 | Dracula (Penguin Popular Classics) by Bram Stoker
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 The classic vampire tale, wonderfully gothic with the right amount of Victorian melodrama.
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 | Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Popular Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 A great tale and reminder to us all to think before we act.
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 | Darker Than You Think (Fantasy Masterworks): And Other Novels by Jack Williamson
Buy new: £0.35 / Used from: £0.01 Probably the definitive werewolf novel. Well written and enjoyable.
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 | The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Wordsworth Classics) by James Hogg
Buy new: £1.79 / Used from: £1.78 Living no more than 3 miles from the Ettrick Shepherd's birthplace I felt obliged to read this book and I'm glad I did. Very thought provoking.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 One of the most famous love stories ever. Very haunting and gothic
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Another classic love story.
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 | The Woman in White (Penguin Popular Classics) by Wilkie Collins
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Wilkie Collins is much more than a poor man's Dickens. This is hie most well known novel. Gripping until the end.
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 | The Moonstone (Penguin Popular Classics) by Wilkie Collins
Buy new: £1.87 / Used from: £0.01 Another gripping thriller by Collins with lashings of melodrama.
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 | Rebecca (Virago modern classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.89 Du Maurier's re-working of Jane Eyre. Haunting and very well done.
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 | The Vampire Lestat (Second Volume of the Vampire Chronicles) by Anne Rice
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Arguably the Queen of Modern Gothic. This is one of her best books in the famous Vampire Chronicles. Shame about the later ones.
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 | The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.25 The Witches books are Anne Rice's other major achievement and until Merrick they had the advantage of not having been diluted and sold out for money.
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 | The Ghost Writer by John Harwood
Buy used from: £2.65 A wonderfully gripping thriller in good old Victorian melodrama style. Perhaps a bit obvious in some places.
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 | The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Penguin Popular Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Short but good.
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