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Listopia > Kat's votes on the list Pseudo-Intellectual Horror List (58 Books)
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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Carrie
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"King builds characters you'll feel attached to, with whom you have sympathy. The story is elegantly written and plotted, too."
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rated it 5 stars
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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"Anne Rice's literary masterpiece...her later works suffer from her success, but this one is a work of art."
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rated it 4 stars
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Frankenstein
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"Everyone needs to read Frankenstein...it's literary, the language is lyrical, the ideas are transformative...."
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rated it 5 stars
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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’Salem’s Lot
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"King's vampires are old school Nosferatu-style...like the bogeymen from the old European legends."
Kat
rated it 5 stars
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Supernatural Horror in Literature
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"'cause it's Lovecraft, ya'll"
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rated it 3 stars
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Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, & Other Supernatural Creatures
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"Reference."
Kat
added it to to-read
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The Woman in Black
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The Fall of the House of Usher
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"Poe is a master of thriller and mystery."
Kat
rated it 4 stars
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The Haunted House
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Bleak House
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Practical Magic (Practical Magic, #1)
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"So beautiful, such lovely language, such real characters"
Kat
rated it 5 stars
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The Haunting of Hill House
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"Will scare the pants off you. Jackson is a master."
Kat
rated it 4 stars
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The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red
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"I just like the story, this isn't one of King's best, but it's a lot of fun."
Kat
rated it 4 stars
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The Lovely Bones
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Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
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"Scary!!!!"
Kat
rated it 4 stars
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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American Psycho
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Exquisite Corpse
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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"It's a ghost story, but it'll disturb you on a very human level."
Kat
rated it 4 stars
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Zombie
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Alice in Zombieland
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Julia
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Shadowland
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Ghost Story
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"Psychologically terrifying..."
Kat
rated it 5 stars
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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Fight Club
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"It's raw, gritty, and shows the ugly of human nature."
Kat
rated it 3 stars
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Sick Puppy (Skink, #4)
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"Obsessive-compulsives meet sociopaths...it's a crazy ride!"
Kat
rated it 4 stars
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The Stand
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"Everyone should read this book. The old woman is the best character ever written."
Kat
rated it 4 stars
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The Devil in the White City
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"If you don't know who H.H. Holmes is you live under a rock. Larson is a pro at weaving historical stories together."
Kat
rated it 5 stars
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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"Not very sympathetic to the early LDS church, but historically accurate and told with a clean narrative."
Kat
rated it 5 stars
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Cat’s Cradle
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
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"Ripley will creep you the frig out!"
Kat
rated it 4 stars
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
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"Bradbury is a lovely man and this story captures the shadow-side of magic, childhood, and wishing..."
Kat
rated it 4 stars
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
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"I love Maguire. "
Kat
rated it 4 stars
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Almanac of the Dead
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"Silko is a master storyteller."
Kat
rated it 5 stars
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The Virgin Suicides
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"Sometimes the scariest thing is what's inside us."
Kat
rated it 3 stars
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Girl, Interrupted
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"See my comment on Virgin Suicides!"
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rated it 4 stars
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Incantation
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The Probable Future
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"The perpetually damp house is creepy in that classic gothic way."
Kat
rated it 5 stars
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Sineater
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Ghost Road Blues (Pine Deep, #1)
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The Castle of Los Angeles
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The Monk
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Rebecca
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"Put down that Great Gatsby or the abysmal Wuthering Heights and read a real classic that will fill you with dread, melancholy, will thrill you, and tease you mercilessly!"
Kat
rated it 4 stars
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Jane Eyre
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"The only Bronte you need to bother reading."
Kat
rated it 4 stars
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
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"I say Katrina did it!"
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rated it 3 stars
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The Woman in White
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The House of the Seven Gables
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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
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The Accursed: A Gothic Supernatural Horror in Woodrow Wilson's Cursed Princeton – Vampires and Dark Academia
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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
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"Wharton has looked into the souls of humans and bared the raw and ugly."
Kat
rated it 4 stars
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The Canterville Ghost
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One Thousand and One Ghosts
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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"The Yellow Wallpaper is FRIGHTFUL!"
Kat
rated it 4 stars
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Sweeney Todd: The String of Pearls
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The Turn of the Screw
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