The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sherlock Holmes investigates the death of Sir Charles Baskerville, found dead on the moors with the footprints of a gigantic hound nearby. A family curse and a spectral beast haunt the foggy Devonshire landscape.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
A cyclone carries Dorothy and her dog Toto from Kansas to the magical Land of Oz. To find her way home, she follows the Yellow Brick Road with a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodman, and a Cowardly Lion to seek the great Wizard.
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The Awakening
Edna Pontellier, a New Orleans wife and mother, awakens to her own desires and independence over one transformative summer. Kate Chopin’s landmark novel of a woman’s self-discovery scandalized its era.
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The War of the Worlds
When Martians land in England, their heat-rays and towering fighting machines lay waste to everything in their path. One narrator’s desperate flight chronicles humanity’s struggle against a superior and merciless invader.
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The Turn of the Screw
A young governess arrives at a remote English estate to care for two orphaned children. She becomes convinced the house is haunted by ghosts with designs on her charges — but the true horror may lie elsewhere.
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The Invisible Man
Scientist Griffin discovers how to make himself invisible but not how to reverse the process, and his descent into isolation, violence, and madness terrorizes a quiet rural English town.
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Dracula
Jonathan Harker visits a Transylvanian castle to assist Count Dracula, only to find himself a prisoner of a vampire. The Count’s pursuit of Harker’s fiancee and her friends becomes a battle of wits and wills.
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
Shipwrecked Edward Prendick lands on a remote island where the brilliant and amoral Dr. Moreau surgically transforms animals into human-like beings. What begins as scientific curiosity curdles into nightmare.
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The Time Machine
A Victorian inventor travels more than eight hundred thousand years into the future and finds humanity divided into the gentle Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks. His journey grows steadily darker as he realizes the far future holds terror, not utopia.
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The Prisoner of Zenda
English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll, visiting Ruritania, discovers he is the exact double of the soon-to-be-crowned king. When the king is abducted, Rudolf must impersonate him to save the throne.
