4.02 avg rating — 566,617 ratings

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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."

4.02 avg rating — 649,402 ratings

"Anne Rice's literary masterpiece...her later works suffer from her success, but this one is a work of art."

3.91 avg rating — 1,882,357 ratings

"Everyone needs to read Frankenstein...it's literary, the language is lyrical, the ideas are transformative...."

3.83 avg rating — 664,226 ratings

4.10 avg rating — 659,101 ratings

"King's vampires are old school Nosferatu-style...like the bogeymen from the old European legends."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,357 ratings

"'cause it's Lovecraft, ya'll"

4.26 avg rating — 1,257 ratings

"Reference."

3.76 avg rating — 82,072 ratings

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"Poe is a master of thriller and mystery."

3.06 avg rating — 2,344 ratings

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"So beautiful, such lovely language, such real characters"

3.81 avg rating — 393,545 ratings

"Will scare the pants off you. Jackson is a master."

3.72 avg rating — 10,652 ratings

"I just like the story, this isn't one of King's best, but it's a lot of fun."

3.86 avg rating — 2,460,991 ratings

4.07 avg rating — 372,772 ratings

"Scary!!!!"

4.28 avg rating — 1,703,982 ratings

3.80 avg rating — 361,511 ratings

3.79 avg rating — 25,839 ratings

3.98 avg rating — 489,802 ratings

"It's a ghost story, but it'll disturb you on a very human level."

3.33 avg rating — 13,077 ratings

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3.92 avg rating — 83,112 ratings

"Psychologically terrifying..."

4.18 avg rating — 3,443,347 ratings

4.18 avg rating — 642,310 ratings

"It's raw, gritty, and shows the ugly of human nature."

3.92 avg rating — 27,958 ratings

"Obsessive-compulsives meet sociopaths...it's a crazy ride!"

4.35 avg rating — 834,034 ratings

"Everyone should read this book. The old woman is the best character ever written."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 757,879 ratings

"If you don't know who H.H. Holmes is you live under a rock. Larson is a pro at weaving historical stories together."

4.01 avg rating — 225,034 ratings

"Not very sympathetic to the early LDS church, but historically accurate and told with a clean narrative."

4.15 avg rating — 436,555 ratings

3.95 avg rating — 116,775 ratings

"Ripley will creep you the frig out!"

3.89 avg rating — 153,657 ratings

"Bradbury is a lovely man and this story captures the shadow-side of magic, childhood, and wishing..."

3.51 avg rating — 683,935 ratings

"I love Maguire. "

3.95 avg rating — 3,184 ratings

"Silko is a master storyteller."

3.78 avg rating — 412,066 ratings

"Sometimes the scariest thing is what's inside us."

3.94 avg rating — 277,780 ratings

"See my comment on Virgin Suicides!"

3.92 avg rating — 9,124 ratings

3.86 avg rating — 16,158 ratings

"The perpetually damp house is creepy in that classic gothic way."

3.69 avg rating — 551 ratings

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4.25 avg rating — 718,934 ratings

"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!"

4.16 avg rating — 2,319,757 ratings

"The only Bronte you need to bother reading."

3.77 avg rating — 154,938 ratings

"I say Katrina did it!"

4.01 avg rating — 165,934 ratings

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"Wharton has looked into the souls of humans and bared the raw and ugly."

3.88 avg rating — 70,856 ratings

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"The Yellow Wallpaper is FRIGHTFUL!"

3.56 avg rating — 2,288 ratings

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