The Green Mile
Guard Paul Edgecombe watches John Coffey show healing miracles on death row in 1932 Louisiana.
2,549-word summary · 11 min read
classics + horror
11 books tagged both “classics” and “horror”.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.
2,596-word summary · 12 min read
'Salem's Lot
A writer returns to Jerusalem's Lot as an old house fills with vampires.
2,046-word summary · 9 min read
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves.
2,286-word summary · 10 min read
Interview with the Vampire
Louis tells a reporter how Lestat made him and how Claudia doomed them all in New Orleans and Paris.
2,195-word summary · 10 min read
Pet Sematary
Doctor Louis buries Church and then Gage in ground that returns them wrong, learning dead is better.
2,158-word summary · 10 min read
The Gunslinger
Roland chases the man in black across desert to the tower, losing Jake and learning ka is a wheel.
2,071-word summary · 9 min read
Dracula
Count Dracula sails for England in letters and diaries, and Van Helsing leads the hunt to stop him.
2,860-word summary · 13 min read
Frankenstein
Frankenstein retold: Victor builds, the creature wakes, Arctic letters, demand and refusal.
1,901-word summary · 8 min read
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray retold: Basil paints, Henry talks, wish holds youth while canvas bears years.
2,061-word summary · 9 min read
The Shining
The Shining retold: Jack winters at Overlook with Wendy and Danny, REDRUM, hedge maze chase.
2,011-word summary · 9 min read