Frightful Fiction

From classic horror to contemporary gothic, dive into a frightful fiction book, selected by RCL editors. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features 90,000+ core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists and available at rclweb.net.

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Frightful Fiction

From classic horror to contemporary gothic, dive into a frightful fiction book, selected by RCL editors. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features 90,000+ core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists and available at rclweb.net.

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The shining
King, Stephen
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME * In this masterpiece of modern American horror that inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic film, Jack Torrance takes a job as the caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel. As the...
The black spider
Gotthelf, Jeremias
Paper Book
An NYRB Classics Original It is a sunny summer Sunday in a remote Swiss village, and a christening is being celebrated at a lovely old farmhouse. One of the guests notes an anomaly in the fabric of the venerable edifice- a blackened post that has been carefully built into a trim new...
Vlad
Fuentes, Carlos.
Ebook
"Vlad" is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. In this sly sequel, Vlad really is undead: dispossessed after centuries of mayhem by Eastern European wars and rampant blood shortages. More than a postmodern riff on "the vampire...
Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paper Book
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