Read Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

A portrait ages while its subject sins; Wilde's only novel.

Diaries, letters and ship's logs assemble the Count; Stoker invented the vampire we have.

Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver and the map with an X; every pirate cliche starts here.

Ichabod Crane rides home past the churchyard and meets the Headless Horseman; the first American ghost story.

A murderer insists on his own sanity while the old man's heartbeat gets louder under the floorboards.

The boy who would not grow up, Neverland and Captain Hook.

A policeman investigates a missing girl on a pagan Scottish island; the ending is the title.

Eggers remakes Murnau with Bill Skarsgard's moustached count and Lily-Rose Depp.