The Dark Side
Explore the dark side of literature with our curated books list, featuring chilling fiction by Jim Thompson—including *The Killer Inside Me*—and haunting poetry from Anne Sexton and Emily Brontë. Dive into tales of revenge, psychological grit, and lyrical darkness perfect for readers who crave the macabre and the shadowed.
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Danny 2 - the Revenant
by Chancery Stone
Danny has been on the run, lost, searching for six long years. No-one knows exactly what he did during those missing years, all they know is he's back - and now his ownership is up for grabs. Everybody wants a piece of Danny, their own Personal Jesus. But what does Danny want? Donald Sutherland, the new 'boy'? Gerry, his latest acolyte and disciple? Or perhaps Andy, Gerry's sexy little twin? Then again, maybe it's something else entirely that Danny wants. And maybe Harry Greaves knows exactly what that is ...
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The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Bront
by Emily Brontë
The renowned Hatfield edition of Bronte's poetry is a body of work that continues to resonate today. It includes Emily's verse from Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, as well as 200 works collected from various manuscript sources after her death in 1848.
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The Complete Poems
by Anne Sexton
The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton comprises the poet's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems from her last years. From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. Women poets in particular owe a debt to Anne Sexton, who broke new ground, shattered taboos, and endured a barrage of attacks along the way because of the flamboyance of her subject matter...Sexton has earned her place in the canon.--from the Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maxine Kumin
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The Killer Inside Me
by Jim Thompson
In a small town in Texas there is a sheriff's deputy named Lou Ford, a man so dull that he lives in cliches, so good-natured that he doesn't even lay a finger on the drunks who come into his custody. But then, that would be too easy, for Lou's sickness requires other victims. . . . A nightmarish book of psychopathic evil.
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by Jim Thompson
Sheriff Nick Corey of Potts County, is a simple man, but when he is pushed to far he becomes a killer or makes other people do his killings.
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A Hell of a Woman
by Jim Thompson
Young, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a hard man like Dillon couldn't bring himself to use. But when Mona told him about the vicious aunt who had turned her into something little better than a prostitute--and about the money the old lady has stashed away--Dillon found it surprisingly easy to kill for her.
