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Frankenstein
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3.91 avg rating — 1,941,565 ratings
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The Haunting of Hill House
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3.81 avg rating — 405,782 ratings
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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3.91 avg rating — 304,773 ratings
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 657,810 ratings
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 738,655 ratings
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So Below (The Fallen, #2)
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4.12 avg rating — 269 ratings
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As Above (The Fallen, #1)
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3.68 avg rating — 381 ratings
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The Night Begins
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4.17 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)
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4.11 avg rating — 218,976 ratings
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The Lottery and Other Stories
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4.02 avg rating — 82,852 ratings
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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3.90 avg rating — 66,206 ratings
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Prince of Pain II (Prince of Pain #2)
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3.81 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Prince of Pain I (Prince of Pain #1)
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3.39 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Prince of Pain III (Prince of Pain #3)
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3.96 avg rating — 162 ratings
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The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 125,746 ratings
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The Woman in Black
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3.76 avg rating — 83,677 ratings
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Desire
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4.18 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Don't Look Now and Other Stories
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3.82 avg rating — 9,785 ratings
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The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)
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3.93 avg rating — 163,218 ratings
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Prince of Pain IV (Prince of Pain #4)
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3.82 avg rating — 147 ratings
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A Touch of Savagery (Touch #2)
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4.09 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Valentine
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4.15 avg rating — 122 ratings
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
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3.43 avg rating — 17,482 ratings
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Gilded Lies (Midas #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 110 ratings
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And In-Between (The Fallen, #3)
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3.91 avg rating — 138 ratings
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A Touch of Innocence (Touch #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Mexican Gothic
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3.66 avg rating — 451,718 ratings
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Gothic Tales
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3.80 avg rating — 3,141 ratings
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Night's Master (Tales from the Flat Earth #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 3,893 ratings
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Thrall (Thrall, #1)
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3.77 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Beloved
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3.98 avg rating — 499,698 ratings
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Mine (Mine #1)
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3.41 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Tender Is the Flesh
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3.77 avg rating — 428,795 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 278,434 ratings
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The Red Tree
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3.64 avg rating — 3,782 ratings
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Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 153,994 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 2,212,608 ratings
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Angel Devil
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4.29 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Lost Souls
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3.90 avg rating — 19,166 ratings
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Ours (Mine #3)
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3.84 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Gilded Crown (Midas #2)
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3.94 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Yours (Mine #2)
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3.73 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)
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3.77 avg rating — 92,739 ratings
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The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles, #6)
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3.80 avg rating — 74,265 ratings
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Memnoch the Devil (The Vampire Chronicles, #5)
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3.76 avg rating — 87,124 ratings
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Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales
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3.81 avg rating — 870 ratings
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Sunshine
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3.84 avg rating — 44,257 ratings
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The Book of the Damned (Secret Books of Paradys, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 921 ratings
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Fledgling
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3.79 avg rating — 40,440 ratings
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The Sun Down Motel
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3.99 avg rating — 196,090 ratings
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Snow White, Blood Red
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3.72 avg rating — 6,955 ratings
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The House Next Door
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3.89 avg rating — 14,224 ratings
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Gilded Prince (Midas #3)
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4.21 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Birds
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3.91 avg rating — 6,833 ratings
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Little Red Riding Hood
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3.19 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Cry to Heaven
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3.89 avg rating — 21,963 ratings
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Prince of Pain V (Prince of Pain #5)
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3.79 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Family Pack
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Ad Nauseam
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4.10 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Alabaster
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4.07 avg rating — 774 ratings
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The Italian
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3.53 avg rating — 6,289 ratings
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Randalls Round
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3.91 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Delusion's Master (Flat Earth, #3)
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4.18 avg rating — 1,145 ratings
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The Outcast Spirit: and Other Stories
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3.86 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The House on Blackstone Moor (The Blackstone Vampires, #1)
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3.58 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Heart-Beast
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3.49 avg rating — 338 ratings
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The Screwfly Solution
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4.10 avg rating — 736 ratings
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Lakewood
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3.46 avg rating — 14,346 ratings
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Geek Love
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3.95 avg rating — 73,879 ratings
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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories
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3.86 avg rating — 407 ratings
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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4.37 avg rating — 55,198 ratings
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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
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3.88 avg rating — 5,105 ratings
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The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories
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3.88 avg rating — 294 ratings
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Loki's Price
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4.26 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Kitten and His Prince
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3.73 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Crooked God Machine
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3.83 avg rating — 546 ratings
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The Vampire Tapestry
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3.60 avg rating — 2,537 ratings
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Lady Audley's Secret
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3.78 avg rating — 26,965 ratings
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Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 241,626 ratings
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 738,655 ratings
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The Left Hand
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4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Gangster
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4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Trial by Fire (Covencraft, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 660 ratings
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Lesath (The Stinger #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 155 ratings
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The Art of LongPig
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3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Cabello: Mineau (Cabello #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Hungry Ghost (Tales of the Pack, #2)
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3.82 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Soeis (Anam Céile Chronicles, #2)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Box Jumper
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4.15 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Miael: Family
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3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Goose of Hermogenes
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3.64 avg rating — 330 ratings
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The Pack: Addison (The Pack, #1)
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4.21 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Certain Dark Things
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3.72 avg rating — 20,243 ratings
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Hungry For You
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4.10 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Lunatic Fringe (Tales of the Pack, #1)
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3.34 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
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3.80 avg rating — 107,664 ratings
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Death's Master (Flat Earth, #2)
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4.22 avg rating — 1,558 ratings
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Darkling
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3.64 avg rating — 385 ratings
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Threshold (Chance Matthews #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 1,600 ratings
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Blood and Chrysanthemums (Creed, #2)
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3.60 avg rating — 222 ratings
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ETA: Also, re "dark fiction": Would something like Wuthering Heights qualify? It's manifestly not "horror," but it IS widely considered part of the "gothic" tradition ...