Students love a good scary story. For suspenseful thrills and ghoulish chills, these classics are top-notch.
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley's masterpiece is often considered the first science-fiction novel ever published. This stunning work of gothic horror will seize your students' minds, showing them the wonders and terrors of the Romantic era.
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The Best of Poe
Dracula
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Faustus
Marlowe's morality play shows us all the dangers of hubris and an unchecked thirst for knowledge and power. Was Faustus destined for damnation, or did he choose it of his own free will?
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The Invisible Man
Grendel
The Turn of the Screw
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Island of Dr. Moreau
When Edward Prendick is left on the island of Dr. Moreau, he soon discovers that the doctor is performing terrible experiments on animals . . . and Prendick fears he may be next.
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The War of the Worlds