Gothic & Haunted Houses

Dark Tales

by Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson peels back suburbia's pleasant facade to reveal the rot beneath. Daily routines become sinister rituals, loving spouses harbor murderous thoughts, and ordinary citizens might be serial killers. These darkly brilliant stories expose the uncanny horror lurking in mid-century American domesticity.

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• One Dark Window — Rachel Gillig
• Belladonna — Adalyn Grace
• Let the Right One In — John Ajvide Lindqvist
• The House of Gardenias — Isabel Cañas
• The Twisted Ones — T. Kingfisher

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