Under the Dome
Chester's Mill is sealed under an invisible dome as cook Barbie and editor Julia face Big Jim Rennie's rule.
2,731-word summary · 12 min read
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
A young mother confined for her health fixates on yellow wallpaper, plus 39 other Gilman stories on marriage and work.
2,989-word summary · 13 min read
The Institute
A kidnapped prodigy wakes in a Maine facility where gifted kids earn tokens in Front Half and vanish from Back Half.
3,814-word summary · 17 min read
The Historian
A daughter traces her father's search for Dracula through letters and archives across Europe.
3,237-word summary · 14 min read
The Haunting of Hill House
Eleanor joins a ghost study at Hill House, bonds fast with Theodora, and feels the house single her out by name.
2,712-word summary · 12 min read
The Drawing of the Three
Wounded on a beach, Roland pulls two strangers from New York through doors to survive and keep moving toward the Tower.
3,252-word summary · 14 min read
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
The full Poe shelf in one volume: mad narrators, rotting houses, Dupin, and the Raven.
2,183-word summary · 10 min read
On Writing
Stephen King blends memoir and blunt writing advice on reading daily, drafting fast, and cutting hard.
2,702-word summary · 12 min read
Fairy Tale
A grieving teen cares for a recluse and his old dog, then finds a shed well leading to Empis, a fading world at war.
3,203-word summary · 14 min read
Doctor Sleep
Grown Dan Torrance gets sober in New Hampshire and helps gifted Abra Stone face the True Knot.
2,841-word summary · 13 min read
Cujo
A rabid St. Bernard traps a mother and her young son in a broken-down car at a lonely Maine garage.
2,910-word summary · 13 min read
American Psycho
Patrick Bateman hides violent urges behind suits and reservations in Ellis's 1991 satire of 1980s Manhattan wealth, brands, and moral blankness.
2,837-word summary · 13 min read
The Outsider
Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco.
2,586-word summary · 11 min read
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.
2,596-word summary · 12 min read
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
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
Hidden Pictures
Nanny Mallory sees Teddy drawings predict a murder in New Jersey.
2,332-word summary · 10 min read
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Born with a perfect nose in 1738 Paris, Grenouille masters perfume craft then murders young women in Grasse to bottle the ultimate scent.
2,561-word summary · 11 min read
World War Z
A UN researcher collects survivor accounts from Patient Zero in China to Yonkers and the Redeker Plan, charting the zombie war.
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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.
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The Silence of the Lambs
Clarice Starling seeks Hannibal Lecter's help to catch Buffalo Bill before Catherine Martin runs out of time.
2,616-word summary · 12 min read
The Graveyard Book
A toddler escapes the murder of his family and is raised by ghosts in a graveyard, learning from the dead while the killer who hunts him waits outside.
2,786-word summary · 12 min read
11/22/63
A Maine teacher steps through a diner portal to 1958 to stop the Kennedy assassination, and learns the past resists change while a new life pulls him in.
2,799-word summary · 12 min read