The 9 books on this stack
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Diane Setterfield 2006
Why it's on the stack
The truth comes out bit by bit · it hurts, and then it heals
It shares this with 6 more books on this stack
When her health begins failing, the mysterious author Vida Winter decides to let Margaret Lea, a biographer, write the truth about her life, but Margaret needs to verify the facts since Vida has a…
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2020
Why it's on the stack
Properly scary · haunted house
It shares this with 5 more books on this stack
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “It’s Lovecraft meets the Brontës in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird.”—The Guardian ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND…
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Henry James 2003
Why it's on the stack
The truth comes out bit by bit · unreliable narrator
It shares this with 6 more books on this stack
The story starts conventionally enough with friends sharing ghost stories 'round the fire on Christmas Eve.
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Susan Hill 1984
Why it's on the stack
It'll scare you · haunted house
It shares this with 5 more books on this stack
An internationally acclaimed and haunting ghost story. "One of the strongest stories of supernatural horror...the work bursts into life and does not flag until the end."-- The Washington Post Arthur…
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Charlotte Brontë 1996
Why it's on the stack
Love hurts sometimes · love in the middle of danger
'Such a strange book! Imagine a novel with a little swarthy governess for heroine, and a middle-aged ruffian for hero.'
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Shirley Jackson 2002
Why it's on the stack
The truth comes out bit by bit · haunted house
It shares this with 6 more books on this stack
Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted…
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Shirley Jackson 1962
Why it's on the stack
A threat that keeps growing · pitch-black comedy
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a…
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Sarah Waters 2009
Why it's on the stack
The truth comes out bit by bit · haunted house
It shares this with 6 more books on this stack
Abundantly atmospheric and elegantly told, *The Little Stranger* is Sarah Waterss most thrilling and ambitious novel yet.
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Daphne du Maurier 1938
Why it's on the stack
Properly scary · unreliable narrator
It shares this with 5 more books on this stack
With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began…