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The beautiful mystery Louise Penny · 2012 · ★ 4.5 · 504p · ≈ 16h · Moderate No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing. Ironically, for a community that has taken a vow of silence, the monks have become world famous for their glorious voices, raised in… Shares: Monasteries, Monks

Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse Jan Potocki · 1950 · ★ 4.1 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A set of tales within a tale of a wandering a French army officer's encounters of the supernatural as he travels after the siege of Saragossa. According to the preface by Roger Caillois, it was originally published in St. Petersburg around 1804 by the Polish writer Count Jan Potocki and part of the work was published in Paris in 1893. The French version was published in Polish in 1847 and several… Shares: Spain, Horror

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

The Vampyre John William Polidori · 1819 · ★ 3.3 · 34p · ≈ 1h · Challenging The Vampyre, a short gothic novel by John William Polidori, was first published in 1819 and is considered the first modern vampire story. The story features Lord Ruthven, a seductive aristocrat with unnatural powers over men and women, and an insatiable thirst for blood. Polidori's innovative portrayal of the vampire as a Byronic figure is said to have set the template for the modern vampire. Shares: Incest, Horror

Seeds of Yesterday V.C. Andrews · 1984 · ★ 4.2 · 382p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Seeds of Yesterday is a novel written by V. C. Andrews. It is the fourth book in the Dollanganger Series. The story continues from the point of view of the protagonist, Cathy, following her from the age of 52 until her death a few years later. ---------- Also contained in: If There Be Thorns / Seeds of Yesterday Shares: Incest, Horror

Gerald's Game Stephen King · 1992 · ★ 3.6 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Gerald and Jessie Burlingame have gone to their summer home on a warm weekday in October for a romantic interlude. After being handcuffed to her bedposts, Jessie tires of her husband's games, but when Gerald refuses to stop she lashes out at him with deadly consequences. Still handcuffed, she is trapped and alone. Painful memories from her childhood bedevil her. Her only company is a hungry stray… Shares: Incest, Horror

Petals on the Wind V.C. Andrews · 1980 · ★ 3.8 · 445p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Petals on the Wind is a novel written by V. C. Andrews in 1980. It is the second book in the Dollanganger series. The timeline takes place from the siblings' successful escape in November 1960 to the fall of 1975. ---------- Also contained in: Flowers in the Attic / Petals on the Wind Shares: Incest, Horror

Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews · 1979 · ★ 4.3 · 411p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Flowers in the Attic is a 1979 Gothic novel by V. C. Andrews. It is the first book in the Dollanganger Series. The novel is written in the first-person, from the point of view of Cathy Dollanganger. In 1993, Flowers in the Attic was awarded the Secondary BILBY Award. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's 200 "best-loved novels." ---------- Also contained… Shares: Incest, 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

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