Books like The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft reads as eerie, disturbing. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The Dunwich Horror
H.P. Lovecraft · 1963
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79% genome match
The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers · 1895
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73% genome match
Noctuary
Thomas Ligotti · 1994
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69% genome match
The Wendigo
Algernon Blackwood · 1932
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69% genome match
Providence
Alan Moore · 2017
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69% genome match
Ten Great Mysteries [10 stories, 5 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe · 1960
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69% genome match
The mask of Cthulhu
August Derleth · 1958
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69% genome match
In a glass darkly
Sheridan Le Fanu · 1872
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69% genome match
Short stories
Николай Васильевич Гоголь · 1845
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69% genome match
The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgson · 1946
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69% genome match
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving · 1820
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69% genome match
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850
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69% genome match
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