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The Devil in the White City
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 757,162 ratings
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Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
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4.22 avg rating — 548 ratings
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The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography
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4.03 avg rating — 1,584 ratings
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V Is for Vampire: The A-Z Guide to Everything Undead
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3.60 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Romantic Agony
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4.16 avg rating — 297 ratings
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The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror
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4.11 avg rating — 1,506 ratings
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The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology
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4.04 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Rebecca: The Making of a Hollywood Classic
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3.78 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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3.41 avg rating — 4,398 ratings
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Danse Macabre
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3.67 avg rating — 31,278 ratings
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The Vile Victorians (Horrible Histories, #18)
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3.97 avg rating — 2,340 ratings
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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3.81 avg rating — 5,060 ratings
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The Complete History of Jack the Ripper
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4.10 avg rating — 3,246 ratings
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A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518
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3.46 avg rating — 884 ratings
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Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory
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3.74 avg rating — 1,582 ratings
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Theatre of Fear & Horror: The Grisly Spectacle of the Grand Guignol of Paris, 1897-1962
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3.94 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Burning of Bridget Cleary
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3.51 avg rating — 1,052 ratings
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American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century
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3.74 avg rating — 3,088 ratings
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Female Gothic Histories: Gender, History and the Gothic
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3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
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4.30 avg rating — 46,562 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.01 avg rating — 37,124 ratings
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Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 56,175 ratings
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Victorian Murderesses
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3.62 avg rating — 318 ratings
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American Gothic: Sixty Years of Horror Cinema
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4.48 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The City of Falling Angels
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3.56 avg rating — 17,324 ratings
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Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film
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3.86 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
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4.07 avg rating — 19,959 ratings
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English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema
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4.51 avg rating — 106 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 727,563 ratings
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Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema
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4.49 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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3.72 avg rating — 11,972 ratings
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Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979
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4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Guillermo del Toro: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work (Iconic Filmmakers Series)
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4.23 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween
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3.86 avg rating — 847 ratings
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Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors: Two hundred years of crime
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural (Volume 1)
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3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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To Each Their Darkness
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4.15 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Bluebeard and After: Three Decades of Murder in France
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Raising the Dead
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3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Soul of Marshal Gilles de Raiz
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Witches: A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction
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3.54 avg rating — 1,079 ratings
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Countess Dracula: The Life and Times of Elisabeth Báthory, the Blood Countess
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3.76 avg rating — 280 ratings
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The Wonderful and Surprising History of Sweeney Todd: The Life and Times of an Urban Legend
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3.67 avg rating — 66 ratings
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New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches
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3.24 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality
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3.97 avg rating — 828 ratings
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Spirits of an Industrial Age: Ghost Impersonation, Spring-heeled Jack, and Victorian Society
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3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Grand Guignol
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3.91 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Occult Paris: The Lost Magic of the Belle Époque
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3.62 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 294,730 ratings
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Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture
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4.24 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Goodwin Wharton
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Jack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Murders
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3.70 avg rating — 93 ratings
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H.H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil
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3.62 avg rating — 1,366 ratings
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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
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3.60 avg rating — 3,320 ratings
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Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull
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3.93 avg rating — 446 ratings
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The Hell-Fire Clubs: A History of Anti-Morality
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3.43 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
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3.73 avg rating — 10,607 ratings
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The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV
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3.69 avg rating — 784 ratings
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City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London
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3.92 avg rating — 522 ratings
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The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
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3.98 avg rating — 7,023 ratings
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The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England
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4.01 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Wanted Undead or Alive: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-ass Enemies of Evil
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3.71 avg rating — 113 ratings
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American Grotesque
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4.48 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
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3.99 avg rating — 6,747 ratings
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In Search Of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires – The Biography of Vlad the Impaler and Bram Stoker's Diaries
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3.88 avg rating — 1,625 ratings
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The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History
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4.24 avg rating — 1,875 ratings
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Dracula Was a Woman: In Search of the Blood Countess of Transylvania
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3.51 avg rating — 195 ratings
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