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Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier

At the great Cornwall estate of Manderley, Maxim de Winter and his frightened new wife try to live with the haunting legacy of Maxim's first wife, the beautiful and cold Rebecca, who died in a sailing accident. Reissue. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo.
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte

A powerful gothic tale of passion, romance and unrequited love where the doomed love of Catherine and Heathcliff is played out in a capricious landscape. With its bold emotions, strident language, agonising deaths and the psychological self-torture, the tortured lovers suffer a fate that consigns them to an eternity of pain.
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bront

In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester
The accursed
by Joyce Carol Oates

After a lynching in a nearby town is covered up, a horryfing chain of events begins to happen in early twentieth-century Princeton, New Jersey
Frankenstein : lost souls : a novel
by Dean R. Koontz

An entry in the best-selling series featuring a retelling of the Frankenstein legend begins a new story cycle pitting its characters against supernatural forces that pose apocalyptic threats. By the author of Dead and Alive. Reprint.
The woman in white
by Wilkie Collins

In love with the beautiful heiress Laura Fairlie, the impoverished art teacher Walter Henright finds his romantic designs thwarted by the scheming of the wicked Sir Percival and his sinister ally Count Fosco. The mystery and intrigue are deepened by the ghostly appearances of a woman in white, harbouring a secret that concerns Sir Percival's past.
The shadow of the wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written. Reprint.
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys

Beautiful and wealthy Antoinette Cosway's passionate love for an English aristocrat threatens to destroy her idyllic West Indian island existence and her very life
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville

In the squalid, gothic city of New Crobuzon, a mysterious half-human, half-bird stranger comes to Isaac, a gifted but eccentric scientist, with a request to help him fly, but Isaac's obsessive experiments and attempts to grant the request unleash a terrifying dark force on the entire city. Original. 30,000 first printing.




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