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"Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits. Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomena called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely...
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At this challenge, Mary Shelley began work on the 'ghost story' that was to evolve into the most celebrated horror novel in literary history. Frankenstein was published the next year and become the rage of London. In the generations since, the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has been read by millions all over the world. It has inspired hundreds of imitations, but it has never been equaled for its masterful manipulation of the...
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Northanger Abbey was among the last of Jane Austen's novels to be published, in 1818, but the first to be written, mostly in 1798-9. Centred on the loves and friendships of Catherine Morland, an endearing young girl extremely fond of novel-reading, it remains the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's novels. During an eventful season in Bath, Catherine meets the sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney who invite her to stay at their father's...
7) Falconridge
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Severn House
Pub. Date
1990.
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English
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When lovely, young Lauren Moore arrives at Falconridge, a mysterious mansion with many hidden secrets, to live with relatives, she becomes caught up in the house's dark mysteries and falls in love with a man who might be the evil force behind it all.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1977.
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English
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A governess is not a murder investigator. To new governess Lorna MacDougal, that seemed a safe and reasonable assumption. Until her employer, the grand matriarch of the Cameron family sees fit to change all the rules of childcare. The woman seriously expects Lorna to discover who murdered her husband.
The family's three sons are obvious suspects: Stephen with his shallow wife, Gentle Charles who wouldn't hurt a fly, and the most dangerous of them...
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Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1973.
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English
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Three women are caught in the grip of the past in this Southern gothic mystery from the beloved twentieth-century American author.
There's nothing to stop Pock Myles, single and unattached, from traveling to Louisiana to comfort her recently widowed and pregnant sister, Rye. But this is no ordinary visit. Recently, there have been bizarre happenings at Larchwood, the vast estate where Rye's staying with their aunt.
When Pock arrives, Rye takes her...
12) Bride of Ae
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1983.
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English
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"Lovely milliner's apprentice Sara Ryder accepts an offer of marriage from a man anticipating to come into great wealth and finds herself hopelessly trapped in a loveless prison." --
16) Raven's forge
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McKay
Pub. Date
[1975]
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English
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Raven's Forge was buiilt in 1803, now it was old and a relic and its brick and mortar crumbling. Maggie Reynolds a descendant of the original founder, down on her luck, met John Charlton, He struck a bargain with her to use the house for a theater. Someone tried to kill her daughter and she found death symbols.
18) The other Karen
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Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
[1983]
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English
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An aspiring actress is hired as a companion by the Andexters, who ask her to impersonate Karen Andexter to her aged grandmother. Her growing conviction that their motives are not honest causes her to go in search of the vanished real Karen.
20) The stone maiden
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Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
[1980]
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English
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A woman searching for the parents who abandoned her as an infant uncovers a sinister secret.
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