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The Yellow Wall-Paper
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4.06 avg rating — 390,935 ratings
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The Haunting of Hill House
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3.81 avg rating — 432,977 ratings
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The Woman in Black
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3.76 avg rating — 87,245 ratings
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Frankenstein
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3.93 avg rating — 2,019,949 ratings
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’Salem’s Lot
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4.10 avg rating — 689,762 ratings
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 673,882 ratings
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,778,474 ratings
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The Stand
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4.35 avg rating — 866,694 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.01 avg rating — 667,723 ratings
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Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 386,309 ratings
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The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
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4.26 avg rating — 604,409 ratings
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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4.14 avg rating — 405,927 ratings
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Julia
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3.47 avg rating — 2,929 ratings
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
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3.89 avg rating — 161,285 ratings
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American Psycho
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3.80 avg rating — 384,409 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,537,548 ratings
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 773,615 ratings
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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4.02 avg rating — 583,278 ratings
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Carrie
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3.99 avg rating — 893,972 ratings
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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3.83 avg rating — 704,202 ratings
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Dracula
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4.03 avg rating — 1,557,459 ratings
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Carmilla
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3.86 avg rating — 234,744 ratings
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Practical Magic (Practical Magic, #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 187,561 ratings
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The Lovely Bones
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3.86 avg rating — 2,492,146 ratings
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Zombie
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3.32 avg rating — 13,778 ratings
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Fight Club
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4.18 avg rating — 666,486 ratings
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Ghost Story
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3.91 avg rating — 85,083 ratings
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Shadowland
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3.88 avg rating — 12,973 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 785,881 ratings
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Cat’s Cradle
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4.15 avg rating — 450,768 ratings
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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
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3.88 avg rating — 5,193 ratings
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The Provocateur
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3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Learning to Kiss in the Snow
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3.97 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Veritas The Pharmacological Endgame
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4.49 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Queen's Envoy
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4.77 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Lick the Razor
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3.78 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Dracula: The Un-Dead
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3.15 avg rating — 6,959 ratings
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The Last Motel
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3.75 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Mother
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3.82 avg rating — 131 ratings
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The Daylight Gate
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3.41 avg rating — 7,038 ratings
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The Man in the Picture
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3.64 avg rating — 6,388 ratings
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Affinity
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3.75 avg rating — 29,499 ratings
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Supernatural Horror in Literature
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,444 ratings
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The Small Hand
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3.46 avg rating — 7,809 ratings
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Never Let Me Go
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3.85 avg rating — 920,834 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, & Other Supernatural Creatures
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4.26 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
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Dolly
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3.21 avg rating — 5,212 ratings
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Carpathia
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3.12 avg rating — 430 ratings
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The Fall of the House of Usher
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3.84 avg rating — 94,692 ratings
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The Prince of Mist (Niebla, #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 70,702 ratings
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The Haunted House
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3.06 avg rating — 2,441 ratings
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The Watcher in the Shadows (Niebla #3)
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3.84 avg rating — 27,657 ratings
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Bleak House
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4.02 avg rating — 117,092 ratings
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Her Fearful Symmetry
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3.27 avg rating — 97,026 ratings
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The Greatcoat
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3.16 avg rating — 3,457 ratings
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The Shadow of the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 757,037 ratings
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The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red
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3.72 avg rating — 10,795 ratings
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 281,937 ratings
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Let the Right One In
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4.03 avg rating — 124,508 ratings
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Printer's Devil Court
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3.21 avg rating — 2,474 ratings
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Exquisite Corpse
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3.78 avg rating — 28,878 ratings
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Beloved
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3.99 avg rating — 517,682 ratings
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Alice in Zombieland
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3.26 avg rating — 2,304 ratings
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The Sun Down Motel
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3.99 avg rating — 205,727 ratings
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Platform Seven
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3.54 avg rating — 7,626 ratings
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Sick Puppy (Skink, #4)
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3.92 avg rating — 28,752 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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4.01 avg rating — 232,596 ratings
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 129,506 ratings
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
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3.50 avg rating — 698,109 ratings
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Almanac of the Dead
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3.95 avg rating — 3,275 ratings
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The Virgin Suicides
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3.78 avg rating — 443,677 ratings
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Girl, Interrupted
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3.95 avg rating — 294,017 ratings
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Incantation
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3.93 avg rating — 9,393 ratings
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The Probable Future
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3.86 avg rating — 16,446 ratings
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Sineater
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3.69 avg rating — 560 ratings
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Ghost Road Blues (Pine Deep, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 9,243 ratings
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The Castle of Los Angeles
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3.59 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Monk
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3.87 avg rating — 36,906 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,425,890 ratings
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
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3.77 avg rating — 159,534 ratings
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The Woman in White
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4.02 avg rating — 172,177 ratings
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The House of the Seven Gables
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3.45 avg rating — 44,374 ratings
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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
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4.25 avg rating — 25,081 ratings
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The Accursed
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3.25 avg rating — 6,428 ratings
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The Canterville Ghost
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3.88 avg rating — 74,138 ratings
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One Thousand and One Ghosts
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3.88 avg rating — 1,237 ratings
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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4.06 avg rating — 390,935 ratings
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Sweeney Todd: The String of Pearls
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3.56 avg rating — 2,397 ratings
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The Turn of the Screw
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3.38 avg rating — 189,746 ratings
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I don't understand why you call this list Pseudo-Intellectual. Pseudo means fake. And a lot of these books are classics, or at least literary. What's the fake part? Do you mean that these books are NOT intellectual? I think that most of them are, to some degree.
