Gothic Fiction
The Lane that had no Turning
This is a collection of short stories by Gilbert Parker. Parker was a Canadian writer who wrote a number of bestsellers that had a lasting i…
Our Lady of the Pillar
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…
Schalken The Painter
The Seventh Dimension presents an unabridged reading of Sheridan Le Fanu's supernatural tale, "Schalken the Painter." This legenda…
The Marble Faun
The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical …
The Haunted Palace
"The Haunted Palace" originally issued in the Baltimore American Museum for April, 1888, was subsequently embodied in that much ad…
Tri Jekyll Ja Mr. Hyde
Experience a captivating adaptation of Robert L. Stevenson's classic novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, brought to life in Finnish. Directed by…
Hieroglyphic Tales
Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...…
The Tower of Dago
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…
The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl
In Peter Schlemihl, the luckless hero enters into a deal with a mysterious stranger, only to learn, that he dealt with the proverbial. He so…
The House of Mystery
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…
Zastrozzi, A Romance
“Would Julia of Strobazzo’s heart was reeking on my dagger!”From the asthmatic urgency of its opening abduction scene to the Satanic defianc…
Manfred
Manfred is a Dramatic Poem written by Lord Byron in 1816-7 after he left England for the last time and shortly after the famous ghost story …
Carmilla
Laura grew up on a castle in the Austrian mountains with her father, slightly lonely as there are no potential companions around. Her loneli…
Carmilla
The classic vampire story, Carmilla by J Sheridan le Fanu, is brought to life in this captivating narration by Louisa Thornton. In this exce…
A Whisper in the Dark
A Whisper in the Dark was published anonymously in 1877 and again in 1889, this time attributed to Louisa May Alcott, along with A Modern Me…
Carmilla
Carmilla by J Sheridan Le Fanu is a chilling tale of the un-dead, standing out as an all-time horror classic. In this first chapter, we meet…
The Worshipper of the Image
"The Worshipper of the Image," by Richard Le Galliene first published in 1900. The protagonist Antony, a poet buys a death mask i…
A Dream
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Dream by Thomas Frederick YoungThis was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 26, 2025…
The Weird Circle
The Weird Circle was a modest little radio program produced out of the RCA Studios in New York for syndication. The program only ran for a c…
Orra
Considered by her contemporaries a playwright “second only to Shakespeare,” Joanna Baillie was one of the most critically acclaimed writers …