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The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Edgar Allan Poe · 1846 · ★ 4.3 · 26p · ≈ 52m · Challenging "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by the American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of suspense and horror, it is also to a certain degree a hoax, as it was published without claiming to be fictional, and many at the time of publication (1845) took it to be a factual account. Poe… Shares Hoaxes, Pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, Animal Magnetism

Future perfect H. Bruce Franklin · 1955 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Hawthorne and Poe: Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne and science fiction ; The birthmark ; The artist of the beautiful ; Rappaccini's daughter -- Poe. Edgar Allan Poe and science fiction ; A tale of the Ragged Mountains ; Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar ; Mellonta Tauta -- Explorations: Automata. Herman Melville and science fiction ; The bell-tower ; Man as machine ; Dr. Materialismus… Shares Hoaxes, Pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, Animal Magnetism

Cabal

Cabal Clive Barker · 1988 · ★ 4.3 · 268p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Cabal is a 1988 horror novella by the British author Clive Barker. It was originally published in the United States as part of a collection comprising a novel and several short stories from Barker's sixth and final volume of the Books of Blood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabal_(novella) Shares English Horror tales, Short Stories, Horror

Danse Macabre Stephen King · 1980 · ★ 3.7 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate This is a non-fiction study of the horror genre including books, movies, television, etc. ([source][1]) ---------- Also contained in: - Works (Danse Macabre / Salem's Lot / Shining [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/nonfiction/danse_macabre.html Shares Horror, Thriller

Eden's eyes Sean Costello · 1989 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Karen Lockhart has been blind all her life. Now she can see with a dead man's eyes but with her new blessing come an even greater curse: terror. Karen's world had grown dark until a vicious punk named Eden Crowell is killed one night in a barroom brawl and doctors salvage what they can from his ruined body. His heart goest to an old drunk, his kidney to a young girl, and his silver blue eyes… Shares Literature, Horror

Ancient Sorceries Algernon Blackwood · 1906 · ★ 3.7 · 227p · ≈ 7h · Moderate By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work-including "The Willows,"… Shares English Horror tales, Literature, Short Stories, Horror

Books of Blood Volume One Clive Barker · 1985 · ★ 4.0 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate With the publication of Books of Blood, Clive Barker became an overnight literary sensation. His tour de force collection of brilliantly disturbing tales demonstrated a genius for dark invention that rivaled Poe and Sade. He was hailed by Stephen King as "the future of horror", and won both the British and World Fantasy Awards. Clive Barker's Books of Blood marked the beginning of a career that… Shares English Horror tales, Short Stories, Horror

Poe's Children

Poe's Children Peter Straub · 2008 · ★ 3.9 · 534p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Shares English Horror tales, Horror with this book.

The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories Algernon Blackwood · 1906 · ★ 3.7 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Collection of short fiction horror stories by the weird fiction writer Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951). Shares Short Stories, Horror

Never Whistle at Night

Never Whistle at Night Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. · 2023 · ★ 3.8 · 444p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes many forms: for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai’po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuza, a witch that can transform into an owl. But what all these legends hold in common is the certainty that whistling at night can cause evil spirits to appear—and… Shares Short Stories, Horror

The Green Wound Contract

The Green Wound Contract Philip Atlee Shares Thriller with this book.

Bang Switch

Bang Switch Jamie Lee Scott Something stinks in Peculiar, Texas, and it's not just the dead cop Sergeant Zane Gwilly found shortly before midnight. Kate Darby misses patrolling the streets of Peculiar, Texas, but she has unfinished business. And she can't have the cops knowing what she's doing.What do the death of a drug dealer and (two months later) a cop have in common? That's what Kate and Zane need to find out. Shares Thriller

KILL ZONE: A NEAGLEY THRILLER

KILL ZONE: A NEAGLEY THRILLER Dan Ames Shares Thriller with this book.

The Funfair

The Funfair Leah Pitt 'My HEART!! Heck! Needed to sleep so badly but those last few chapters had me HOOKED... The twists and turns were constant... Just really, really didn't want it to end' Reader review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️THENIt's Rachel's favourite night of the year: the end-of-summer beach party with all her best friends. They're going to do something wild: break into the abandoned funfair. It'll be a night to remember.… Shares Thriller

The Final Score

The Final Score Don Winslow “The best crime fiction I've read in twenty years.” — Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author"A masterpiece. . . . Don Winslow remains one of my all-time favorite writers." —James Patterson, #1 New York Times bestselling author“[Winslow’s] books sing with the small details that transport you to real places." —Washington PostThe trademark literary style, trenchant wit, and incisive… Shares Thriller

The Disloyal Coroner

The Disloyal Coroner Paul Austin Ardoin A dead deputy. A reopened murder case. And a coroner caught in the crossfire.When a young sheriff's deputy is killed in a late-night hit-and-run, Coroner Fenway Stevenson soon discovers it was no accident. The deputy had only been on the job for a few days—but had he started unraveling secrets within his department?Then a second case is thrown back on Fenway's desk: a murder that was supposed to… Shares Thriller

The Devil’s Code

The Devil’s Code Michael Wood 'Once again, Michael Wood, the master of horror and suspense, has written a book that put me through the wringer with its taut, horrifying, dark and devious storyline.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Dr Olivia Winter is back. And she’s got a brand new case to solve. A BRUTAL MURDERWhen Isaac McFadden is found with the dismembered body of a young man in the boot of his car, it’s an easy conviction for the jury. But, then a… Shares Thriller

April in Spain

April in Spain John Banville · 2021 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate *NATIONAL BESTSELLER*Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish coastDon't disturb the dead…On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despite the beaches, cafés and the company of his disarmingly lovely wife. When he glimpses a familiar face in the twilight at Las Acadas bar, it's hard at… Shares Thriller

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