Books: What to Know
Horror & Gothic
The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.
The library
421 horror & gothic
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The Shape of Fear
Elia Wilkinson Peattie · short story
The story in one page
The Shunned House
A century of tragedy in a cellar, until the narrator brings a carboy of acid.
H. P. Lovecraft · short story
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The skeleton crew
novel
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The skeleton scout; or, The border block
Albert W. Aiken · novel
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The sociable ghost
Olive Harper · novel
In the library
The Sorcery Club
Elliott O'Donnell · novel
In the library
The Spook Ballads
William Theodore -1908 Parkes · poetry
In the library
The Spring Song
Forrest Reid · novel
In the library
The Stoneground Ghost Tales
E. G. Swain · short story
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The story hunter
Ernest R. Suffling · short story
The story in one page
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A doctor creates a chemical shortcut to immorality and finds the commute is impossible to stop.
Robert Louis Stevenson · novel
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The Strange Visitation
Marie Corelli · novel
The story in one page
The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance.
A Fleet Street barber offers a very close shave while his neighbor sells the most popular, mysterious pies in London.
James Malcolm Rymer · novel
In the library
The supernatural in early Spanish literature, studied in the works of the court of Alfonso X, el Sabio
Frank Callcott · collection
In the library
The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction
Dorothy Scarborough · novel
In the library
The Supernatural in the New Testament, Possible, Credible, and Historical
C. A. Row · ideas
In the library
The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance
Edith Birkhead · novel
In the library
The Tapestried Chamber, and Death of the Laird's Jock
Walter Scott · short story
The story in one page
The Tell-Tale Heart
A man insists he's sane. This does not go well.
Edgar Allan Poe · short story
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The Thing from the Lake
Eleanor M. Ingram · novel
The story in one page
The thing in the woods
A young doctor takes a quiet summer job only to find a missing predecessor and a creature with steel claws.
Harper Williams · novel
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The thing on the door-step
H. P. Lovecraft · short story
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The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations
Arthur Machen · short story
The story in one page
The Trial
A bank clerk is arrested for a crime no one will name. He decides to argue.
Franz Kafka · novel
The story in one page
The Turn of the Screw
A governess protects two beautiful children from ghosts only she can see, until her protection becomes their greatest danger.
Henry James · novel
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The Unforseen Return
Jean-François Regnard · play
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The Uninhabited House
J. H. Mrs. Riddell · novel
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The Upper Berth; By the Waters of Paradise
F. Marion Crawford · short story
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The vampire cat
Gerard Van Etten · play
The story in one page
The Vampyre; a Tale
A wealthy orphan travels with a dead-eyed lord who dies in Greece and returns to London to marry his sister.
John William Polidori · novel
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The Waif Woman
Robert Louis Stevenson · short story
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The Watcher, and other weird stories
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · short story
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The Water Ghost and Others
John Kendrick Bangs · short story
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The Wave of Scepticism and the Rock of Truth
M. H. Habershon · ideas
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The Well
W. W. Jacobs · short story
In the library
The Wendigo
Algernon Blackwood · myth
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The White Feather Hex
Don Peterson · short story
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The White People
Frances Hodgson Burnett · novel
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The Willows
Algernon Blackwood · novel
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The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman · short story
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The Wizard's Son, Vol. 1 (of 3)
Mrs. Oliphant · novel
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The Wizard's Son, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Mrs. Oliphant · novel
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The Wizard's Son, Vol. 3 (of 3)
Mrs. Oliphant · novel
The story in one page
The Woman in White
A drawing teacher meets a woman in white at midnight, triggering a frantic, multi-witness conspiracy.
Wilkie Collins · novel
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
Edgar Allan Poe · collection
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
Edgar Allan Poe · collection
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3
Edgar Allan Poe · collection
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
Edgar Allan Poe · collection