Cover Her Face. Poster of the 1985 TV series and cover of the 1962 book
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Cover Her Face
P.D. James, 1962
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John Davies, 1985-

Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill.


Pride and Prejudice. Poster of the 1980 TV series and cover of the 1813 book
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen, 1813
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Cyril Coke, 1980

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family’s future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.


Hellraiser. Poster of the 1987 movie and cover of the 1986 book, The Hellbound Heart
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The Hellbound Heart
Clive Barker, 1986
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Clive Barker, 1987

In Morocco, Frank Cotton buys a puzzle box from a dealer. In a bare attic, when Frank solves the puzzle, hooked chains emerge and tear him apart. Later, the room is filled with swinging chains and covered with the remnants of his body. A black-robed figure picks up the box and returns it to its original state, restoring the room to normal.


Hellbound: Hellraiser II. Poster of the 1988 movie and cover of the 1986 book, The Hellbound Heart
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The Hellbound Heart
Clive Barker, 1986
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Tony Randel, 1988

In the past, British military officer Elliot Spencer is transformed into the Cenobite Pinhead after opening the Lament Configuration. Interviewed by Doctor Channard, and his assistant Kyle MacRae, she tells her account of the events, and pleads with them to destroy the bloody mattress her murderous stepmother, Julia Cotton, died upon.


Fatherland. Poster of the 1994 movie and cover of the 1991 book
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Fatherland
Robert Harris, 1991
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Christopher Menaul, 1994

Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany’s war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.


Dangerous Liaisons. Poster of the 2022 TV series and cover of the 1782 book
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Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, 1782
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Oliver Blackburn, Leonora Lonsdale, 2022-

A couple of cunning ex-lovers use seduction to try to take advantage of others. The renowned 18th-century novel ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos adapted for television.