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Horror

The Nightmare Reader

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  • 1973 first published
  • 298 pages
  • 5 editions
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The Nightmare Reader is a 1973 horror novel by Peter Haining, Matthew Gregory Lewis and Mary Shelley. Characters include Egaeus and Berenice. It deals with obsessive-compulsive disorder, Monomania, Fixation and Catalepsy.

25 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 5 editions.

It runs to roughly 298 pages — 5–6 hours of reading at an average pace.

Themes, setting & tropes

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Subjects

  • Horror stories
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • Monomania
  • Fixation
  • Catalepsy
  • Fiction Horror fiction
  • American Horror tales
  • English Horror tales
  • Horror tales, American
  • Horror tales, English
  • Horror tales

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Who wrote The Nightmare Reader?

The Nightmare Reader was written by Peter Haining, Matthew Gregory Lewis and Mary Shelley and first published in 1973.

What genre is The Nightmare Reader?

It is usually shelved as Horror.

How long is The Nightmare Reader?

The median edition has 298 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Nightmare Reader?

Readers who like it often enjoy 100 Hair Raising Little Horror Stories, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque and The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Tales - Volume I.

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