Plain Bad Heroines

Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury

A dark carnival arrives in a small Illinois town on the eve of Halloween, offering the townspeople their deepest desires -- at a price they cannot imagine.

Rebecca Daphne du Maurier

A shy young woman marries a wealthy widower and moves to his grand estate -- but the shadow of his first wife never left.

House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski

A labyrinthine novel about a house that's larger on the inside than the outside -- and the madness of trying to map it.

The October Country Ray Bradbury

Nineteen stories set in a country of autumn and dread, where the dead keep to their own calendar and the strange is simply a fact of local life.

Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A glamorous socialite in 1950s Mexico travels to a decaying English mansion to rescue her cousin -- and finds something growing in the walls.