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Conjure WifeNovel
Fritz Leiberstandalone novel1943
About witches and gender and society, set in north america.
“Under the rational overlay of 20th-century civilization this sickly growth, uncultivated, unsuspected, still manages to propagate itself.”
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The Haunting of Hill HouseNovel
Shirley Jacksonstandalone novel1959
Gothic and ghost stories, dark in tone, set in north america.
Some of Your BloodNovel
Theodore Sturgeonstandalone novel1961
Dark in tone.
The Sleep RoomNovel
F. R. Tallisstandalone novel2013
Horror and psychological horror, eerie and tense in tone, about madness, set in mid 20th century and our world.
“Psychiatrists attempt to cure patients by keeping them asleep for months.”
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MoonNovel
James Herbertstandalone novel1985
Dark in tone, set in contemporary and islands.
“Jon Childes is considered with suspicion by the inhabitants of the island he moved to.”
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We Have Always Lived in the CastleNovel
Shirley Jacksonstandalone novel1962
Literary & general and gothic, about family secrets.
“A young woman lives with her older sister and sickly uncle in their old family house, after a mysterious tragedy turns the townsfolk against them.”
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