracts from the story (Paul Trembly and T Kingfisher come to mind). I’d rather not have my scares interrupted by a room temperature take on “the bad side of religion”