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Dracula
Bram Stoker • 2017
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the imminent arrival of his 'Master'. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count Dracula and a determined group of adversaries, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre, probing deeply into questions of human identity and sanity, and illuminating dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess • 1979
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter)
Thomas Harris • 1991
An ingenious, masterfully written novel, Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs is a classic of suspense and storytelling and the basis for the Oscar award-winning horror film starring Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter.<br/><br/>A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname―Buffalo Bill―is stalking particular women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the F.B.I. Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, Chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and grisly killer now kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Lecter's insight into the minds of murderers could help track and capture Buffalo Bill.<br/><br/>Smart and attractive, Starling is shaken to find herself in a strange, intense relationship with the acutely perceptive Lecter. His cryptic clues―about Buffalo Bill and about her―launch Clarice on a search that every reader will find startling, harrowing, and totally compelling.
H. P. Lovecraft Tales of Horror (Leather-bound Classics)
H. P. Lovecraft • 2017
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov • 1989
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in <b>Lolita</b>, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. <b>Lolita</b> is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
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Edgar Allan Poe: The Ultimate Collection
Edgar Allan Poe • 2021
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. He is also generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.<br/>Includes: Comment On The Poem. (The Raven) The Raven The Tell-Tale Heart Berenice Eleonora The Premature Burial The Domain Of Arnheim Landor’s Cottage William Wilson The Black Cat The Purloined Letter The Thousand-And-Second Tale Of Scheherazade A Descent Into The Maelstrom.<br/>Von Kempelen And His Discovery Mesmeric Revelation The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar The Fall Of The House Of Usher Silence—A Fable The Masque Of The Red Death The Cask Of Amontillado. The Imp Of The Perverse The Island Of The Fay The Assignation The Pit And The Pendulum The Murders In The Rue Morgue The Mystery Of Marie Roget. The Balloon-Hoax Ms. Found In A Bottle The Oval Portrait
