Book Review: Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Rosemary’s Baby is quite an important book. Although it wasn’t published until 1967, it quickly became the most successful horror
Read moreRosemary’s Baby is quite an important book. Although it wasn’t published until 1967, it quickly became the most successful horror
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Read moreMarley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed
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Read moreMINA HARKER’S JOURNAL 23 September.-Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that he has plenty of
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Read moreDR SEWARD’S DIARY-cont. It was just a quarter before twelve o’clock when we got into the churchyard over the low
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Read moreBoy’s life is such a good book it’s going to be hard to write a review that does it justice.
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Read moreIf you are a Richard Laymon fan, Among the Missing is definitely a book you are going to want to
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Read moreA Stable for Nightmares was first published in 1896 by The New Amsterdam Book Company (New York). There are eleven
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Read more“The Stationary Bike” audiobook is split between two CDs and has a total runtime of about an hour and a
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Read moreAll of the stories included in The Moonlit Road collection are classic ghost stories from the mid to late nineteenth
Read moreW.W. Jacob’s short story “The Monkey’s Paw” was first published in 1902 and is rather a scary tale. To this
Read moreThe central characters in “The Mark of the Beast” are three Englishmen who are living in India. One New Years
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Read more“The Hand” was written in the 1880s by the French author Guy de Maupassant, who is considered by many to
Read moreEdgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” was first published in 1846. The story is often included in
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Read moreThe Blackstone Audiobooks presentation of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a recording of an audio drama produced in 1998
Read moreThis dramatization of Dracula was produced by the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company and was originally performed live on stage at
Read more“The Body Snatcher” first saw print in an 1884 edition of the The Pall Mall Gazette Extra. Inspired by the
Read moreThe main character in this story is a hit man and he has always hated kids. Now his employer, Chadwick,
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Read moreIn August 1998 Stephen King did a reading at London’s Royal Festival Hall. This was the first time he had
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Read moreRobert Louis Stevenson wrote his novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886 and, in a
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