Every work,
annotated.
You get the whole passage, in its own words, plus a note in the margin that explains what it's doing. Nothing is abridged.
See which of these became films →Dracula
Bram Stoker · 1897
Letters, diaries and telegrams closing in on one undead count.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886
A respectable doctor invents a way to stop being himself.
The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe · 1839
A house, a brother, a sister, and a crack down the middle of everything.
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe · 1843
A murderer explains, calmly, why he is not mad.
The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe · 1842
A prince locks the plague out and holds a party in colour-coded rooms.
The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe · 1846
A man takes his enemy down to the cellar to taste a wine that does not exist.
The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe · 1843
A man who loves animals becomes the thing he most fears.
The Call of Cthulhu
H. P. Lovecraft · 1928
A case file assembled from notes, clippings and a sailor's account.
The Shadow over Innsmouth
H. P. Lovecraft · 1936
A traveller reaches a decaying town with a church that is not a church.
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James · 1898
A governess, two children, and two figures nobody else admits to seeing.
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1892
A woman is prescribed rest in a room and starts reading the wallpaper.
Carmilla
Sheridan Le Fanu · 1872
A guest stays at a lonely house and grows tired, and pale, and affectionate.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving · 1820
A schoolmaster, a rival, a horse race, and one very effective rumour.
Young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1835
A man walks into the woods and sees everyone he trusts.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe · 1794
A castle, a heroine, and a great deal of unexplained terror.
The Monk
Matthew Lewis · 1796
A saintly monk, a sorcerer, a nun, and a descent with no brakes.
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 1959
Four people stay in a house that is not sane, and one of them is not sure she is.