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The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre 136 reviews
H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch
Del Rey, 1987
Lovecraft is a master
+ You know, the amorphous toad-like being hinted at ...
+ Best of Lovecraft
+ Revisiting Lovecraft
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The Doll Who Ate His Mother 12 reviews
Ramsey Campbell
Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1985
Ice, Ice Baby!
+ Excellent
+ What makes a man a monster?
+ Yes, the title is eventually explained in the book!
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Florida Fog Phantoms (American Chillers) 2 reviews
Johnathan Rand
Audio Craft Press, 2002
Fun & Scary!
+ great for beginners!
Would you ever want to go out in the fog in Florida? You are in a fog in American Chiller Florida Fog Phantoms by Jonathan Rands. The book is about fog phantoms. The book takes place in Florida. I like it because it was scary. It had a lot of action. He was brave and capable. I like when the ...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: And Other Tales of Terror (Penguin Classics)7 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson
Penguin Classics, 2003
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Dual Nature of Man.
+ A Short Masterpiece
+ Excellent edition of a classic tale
+ Interesting horror/study
+ A Great Horror Story
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It (Signet Books)863 reviews
Stephen King
Signet, 1987
Long and scary.
+ Beep Beep...
+ Absolutely Amazing
+ Chilling
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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe70 reviews
Edgar Allan Poe
Doubleday, 1966
The Enduring Master of the Macabre
+ POEtic Justice
+ poes book
+ The undisputed master of gothic horror.
+ The mind of a genius
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Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories (The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James, Vol. 1)5 reviews
M. R. James
Penguin Classics, 2005
Huge fan....
+ Academic and Exciting Ghost Stories
+ More fantastic Victorian ghost stories
+ Good edition -- just not enough of James' stories
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Dracula (Signet Classics)341 reviews
Bram Stoker
Signet Classics, 1986
An old fashioned tale that doesn't offend
+ AN ACTUAL REVIEW OF THIS NAXOS AUDIO DRAMATIZATION
+ There is more than meets the eye
Bram Stoker's "Dracula" was first published in 1897, and as one reads this work, it is overwhelmingly apparent that it was written during a time when morals and virtues were held in a much higher regard than they are today.
The book is comprised primarily of various journal entries from six ...
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Ghost Story110 reviews
Peter Straub
Pocket, 1989
Solid
+ The only novel that has genuinely scared me
+ The best spooky story I've ever read!
+ A classic ghost story
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The Bad Place133 reviews
Dean Koontz
Berkley, 2004
One of DK's best
+ Thanks for a new Bug that will haunt my nightmares!!!
+ Another Koontz Success
The Bad Place is one of my favorite books by DK...but then again, most of his books are my favorites! I was creeped out by Candy & his twin sisters...made me think of the X-Files episode entitled "Home."
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The Monk (Penguin Classics)10 reviews
Matthew Lewis, Christopher MacLachlan
Penguin Classics, 1999
What does a monastery hide in its cellars?
+ Unholy Lust
+ nice
+ creepy
+ Amazing
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Three Complete Novels (Psycho, Psycho II, and Psycho House)1 review
Robert Bloch
Random House Value Publishing, 1993
Psycho book
The book is great. It was what I expected and it came so soon after ordering.
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Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)39 reviews
Mary Shelley
Penguin Classics, 2003
4-1/2 stars for a classic the movies messed up
+ Frankenstein
+ Frakenstein
+ This edition allows Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin-Shelley to shine
+ Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
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The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics)30 reviews
Ann Radcliffe
Penguin Classics, 2001
The Mysteries of Udolpho: real and imagined
+ Ahead of her Time!
+ Like a long and complex dream ...
On one level, this novel defies categorisation. Yes, the Gothic web of mystery and intrigue is obvious. And so too are the beautiful descriptions of nature, the struggle between good and evil, the noble acts of heroism and the ignoble acts of greed.
Anne Radcliffe has taken all of these ...
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I Am Legend509 reviews
Richard Matheson
Orb Books, 1997
Unique like the movie, but not the same
+ I am in Awe of This Story!
+ Vampires...the end of everything
+ Dares to be different
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Clive Barker's Books of Blood 1-366 reviews
Clive Barker
Berkley Trade, 1998
Books of Blood: Volumes 1-3 By Clive Barker
+ Bloody good fun!
+ Interesting Short Story book
+ King of Horror
+ Barker's crazy imagination!
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The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story 31 reviews
Horace Walpole
Oxford University Press, USA, 1998
Lovely, trashy early novel
The Castle of Otranto isn't the best novel you'll ever read, since its characters are more like "types" than living human beings. That said, it's a breezy example of an early novel, before the Victorians got hold of the form and made the books longer and more "respectable." This is one of the ...
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Something Wicked This Way Comes204 reviews
Ray Bradbury
Avon, 1998
A Lyrical Journey Through the Essence of Good and Evil
+ One of the scariest things I have ever read
+ A Wicked Good Read
+ The Magic is Still Coming
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The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)324 reviews
Shirley Jackson
Penguin Classics, 2006
Set the horror standard for me!
+ One of her best
+ Excellent
+ Horror Classic
+ My favorite horror film ever made.
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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe70 reviews
Edgar Allan Poe
Doubleday, 1966
The Enduring Master of the Macabre
+ POEtic Justice
+ poes book
+ The undisputed master of gothic horror.
+ The mind of a genius
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