After a fire and a mob attack destroy most of the Blackwood house, sisters Merricat and Constance shut themselves inside the ruins.

Eleanor Vance, who has come to feel that Hill House wants her, is sent home by the others for her own safety.

After years of forbidden love, Tita and Pedro finally make love, and Pedro dies of a heart attack in the moment of passion.

Clarice Starling, drugged and manipulated by Hannibal Lecter, joins him in his cannibalism and runs away with him as his lover.

The story ends without telling us what the couple decides, though Jig says she feels fine.

Law student Darby Shaw’s brief correctly names the oil tycoon Victor Mattiece as the man behind the murders of two Supreme Court justices.

Jonathan Strange and Gilbert Norrell defeat the Gentleman with the Thistle-Down Hair with the help of Stephen Black, who becomes King of the Lost-hope fairy kingdom.

Kenji, a young guide to Tokyo’s sex industry, survives three nights with Frank, an American tourist who turns out to be a serial killer.

The grand jury decides not to indict the police officer who shot Khalil, and Garden Heights erupts in protest.

Carl Lee Hailey, a Black father who shot the two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter Tonya, is found not guilty by an all-white jury.