Books like We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Eighteen-year-old Merricat lives with her agoraphobic sister and frail uncle in the house where the rest of the Blackwoods were poisoned six years ago, until a cousin arrives and the village turns on them.
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The Haunting of Hill House
A scholar of the supernatural invites three guests to spend a summer at Hill House, a notoriously haunted mansion, and the house begins to work on Eleanor, the loneliest of them.
The Lottery and Other Stories
Stories of suburban menace and domestic cruelty, anchored by the infamous title story of a village ritual.
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
A selection of Poe's essential tales and poems, the heart beating under the floorboards, the cask of Amontillado, the raven at the chamber door, the writing that taught American readers to be afraid.
Eileen
In 1964, in a grim Massachusetts town, Eileen Dunlop, a lonely, self-loathing secretary at a juvenile prison who looks after her alcoholic father, becomes infatuated with Rebecca, the glamorous new education director, and is drawn into a crime.
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
Early stories du Maurier wrote in her twenties and lost for decades, including the title story of a young man's obsession with a mysterious violinist.
Death in Her Hands
Vesta Gul, a widow in her seventies, finds a note in the woods near her cabin saying that a woman named Magda is dead and nobody will ever know who killed her, and with no body to be found, she begins to imagine who Magda was.
The Comfort of Strangers
An English couple on vacation in Venice falls into the orbit of a sinister pair, and the holiday darkens into psychological horror.
The Little Stranger
In the summer of 1947 a country doctor is called to Hundreds Hall, the decaying Warwickshire house he once glimpsed as a boy, and becomes entangled with the family whose fortunes and nerves are failing.
The Auctioneer
In Harlowe, a farming town in New Hampshire, a charming newcomer named Perly Dunsmore starts holding weekly auctions for the police fund, and the townspeople are asked to give a little more each time.
Sharp Objects
Camille Preaker, a troubled reporter, is sent back to her small Missouri hometown to cover the murders of two girls, and has to stay in her mother's house to do it.
The Well
Hester Harper, a lonely middle-aged farmer's daughter, takes in Katherine, an orphan girl, and driving home one night they hit something on the road and drop it down the well.
A Head Full of Ghosts
Fifteen years after her older sister's apparent possession was turned into a reality TV show, Merry Barrett tells a writer what really happened in their house when she was eight.