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1) The haunting
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four seekers look for haunting evidence at the abandoned old mansion called Hill House. Their stay begins as a spooky encounter, but the house is gathering its powers and will choose one of them to make its own.
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Ann Radcliffe's orphaned heroine Emily St. Aubert finds herself imprisoned in her evil guardian Count Montoni's gloomy medieval fortress in the remote Apennines. Terror is the order of the day inside the walls of Udolpho, as Emily struggles against Montoni's rapacious schemes and the threat of her own psychological disintegration. A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Sade, Poe, and other purveyors of eighteenth and nineteenth-century...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House....
4) The countess
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
512 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Andrea Jameson, fearful of men after growing up aware of her father's infidelities, enters a marriage of convenience with a much older man, only to discover she has made a terrible mistake.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Delving deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when outside forces disrupt their delicate balance of life." --
6) Rebecca
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
357 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"The unassuming young heroine of Rebecca finds her life changed overnight when she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome and wealthy widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. Rescuing her from an overbearing employer, de Winter whisks her off to Manderley, his isolated estate on the windswept Cornish coast--but there things take a chilling turn. Max seems haunted by the memory of his glamorous first wife, Rebecca, whose legacy is...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Austen tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature.
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