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The Duchess Disappeared Barbara Cartland · 1979 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "Where have you been, Miss Windham?" The Duke of Strathrannock spoke so harshly that Fiona was startled. "I have...." she began feebly. "Do not bother to lie!" he said furiously. "Have you had enough lovemaking tonight or are you looking for more?" To her astonishment, he pulled her roughly into his arms, and kissed her with lips hard and possessive. "I must struggle. I must free myself."… Shares: Gothic fiction, Social life and customs

Les històries naturals Joan Perucho · 1978 · ★ 3.5 · 214p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "Un modelo de narración elípica para la literatura del futuro". Harold Bloom Las historias naturales es una novela fantástica que abrió a Perucho las puertas al reconocimiento internacional, y es sin duda la obra más emblemática del autor, a quien la crítica ha situado a menudo junto a Borges, Lovecraft o Calvino. En una sugerente simbiosis de erudición histórica e imaginación creadora,… Shares: Spain, Horror

Les Misérables Victor Hugo · 1862 · ★ 4.2 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Challenging In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert--Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre. Shares: French fiction, Social life and customs, Adventure

A Spy in the House of Love Anaïs Nin · 1954 · ★ 3.7 · 133p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual fulfilment, she weaves a sensual web of deceit across New York. But when the secrecy of her affairs becomes too much to bear, Sabina makes a late night phone-call to a stranger from a bar, and begins a… Shares: French fiction, Social life and customs

Adolphe Benjamin Constant · 1816 · ★ 3.7 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Adolphe is a privileged and refined young man, bored by the stupidity he perceives in the world around him. After a number of meaningless conquests, he at last encounters Ellenore, a beautiful and passionate older woman. Adolphe is enraptured and gradually wears down her resistance to his declarations of love. But as they embark on an intense and tortured affair, Ellenore gives way to a flood of… Shares: French fiction, Social life and customs

Seven Gothic tales Isak Dinesen · 1934 · ★ 3.9 · 420p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales combining the keen psychological insight characteristic of the modern short story with the haunting mystery of the nineteenth-century Gothic tale, in the tradition of writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, and… Shares: Gothic fiction, Horror

The Damned Algernon Blackwood · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 110p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The Damned is a chilling tale of supernatural horror from one of the great masters of horror fiction, Algernon Blackwood. Shares: Horror

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Ambrose Bierce · 1913 · 67p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This book is about stories that encounters with the ghosts of the dead and dying. The spirits of the dead reach out to the living, to pass on a message or to pursue a killer. Shares: Horror

Darkness Comes Dean Koontz · 1984 · ★ 3.9 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A blizzard brings a city to a standstill-and ushers in an evil that defies imagination. Shares: Horror

The Manitou Graham Masterton · 1975 · ★ 3.7 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate It only grows at night. Karen Tandy was a sweet and unassuming girl until she discovers the mysterious lump growing underneath her skin. As the doctors and specialists are puzzling over the growth, Karen's personality is beginning to drastically change. The doctors decide there is only one thing to do, cut out the lump. But then it moved. Now a chain reaction has begun and everyone who comes… Shares: Horror

Captain quad Sean Costello · 2001 · 550p · ≈ 18h · Moderate A tragic accident leaves Peter Gardner paralyzed from the neck down. The former prodigy of music, sports, and flying is confined to his hospital bed. As rage and hatred intensify, he fantasizes about leaving his broken body and traveling anywhere. Then, one day... he can! But by then he is a Frankenstein monster -- breaking all the rules of morality. Shares: Horror

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: Horror

Austin And His Friends Frederic H. Balfour · 2005 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The old-fashioned ghost-story was always terrifying and ghastly; something that made people afraid to go to bed, or to look over their shoulders, or to enter a room in the dark. It dealt with apparitions in a white sheet, and clanking chains, and dreadful faces that peered out from behind the window curtains in a haunted chamber. And the more blood-curdling it was, the more keenly people enjoyed… Shares: Horror

The Dorians Nick Cutter The USA TODAY bestselling novel of terror from “one of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop follows five elderly volunteers in an aging-reversal experiment where an ancient biological agent unleashes a terrifying fight for survival!On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life… Shares: Horror

Our Share of Night Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell & Pablo Gerardo Camacho Our Share of Night () is a 2019 horror novel by Argentine author Mariana Enriquez. Set between 1960 and 1997, the story follows the Peterson family as they fight against an occult society in Argentina. The novel received positive reviews, and won the Premio Herralde in 2019. An English translation by Megan McDowell was published in 2023. Shares: Horror

Them W.H. Chizmar · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Them is a third-person plural or singular accusative personal pronoun. Shares: Horror

Passing Through Veils John Harrison · 233p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares: Horror

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones · ★ 4.0 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate In 1912 a strange confession is given, over several nights, to a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunted the fields of the Blackfeet reservation, looking for justice. A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran Pastor is discovered within a wall and what it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to two hundred and seventeen Blackfeet dead in the snow.… Shares: Horror

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