You find yourself in a library. Though the room is not large, it is packed wall to wall, floor to ceiling, in books. While you don't want to disturb the house... surely, so long as you put whatever you take back where you found it, a little reading won't do any harm.
You find a decent selection to choose from...
"The Fall of the House of Usher" (1960)
"The Haunting" (1963)
"The Sentinel" (1977)