'Salem's Lot
A writer returns to Jerusalem's Lot as an old house fills with vampires.
2,046-word summary · 9 min read
Tag: horror
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The Stand
A superflu wipes out most people as good and evil gather in two towns.
1,959-word summary · 9 min read
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
A man recalls age seven when a lodger's suicide let hunger birds in, and Lettie Hempstock saved him.
2,070-word summary · 9 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
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
Misery
A novelist crashes in Colorado snow and wakes in the home of his self-declared number one fan, who will not let him leave.
2,744-word summary · 12 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
Coraline
Coraline finds a door to a better version of home, ruled by the Other Mother with button eyes.
2,081-word summary · 9 min read
Carrie
Bullied Carrie White discovers telekinetic powers that turn a cruel prom prank into a night of fire.
2,172-word summary · 10 min read
It
Seven friends in Derry face a shape shifting evil as kids in 1958 and again as adults in 1985.
2,229-word summary · 10 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
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