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Rating: 4/5 Genre: Horror “The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre. First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an …
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Rating: 5/5 Genre: Horror Trigger Warning (Safe Review) “Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband Guy move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and mostly elderly residents. Neighbors Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come nosing around to welcome the Woodhouses to the building, and despite Rosemary’s reservations …
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Rating: 5/5 Genre: Horror “Dracula — Bram Stoker’s Gothic thriller recounting the exploits of an aristocratic vampire — has transfixed and haunted generations of reader. Perhaps the most seductive villain in Western literature, bloodthirsty Count Dracula has inspired countless movies, books, and plays. Few of these, however, have been faithful to Stoker’s original best-selling novel …
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