Books like The Fall of the House of Usher
12 books with a reading profile close to The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
Also deep and inward-looking · horror, literary
The narrative follows Gabriel Utterson, a lawyer investigating the relationship between his disciplined friend, Dr.
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The Black Cat
Also inward-looking and open-ended · horror, literary
The story follows an unnamed narrator who undergoes a psychological breakdown fueled by chronic alcoholism.
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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · 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 Lottery and Other Stories
Also open-ended and thought-provoking · 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 Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
Also deep and inward-looking · horror, literary
In a remote estate in Essex, a young governess takes charge of two orphaned siblings, Miles and Flora.
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Also deep and inward-looking · horror, literary
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story follows an unnamed woman confined to a nursery in a rented colonial mansion.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Also deep and inward-looking · horror, literary
Gabriel John Utterson, a London lawyer, grows concerned when his friend Dr.
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8
Der Sandmann
Also deep and inward-looking · 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 Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
Also inward-looking and open-ended · horror, literary
Set in war-weary 1947 Warwickshire, the story follows Dr.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818 text)
by Mary Shelley
Also deep and inward-looking · 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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A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
Also deep and open-ended · literary, classic literature
Faulkner's collection centers on the title story, in which the townspeople of Jefferson, Mississippi, attend the funeral of Miss Emily Grierson, a reclusive woman from an old family.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
Also deep and inward-looking · 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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