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Books like The Haunted and the Haunters, Or, The House and the Brain
Loved The Haunted and the Haunters, Or, The House and the Brain by Baron Lytton Edward Bulwer Lytton? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from horror, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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Dracula
Letters and diaries trace a creeping invasion by an ancient predator; the novel that fixed the vampire in our imagination.
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The Shining
A family caretakes an empty winter hotel that wants the father for itself; King's masterclass in dread.
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3
It
A group of friends face a shape-shifting evil in their home town, then again as adults; a doorstop of fear and friendship.
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The Haunting of Hill House
Four people spend a summer in a house that may be alive; the gold standard for the literary ghost story.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818 text)
This is the original edition which was published in 3 volumes. The cover photograph is of Volume 1. Published anonymously. By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. First edition. With half-titles. Title page w
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Nightmare Abbey
Nightmare Abbey, a venerable family-mansion, in a highly picturesque state of semi-dilapidation, pleasantly situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens, at the verge of the county of
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The Vampyre
The Vampyre*, a short gothic novel by John William Polidori, was first published in 1819 and is considered the first modern vampire story. The story features Lord Ruthven, a seductive aristocrat with
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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
Morella -- Lionizing -- William Wilson The man that was used up -- Fall of the House of Usher The Duc de l'Omelette -- Ms. found in a bottle -- Bon-bon -- Shadow -- The devil in the belfry -- Ligeia -
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The Lancashire Witches, a Romance of Pendle Forest
The Lancashire Witches begins in the 16th century, in Lancashire, England. When a Cistercian monk, Borlace Alvetham, is falsely accused of witchcraft and condemned to death by his rival, Brother Pasle
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Carrie
A bullied teenager discovers a terrible power; the lean, ferocious debut that launched a career.