Books: What to Know
Horror & Gothic
The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.
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421 horror & gothic
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John Silence, Physician Extraordinary
Algernon Blackwood · novel
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Kerfol
Edith Wharton · short story
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Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev · short story
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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Lafcadio Hearn · short story
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La Grande Breteche
Honoré de Balzac · short story
The story in one page
Life Blood
A director tracks a missing woman to a jungle clinic where fertility meets a terrifying, proprietary agenda.
Thomas Hoover · novel
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Listen, children ... listen!
Wallace West · short story
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Lore of Proserpine
Maurice Hewlett · short story
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Lukundoo, and other stories
Edward Lucas White · short story
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Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · myth
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Man Overboard!
F. Marion Crawford · novel
The story in one page
Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Detective Stories
A collection of sleuths, secrets, and enough missing pages to fill a police report.
Joseph Lewis French · collection
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Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Ghost Stories
Joseph Lewis French · short story
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Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Mystic-Humorous Stories
Joseph Lewis French · short story
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Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Riddle Stories
Joseph Lewis French · short story
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Medusa's coil
Zealia B. Bishop · novel
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Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 1
Charles Robert Maturin · novel
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Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 2
Charles Robert Maturin · novel
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Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 3
Charles Robert Maturin · novel
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Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4
Charles Robert Maturin · novel
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Men, Women, and Ghosts
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps · short story
The story in one page
Metamorphosis
A traveling salesman transforms into a giant insect, and his family is mostly just annoyed by his poor work attendance.
Franz Kafka · novel
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Miracles and Supernatural Religion
James Morris Whiton · ideas
The story in one page
Mosses from an old manse
A man wanders his garden, stares at his reflection, and finds ghosts in the furniture.
Nathaniel Hawthorne · collection
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Murder mask
Edgar Daniel Kramer · short story
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Nightmare Abbey
Thomas Love Peacock · novel
The story in one page
Northanger Abbey
A girl gets invited to an old manor and promptly assumes everyone is a serial killer.
Jane Austen · novel
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Old House of Fear
Russell Kirk · novel
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Old Mr. Wiley
Greye La Spina · short story
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Ormond; Or, The Secret Witness. Volume 1 (of 3)
Charles Brockden Brown · novel
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Ormond; Or, The Secret Witness. Volume 2 (of 3)
Charles Brockden Brown · novel
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Ormond; Or, The Secret Witness. Volume 3 (of 3)
Charles Brockden Brown · novel
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Our Lady of the Pillar
Eça de Queirós · novel
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Over the Wire
Eugene Jones · short story
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Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton · novel
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Penelope Brandling: A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century
Vernon Lee · novel
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Penny Nichols and the Mystery of the Lost Key
Joan Clark · novel
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Phantom of the Forest
Leroy Yerxa · short story
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Pickman's model
H. P. Lovecraft · short story
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Pillar of Fire
Ray Bradbury · novel
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Pledged to the Dead
Seabury Quinn · novel
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Poetry of the Supernatural
Earle Francis Walbridge · reference
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Portrait of a Man with Red Hair: A Romantic Macabre
Hugh Walpole · novel
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Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Ambrose Bierce · short story
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Rattle of bones
Robert E. Howard · short story
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Real Ghost Stories
W. T. Stead · myth
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Ring Once for Death
Robert Arthur · short story
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Round the Fire Stories
Arthur Conan Doyle · short story