Horror genre books (305)


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The Haunting of Gillespie House by Darcy Coates EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
Elle is thrilled to spend a month minding the beautiful Gillespie property. More than an hour's drive from the nearest town and surrounded by forests, the aging mansion is ideal for someone seeking solitude. But things start to go very wrong, very quickly. Elle discovers a crumbling graveyard nestled in the woods. It contains a generation of the house's residents, all with an identical year of death. Scratching in the walls... slamming doors... whispers in the night... a locked room... As Elle explores deeper into the house, she begins to unravel the property's dark and dangerous history. At i... continue

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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson EN

Rating: 4 (6 votes)
Description:
Hill House stood abandoned, six miles off the road. Four people came to learn its secrets - Dr Montague, an occult scholar; Luke, a spendthrift heir; Theodora, escaping a love affair; and Eleanor, who is lonely and vulnerable - to the house.

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The Helmet of Horror : The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur by Victor Pelevin EN

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
A postmodern, radical retelling of the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur


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The Hole : A Novel by Hye-young Pyun EN

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Country: Asia / South Korea flag South Korea
Description:
Winner of the 2017 Shirley Jackson Award Named One of the Top 10 Thrillers to Read This Summer by Time Magazine. In this tense, gripping novel by a rising star of Korean literature, Oghi has woken from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife's life and left him paralyzed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child. Oghi is neglected and left alone in his bed. His world shrinks to the room he lies in and his memories of his troubled relationship with his wife, a sensitive, intelligent woman who found all of her... continue

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The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
The Crucible meets The Virgin Suicides in this haunting debut about five sisters in a small village in 18th century England whose neighbors are convinced they’re turning into dogs. Even before the rumors about the Mansfield girls begin, Little Nettlebed is a village steeped in the uncanny, from strange creatures that wash up on the riverbed to portentous ravens gathering on the roofs of people about to die. But when the villagers start to hear barking, and when one claims to see the Mansfield sisters transform before his very eyes, the allegations spark fascination and fear like nothing has be... continue

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The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne EN

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Description:
IN September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed "The Scarlet Letter," he began "The House of the Seven Gables." Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occupied with his family a small red wooden house, still standing at the date of this edition, near the Stockbridge Bowl. "I sha'n't have the new story ready by November," he explained to his publisher, on the 1st of October, "for I am never good for anything in the literary way till after the first autumnal frost, which has somewhat such an effect on my imaginati... continue

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The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
One of the first psychic vampire novels of its time - where the vampire feeds off of more than just blood - The House of the Vampire is an early classic in its genre. This Victorian novel operates in the continuum of life and death. What has been can be again, though often terribly transformed. Energetically inventive and infused with a relish for the supernatural, especially the trappings of the dark, The House of the Vampire delivers a horror which we know does not - but none the less conceivably might - exist and threaten ourselves. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, The House of ... continue

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The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
A notable work of horror-fiction by Hodgson. âeoeThe House on the Borderlandâe is the story of two friends who visit a remote village in rural Ireland and find a manuscript in the ruins of an old house. It describes the experiences of an old man âe" the original owner of this curious house. This classic will keep you engrossed till the very end with its eerie setting and spine-chilling plot. Marvellous!

210.

The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller