Books like The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
12 books with a reading profile close to The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe. Deep; a moderate read.
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The Masque of the Red Death
Also deep · horror, literary
Prince Prospero retreats to a fortified abbey with one thousand iron-willed courtiers to evade the Red Death, a localized plague causing fatal bleeding.
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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
horror, literary
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales presents a collection of early nineteenth-century gothic fiction focused on psychological disintegration and the supernatural.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
Also deep · horror, literary
The narrative follows Gabriel Utterson, a lawyer investigating the relationship between his disciplined friend, Dr.
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The Lottery and Other Stories
horror, literary
This collection of twenty-five stories describes the unsettling realities hidden beneath the surface of mid-century American domesticity.
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The Shadow over Innsmouth
horror, literary
A young man traveling through New England in 1927 visits the decaying port of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, because he is curious about the town's bad reputation.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
horror, literary
Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway are thirteen-year-old neighbors in Green Town, Illinois, when Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show arrives by train at three in the morning.
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Der Sandmann
Also deep · horror, literary
Nathanael, a student, remains haunted by a childhood trauma involving the death of his father and a terrifying figure called the Sandman, whom he associates with the lawyer Coppelius.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
Also deep · horror, literary
In London’s high society, the artist Basil Hallward paints a portrait of a handsome young man named Dorian Gray.
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A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh
Also deep · literary, classic literature
Tony Last is a gentle English country gentleman who lives at Hetton Abbey, a Gothic mansion he loves, with his wife Brenda and young son John Andrew.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818 text)
by Mary Shelley
Also deep · horror, literary
Victor Frankenstein, a natural philosophy student in Ingolstadt, assembles a living human form from scavenged body parts using laboratory chemistry and galvanism.
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The Call of Cthulhu
horror, literary
Francis Wayland Thurston uncovers a series of interconnected manuscripts, journals, and newspaper clippings following the death of his great-uncle.
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