Gothic Fiction

Auriol, or The Elixir of Life

by William Harrison Ainsworth Read by Sonia 4.4
If you stumble upon the elixir of life, which provides you with eternal life, youth and health, then it's rather a bad idea to spoil this gr…

The Tell-Tale Heart

by Edgar Allan Poe Read by Derek Banner 4
The Tell-Tale Heart is a masterpiece of Gothic horror by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insist…

The Lane that had no Turning

by Gilbert Parker Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
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…

Melmoth The Wanderer

by Charles Robert Maturin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
One of the first horror novels, it tells the story of Melmoth, who sells his soul so he could have an extended life. Throughout the novel, h…

The Return of the Soul

by Robert Smythe Hichens Read by Roger Melin 4.1
Can the soul of the dead come back to haunt the one who was responsible for its death? What would happen if the responsible one did not beli…

A Moment of Time

by Richard Hughes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
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…

Zastrozzi, A Romance

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Martin Geeson 3.7
“Would Julia of Strobazzo’s heart was reeking on my dagger!”From the asthmatic urgency of its opening abduction scene to the Satanic defianc…

The History of the Caliph Vathek

by William Beckford Read by MorganScorpion 3.6
This is one of the earliest Gothic novels. The Caliph Vathek is one of the wealthiest and most powerful men who ever lived. But this is not …

The Mysteries of Udolpho

by Ann Radcliffe 4
Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho is a Gothic novel published in 1794, widely regarded as a key text in the development of the Gothic…

The House of Mystery

by Richard Marsh Read by Jim Locke 3.8
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…

Hieroglyphic Tales

by Horace Walpole Read by Barbara Baker 3.7
Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...…

The Dutch Mariner

by Judith French 4.7
A retelling of the myth by Judith French that inspired Wagner's classic opera "The Flying Dutchman." A mysterious Dutchman is cond…

Ardath

by Marie Corelli Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.2
Victorian-era writer Marie Corelli’s epic work Ardath, The Story of a Dead Self, is filled with supernatural and gothic themes. We meet The…

The Witch of Edmonton

by Thomas Dekker Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Mother Elizabeth Sawyer is a poor, lonely, and unfairly ostracized old woman with nothing left to lose. Frank is a poor farmer who intends t…

Manfred

by George Gordon, Lord Byron Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
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 …

The Haunted Palace

by Edgar Allan Poe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2.8
"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

by Robert L. Stevenson Read by Vilho Siivola
Experience a captivating adaptation of Robert L. Stevenson's classic novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, brought to life in Finnish. Directed by…

The Haunted Room

by Charlotte Maria Tucker Read by Esther ben Simonides 3.8
Mr. Trevor inherits a piece of land in the country called Myst Court, and plans to move there with his three children: Emmie, Bruce, and Vib…

Carmilla

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Laura grew up on a castle in the Austrian mountains with her father, slightly lonely as there are no potential companions around. Her loneli…

Our Lady of the Pillar

by José Maria De Eça De Queirós and José Maria de Eça de Queirós Read by Leni 4.3
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…

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