50 Books like The Complete Stories and Poems

The Caretaker

by Marcus Kliewer

A broke housesitter follows a dead man's rules to keep out whatever knocks at night.

3.63

35k+

🏚️ Haunted House 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere 🔮 Unreliable Reality 💔 Grief As Horror 🔥 Slow Burn Dread

The Caretaker 91%

A broke housesitter follows a dead man's rules to keep out whatever knocks at night.

by Marcus Kliewer 2026

3.63

35k+ ratings

🏚️ Haunted House 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere 🔮 Unreliable Reality 💔 Grief As Horror 🔥 Slow Burn Dread

The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe • 1843

Madness, doomed beauty, and the birth of the detective: a journey into American Gothic.

4.36

70k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness 👥 Doppelganger 🥀 Doomed Romance

The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Summary

The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe 98%

Madness, doomed beauty, and the birth of the detective: a journey into American Gothic.

by Edgar Allan Poe 1843

4.36

70k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness 👥 Doppelganger 🥀 Doomed Romance

Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe • 1849

Gothic tales where guilt betrays the killer, cats witness murder, and no fortress keeps out death.

4.19

10k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🫀 Guilty Conscience 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🏚️ Decaying Mansion

Tales of Edgar Allan Poe 94%

Gothic tales where guilt betrays the killer, cats witness murder, and no fortress keeps out death.

by Edgar Allan Poe 1849

4.19

10k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🫀 Guilty Conscience 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🏚️ Decaying Mansion

American Supernatural Tales

by S.T. Joshi • 2007

A journey through two centuries of American supernatural fiction: Gothic shadows to cosmic dread.

4.01

1k+

🏚️ American Gothic 🌌 Cosmic Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction ✍️ Literary Horror 🏠 Haunted House

American Supernatural Tales 93%

A journey through two centuries of American supernatural fiction: Gothic shadows to cosmic dread.

by S.T. Joshi 2007

4.01

1k+ ratings

🏚️ American Gothic 🌌 Cosmic Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction ✍️ Literary Horror 🏠 Haunted House

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson • 1959

A fragile woman seeks home in a wrong-angled mansion that decides she can never leave.

3.81

404k+

🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 🧠 Psychological Horror 🤔 Unreliable Narrator 🏰 Isolated Mansion 🌫️ Creeping Dread

The Haunting of Hill House 92%

A fragile woman seeks home in a wrong-angled mansion that decides she can never leave.

by Shirley Jackson 1959

3.81

404k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 🧠 Psychological Horror 🤔 Unreliable Narrator 🏰 Isolated Mansion 🌫️ Creeping Dread

The Double

by Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1997

A St. Petersburg clerk's double appears and takes his job, his reputation, and his sanity.

3.67

46k+

👥 DoppelgäNger 🧠 Psychological Novella 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🎭 Darkly Comic 🔒 Claustrophobic

The Double 91%

A St. Petersburg clerk's double appears and takes his job, his reputation, and his sanity.

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1997

3.67

46k+ ratings

👥 DoppelgäNger 🧠 Psychological Novella 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🎭 Darkly Comic 🔒 Claustrophobic

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

by Edgar Allan Poe • 1999

A boy stows away, survives mutiny and cannibalism, then sails into a white Antarctic void.

3.5

15k+

🪐 Cosmic Horror 🚢 Gothic Seafaring ⚓ Mutiny At Sea 🍖 Survival Cannibalism 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Summary

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket 91%

A boy stows away, survives mutiny and cannibalism, then sails into a white Antarctic void.

by Edgar Allan Poe 1999

3.5

15k+ ratings

🪐 Cosmic Horror 🚢 Gothic Seafaring ⚓ Mutiny At Sea 🍖 Survival Cannibalism 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

by Edgar Allan Poe • 2014

Two women murdered in a locked Paris flat: an eccentric recluse reads the impossible clues.

3.79

45k+

💀 Impossible Crime 🎩 Eccentric Detective 🖤 Gothic Atmosphere 🗼 19th Century Paris 👂 Unreliable Witnesses

The Murders in the Rue Morgue 91%

Two women murdered in a locked Paris flat: an eccentric recluse reads the impossible clues.

by Edgar Allan Poe 2014

3.79

45k+ ratings

💀 Impossible Crime 🎩 Eccentric Detective 🖤 Gothic Atmosphere 🗼 19th Century Paris 👂 Unreliable Witnesses

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories

by Robert Louis Stevenson • 1886

A lawyer probes the bond between a revered doctor and the brute who trampled a child.

4.00

36k+

🏚️ Gothic Horror 🎩 Victorian London 👤 Dark Alter Ego ⚗️ Scientific Hubris 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories Summary

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories 91%

A lawyer probes the bond between a revered doctor and the brute who trampled a child.

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886

4.00

36k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Horror 🎩 Victorian London 👤 Dark Alter Ego ⚗️ Scientific Hubris 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson • 1962

After arsenic killed their family, two sisters guard their decaying mansion with spells and silence.

3.91

303k+

🏚️ American Gothic 🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 👭 Devoted Sisters 🏠 Isolated Mansion

We Have Always Lived in the Castle Summary

We Have Always Lived in the Castle 91%

After arsenic killed their family, two sisters guard their decaying mansion with spells and silence.

by Shirley Jackson 1962

3.91

303k+ ratings

🏚️ American Gothic 🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 👭 Devoted Sisters 🏠 Isolated Mansion

Don't Look Now and Other Stories

by Daphne du Maurier • 1971

A Venetian blind psychic warns a grieving couple of danger; a red-coated child then haunts them.

3.82

10k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🏛️ Gothic Venice 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread 👥 DoppelgäNger 🖤 Grieving Parents

Don't Look Now and Other Stories Summary

Don't Look Now and Other Stories 91%

A Venetian blind psychic warns a grieving couple of danger; a red-coated child then haunts them.

by Daphne du Maurier 1971

3.82

10k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🏛️ Gothic Venice 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread 👥 DoppelgäNger 🖤 Grieving Parents

What Moves the Dead

by T. Kingfisher • 2022

A soldier returns to a decaying manor: her friends are dying, and the lake is learning.

3.84

146k+

🍄 Fungal Body Horror 🏚️ Crumbling Gothic Manor 📜 Poe Retelling 🏳️‍⚧️ Non-Binary Protagonist 🔬 Amateur Investigation

What Moves the Dead 91%

A soldier returns to a decaying manor: her friends are dying, and the lake is learning.

by T. Kingfisher 2022

3.84

146k+ ratings

🍄 Fungal Body Horror 🏚️ Crumbling Gothic Manor 📜 Poe Retelling 🏳️‍⚧️ Non-Binary Protagonist 🔬 Amateur Investigation

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

by Robert Louis Stevenson • 1886

A respectable doctor's strange will leaves everything to a violent man his lawyer has never met.

3.91

147k+

🧠 Split Personality 🧪 Mad Scientist 🏙️ Victorian London ✉️ Epistolary Horror 😰 Creeping Dread

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror Summary

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror 91%

A respectable doctor's strange will leaves everything to a violent man his lawyer has never met.

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886

3.91

147k+ ratings

🧠 Split Personality 🧪 Mad Scientist 🏙️ Victorian London ✉️ Epistolary Horror 😰 Creeping Dread

Ghosts

by Edith Wharton • 1937

Old houses, rational minds, and the quiet terror of discovering you are not alone.

3.85

1k+

🖋️ Literary Ghost Stories 🧠 Psychological Horror 🏚️ Haunted Houses 👻 Ambiguous Ghosts 😰 Quiet Dread

Ghosts 91%

Old houses, rational minds, and the quiet terror of discovering you are not alone.

by Edith Wharton 1937

3.85

1k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Ghost Stories 🧠 Psychological Horror 🏚️ Haunted Houses 👻 Ambiguous Ghosts 😰 Quiet Dread

The Great God Pan

by Arthur Machen • 1890

A forbidden brain experiment yields a child who grows into a woman of inhuman, ruinous beauty.

3.67

17k+

🪐 Cosmic Horror 📜 Weird Fiction ⚗️ Forbidden Experiment 🌹 Inhuman Beauty 🔗 Contagious Evil

The Great God Pan 90%

A forbidden brain experiment yields a child who grows into a woman of inhuman, ruinous beauty.

by Arthur Machen 1890

3.67

17k+ ratings

🪐 Cosmic Horror 📜 Weird Fiction ⚗️ Forbidden Experiment 🌹 Inhuman Beauty 🔗 Contagious Evil

El golem

by Gustav Meyrink • 1915

In Prague's ghetto, an amnesiac gem cutter discovers the Golem haunting the alleys wears his face.

3.82

9k+

🎭 Expressionist Horror 🕎 Jewish Folklore 🌫️ Unreliable Reality 🪞 DoppelgäNger 🌙 Fever Dream

El golem 90%

In Prague's ghetto, an amnesiac gem cutter discovers the Golem haunting the alleys wears his face.

by Gustav Meyrink 1915

3.82

9k+ ratings

🎭 Expressionist Horror 🕎 Jewish Folklore 🌫️ Unreliable Reality 🪞 DoppelgäNger 🌙 Fever Dream

Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hide

by Robert Louis Stevenson • 1886

A lawyer uncovers a horrifying secret linking his friend Dr. Jekyll to a brutish criminal.

3.83

674k+

🧠 Split Personality 🔬 Victorian Science 👥 Evil Double 🧪 Scientific Hubris 🎩 Repressed Gentleman

Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hide 90%

A lawyer uncovers a horrifying secret linking his friend Dr. Jekyll to a brutish criminal.

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886

3.83

674k+ ratings

🧠 Split Personality 🔬 Victorian Science 👥 Evil Double 🧪 Scientific Hubris 🎩 Repressed Gentleman

The Fall of the House of Usher

by Edgar Allan Poe • 1839

Summoned to a decaying mansion, a visitor finds friend and house bound together in shared madness.

3.84

90k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🏚️ Decaying Mansion 🏰 Isolated Setting 💀 Ancestral Curse 🏠 Sentient House

The Fall of the House of Usher 93%

Summoned to a decaying mansion, a visitor finds friend and house bound together in shared madness.

by Edgar Allan Poe 1839

3.84

90k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🏚️ Decaying Mansion 🏰 Isolated Setting 💀 Ancestral Curse 🏠 Sentient House

The Black Cat

by Edgar Allan Poe • 2004

After he hangs his cat, a lookalike with a noose-shaped mark follows him home.

4.03

59k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🐈‍⬛ Animal Horror 🏠 Domestic Horror

The Black Cat 93%

After he hangs his cat, a lookalike with a noose-shaped mark follows him home.

by Edgar Allan Poe 2004

4.03

59k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🐈‍⬛ Animal Horror 🏠 Domestic Horror

Incidents Around the House

by Josh Malerman

The woman in the closet wants a little girl's heart. Refusing only makes it kill.

3.56

101k+

🏠 Domestic Horror 🧒 Childhood Possession 🧸 Imaginary Friend Horror 😰 Creeping Dread 🖤 Bleak Ending

Incidents Around the House 90%

The woman in the closet wants a little girl's heart. Refusing only makes it kill.

by Josh Malerman 2024

3.56

101k+ ratings

🏠 Domestic Horror 🧒 Childhood Possession 🧸 Imaginary Friend Horror 😰 Creeping Dread 🖤 Bleak Ending

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins • 1859

A moonlit heath, a frantic stranger, a drawing master: snared in a plot to steal an heiress's life.

4.02

168k+

🎭 Sensation Fiction 🏚️ Victorian Gothic 👥 DoppelgäNger 🏥 Unjust Asylum 🔍 Amateur Detective

The Woman in White 90%

A moonlit heath, a frantic stranger, a drawing master: snared in a plot to steal an heiress's life.

by Wilkie Collins 1859

4.02

168k+ ratings

🎭 Sensation Fiction 🏚️ Victorian Gothic 👥 DoppelgäNger 🏥 Unjust Asylum 🔍 Amateur Detective

The Blind Owl

by Sadegh Hedayat • 1937

Between opium dreams and waking torment, a painter obsesses over a vision that unmakes his reality.

3.95

35k+

🔪 Psychological Horror 📜 Modernist Classic 🫣 Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🎨 Obsessed Artist

The Blind Owl 90%

Between opium dreams and waking torment, a painter obsesses over a vision that unmakes his reality.

by Sadegh Hedayat 1937

3.95

35k+ ratings

🔪 Psychological Horror 📜 Modernist Classic 🫣 Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🎨 Obsessed Artist

Last to Leave the Room

by Caitlin Starling • 2023

A physicist under a sinking city discovers an impossible door in her basement. It opens.

3.52

3k+

🖤 Psychological Horror 🚪 Doppelganger Horror 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 💀 Identity Dissolution 🏚️ Claustrophobic Dread

Last to Leave the Room 90%

A physicist under a sinking city discovers an impossible door in her basement. It opens.

by Caitlin Starling 2023

3.52

3k+ ratings

🖤 Psychological Horror 🚪 Doppelganger Horror 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 💀 Identity Dissolution 🏚️ Claustrophobic Dread

Vathek

by William Beckford • 1786

An impious caliph sells his soul for a demon's promise of a subterranean palace of fire.

3.23

7k+

🏰 Early Gothic 🕌 Arabian Nights Fantasy 🤝 Faustian Bargain 📜 Forbidden Knowledge 🕯️ Decadent Gothic

Vathek 90%

An impious caliph sells his soul for a demon's promise of a subterranean palace of fire.

by William Beckford 1786

3.23

7k+ ratings

🏰 Early Gothic 🕌 Arabian Nights Fantasy 🤝 Faustian Bargain 📜 Forbidden Knowledge 🕯️ Decadent Gothic

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James • 1898

A governess at a remote estate finds the children charmed by ghosts only she can see.

3.38

182k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 👧 Creepy Children 🏚️ Haunted Estate 🕯️ Victorian Gothic

The Turn of the Screw 90%

A governess at a remote estate finds the children charmed by ghosts only she can see.

by Henry James 1898

3.38

182k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 👧 Creepy Children 🏚️ Haunted Estate 🕯️ Victorian Gothic

Nothing Hidden Ever Stays

by H.R. Mason • 2019

An orphan inherits a haunted estate that forces her to relive her ancestors' violent deaths.

3.85

272

🕯️ Modern Gothic 👻 Haunted House 🩸 Cursed Bloodline 💔 Doomed Lovers 👀 Small Town Suspicion

Nothing Hidden Ever Stays 90%

An orphan inherits a haunted estate that forces her to relive her ancestors' violent deaths.

by H.R. Mason 2019

3.85

272 ratings

🕯️ Modern Gothic 👻 Haunted House 🩸 Cursed Bloodline 💔 Doomed Lovers 👀 Small Town Suspicion

Sweetheart, Sweetheart

by Bernard Taylor • 1977

His dead twin left him a beautiful cottage. The ghost inside has killed for love before.

3.74

965

👻 Gothic Ghost Story 🌿 Pastoral Horror 🖤 Possessive Ghost 🌹 Deadly Obsession 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

Sweetheart, Sweetheart 89%

His dead twin left him a beautiful cottage. The ghost inside has killed for love before.

by Bernard Taylor 1977

3.74

965 ratings

👻 Gothic Ghost Story 🌿 Pastoral Horror 🖤 Possessive Ghost 🌹 Deadly Obsession 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

Let Him In

by William Friend • 2022

Twin girls describe a sinister friend after their mother dies. Their father begins to believe.

3.25

9k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🏚️ Gothic Family Drama 👻 Ambiguous Haunting 💔 Grieving Widower 👯 Twin Dynamics

Let Him In 89%

Twin girls describe a sinister friend after their mother dies. Their father begins to believe.

by William Friend 2022

3.25

9k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🏚️ Gothic Family Drama 👻 Ambiguous Haunting 💔 Grieving Widower 👯 Twin Dynamics

The Black Phone

by Joe Hill • 2005

Ghosts, killers, and an inflatable boy: fifteen literary horror stories about what will not let go.

3.89

50k+

🖤 Literary Horror 📚 Short Story Collection 👻 Haunted By The Past 🌧️ Melancholy Horror 🧸 Childhood Innocence Lost

The Black Phone 89%

Ghosts, killers, and an inflatable boy: fifteen literary horror stories about what will not let go.

by Joe Hill 2005

3.89

50k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Horror 📚 Short Story Collection 👻 Haunted By The Past 🌧️ Melancholy Horror 🧸 Childhood Innocence Lost

Collected Ghost Stories

by M.R. James • 1931

Cursed manuscripts, unraveling fabrics, and unearthly summons: classic English ghost stories.

4.12

8k+

🏛️ Antiquarian Horror 💀 Cursed Objects 🕯️ Slow-Burn Dread 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere 📜 Hidden Manuscripts

Collected Ghost Stories 89%

Cursed manuscripts, unraveling fabrics, and unearthly summons: classic English ghost stories.

by M.R. James 1931

4.12

8k+ ratings

🏛️ Antiquarian Horror 💀 Cursed Objects 🕯️ Slow-Burn Dread 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere 📜 Hidden Manuscripts

We Live Here Now

by Sarah Pinborough • 2025

A couple escapes to a remote gothic house to fix their marriage. The house prefers it broken.

3.71

34k+

🌫️ Gothic Dread 🏚️ Sentient House 🪞 Fractured Identity 💀 Dark Resurrection 🌾 Isolated Moor House

We Live Here Now 89%

A couple escapes to a remote gothic house to fix their marriage. The house prefers it broken.

by Sarah Pinborough 2025

3.71

34k+ ratings

🌫️ Gothic Dread 🏚️ Sentient House 🪞 Fractured Identity 💀 Dark Resurrection 🌾 Isolated Moor House

Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood

by James Malcolm Rymer • 1845

A fanged neighbor mirrors the cursed portrait on their wall. Their daughter is his prey.

3.40

2k+

🏰 Victorian Gothic 🩸 Tragic Vampire 💀 Ancestral Curse 📰 Penny Dreadful 🎭 Gothic Melodrama

Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood Summary

Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood 89%

A fanged neighbor mirrors the cursed portrait on their wall. Their daughter is his prey.

by James Malcolm Rymer 1845

3.40

2k+ ratings

🏰 Victorian Gothic 🩸 Tragic Vampire 💀 Ancestral Curse 📰 Penny Dreadful 🎭 Gothic Melodrama

Beneath the Poet’s House

by Christa Carmen • 2024

A widow's historic house hides séances, ghosts, and a writer whose muses never survive.

3.79

2k+

🏚️ Modern Gothic 👻 Haunted House 📚 Literary Horror 🌊 New England Gothic 🧠 Psychological Horror

Beneath the Poet’s House 89%

A widow's historic house hides séances, ghosts, and a writer whose muses never survive.

by Christa Carmen 2024

3.79

2k+ ratings

🏚️ Modern Gothic 👻 Haunted House 📚 Literary Horror 🌊 New England Gothic 🧠 Psychological Horror

The Spirit Engineer

by A.J. West • 2021

A Belfast engineer tests a medium's séances, hunting the afterlife while his own mind unravels.

3.64

3k+

🖤 Unreliable Narrator 🕯️ SéAnces And Mediums 😱 Descent Into Madness 🏚️ Historical Gothic 💔 Obsessive Grief

The Spirit Engineer 89%

A Belfast engineer tests a medium's séances, hunting the afterlife while his own mind unravels.

by A.J. West 2021

3.64

3k+ ratings

🖤 Unreliable Narrator 🕯️ SéAnces And Mediums 😱 Descent Into Madness 🏚️ Historical Gothic 💔 Obsessive Grief

Apartment 16

by Adam L.G. Nevill

Her inherited London flat came with neighbors who hadn't stepped outside in sixty years.

3.20

7k+

🏚️ Haunted Building 🎨 Cursed Art 🏛️ Gothic London 🖌️ Artistic Obsession 🚪 Forbidden Room

Apartment 16 89%

Her inherited London flat came with neighbors who hadn't stepped outside in sixty years.

by Adam L.G. Nevill 2010

3.20

7k+ ratings

🏚️ Haunted Building 🎨 Cursed Art 🏛️ Gothic London 🖌️ Artistic Obsession 🚪 Forbidden Room

The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe • 1845

In a shadowy chamber, a scholar's grief summons a raven whose sole reply damns him to despair.

4.29

172k+

🖤 Gothic Poetry 👻 Haunted By Grief 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🐦‍⬛ Ominous Bird 🥀 Unreliable Narrator

The Raven 93%

In a shadowy chamber, a scholar's grief summons a raven whose sole reply damns him to despair.

by Edgar Allan Poe 1845

4.29

172k+ ratings

🖤 Gothic Poetry 👻 Haunted By Grief 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🐦‍⬛ Ominous Bird 🥀 Unreliable Narrator

The Communist Manifesto

by Karl Marx • 1848

History is class war. Capitalism narrowed the fight to two sides, and one is learning the rules.

3.69

202k+

⚔️ Class Struggle 📊 Political Economy 📜 Historical Materialism 🔴 Revolutionary Theory 🏭 Labor And Capital

The Communist Manifesto 93%

History is class war. Capitalism narrowed the fight to two sides, and one is learning the rules.

by Karl Marx 1848

3.69

202k+ ratings

⚔️ Class Struggle 📊 Political Economy 📜 Historical Materialism 🔴 Revolutionary Theory 🏭 Labor And Capital

The Hollow Earth

by Rudy Rucker • 1990

On the run for murder, a farm boy follows Edgar Allan Poe into the hollow Earth.

3.41

261

🕳️ Hollow Earth 🦑 Lovecraftian Weird 🌋 Journey To The Core 🪞 Doppelgangers 🏝️ Lost World

The Hollow Earth 89%

On the run for murder, a farm boy follows Edgar Allan Poe into the hollow Earth.

by Rudy Rucker 1990

3.41

261 ratings

🕳️ Hollow Earth 🦑 Lovecraftian Weird 🌋 Journey To The Core 🪞 Doppelgangers 🏝️ Lost World

The Beast You Are

by Paul Tremblay • 2023

An animal village sacrifices a child each generation. Two survivors plot to stop the beast.

3.33

3k+

🖋️ Literary Horror 🌾 Folk Horror 🌌 Cosmic Dread 🐾 Dark Fable 🗡️ Ritual Sacrifice

The Beast You Are 89%

An animal village sacrifices a child each generation. Two survivors plot to stop the beast.

by Paul Tremblay 2023

3.33

3k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Horror 🌾 Folk Horror 🌌 Cosmic Dread 🐾 Dark Fable 🗡️ Ritual Sacrifice

Endless Night

by Agatha Christie • 1967

A drifter marries an heiress, builds a house on cursed land, and a warning turns lethal.

3.81

46k+

🤥 Unreliable Narrator 🧠 Psychological Suspense 🏚️ Gothic Mystery 💋 Femme Fatale 💔 Doomed Romance

Endless Night 89%

A drifter marries an heiress, builds a house on cursed land, and a warning turns lethal.

by Agatha Christie 1967

3.81

46k+ ratings

🤥 Unreliable Narrator 🧠 Psychological Suspense 🏚️ Gothic Mystery 💋 Femme Fatale 💔 Doomed Romance

Shadowland

by Peter Straub • 1980

Two schoolboys learn real magic at a remote estate, unaware the final trick requires their lives.

3.88

13k+

🏛️ Dark Academia 🎭 Corrupting Mentor 🏫 Toxic Boarding School 💔 Doomed Friendship 🏚️ Remote Gothic Estate

Shadowland 89%

Two schoolboys learn real magic at a remote estate, unaware the final trick requires their lives.

by Peter Straub 1980

3.88

13k+ ratings

🏛️ Dark Academia 🎭 Corrupting Mentor 🏫 Toxic Boarding School 💔 Doomed Friendship 🏚️ Remote Gothic Estate

The Best of H.P. Lovecraft

by H.P. Lovecraft • 1963

Forbidden knowledge in New England: scholars learn the universe was never built for human minds.

4.30

30k+

🪐 Cosmic Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction 📜 Forbidden Knowledge 🧐 Scholarly Protagonist 🦑 Ancient Evil Awakens

The Best of H.P. Lovecraft 89%

Forbidden knowledge in New England: scholars learn the universe was never built for human minds.

by H.P. Lovecraft 1963

4.30

30k+ ratings

🪐 Cosmic Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction 📜 Forbidden Knowledge 🧐 Scholarly Protagonist 🦑 Ancient Evil Awakens

Widow's Point

by Richard Chizmar • 2025

A ghost-hunting crew locks into Widow's Point lighthouse, where the dead have never stopped waiting.

3.74

6k+

🦑 Cosmic Horror 📜 Epistolary Horror 👤 Possession 📼 Ghost Hunting Gone Wrong 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

Widow's Point 89%

A ghost-hunting crew locks into Widow's Point lighthouse, where the dead have never stopped waiting.

by Richard Chizmar 2025

3.74

6k+ ratings

🦑 Cosmic Horror 📜 Epistolary Horror 👤 Possession 📼 Ghost Hunting Gone Wrong 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

In the Woods

by Tana French • 2007

Returning to the woods where his friends vanished, a Dublin detective probes a child's murder.

3.78

443k+

👮 Police Procedural 📚 Literary Crime 🧠 Psychological Suspense 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 💭 Buried Memories

In the Woods 89%

Returning to the woods where his friends vanished, a Dublin detective probes a child's murder.

by Tana French 2007

3.78

443k+ ratings

👮 Police Procedural 📚 Literary Crime 🧠 Psychological Suspense 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 💭 Buried Memories

Apart in the Dark

by Ania Ahlborn • 2018

A timid secretary is consumed by loneliness. Her mute brother's cure is murder.

3.82

610

🧠 Psychological Horror 💔 Toxic Sibling Bond 🏢 Workplace Horror 🏚️ Haunted House 🕯️ Family Curse

Apart in the Dark 89%

A timid secretary is consumed by loneliness. Her mute brother's cure is murder.

by Ania Ahlborn 2018

3.82

610 ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 💔 Toxic Sibling Bond 🏢 Workplace Horror 🏚️ Haunted House 🕯️ Family Curse

Interview with the Vampire

by Anne Rice • 1976

A vampire recounts his life: from 1791 Louisiana to Parisian vampire theater, an eternity of sorrow.

4.02

656k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🎙️ Framed Narrative 🧛 Reluctant Vampire 👧 Eternal Child 🥀 Immortal Melancholy

Interview with the Vampire 89%

A vampire recounts his life: from 1791 Louisiana to Parisian vampire theater, an eternity of sorrow.

by Anne Rice 1976

4.02

656k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🎙️ Framed Narrative 🧛 Reluctant Vampire 👧 Eternal Child 🥀 Immortal Melancholy

Black Ambrosia

by Elizabeth Engstrom • 1988

An orphaned drifter chooses to become a vampire: the hunger is real, and so are the bodies.

3.74

877

🧠 Psychological Horror 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Trauma As Monster ✍️ Lyrical Horror 🏚️ Small Town Horror

Black Ambrosia 89%

An orphaned drifter chooses to become a vampire: the hunger is real, and so are the bodies.

by Elizabeth Engstrom 1988

3.74

877 ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Trauma As Monster ✍️ Lyrical Horror 🏚️ Small Town Horror

Cold Skin

by Albert Sánchez Piñol • 2007

On an Antarctic island, sea creatures rise nightly, and the lighthouse keeper hides a dark secret.

3.66

10k+

🦑 Lovecraftian Horror 🏚️ Siege Survival 🔦 Isolated Lighthouse ❄️ Antarctic Isolation 🖤 Taboo Obsession

Cold Skin 89%

On an Antarctic island, sea creatures rise nightly, and the lighthouse keeper hides a dark secret.

by Albert Sánchez Piñol 2007

3.66

10k+ ratings

🦑 Lovecraftian Horror 🏚️ Siege Survival 🔦 Isolated Lighthouse ❄️ Antarctic Isolation 🖤 Taboo Obsession

The Hellbound Heart

by Clive Barker • 1986

Her lover vanished solving a puzzle box. Blood she spills brings him back piece by piece.

4.08

70k+

🖤 Erotic Horror 🩸 Body Horror 🏚️ Haunted House 💔 Destructive Obsession 🔮 Forbidden Knowledge

The Hellbound Heart 89%

Her lover vanished solving a puzzle box. Blood she spills brings him back piece by piece.

by Clive Barker 1986

4.08

70k+ ratings

🖤 Erotic Horror 🩸 Body Horror 🏚️ Haunted House 💔 Destructive Obsession 🔮 Forbidden Knowledge

Young Goodman Brown

by Nathaniel Hawthorne • 1835

A Salem husband enters the night woods and finds his wife and neighbors at a witches' sabbath.

3.64

17k+

🔥 Puritan Allegory 🖤 Psychological Horror 🌫️ Dream Or Reality 🙏 Crisis Of Faith 😈 Secret Sin

Young Goodman Brown 89%

A Salem husband enters the night woods and finds his wife and neighbors at a witches' sabbath.

by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1835

3.64

17k+ ratings

🔥 Puritan Allegory 🖤 Psychological Horror 🌫️ Dream Or Reality 🙏 Crisis Of Faith 😈 Secret Sin

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