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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Listening House
Mabel Seeley · 368 pages
The Lodger
Marie Belloc Lowndes, Elyssa Warkentin · 224 pages
The Lodger is the first known novelization of the Jack the Ripper story. It follows the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, a maid and butler. An eccentric lodger, Mr. Sleuth, arrives at their lodging-house just as a wave of horrific murders begins to sweep London. The Buntings become engrossed in the newspaper sensationalism as well the detailed accounts of their young friend, a Scotland Yard detectiv
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 246 pages
First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with po
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James · 142 pages
The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo · 443 pages
In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.
The Woman in Black
Susan Hill · 192 pages
"It was a Monday afternoon in November and already growing dark, not because of the lateness of the hour--it was barely three o'clock--but because of the fog, the thickest of London pea-soupers.' So begins Arthur Kipps' account of the terrible events at Eel Marsh House. When he was instructed to take the train to the north, to attend the funeral of Mrs. Alice Drablow in Crythin Gifford, he imagine
Thunder on the Right
Mary Stewart · 270 pages
**Artist Jennifer Silver has traveled to the picturesque, secluded Valley of the Storms in the French Pyrenees to meet with her young cousin Gillian, who is about to enter the Convent of Our Lady of the Storms.** She had come to the convent--a brooding cluster of ancient buildings nestled deep in the wild upper reaches of the Pyrenees--**to discover that the young woman has died in a dreadful
The Heiress
Rachel Hawkins · 294 pages
The Fall of the House of Usher & Other Stories
Edgar Allan Poe · 556 pages
Assignation Balloon Hoax Black Cat Cask of Amontillado Conversation of Eiros and Charmion Descent Into the Maelstrom Devil in the Belfry Domain of Arnheim Eleonora Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Gold-Bug Hop-Frog Imp of the Perverse Island of the Fay Landor's Cottage Ligeia Man of the Crowd Masque of the Red Death Metzenerstein Ms. Found in a Bottle Murders of the Rue Morgue
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte · 474 pages
The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her ti
The Only One Left
Riley Sager · 400 pages
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNamed a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily"Propulsive ... a dizzying Gothic whodunit."—New York Times Book ReviewBestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massa
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys · 189 pages
Jean Rhys's reputation was made upon publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of citsion's most mysterious characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre". A sensual and protected young woman, the narrator grows up in the lush, natural world of the Caribbean. She is sold into marriage to the cold-hearted and prideful R
Dragonwyck
Anya Seton · 316 pages
A classic gothic romance, the story features an 18-year-old Miranda Wells who falls under the spell of a mysterious old mansion and its equally fascinating master. Tired of churning butter, weeding the garden patch, and receiving the dull young farmers who seek her hand in marriage, Miranda is excited by an invitation from the upstate New York estate of her distant relative, the intriguing Nichola
A Reliable Wife
Robert Goolrick · 291 pages
A widower advertises for "a reliable wife" and he chooses Catherine. To her surprise, Catherine learns to love Ralph and must, as a result, abandon the remaining traces of her former life and cope with the haunting effects of family secrets.
The Bride of Lammermoor
Walter Scott · 342 pages
This new edition of The Bride of Lammermoor restores the action to 1703, before the Union of Scotland and England in 1707 rather than after it, which is where Scott's revisions of 1830 placed it. At last the sense of instability and of impermanence which permeates the novel makes sense, for what was to come in the impending revolution. Love is doomed in this the most famous of Scott's plots. Edga
The House on Biscayne Bay
Chanel Cleeton · 324 pages
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson · 48 pages
A retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde told in graphic novel format. In the murky streets of Victorian London, a vicious killer is on the prowl. The killer is Mr. Hyde. And why does Henry Jekyll, a respected doctor, try to protect him? The work also contains information about Robert Louis Stevenson's life and the film versions of the work.
Burying the Honeysuckle Girls
Emily Carpenter
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle · 207 pages
The Turn of the Key
Ruth Ware · 352 pages
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Ca
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 418 pages
Emily Bronte's dark romance, with an introduction from best-selling author Alice Hoffman Heathcliff comes to the brooding mansion of Wuthering Heighths as an orphan child. Cathy is the daughter of the wealthy family that takes him in. They are drawn together from the moment they meet, their love consuming, destructive, and full of desire. They cannot be together, and yet they cannot stay apart. Th
On the Night of the Seventh Moon
Victoria Holt · 359 pages
Ten years after her secret marriage to an aristocrat, an Englishwoman returns to the Black Forest on a tragic quest which began on the night of the Seventh Moon.
Dark Desires
Eve Silver · 332 pages