Gothic Fiction

The Goddess: A Demon

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Richard Marsh


After a night of drinking and gambling, John Ferguson has a terrifying dream of his neighbor being violently torn to shreds by an unknown at…

Das Geschlecht der Zukunft

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Durch einen Unfall entdeckt der Erzähler in einem Höhlensystem unter der Erdoberfläche eine "ideale Gesellschaft" v…

The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories

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E. F. Benson


These stories have been written in the hopes of giving some pleasant qualms to their reader, if by chance, anyone be occupying in their peru…

Zofloya

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Charlotte Dacre


Victoria de Loredani lives the life of a fairy tale princess in Venice. She has everything one might desire and more, until the sinister Cou…

The Castle of Otranto (Version 2)

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Horace Walpole


The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first Gothic novel, a genre appealing to a taste for terror and set in a remote past when prodigies…

Master Zacharius

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Jules Verne


Master Zacharius is a man of science, skill, and overpowering pride. He is the first to successfully, and accurately, regulate time. Does th…

The Lady of the Shroud

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Bram Stoker


As the title suggests, this work does flirt with the supernatural. Yet it is essentially a political novel—a utopian experiment in a fictiti…

The Statement of Stella Maberly

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F. Anstey


From childhood Stella Maberly has been violently wilful and jealous, yet certain of her own superiority. She can be loving and friendly, but…

Tales and Stories

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Mary Shelley


While Mary Shelley will most likely always be known for her enduring classic of mad science Frankenstein, this collection intends to show th…

La bête du Gévaudan

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Élie Berthet


Dans la moitié du 18e siècle une bête féroce terrorisait la population du Gévaudan. Le mythe de la bê…

Hieroglyphic Tales

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Horace Walpole


Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...…

The House of Mystery

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Richard Marsh


The House of Mystery is based upon the complicated plot involving two women who look exactly alike, one rich and one poor, and so mistaken i…

The Blood of the Vampire

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Florence Marryat


The Blood of the Vampire is a Gothic novel, often compared to Bram Stoker's Dracula and Le Fanu's Camilla. Harriet is a vampire who kills ac…

The Tower of Dago

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Mór Jókai


This is the story of Feodor von Ungern, who, betrayed by his brother Zeno, installs himself with his son and a group of his most trusted men…

Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu...was in his own particular vein one of the best story-tellers of the nineteenth century; and the present volume con…

Two Supernatural Stories

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Perceval Landon


Perceval Landon was a journalist and short story author, and in these two tales he explored the supernatural. In ‘Railhead’, a man receives …

Our Lady of the Pillar

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José Maria De Eça De Queirós and José Maria de Eça de Queirós


A ghost story and love story all at once, set in medieval Portugal. Don Ruy is in love with Dona Leonor, but her husband has guessed his fee…

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Version 2)

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James Hogg


An early example of a psychological mystery and modern crime fiction, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner details the …

Una noche de Cleopatra

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Théophile Gautier


Novela breve acerca del Egipto milenario: pirámides, momias, dioses desconocidos, embarcaciones surcando el Nilo... enfocados bajo un…

Masterpieces of Mystery: Ghost Stories

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Robert Louis Stevenson


'The Listener'First, it was a strange array of cats, then an increasingly mysterious, and then terrifying increase in...happenstances and...…

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