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Horror: Classic
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The Raven and the Monkey's Paw: Classics of Horror and Suspense Starting with Poe's famous poem and including some of his classic horror stories, other practitioners of the supernatural in this book include: Edith Wharton, with her gripping "Afterward"; Charles Dickens and his famed ghost story "The Signalman"; W. W. Jacobs, with this compilation's inspiration, "The Monkey's Paw." 1998 Adult Fiction Book |
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Bierce, Ambrose The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as 'bitter Bierce' and 'the devil's lexicographer.' He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius. 1984 Adult Fiction Book |
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Blatty, William Peter The Exorcist An actress'young daughter becomes possessed by an ancient demon and the desperate mother turns to the Jesuit priest Father Karras to save her. Made into one of the best horror films of the 1970's. 1994 Adult Fiction Book |
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Bradbury, Ray Bradbury Stories : 100 of his Most Celebrated Tales Running the gamut from science fiction to dark fantasy, check out the bizarre and chilling stories originally found in his story collection The October Country such as "Skeleton," "The Small Assassin," "Touched with Fire," and "Uncle Einar" 2003 Adult Fiction Book |
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Bradbury, Ray Something Wicked this Way Comes Three hours after midnight, one week before Halloween, Cooger Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show rolls into Green Town, Illinois. A carnival like no other, it feeds on the dreams and weaknesses of those drawn to its eerie attractions, destroying every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. 1999 Adult SciFi Fantasy Book |
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Brown, Charles Brockden Three Gothic Novels The disturbing 1798 tale of terror "Wieland, or The Transformation", is a masterpiece involving spontaneous combustion, disembodied voices, religious mania, and a gruesome murder based on a real-life incident. You can also read "Arthur Mervyn, or Memoirs of the Year 1793" & "Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker" in this collection. 1998 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Collins, Wilkie The Woman in White This first and greatest "Sensation Novel" describes Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white who draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. 2005 Adult Fiction Book |
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Dickens, Charles The Annotated Christmas Carol: A Christmas Carol in Prose The Christmas Carol is a classic Christmas story of a poor family, the father Bob Cratchit, who works for the miser Scrooge, and his crippled son who live London. Scrooge is transformed by his experience on Christmas Eve when his is visited three ghosts. 2004 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir The Hound of the Baskervilles A deadly curse in the form of a legendary ferocious beast continues to claim its victims from the Baskerville family until Holmes and Watson intervene. Often called the best detective story ever written. It's certainly one of the scariest. 2001 Adult Mystery Book |
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Faust I and II The alchemist-scholar Faust sells his soul to the devil for love and pleasure in this classic tale by one of the great poetic writers of all time. 1994 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel Twice-told Tales The most famous collection of Hawthorne's stories, this volume includes the ghostly legend "Howe's Masquerade", the infamous "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," and the deliciously creepy "The Hollow of the Three Hills". 2001 Adult Fiction Book |
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Hodgson, William Hope Adrift On the Haunted Seas : the Best Short Stories of William Hope Hodgson Creepy and wonderful stories, including "The Voice in the Night" and "The Shamraken Homeward-Bounder", and the famous "The Whistling Room" featuring his occult detective Thomas Carnacki. 2005 Adult Fiction Book |
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Irving, Washington The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Illustrations by Arthur Rackham accompany this retelling of Irving's classic tale of the superstitious schoolmaster Ichabod Crane's encounter with a headless horseman. 1990 Children's Fiction Book |
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Jackson, Shirley The Haunting of Hill House A professor organizes a ghost watch, inviting people who have been touched by otherworldly events to a notorious estate in New England. Shy and bitter Eleanor becomes part of the research team and a target for Hill House's attentions. 1959 Adult Fiction Book |
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James, Henry The Turn of the Screw The classic ghost story about the high-strung governess and the two young children who may--or may not--be plotting with the diabolical Peter Quint. 1966 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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King, Stephen The Shining This tale of a troubled man hired to care for a remote mountain resort over the winter, his loyal wife, and their uniquely gifted son slowly but steadily unfolds as secrets from the Overlook Hotel's past are revealed, and the hotel itself attempts to claim the very souls of the Torrence family. 2002 Adult Fiction Book |
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Leroux, Gaston The Phantom of the Opera A half-crazed masked musician hiding in the labyrinth of the famous Paris Opera House creates a number of strange and mysterious events to further the career of a beautiful young singer. 2001 Adult Fiction Book |
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Levin, Ira Rosemary's Baby Witchcraft and terror await Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse when they move into the ominous Bramford apartment house. 1967 Adult Fiction Book |
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Lovecraft, H. P. At the Mountains of Madness and other Novels Here are all the novels of H.P. Lovecraft in one volume. This book contains the complete texts of: "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," "The Statement of Randolph Carter," and more. 1985 Adult Fiction Book |
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Machen, Arthur The Great God Pan One of the greatest works of weird horror and decadence, in which Machen unfurls with his singular eye for the bizarre and macabre the tale of a young girl cursed by her unnatural parentage to become a creature of shape-shifting polysexual demi-human evil. You can also download this as an eBook from the library. 2005 Adult Fiction Book |
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