Gothic Fiction
The Castle Spectre
Written by Gothic writer Matthew Lewis, whose novel The Monk is one of the most enduring Gothic works from the eighteenth century, The Castl…
The Hill of Dreams
The novel recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in rural Wales, in a town based on Caerleon. The…
Dormant
Dormant is a gothic novel. It begins breezily enough with seven friends starting out in life. Rose, the artist, falls in love with Anthony, …
Master Zacharius
Master Zacharius is a man of science, skill, and overpowering pride. He is the first to successfully, and accurately, regulate time. Does th…
The City of Dreadful Night
While primarily known for being pessimistic, the poetry of James Thomson (1834-1882) is also beautiful and psychologically complex. This 190…
The Dark
The Dark is a novella about a desperate young man, a “terrorist and nihilist”, trying to avoid arrest by taking refuge in a brothel. The sto…
El Vampiro
La dama pálida (Histoire de la Dame pâle), aquí traducido como El vampiro, pero también conocido como La bella va…
A Mystery of the Campagna
A group of artists are busy pursuing their calling in Rome when one of them decides to seek a remote villa to work alone. But when his frien…
Der goldne Topf
Eines Tages erblickt der Student Anselmus in einem Holunderbusch die blauen Augen einer kleinen Schlange und verliebt sich auf der Stelle in…
The Black Flemings
The brick New England mansion on the rocky coast had been Gabrielle’s only home. She leaves and returns to find Wastewater Hall a deadly me…
The Phantom Death
This is a book of remarkable nautical ghost and horror stories written by William Clark Russell in 1893. The stories are for the most part s…
Die schwarze Spinne
Die schwarze Spinne ist eine Novelle von Jeremias Gotthelf aus dem Jahr 1842. Eingebettet in eine idyllisch angelegte Rahmenerzählung w…
The Jolly Corner
"The Jolly Corner," published in 1908, is considered by many to be a ghost story ranking second only to "The Turn of the Scre…
Northanger Abbey
If it is a truth universally acknowledged that a good-looking girl cannot fail of attracting a clever young man does it follow that the reve…
Prince Zaleski
Weird fiction author M. P. Shiel brings us a most unusual detective in Prince Zaleski in his first published book. Ensconced within his orn…
El Retrato De Dorian Gray
Basil Hallward es un artista que queda enormemente impresionado por la belleza estética de un joven llamado Dorian Gray y comienza a …
The Naiad
The Naiad: A Ghost Story is a supernatural novella by George Sand, the pseudonym of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dudevant, née Dupin. - Sum…
Island Nights' Entertainments
A marvelous depiction of two sides of South Sea Islands' life through three separate tales. One, the experience of the incoming British kee…
Aventuras de Arturo Gordon Pym
Cuando todos nos hubimos tranquilizado, nos pusimos a mirar la nave que se alejaba, hasta que se perdió de vista. El tiempo empeoraba…
December Tales
December is a time of winding down and of nature resetting itself. In this volume of so-titled December Tales, we listen to stories of human…