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USA 28
Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher
atmospheric - classics - Gothic - horror - suspense

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Russia 14
Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin
The Queen of Spades
classics - horror - plot twist - Russia - suspense

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USA 16
Claire Vaye Watkins
The Last Thing We Need
confession - epistolary - fatherhood - guilt - mystery

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Brazil 4
Paulo Scott
Funny Valentine
loneliness - plot twist - suspense - urban

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Israel 11
Yoav Rosen
Copy and Paste
parenthood - soldiers - suburbia

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USA 28
Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter
American literature - classics - detective - mystery - plot twist

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Germany 69
E.T.A. Hoffmann
The Sandman
classics - dreams - Freudian - horror - Oedipal

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Argentina 9
Luciano Lamberti
The Song We Sang Every Day
allegory - dark - mother and son - motherhood - psychological

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USA 24
Edgar Allan Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum
classics - dark - Gothic - horror - macabre

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Argentina 11
Ariel Magnus
Doing Your Duty
detective - Latin America - mystery - poverty - realism

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Peru 4
Gothic - horror - mystery - orient - political

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Argentina 13
César Aira
The Dog
allegory - existentialism - psychological - suspense

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