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Read moreWailing Well by M. R. James (Full Text and Summary)
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Read moreCount Dracula (BBC – 1977)
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Read morePublic Domain Text: The Screaming Skull F. Marion Crawford
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Read moreBeyond Midnight: The Signalman (Episode Information and MP3 of the Show)
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Read morePublic Domain Text: No. 5 Branchline: The Engineer by Amelia B. Edwards
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Read moreBeyond Midnight: The Paxton’s House (Episode Information and MP3 of the Show)
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While wandering in the woods a man finds the ruins of a once magnificent house and while he stands admiring
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A locked door can cause a great deal of curiosity, but some doors are locked for very good reasons. The
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When Englishman, Simon Crutchley, goes to stay in France he takes a room at the back of the hotel D’Avignon,
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Read morePublic Domain Movie: The Wasp Woman (1959)
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Read morePublic Domain Movie: The Screaming Skull (1958)
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Read morePublic Domain Movie: Attack of the Killer Shrews (1959)
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Read moreThe Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), Starring Lon Chaney
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Read morePublic Domain Movie: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
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Read morePublic Domain Text: The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
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Read morePublic Domain Movie: The Bat (1959)
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Read morePublic Domain Movie: The Ape (1940)
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Read moreMovie Review: Bride of the Monster (1955)
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Read moreDVD Review: A Warning to the Curious (1972)
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Read moreDVD Review: The Signalman (1976)
Between the years of 1971 and 1978, the BBC ran a very popular TV series called A Ghost Story For
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Read moreBook Review: Weekend by Christopher Pike
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Ten years ago they were teenagers and went camping on Thurstaston Common: There were four of them: Hugh, who wanted
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They Thirst was first published in 1981. First and foremost, it’s a story about vampires, but the book also contains
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The Wasp Factory is written in the first person and the viewpoint character is a sixteen-year-old boy named Frank Cauldhame.
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The central character in The Unwanted is a young girl called Cassie Winslow. Her parents are divorced and she has
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Dwight Thompson is busy mowing his parent’s lawn when Rusty and Slim come over, and he has heard nothing about
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What would you do if you won the lottery? Or, perhaps, the question should be what wouldn’t you do? When
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The Taking is not so much a horror novel as a cross-genre piece that melds horror and sci-fi. The problems
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The Sucking Pit was first published in 1975 and, with a length of just 111 pages, the entire book can
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The Sphinx is a little over 200 pages long, I found it a riveting read, and I am sure many
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The Shrinking Man is a Sci-fi story that is dark enough to appeal to fans of the horror genre. In
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I’ve read a few of Joe Donnelly’s books. Most of them are set in Scotland, but The Shee is a
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Nine years after her four-year-old daughter, Angela, was murdered, Barbara Waugh has got her life back on track and learned
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The central character in The Husband is a gardener named Mitch Rafferty. He is a good gardener, but like many
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin in 1814. His work was very popular in Victorian times and he has
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin in 1814. His work was very popular in Victorian times and he has
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin in 1814. His work was very popular in Victorian times and he has
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin in 1814. His work was very popular in Victorian times and he has
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin in 1814. His work was very popular in Victorian times and he has
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin in 1814. His work was very popular in Victorian times and he has
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin in 1814. His work was very popular in Victorian times and he has
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin in 1814. His work was very popular in Victorian times and he has
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin in 1814. His work was very popular in Victorian times and he has
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin in 1814. His work was very popular in Victorian times and he has
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin in 1814. His work was very popular in Victorian times and he has
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin in 1814. His work was very popular in Victorian times and he has
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin in 1814. His work was very popular in Victorian times and he has
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Read moreMovie Review: Long Weekend (1978)
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