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House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

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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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02 The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson

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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03 The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson

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

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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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05 Plain Bad Heroines Emily M. Danforth

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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