Books like We Have Always Lived in the Castle
If you liked We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Because shares tags: classics, gothic, horror.
A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Because shares tags: classics, horror, mystery.
A masked Erik haunts the Paris Opera, coaching Christine Daae while rivaling Raoul for her. Chandelier crash, cellar lake, and unmasking…
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The Historian
Because shares tags: horror, mystery, gothic.
A daughter traces her father's search for Dracula through letters and archives across Europe.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Because shares tags: classics, mystery, horror.
Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.
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The Green Mile
Because shares tags: horror, mystery, classics.
Guard Paul Edgecombe watches John Coffey show healing miracles on death row in 1932 Louisiana.
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Mexican Gothic
Because shares tags: horror, gothic, mystery.
In 1950 Mexico, glamorous Noemi Taboada leaves Mexico City for High Place after a desperate letter, to rescue cousin Catalina from the…
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'Salem's Lot
Because shares tags: horror, classics, gothic.
A writer returns to Jerusalem's Lot as an old house fills with vampires.
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Rebecca
Because shares tags: gothic, classics, mystery.
A shy bride at Manderley learns she competes with Maxim's perfect dead wife Rebecca.
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Interview with the Vampire
Because shares tags: horror, gothic, classics.
Louis tells a reporter how Lestat made him and how Claudia doomed them all in New Orleans and Paris.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Because shares tags: classics, gothic, horror.
Dorian Gray retold: Basil paints, Henry talks, wish holds youth while canvas bears years.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Because shares tags: gothic, mystery, horror.
Jacob Portman finds his grandfather dead in the woods, follows a cryptic letter to a ruined orphanage in Wales, and meets children living…
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Frankenstein
Because shares tags: classics, gothic, horror.
Frankenstein retold: Victor builds, the creature wakes, Arctic letters, demand and refusal.
