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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 Mysteries of Udolpho
An orphan girl inherits a castle and a guardian who treats hospitality like a hostage negotiation.
Ann Ward Radcliffe · novel
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Dracula
A solicitor visits a client in the mountains, only to find the client has teeth.
Bram Stoker · novel
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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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Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
A village girl loses her innocence to a liar and her reputation to everyone else.
Thomas Hardy · novel
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Hamlet
A mourning prince meets his father's ghost, feigns madness, and delays a murder until almost everyone is dead.
William Shakespeare · play
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The heir disappears on Christmas Eve, leaving behind a baffled town and a permanently unwritten conclusion.
Charles Dickens · novel
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Crime and Punishment
A student kills a pawnbroker to prove he is a superman, then discovers he lacks the stomach for the aftermath.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · novel
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
A family curse involving a glowing giant dog forces a detective to leave London for the foggy Devon moors.
Arthur Conan Doyle · novel
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
A nurse swaps two babies in their cribs; twenty years later, the wrong boy inherits everything.
Mark Twain · novel
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The King in Yellow
A stage play turns its readers into walking disasters. The city is just collateral damage.
Robert W. Chambers · collection
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Twenty-Five Ghost Stories
From murderous cats to phantom toes, twenty-five accounts of the supernatural range from the psychological to the suspiciously culinary.
W. Bob Holland · collection
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The call of Cthulhu
A man inherits a box of clippings and discovers the stars are finally aligning for a giant, gelatinous apocalypse.
H. P. Lovecraft · short-story
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
An antiquarian’s curiosity proves hazardous as long-dead monks, cursed ash trees, and forgotten whistles unleash specific, physical, and very angry spirits.
M. R. James · collection
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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 Riddle of the Sands
Two amateur sailors find a German invasion fleet lurking in the shallows of the North Sea.
Erskine Childers · novel
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The Damned Thing
An invisible predator stalks the wilderness, but the jury is only interested in your sanity.
Ambrose Bierce · Short story
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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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The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories
Two vagabonds claim a kingdom, a traveler finds a village of the dead, and the colonial heat breeds restless ghosts.
Rudyard Kipling · collection
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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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Cursed be the treasure
A boy grows up in a shadow of secrets, chasing a treasure that promises only ruin.
H. B. Drake · novel
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The Big Fix
Telepathy and horse racing collide; it turns out human nature is still just as messy as ever.
George O. Smith · Short story
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The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
A law student, a secretary, and several medical students encounter spectral visitors in isolated cabins and drafty city rentals.
Algernon Blackwood · collection
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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
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The mark of the monster
A man returns to a rotting village to save his partner from a basement-dwelling horror.
Jack Williamson · Short story
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Tales of terror
Professional men encounter things that shouldn't exist, and things that certainly do.
Dick Donovan · Collection
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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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At the mountains of madness
A scientific expedition to Antarctica discovers that the continent’s original inhabitants are not extinct, just very, very irritable.
H. P. Lovecraft · novel
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
An undercover detective infiltrates a cabal of anarchists, only to find the revolution is surprisingly bureaucratic.
G. K. Chesterton · novel