An old (1943) and frightening one by Eric Frank Russell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinister_Barrier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinister_Barrier Russell

An old (1943) and frightening one by Eric Frank Russell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinister_Barrier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinister_Barrier Russell employed the idea that we humans are property of some more highly evolved beings that live in a realm that we cannot see.