Classic

9 works in the index tagged CLASSIC, across every medium we score — film, television, print, audio and objects.

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley · 1818 · Book

Nobody in it behaves well, least of all the man with the degree.

Dracula

Bram Stoker · 1897 · Book

Epistolary, bureaucratic, and far stranger than its adaptations.

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James · 1898 · Book

A ghost story that may be a nervous breakdown. James never tells.

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson · 1959 · Book

Whatever walked there, walked alone. The gold standard for restraint.

Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock · 1960 · Film

The most famous murder in cinema and the knife never once touches skin.

Jaws

Steven Spielberg · 1975 · Film

Attacks you on a clock and shows you almost nothing, because the shark did not work.

The Omen

Richard Donner · 1976 · Film

Stately, humourless, and it kills people in ways you remember for thirty years.

Halloween

John Carpenter · 1978 · Film

The blueprint. Widescreen suburbia, a white mask, and enormous patience.

Poltergeist

Tobe Hooper · 1982 · Film

A warm suburban comedy for forty minutes, then the house starts eating people.