Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
★★★★★
A deeply moving tale of a scientist forced to confront the ethical and moral implications of his research, and pay the price for disregarding those implications.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
★★★★☆
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born in the slums of 18th-century France, with an extraordinary gift of smell. Working as a perfumer, he starts the grisly task of bottling up.. the essence of women.
I Am Legend
★★★★★
A plague has struck, and Robert Neville is the last man alive, and the rest of the world are undead vampires, thirsting for Neville's blood. He hunts them by day, and barricades himself by night. But how long will this continue...
American Psycho
★★☆☆☆
Patrick Bateman is the archetypal yuppie. Rich, handsome, charming, excellent taste in music, art, food and all things fine. He is also a psychopathic killer.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
★★★★★
A classic study of shallowness, vanity, casual cruelty and hedonistic selfishness, all presented as a suspenseful Gothic horror novel
Rosemary's Baby
★★★★★
Dark and twisted horror novel with a slow build-up of a sense of unease, with both the reader and the protagonist asking themselves, "Is there something ominous, or are we reading too much into nothing?"
It
★★★★★
Arguably the best work by Stephen King. Seven teenagers first stumble upon the horror one summer, and now they are grown-ups who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name...
