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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorTitus Andronicus
William Shakespeare Β· 132 pages
Dismemberment, rape, cannibalism and murder make 'Titus Andronicus' Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy. The boundless grief and savage justice of Titus explores the expression of tragic passion, the Senecan tradition, Roman history and government, the body and structures of interpretation.
The Revenger's Tragedy
Thomas Middleton, Cyril Tourneur Β· 130 pages
A vivid and often violent portrayal of lust and ambition in an Italian court, the play typifies the satiric tone and cynicism of much Jacobean tragedy. The play fell out of favour at some point before the restoration of the theaters in 1660; however, it experienced a revival in the twentieth century among directors and playgoers who appreciated its affinity with the temper of modern times.
The Spanish Tragedy
Thomas Kyd Β· 138 pages
A revenge play or revenge tragedy. Its plot contains several violent murders and includes as one of its characters a personification of Revenge. Contains the play-within-a-play used to trap a murderer and a ghost intent on vengeance, which became popular motifs in plays that followed.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer Β· 352 pages
Horns
Joe Hill Β· 416 pages
Joe Hill has been hailed as "a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction" (Washington Post); "a new master in the field of suspense" (James Rollins); "one of the most confident and assured new voices in horror and dark fantasy to emerge in recent years (Publishers Weekly); a writer who "builds character invitingly and plants an otherworldly surprise around every corner" (New York Times).This
The Elephant Man
Bernard Pomerance Β· 71 pages
A play about a horribly deformed young man in 19th century England who becomes a favorite among the aristocracy and literati.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Herman Melville Β· 420 pages
A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture.
Euripides V: Electra / The Phoenician Women / The Bacchae
Euripides Β· 227 pages
In nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.
Hannibal
Thomas Harris Β· 546 pages
Sequel to: [The Silence of the Lambs][1] Invite Hannibal Lecter into the palace of your mind and be invited into his mind palace in turn. Note the similarities in yours and his, the high vaulted chambers of your dreams, the shadowed halls, the locked storerooms where you dare not go, the scrap of half-forgotten music, the muffled cries from behind a wall. In one of the most eagerly anticipa
The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe Β· 30 pages
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado" [a.mon.ti.ΛΚa.Γ°o]) is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. Like several of Poe's
Savage
Richard Laymon Β· 352 pages
A teenage boy witnesses Jack the Ripper's last brutal murder and chases the murderer across the sea to New York City, then across the American West.
Flesh House
Stuart MacBride Β· 496 pages
A new Logan McRae thriller from the bestselling author of Cold Granite, Dying Light and Broken Skin, set in gritty Aberdeen.Aberdeen is panicking. It's been eighteen years since Grampian Police caught the Flesher β the notorious serial killer who butchered people all over the UK β and seven years since he was released from Peterhead prison, his conviction overturned on appeal. But when a container
An Oresteia
Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles Β· 255 pages
In this innovative rendition of The Oresteia, the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions -- Aischylos' Agamemnon, Sophokles' Elektra, and Euripides' Orestes, giving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate of vengeance. Carson's accomplished rendering combines elements of contemporary vernacular with the traditional structures and rheto
Blood Wedding
Federico Garcia Lorca Β· 119 pages
Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which fascinated him: desire, repression, ritual, and the constraints and commitments of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted. Ted Hughes's
The Jew of Malta
Christopher Marlowe, H. Havelock Ellis Β· 122 pages
This edition is of the best-known play by one of Shakespeare's chief predecessors and early contemporaries, Christopher Marlowe. The Jew of Malta was enormously influential on Shakespeare when he came to write The Merchant of Venice, and for good reason, since the play explores anti-Semitism and revenge. An introduction discusses the significance of this formative and brilliant play, with detailed
The Oresteia
Aeschylus Β· 195 pages
The Oresteia -- Agamemnon, Choephori, and The Eumenides -- depicts the downfall of the house of Atreus: after King Agamemnon is murdered by Clytemnestra, their son, Orestes, is commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime by killing his mother, and he does so, bringing on himself the wrath of the Furies and the judgment of Athens. Together, the three plays are one of the major achievements of Greek ant
The Round House
Louise Erdrich Β· 352 pages
A young man is upended after a violent attack on his mother, which leaves his family in turmoil. Well-written page turner that is hard to put down!