*Curtsies* Oh hell yes, this is my kind of ask.
- Classics: Dracula by Bram Stoker and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Modern classics: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- Literary: The Keep by Jennifer Egan
- Fantasy: The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
- Horror: This Book is Full of Spiders by David Wong
- Short stories: “The Body Snatchers” by Robert Louis Stevenson and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
- Poetry: The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, A Season in Hell by Rimbaud, and “Phantasmagoria” by Lewis Carroll
- Drama: Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott
- Nonfiction: Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi or Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
- Essays: On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey
Uh, let me know if this isn’t enough or there’s a genre missing you’d like to see.