Gothic Fiction
Portrait Of A Man With Red Hair; A Romantic Macabre
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
Is the father insane or merely sadistic, a man entombed in a spirit of malevolence? This 1925 novel by a perceptive observer explores the te…
A Moment of Time
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Richard Hughes
British author Richard Hughes is perhaps most well-known for his sea-faring adventure novel A High Wind in Jamaica, but a dive into his shor…
The Black Flemings
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Kathleen Norris
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…
A Mystery of the Campagna
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Anne Crawford
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…
The Stoneground Ghost Tales, Version 2
Read by Peter Yearsley
Edmund Gill Swain
A collection of gentle ghost stories set around a church by the fens in East Anglia. The author was an associate of Montague Rhodes James, …
Benighted
Read by Ben Tucker
John Boynton Priestley
Phillip and Margaret Waverton, along with a cheerful young acquaintance Roger Penderel, finds themselves driving through a terrible storm wi…
December Tales
Read by Ben Tucker
William Harrison Ainsworth
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…
Dormant
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E. Nesbit
Dormant is a gothic novel. It begins breezily enough with seven friends starting out in life. Rose, the artist, falls in love with Anthony, …
The Monk: A Romance (Version 2)
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Matthew Lewis
As one of the pioneers of Gothic fiction, this classic novel is seriously underrated. The story revolves around Ambrosio, the abbot, who is …
The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl (Version 2)
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Adelbert von Chamisso
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…