First published in a 1842 edition of Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, The Masque of the Red Death tells the story of Prince Prospero as he tries to avoid a plague by confining himself and his nobles to a masquerade in an abbey...
Horror fiction
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Author:Poe, Edgar AllanSummary: - Author:Kafka, FranzSummary:
Virtually unknown during his lifetime, Franz Kafka is now one of the world’s most widely read and discussed authors. His nightmarish novels and short stories have come to symbolize modern man’s anxiety and alienation in a bizarre,...
- Author:Donohue, KeithSummary:
When Kay fears someone is following her home, she takes shelter inside a toy shop and is suddenly transformed into a puppet. So begins a dual odyssey of a husband determined to find his wife and of a woman trapped in a magical world...
- Author:Malfi, Ronald DamienSummary:
They call it Wanderer's Folly--a disease of delusions and nightmares. After two years of creeping decay, David Arlen woke up thinking that the worst was over. But by midnight his wife is dead, and he's on the run with his daughter--who...
- Author:Bohjalian, ChrisSummary:
In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old...
- Author:Taylor, Drew HaydenSummary:
Nothing ever happens on the Otter Lake reserve. But when 16-year-old Tiffany discovers her father is renting out her room, she's deeply upset. Sure, their guest is polite and keeps to himself, but he's also a little creepy. Little do...
- Author:Taylor, Drew HaydenSummary:
Nothing ever happens on the Otter Lake reservation. But when 16-year-old Tiffany discovers her father is renting out her room, she’s deeply upset. Sure, their guest is polite and keeps to himself, but he’s also a little creepy. Little...
- Author:Velton, SoniaSummary:
In the vein of riveting historical novels such as Hamnet and Circe—with a touch of Dracula—a propulsive, feminist reimagining of the story of Erzsébet Báthory, the infamous sixteenth-century Hungarian aristocrat known as the "...
- Author:Gaiman, NeilSummary:
A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman's first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys. This...
- Author:Gaiman, NeilSummary:
A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman's first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys. This...
- Author:Finch, PaulSummary:
A disgruntled writer pursues the legend of the Green Man, only to run into trouble of a less ethereal kind on the isolated Old North Road.
- Author:Seltzer, DavidSummary:
Jeremy Thorn and his wife, Katherine, have just welcomed the newest member of their family to the world: their beautiful son Damien. But as the boy grows, so does the terror surrounding him. Fatal accidents, suicides, and unexplained...
- Author:Jones, Stephen GrahamSummary:
These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out. A boy's summer romance doesn't end in that good kind of heartbreak, but in blood. A girl on a fishing trip makes a friend in the woods who's exactly what she needs,...
- Author:Jones, Stephen GrahamSummary:
A USA Today bestseller. A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year. "One of 2020's buzziest horror novels." —Entertainment Weekly. A "Most Anticipated Books of Summer" selection in Esquire, Elle, Vulture, Time, AV Club, Bustle, and...
- Author:Melchiorri, Anthony J., Smith, Nicholas SansburySummary:
The year is 2061, and the planet is dying. The human race is headed to Mars. When Dr. Sophie Winston and her team train for the flight, they come back to an abandoned earth. No humans and no water.
- Author:Fluke, JoanneSummary:
A Small boy huddled in the dark. His mother had promised she would never leave him... not in this awful house... not in this terrivle town. But she was dead. Gone. And he was alone. Trapped. With no one to answere his desperate call or...
- Author:Fournier, JamesieSummary:
In "The Net," a girl and her mother arrive at their secluded cabin on a frozen lake to find their fishing net has been attacked, a massive hole ripped through the middle. After the net has been mended and the night's catch eaten, the...
- Author:Rous, EmmaSummary:
1988. Beth Soames is fourteen years old when her aunt takes her to stay at Raven Hall, a rambling manor in the isolated East Anglian fens. The Averells, the family who lives there, are warm and welcoming, and Beth becomes fast friends...
- Author:Poe, Edgar AllanSummary:
First published in a 1842 literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843, The Pit and the Pendulum takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and follows the plight of a prisoner in a cell that has a pit and a...
- Author:Brogden, JamesSummary:
Londoners Paul and Tricia Feenan sell up to escape to the isolated Holiwell village where Tricia has inherited a property. Scattered throughout the settlement are centuries-old stones used during the Great Plague as boundary markers...
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