Which one keeps calling?

The Count of Monte Cristo

He insists he exists to punish—and promises mercy to one woman alone, even over the queen.

The Count of Monte Cristo

He begs his dead mentor for a sign—either to turn doubt into conviction or to condemn himself to remorse.

Jane Eyre

Marrying you would kill me—you're killing me now.

The Count of Monte Cristo

Imagine if, once we mastered death, dying felt as sweet as falling asleep in a beloved's arms.

The Yellow Wallpaper

The pattern moves—because something on the other side is shaking it.

The Yellow Wallpaper

A sulking, formless figure lurks behind the wallpaper's loud front—absurd and quietly menacing.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

He could hardly see the actress for tears—why did her performed beauty drown out every real woman in his life?

Crime and Punishment

She whispers she's taken nothing—then, trembling, produces the ten-rouble note and hands it over.

Dracula

She cries that she is unclean and believes even the Almighty shuns her—how do friends hold a woman who thinks herself cursed?

Crime and Punishment

He scrubs the axe in a kitchen bucket until no trace remains, hides it under his coat—and then a new terror meets him.

Crime and Punishment

He walked by the Neva intending to end it all, but couldn't—what stopped him in that frozen instant?

Crime and Punishment

After the second, unexpected murder, loathing swells in him and he longs to run or give himself up—but escape feels impossible.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Make him love you so he'll sleep by your side—and let you put his head in your mouth; would you try that for two days?

Dracula

Tradition turns tactical: the vampire is mighty yet oddly bound—what rules trap and betray his power?

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Drink this glass and your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan—or remain as you are.