Rosemary's Baby. Poster of the 1968 movie and cover of the 1967 book
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Rosemary's Baby
Ira Levin, 1967
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Roman Polanski, 1968

In 1965, Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse rent an apartment in the Bramford, a large Gothic building in New York City. They ignore their friend Hutch’s warning about the Bramford’s dark past with witchcraft and murder. Rosemary meets a young woman, Terry Gionoffrio, a recovering drug addict whom Minnie and Roman Castevet, the Woodhouses’ elderly neighbors, took in.


The Wolf Man. Poster of the 1941 movie and cover of the book novelization
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The Wolfman
Carl Dreadstone, 1977
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George Waggner, 1941

At some time in the early twentieth century, after learning of the death of his brother, Larry Talbot returns to his ancestral home in Llanwelly, Wales to reconcile with his estranged father, Sir John Talbot. As a pretext to converse with her, he purchases a silver-headed walking stick decorated with a wolf.


Woman in the Dark. Poster of the 1934 movie and cover of the 1933 book
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Woman in the Dark
Dashiell Hammett, 1933
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Phil Rosen, 1934

Released from prison, John Bradley opts to live in isolation in his cabin to prevent his volatile temper from landing him back behind bars.