Gothic Fiction
Le Horla
D'événements étranges en événements étranges, le narrateur raconte, dans son journal, comment il e…
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Als der berückend gutaussehende Jüngling Dorian Gray sein Porträt betrachtet, kommt ihm der Gedanke, wie herrlich es sein m&u…
The Landlady
Everything changed when Ordynov, a secluded young thinker, stepped out of his old lodgings in search of another corner. The ailing landlord …
The Sorrows of Satan
In this 1895 Faustian novel by British author Marie Corelli, we follow the journey of Geoffrey Tempest. Initially a starving and penniless w…
Rookwood
A rich and complex Gothic-Romance centring on the murky deeds of an ancient family. It is a wonderfully atmospheric piece that combines narr…
The Old Ladies
“Quite a number of years ago there was an old rickety building on the rock above Seatown in Polchester, and it was one of a number in an old…
Fifty-one Tales
A multitude of very short stories populated with things that lurk in the dark corners of human imagination. Wonderfully crafted and sometime…
The Lady of the Shroud
As the title suggests, this work does flirt with the supernatural. Yet it is essentially a political novel—a utopian experiment in a fictiti…
Weird Tales
Paradoxically, it is variety that unites the tales you are about to read. They take place in widely separated countries and historical perio…
Der tote Gast
Heinrich Zschokke war in der ersten Hälfte des 19ten Jahrhunderts ein beliebter und viel gelesener Autor, der heute zu Unrecht fast ver…
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne
Ann Radcliffe is the founder of the gothic novel. This novel is no exception. The wicked baron murdered the good earl's father twelve years …
Dead Love Has Chains
We see another facet of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's amazing talent in Dead Love Has Chains, written in her seventies. Focusing on character and…
Hauntings
"Hence, my four little tales are of no genuine ghosts in the scientific sense; they tell of no hauntings such as could be contributed b…
The Ghost of Guir House
Do you think you understand ghosts? Now you will.Paul Henley, seemingly summoned to a mysterious rural Virginia mansion from his home in New…
Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
Wagner is a poor, lonely old shepherd living on the edge of the Black Forest. In a devil's pact he gains youth and wealth for the price of t…
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre is a profound exploration of a young woman's journey toward self-discovery and independence. Set in 19th-century England, the nove…
Die Schatzgräber
Karl Wilhelm Salice-Contessa war ein schlesischer Dichter der Romantik. Er war einer der "Serapionsbrüder" um E. T. A. Hoffm…
Der Golem
"Der Golem" von Gustav Meyrink gilt als ein Klassiker der phantastischen Literatur. Es handelt sich dabei nicht um eine Adaption d…
Bungay Castle
Bungay Castle is a gothic novel by Elizabeth Bonhôte. It was first published in 1796 and follows the fortunes of the De Morney family …
The Stoneground Ghost Tales
The Stoneground Ghost Tales is a collection of nine short stories set in and around a church and parish on the edge of England's fen country…