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House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson
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The Blackwood sisters live in isolation, shunned by their village for reasons involving arsenic and a family dinner six years ago.

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The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson
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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within.

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The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson
Matches on HorrorMysterious & AtmosphericSlow BurnIdentity

Four people spend a summer in a deeply unnerving house -- a masterwork of psychological dread and ambiguity.

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The Silent Companions Laura Purcell
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A young widow arrives at her late husband's ancestral estate and discovers painted wooden figures -- silent companions -- that seem to move.

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Plain Bad Heroines Emily M. Danforth
Matches on HorrorMysterious & AtmosphericIdentityLove

A cursed New England boarding school, a century of dead girls, and a horror movie that might be awakening something that should have stayed buried.

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