by Mary Shelley (1818)
Mary Shelley's timeless gothic masterpiece tells the harrowing story of ambitious natural philosopher Victor Frankenstein, who animates a being constructed from graveyard corpses, only to abandon his creation in horror. The spurned creature exacts a terrifying revenge across the icy wastes.
Henry James
A young governess arrives at a secluded country estate in Essex to care for two orphaned children, Miles and Flora. Soon, however, she begins to see the ghostly figures of the former valet Peter Quint and former governess Miss Jessel hovering around the towers and grounds. Are the spirits real, or hallucinations of a fracturing mind?
Shirley Jackson
Past the locked gates and sprawling dark grounds, Hill House stands alone, holding darkness within. Four seekers arrive: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Luke, a future heir; and Eleanor, a fragile, lonely young woman acquainted with poltergeists. But the house is preparing to choose one of them.
Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll. A young girl named Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. One of the best-known works of Victorian literature, its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had huge influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.
J.R.R. Tolkien
In the peaceful Shire, Frodo Baggins inherits the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron. Accompanied by a diverse fellowship of men, elves, dwarves, and hobbits, he embarks on an epic quest across Middle-earth toward the fires of Mount Doom.