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Dracula
by
Bram Stoker
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 289,361 ratings
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Frankenstein
by
Mary Shelley
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 473,783 ratings
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Complete Stories and Poems
by
Edgar Allan Poe
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 105,423 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by
Oscar Wilde
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 263,153 ratings
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Jane Eyre
by
Charlotte Brontë
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 660,979 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
by
Emily Brontë
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 441,272 ratings
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by
Robert Louis Stevenson
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 43,683 ratings
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
by
H.P. Lovecraft
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 17,510 ratings
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Carmilla
by
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 7,816 ratings
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The Turn of the Screw
by
Henry James
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 28,219 ratings
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The Phantom of the Opera
by
Gaston Leroux
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 70,624 ratings
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The Woman in White
by
Wilkie Collins
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 46,481 ratings
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Collected Ghost Stories
by
M.R. James
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 2,032 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
by
Charles Dickens
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 172,943 ratings
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by
Robert Louis Stevenson
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 90,714 ratings
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Graphic Novel)
by
Bo Hampton (Adapter, Illustrator)
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 24,397 ratings
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The Castle of Otranto
by
Horace Walpole
3.14 of 5 stars 3.14 avg rating — 6,234 ratings
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The Moonstone
by
Wilkie Collins
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 23,660 ratings
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The Monk
by
Matthew Gregory Lewis
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 7,050 ratings
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
by
Arthur Conan Doyle
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 67,658 ratings
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| 21 |
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Northanger Abbey
by
Jane Austen
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 109,482 ratings
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| 22 |
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Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce
by
Ambrose Bierce
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 1,166 ratings
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| 23 |
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
by
Ann Radcliffe
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 4,894 ratings
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| 24 |
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Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
by
Algernon Blackwood
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 984 ratings
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
by
H.G. Wells
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 31,845 ratings
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| 26 |
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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
by
H.P. Lovecraft
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 12,268 ratings
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| 27 |
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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
by
Edgar Allan Poe
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 32,989 ratings
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| 28 |
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The House on the Borderland
by
William Hope Hodgson
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 1,356 ratings
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| 29 |
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Uncle Silas
by
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 1,796 ratings
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| 30 |
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The Great God Pan
by
Arthur Machen
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 1,717 ratings
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| 31 |
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Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Tales
by
Bram Stoker
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 1,047 ratings
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| 32 |
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The Masque of the Red Death
by
Edgar Allan Poe
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 8,666 ratings
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| 33 |
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The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
by
H.P. Lovecraft
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 14,770 ratings
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| 34 |
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by
Victor Hugo
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 59,211 ratings
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| 35 |
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Gothic Tales
by
Elizabeth Gaskell
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 522 ratings
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| 36 |
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In a Glass Darkly
by
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 1,288 ratings
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| 37 |
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At the Mountains of Madness
by
H.P. Lovecraft
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 5,985 ratings
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| 38 |
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Rebecca
by
Daphne du Maurier
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 147,070 ratings
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| 39 |
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Best Ghost Stories of J. S. Le Fanu
by
E.F. Bleiler (Editor & Introduction)
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 493 ratings
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| 40 |
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The Canterville Ghost
by
Oscar Wilde
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 10,032 ratings
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| 41 |
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The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and Macabre
by
W.W. Jacobs
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 312 ratings
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| 42 |
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The Horla and Other Stories
by
Guy de Maupassant
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 2,857 ratings
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| 43 |
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El caso de Charles Dexter Ward
by
H.P. Lovecraft
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 4,977 ratings
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| 44 |
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
by
Edgar Allan Poe
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 105,354 ratings
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| 45 |
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The Fall of the House of Usher
by
Edgar Allan Poe
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 8,241 ratings
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| 46 |
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The House of the Seven Gables
by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.37 of 5 stars 3.37 avg rating — 14,885 ratings
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| 47 |
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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
by
Edith Wharton
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 1,179 ratings
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| 48 |
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
by
Edgar Allan Poe
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 4,145 ratings
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| 49 |
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The Time Machine
by
H.G. Wells
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 118,925 ratings
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| 50 |
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
by
Washington Irving (author)
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 21,265 ratings
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| 51 |
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The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
by
Robert E. Howard
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 873 ratings
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| 52 |
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Melmoth the Wanderer
by
Charles Maturin
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 1,123 ratings
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| 53 |
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The Italian
by
Ann Radcliffe
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 1,429 ratings
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| 54 |
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Young Goodman Brown
by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 2,791 ratings
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| 55 |
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Shadows over Innsmouth
by
H.P. Lovecraft (Contributor)
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 6,368 ratings
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| 56 |
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
by
Jan Potocki
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 833 ratings
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| 57 |
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The Willows
by
Algernon Blackwood
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 1,093 ratings
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| 58 |
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The Beetle
by
Richard Marsh
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 487 ratings
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| 59 |
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
by
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 35,330 ratings
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The Wind in the Rosebush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural
by
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 45 ratings
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| 61 |
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by
Anne Brontë
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 24,793 ratings
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| 62 |
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The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories
by
H.P. Lovecraft
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 3,867 ratings
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| 63 |
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One Thousand and One Ghosts
by
Alexandre Dumas
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 164 ratings
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| 64 |
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The Beckoning Fair One
by
Oliver Onions
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 97 ratings
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| 65 |
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Seven Gothic Tales
by
Karen Blixen
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 1,137 ratings
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| 66 |
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The Werewolf of Paris
by
Guy Endore
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 199 ratings
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| 67 |
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The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson
by
E.F. Benson
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 233 ratings
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| 68 |
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Les Fleurs du Mal
by
Charles Baudelaire
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 16,161 ratings
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| 69 |
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The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
by
Robert W. Chambers
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 1,900 ratings
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| 70 |
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The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories
by
Wilkie Collins
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 73 ratings
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| 71 |
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The Vampyre: A Tale
by
John William Polidori
3.26 of 5 stars 3.26 avg rating — 1,205 ratings
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| 72 |
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Varney The Vampyre
by
James Malcolm Rymer
3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 308 ratings
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| 73 |
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Tales Of Unease
by
Arthur Conan Doyle
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 158 ratings
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| 74 |
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Hawthorne's Short Stories
by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 803 ratings
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| 75 |
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Ghost Stories
by
Henry James
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 279 ratings
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| 76 |
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The Canterbury Tales
by
Geoffrey Chaucer
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 83,013 ratings
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| 77 |
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El horror de Dunwich
by
H.P. Lovecraft
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 1,753 ratings
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| 78 |
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by
James Hogg
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 2,097 ratings
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| 78 |
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Sweeney Todd or The String of Pearls
by
James Malcolm Rymer
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 874 ratings
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| 80 |
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Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
by
Charles Brockden Brown
3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 583 ratings
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| 81 |
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The Bride of Lammermoor
by
Walter Scott
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 488 ratings
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| 82 |
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Dagón y otros cuentos macabros/Dagon and Other Macabre Stories
by
H.P. Lovecraft
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 1,670 ratings
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| 83 |
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The Witch Of Prague (Mystery & Supernatural)
by
F. Marion Crawford
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 40 ratings
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| 84 |
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
by
Charles Dickens
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 3,465 ratings
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| 85 |
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The Three Impostors and Other Stories
by
Arthur Machen
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 413 ratings
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| 85 |
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The Complete John Silence Stories
by
Algernon Blackwood
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 128 ratings
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| 87 |
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Maldoror and the Complete Works
by
Comte de Lautréamont
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 1,443 ratings
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| 87 |
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Against the Grain
by
Joris-Karl Huysmans
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 3,148 ratings
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| 89 |
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Early Horror Works
by
H.P. Lovecraft
4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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| 90 |
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The Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror
by
E. Nesbit
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 52 ratings
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| 91 |
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En la cripta
by
H.P. Lovecraft
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 66 ratings
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| 92 |
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Zofloya
by
Charlotte Dacre
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 351 ratings
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| 93 |
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The White People and Other Stories
by
Arthur Machen
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 216 ratings
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| 94 |
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The House by the Churchyard
by
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 103 ratings
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| 95 |
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Black Spirits and White - A Book of Ghost Stories
by
Ralph Adams Cram
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Gormenghast Novels (Gormenghast, #1-3)
by
Mervyn Peake
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3,989 ratings
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| 97 |
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More Early Horror Works
by
H.P. Lovecraft
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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| 98 |
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Night's Yawning Peal
by
August Derleth (Editor)
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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| 99 |
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The Jewel of Seven Stars
by
Bram Stoker
3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 693 ratings
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A Rendezvous in Averoigne
by
Clark Ashton Smith
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 295 ratings
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