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Dracula
Bram Stoker
54 days •
ⓘ 1897 • A mysterious Count from Transylvania seeks to enter England. Only a small group, led by Professor Van Helsing, stand in his way.
Count Magnus
M.R. James
3 days •
ⓘ 1904 • A traveler in Sweden stumbles upon the history of a mysterious and ominous figure. Are you awake, Count Magnus?
The Vampyre
John William Polidori
4 days •
ⓘ 1819 • Tragedy follows Lord Ruthven like a shadow, and poor young Aubrey can’t seem to rid himself of the man. But after Ruthven is killed, a far darker secret is revealed.
Carmilla
J. Sheridan LeFanu
12 days •
ⓘ 1871 • A classic Victorian vampire novella, predating Dracula by more than 25 years.
The Haunted Hotel
Wilkie Collins
26 days •
ⓘ 1879 • A palace, refurbished as a hotel, haunts its guests with glimpses of its tragic and frightening past.
The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
Gertrude Atherton
20 days •
ⓘ 1905 • A collection of Atherton's stories including The Dead and the Countess, Death and the Woman, and the "far too gruesome" story The Striding Place.
The Shadowy Third
Ellen Glasgow
20 days •
ⓘ 1923 • A collection of spooky stories filled with ghosts - or are they hallucinations? - hauntings of the past, and revenge.
The House of the Vampire
George Sylvester Viereck
9 days •
ⓘ 1907 • A classic Victorian gothic horror story, one of the first to include vampires that do more than feed off blood.
The Book of the Damned
Charles Fort
32 days •
ⓘ 1919 • A nonfiction investigation into UFOs, disappearances, supposedly mythological beings, and other phenomena.
The Flying Saucers Are Real
Donald Keyhoe
18 days •
ⓘ 1950 • An investigation of several encounters between the U.S. Air Force and unidentified flying objects in the late 1940s.
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
Edward J. Ruppelt
36 days •
ⓘ 1956 • A memoir of Ruppelt's role in the U.S. Air Force and Project Blue Book, a study into unidentified flying objects.
Daemonologie
James VI
11 days •
ⓘ 1597 • King James VI, later James I of England, offers this study on necromancy, black magic, demonology, and vampires. A source of inspiration for Macbeth.
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria
William Scott-Elliot
14 days •
ⓘ 1925 • The supposed histories of lost continents Lemuria and Atlantis and the remarkable races that lived there.
The Humbugs of the World
P.T. Barnum
40 days •
ⓘ 1865 • The "Prince of Humbugs" himself describes a wide range of hoaxes, cons, swindles, and scams.
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