The Only One Left
Caregiver Kit tends mute Lenora Hope accused of 1929 family murders.
2,592-word summary · 12 min read
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Mexican Gothic
In 1950 Mexico, glamorous Noemi Taboada leaves Mexico City for High Place after a desperate letter, to rescue cousin Catalina from the chilling Doyles and…
2,523-word summary · 11 min read
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Aiden relives a murder day in eight hosts to solve Evelyn Hardcastle's killing.
2,459-word summary · 11 min read
Northanger Abbey
Naive Catherine Morland mixes gothic novels with real Bath society and love.
2,650-word summary · 12 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
The Bad Beginning
After a fire kills their parents, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to Count Olaf, who plots to steal their fortune.
2,759-word summary · 12 min read
Haunting Adeline
A writer in a gothic manor is stalked by Zade while reading her great grandmother's diary.
2,090-word summary · 9 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 Shadow of the Wind
In postwar Barcelona, Daniel finds a cursed novel and hunts its vanished author while a burned man watches.
2,000-word summary · 9 min read
Rebecca
A shy bride at Manderley learns she competes with Maxim's perfect dead wife Rebecca.
2,008-word summary · 9 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
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights retold: Heathcliff and Cathy on the moors, two houses, two generations.
2,056-word summary · 9 min read