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The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Summary

The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe 1843 688 pages

by Douglas Preston 1995 480 pages

The Sheep Look Up Summary

The Sheep Look Up

by John Brunner 1972 352 pages

Science Fiction

Post Apocalyptic

Desperation Summary

by Stephen King 1996 547 pages

Insomnia Summary

by Sarah Pinborough 2022 336 pages

Mystery Thriller

Catharsis Summary

by Travis Bagwell 2016 527 pages

Science Fiction

Thornhedge Summary

by T. Kingfisher 2023 116 pages

The Hollow Places Summary

The Hollow Places

by T. Kingfisher 2020 341 pages

The Third Eye Summary

by Lois Duncan 1984 220 pages

Lucas on the Line Summary

Lucas on the Line

by Suyi Davies 2022 310 pages

Science Fiction

Monster Hunter International Summary

Monster Hunter International

by Larry Correia 2009 557 pages

Powers of Darkness Summary

Powers of Darkness

The Lost Version of Dracula

by Valdimar Ásmundsson 1901 309 pages

All's Well Summary

by Mona Awad 2021 352 pages

Magical Realism

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Summary

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

by Grady Hendrix 2020 410 pages

Reliquary Summary

by Douglas Preston 1997 464 pages

The Puzzle Master Summary

The Puzzle Master

by Danielle Trussoni 2023 362 pages

Mystery Thriller

The Island of Dr. Moreau Summary

The Island of Dr. Moreau

by H.G. Wells 1896 160 pages

Science Fiction

Night Film Summary

by Marisha Pessl 2013 640 pages

The Gathering Dark Summary

The Gathering Dark

An Anthology of Folk Horror

by Tori Bovalino 2022 272 pages

Dracula the Un-Dead Summary

Dracula the Un-Dead

by Dacre Stoker 2009 424 pages

172 Hours on the Moon Summary

172 Hours on the Moon

by Johan Harstad 2008 368 pages

Science Fiction

The Great God Pan Summary

The Great God Pan

by Arthur Machen 1890 82 pages

by Hans Holzer 1997 761 pages

Shadow Slave Summary

by Guiltythree 2022 591 pages

It's Behind You Summary

It's Behind You

by Kathryn Foxfield 2021 352 pages

Phantom Limb Summary

by Lucinda Berry 2016 260 pages

Mystery Thriller

The Tangleroot Palace Summary

The Tangleroot Palace

by Marjorie M. Liu 2021 239 pages

All-Night Party Summary

All-Night Party

by R.L. Stine 1997 160 pages

Frozen Hell Summary

by John W. Campbell Jr. 2019 149 pages

Science Fiction

The Haunted Mesa Summary

The Haunted Mesa

by Louis L'Amour 1987 426 pages

The Sun Down Motel Summary

The Sun Down Motel

by Simone St. James 2020 327 pages

The Painted Bird Summary

The Painted Bird

by Jerzy Kosiński 1965 234 pages

Historical Fiction

The Mammoth Book of True Hauntings Summary

The Mammoth Book of True Hauntings

by Peter Haining 2008 512 pages

A Natural History: 500 Years of Searching for Proof

by Roger Clarke 2012 359 pages

Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus - Illustrated Summary

Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus - Illustrated

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1818 310 pages

Science Fiction

Something from the Nightside Summary

Something from the Nightside

by Simon R. Green 2003 230 pages

The 120 Days of Sodom Summary

The 120 Days of Sodom

by Marquis de Sade 1785 376 pages

Chasing Ghosts Summary

A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural

by Marc Hartzman 2021 272 pages

The Sentinel Summary

by Jeffrey Konvitz 1974 278 pages

Ghostland Summary

An American History in Haunted Places

by Colin Dickey 2016 320 pages

Hauntings Summary

True Stories of Unquiet Spirits

by Paul Roland 2008 208 pages

A Cosmology of Monsters Summary

A Cosmology of Monsters

by Shaun Hamill 2019 336 pages

Sweet Heart Summary

by Peter James 1991 335 pages

Tales From the Hinterland Summary

Tales From the Hinterland

by Melissa Albert 2021 240 pages

The Tale of the Vampire Bride Summary

The Tale of the Vampire Bride

by Rhiannon Frater 2009 334 pages

The Pilo Family Circus Summary

The Pilo Family Circus

by Will Elliott 2006 300 pages

The Bog Wife Summary

by Kay Chronister 2024 336 pages

House of Leaves Summary

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski 2000 710 pages

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