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House of Leaves

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The Blackwood sisters live in isolation, shunned by their village for reasons involving arsenic and a family dinner six years ago.

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The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson
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Four people spend a summer in a deeply unnerving house -- a masterwork of psychological dread and ambiguity.

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Plain Bad Heroines Emily M. Danforth
Matches on HorrorMysterious & AtmosphericIdentityLove

A cursed New England boarding school, a century of dead girls, and a horror movie that might be awakening something that should have stayed buried.

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The Stand Stephen King
Matches on HorrorSlow BurnIdentityLove

A government-engineered superflu kills 99% of humanity. The survivors must choose sides in a battle between good and evil taking shape across the ruins of America.

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Dracula Bram Stoker
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The novel that invented the modern vampire -- still more unsettling, sensual, and strange than any adaptation has managed to capture.

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