Books like The Black Cat
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe reads as dark, macabre. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness (Black Cat / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Masque of the Red Death)
Edgar Allan Poe · 2004
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76% genome match
The Great God Pan
Arthur Machen · 1894
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70% genome match
The Watcher and Other Weird Stories
Sheridan Le Fanu · 1894
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72% genome match
The Silent Companions
Laura Purcell · 2017
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69% genome match
Gothic Tales of Terror
Peter Haining · 1972
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69% genome match
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
Algernon Blackwood · 1906
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69% genome match
House of Salt and Sorrows
Erin A. Craig · 2019
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69% genome match
The Haunted and the Haunters, Or, The House and the Brain
Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 1800
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69% genome match
Affinity
Sarah Waters · 1999
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69% genome match
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural
Bill Pronzini · 1981
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69% genome match
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James · 1898
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69% genome match
Kwaidan
Lafcadio Hearn · 1904
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69% genome match
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