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Mexican Gothic

Rating

3.93

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A young woman travels to a decaying English country manor in Mexico and uncovers the unsettling secrets and dark history of the aristocratic family who owns it.

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8

The Collected Ghost Stories of M.R. James

Rating

4.13

M.R. James

Tales featuring well-meaning academics or antiquarians who awaken malevolent, inhuman spirits through cursed objects or ancient texts.

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6

Hell House

Rating

3.69

Richard Matheson

A scientific and psychic team enters the intensely evil Belasco House for one week to definitively prove or disprove the existence of life after death.

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4

Ghost Story

Rating

3.92

Peter Straub

Four elderly friends who share a dark secret are confronted by a powerful, shape-shifting supernatural entity that ties into their past.

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2

The Shining

Rating

4.27

Stephen King

A family caretaker's descent into madness is fueled by the isolation and the malevolent spirits of the haunted Overlook Hotel.

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9

A Christmas Carol

Rating

4.08

Charles Dickens

The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former partner and the three Spirits of Christmas to inspire his moral transformation.

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7

Beloved

Rating

4.08

Toni Morrison

A formerly enslaved woman lives in a house haunted by the bitter ghost of her deceased infant daughter, concentrating the profound horrors of slavery into a devastating apparition.

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5

The Woman in Black

Rating

3.75

Susan Hill

A solicitor travels to an isolated, tide-locked house to settle an estate and encounters the terrifying, vengeful spectre of a woman dressed in black.

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3

The Turn of the Screw

Rating

3.38

Henry James

A governess believes two charming children are being corrupted by the ghosts of a former governess and her lover, leaving the reader to question the reality of the apparitions.

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1

The Haunting of Hill House

Rating

3.81

Shirley Jackson

A small group of people, including a scientist and two psychic women, are invited to stay in a notoriously evil house to investigate supernatural phenomena. The story masterfully blurs the line between the house's haunting and the psychological fragility of the protagonist, Eleanor Vance.

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