The String of Pearls: The Original Tale of Sweeney Todd is an odd one. The authorship is contested- attributed to James Malcolm Rymer or Thomas Preskett Prest or Anonymous. Published serially, then in novel form in 1850. Sweeny Todd is a barb...

Published in 1851, set in Salem, this is a story that mostly takes place within The House with Seven Gables. Already an old house by the time of the story, it is the Pyncheon Family ancestral home, although the number of Pyncheons has dwindled dr...

Published in 1983, The Witches is considered Roald Dahl's scariest children's book. I went into this book knowing nothing about it. I have read a couple other of his children's books, Matilda and James and the Giant Peach. This one is also a goo...

Published in 1976, book one in The Vampire Chronicles. This is the story of a Vampire - Louis- telling his story to a young male interviewer. A combination of horror and melodrama, this is about the personality conflicts between individual vamp...

Small collection of eerie tales published in the late 1800s. The title story- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde - is a classic horror that has become part of our collective conscience, whether or not we actually have read the book. As a...

Collection of short stories. and poems. The Tell Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Pit and The Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Raven, these are my personal favorites. All involve some element of murder, entrapment, death, or fear of...

Very disturbing psychological horror story. Told from multiple point of views, all unreliable, which gives a very uneasy precarious sense of reality. In a house on the edge of of a neighborhood, a reclusive and alcoholic man lives with his angr...

4 stars. Genuinely creepy and scary. Published in 1959, influenced by the Gein case, Bloch moved horror out of the realm of dusty old castles and moldy vampires and monsters and into your neighbors house. Horror hiding in plain sight like Norm...

Mansfield Park is Jane Austin's 3rd novel. It is the story of a 10 year old girl, Fanny Price, who is taken on by her more more affluent and influential Aunt and Uncle, and brought to live with their family in Mansfield Park. Fanny is an outside...

Published in 1972, The Stepford Wives is a psychological thriller. It explores the weird vibe in a small comfortable Connecticut town from viewpoint of a newcomer, Joanna Eberhart. The wives in the neighboring homes, and throughout the town are...