18 books like The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

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Night Chills Dean Koontz · 1976 · ★ 3.9 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Designed by top scientists and unleashed in a monstrous conspiracy, night chills are seizing the men and women of Black River--driving them to acts of rape and murder. The nightmare is real. And death is the only cure... Shares: Horror stories, Horror, History

Hourglass Claudia Gray · 2010 · ★ 3.8 · 345p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Bianca will risk everything to be with Lucas.After escaping from Evernight Academy, the vampire boarding school where they met, Bianca and Lucas take refuge with Black Cross, a fanatical group of vampire hunters. Bianca must hide her supernatural heritage or risk certain death at their hands. But when Black Cross captures her friend—the vampire Balthazar—hiding is no longer an option.Soon, Bianca… Shares: Secret societies, Ghosts, Horror stories, Young Adult

Frankissstein Jeanette Winterson · 2019 · ★ 3.5 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate From New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson comes her most anticipated new book since Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire Since her astonishing debut at twenty-five with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson has achieved worldwide critical and commercial success as "one of the most daring and inventive writers of… Shares: Transgender people, Horror

In Memoriam Alice Winn · 2023 · ★ 4.5 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate GMA BUZZ PICK • INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER AND AWARD WINNER • A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I • “Will live in your mind long after you’ve closed the final pages.” —Maggie O’Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage PortraitA Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR“In Memoriam is the story of a… Shares: Novels, Boarding schools, History

The Secret History of the World Mark Booth · 2008 · ★ 4.3 · 463p · ≈ 15h · Moderate They say that history is written by the victors. But what if history-or what we come to know as history-has been written by the wrong people? What if everything we've been told is only part of the story?In this groundbreaking and now famous work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling tour of our world's secret histories. Starting from a dangerous premise-that everything we've known about our… Shares: Secret societies, History

Whispers Dean Koontz · 1960 · ★ 3.9 · 444p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "A MASTER STORYTELLER...his fast-paced plots are wonderfully fiendish, taking unexpected twists and turns."—The San Diego Union-Tribune For thirty-five years, Bruno Frye has lived in the shadow of the mother who made his heart beat with constant fear. And even though she died five years ago, the whispers still haunt him in the dark...enough to make him kill—and kill again... Hilary Thomas is one… Shares: Horror stories, Horror

Gilda Joyce Jennifer Allison · 2005 · ★ 3.9 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate When her best friend, Wendy Choy, qualifies to compete in an international piano competition in Oxford, England, irrepressible Gilda Joyce finds a way to get an invitation herself—as a page-turner. Wendy settles into an exhausting practice schedule, made worse by strange nightmares, while Gilda finds herself falling in love with a British boy. But when Wendy discovers a ghostly message written in… Shares: Secret societies, Ghosts, Schools

Mike and Psmith P. G. Wodehouse · 1935 · ★ 4.0 · 171p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Gloomy when his poor scholastic record forces him to change schools just as he is about to become captain of the cricket team, an English boy cheers up when he discovers another new boy in similar circumstances. Shares: Boarding schools, Schools

Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare · 2010 · ★ 4.3 · 489p · ≈ 16h · Moderate When Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother in Victorian England, something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld. Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark sisters, who are members of a secret organization called the Pandemonium club, Tessa soon learns that she has the power to transform into another person. The Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the club, will stop at nothing… Shares: Secret societies, Young Adult, History

The Madness Underneath Maureen Johnson · 2013 · ★ 4.2 · 383p · ≈ 12h · Moderate After her near-fatal run-in with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Deveaux has been living in Bristol under the close watch of her parents. So when her therapist suddenly suggests she return to Wexford, Rory jumps at the chance to get back to her friends. But Rory’s brush with the Ripper touched her more than she thought possible: she’s become a human terminus, with the power to eliminate ghosts… Shares: Boarding schools, Ghosts, Young Adult

Dreams of Gods & Monsters Laini Taylor · 2011 · ★ 4.2 · 632p · ≈ 21h · Moderate From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera, and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy. Shares: Boarding schools, Schools, Young Adult

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, History

The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins · 2008 · ★ 4.4 · 374p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the perspective of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the future, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged… Shares: Novels, Young Adult

The City Boy Herman Wouk · 1948 · ★ 3.0 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Challenging 'City Boy' spins a hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misadventures on the street, in school, in the countryside, always in pursuit of Lucille, a heartless redhead personifying all the girls who torment and fascinate pubescent lads of eleven. Shares: Novels, Young Adult

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge M. T. Anderson · 2018 · ★ 4.1 · 538p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom. Shares: Novels, Young Adult

The Ghost Pirates William Hope Hodgson · 1909 · ★ 3.6 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "The old ship, the Mortzestus, is beset by mysterious phenomena - - shadowy figures emerging from the sea, men hurled from aloft by invisible hands and the vessel itself seemingly trapped in a world of mist. The horrors reach a climax when ghost pirates swarm aboard to sink the ship and only one man survives to tell the story." - - Description by Peter Haining, in "A Century of Ghost Novels 1900… Shares: Ghosts, Horror

Big Nate in the Zone Lincoln Peirce · 2007 · ★ 4.5 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Nate always on a bad strike, but when he touches Chad's lucky foot, everything comes together. The question is, "How long will this strike last?" Find out in Big Nate in the Zone. Shares: Novels, Schools

Ghosts Owen Davies · 2010 · 1440p · ≈ 48h · Moderate Reveals changing perceptions of ghosts at different social levels from the Reformation through to the twentieth century in Britain and America. This five-volume set focuses on the key published debates that emerged in each century, and illustrates the range of literary formats that reported or discussed ghosts. Shares: Ghosts, History

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