Gothic Fiction
Horror Stories
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Ada Buisson
Ada Buisson was a Victorian novelist and short story author. This collection includes her three horror stories, all of which were published …
Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
Read by Karen Joan Kohoutek
Charles Brockden Brown
The lives of a prosperous, intellectual family are disrupted when they meet the mysterious Carwin. Set in the period before the Revolutionar…
Rookwood
Read by Paul Curran
William Harrison Ainsworth
A rich and complex Gothic-Romance centring on the murky deeds of an ancient family. It is a wonderfully atmospheric piece that combines narr…
Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (Version 4)
Read by John Van Stan
Mary Shelley
This is a classic (gothic) horror story, and one of the earliest examples of science fiction. The main characters are Dr. Frankenstein and h…
The Turn of the Screw (Version 3)
Read by Sandra Cullum
Henry James
A gothic, ghost story, you are a jury of one. Is the Governess correct in her assumptions that her charges, two adorable and exemplary child…
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Version 3)
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Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray follows the title character as he downspirals due to gaining his wish of eternal youth. - Summary by Isabella Gar…
The Wyvern Mystery
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A classic with a pinch of romance, a pinch of gothic, and a dash of mystery, are you interested yet? When young Alice Maybell’ father dies s…
PD Goth
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Various
A collection of spooky stories culled from etexts found on Project Gutenberg (Summary by BellonaTimes)
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne
Read by Lauren Randall
Ann Radcliffe
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 …
Carmilla (Version 3)
Read by Louise J. Belle
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, originally published as a serial in the London-based literary ma…
Owen Wingrave
Read by David Wales
Henry James
A young man of good family with a long distinguished military tradition indicates that he will not follow his ancestors' path into the army.…
The Castle Spectre
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Matthew Lewis
Written by Gothic writer Matthew Lewis, whose novel The Monk is one of the most enduring Gothic works from the eighteenth century, The Castl…
Auriol, or The Elixir of Life
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William Harrison Ainsworth
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 Goddess: A Demon
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Richard Marsh
After a night of drinking and gambling, John Ferguson has a terrifying dream of his neighbor being violently torn to shreds by an unknown at…
The Castle of Otranto (Version 2)
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Horace Walpole
The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first Gothic novel, a genre appealing to a taste for terror and set in a remote past when prodigies…
The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories
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E. F. Benson
These stories have been written in the hopes of giving some pleasant qualms to their reader, if by chance, anyone be occupying in their peru…
Zofloya
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Charlotte Dacre
Victoria de Loredani lives the life of a fairy tale princess in Venice. She has everything one might desire and more, until the sinister Cou…
Master Zacharius
Read by Zachary Katz-Stein
Jules Verne
Master Zacharius is a man of science, skill, and overpowering pride. He is the first to successfully, and accurately, regulate time. Does th…
The Lady of the Shroud
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Bram Stoker
As the title suggests, this work does flirt with the supernatural. Yet it is essentially a political novel—a utopian experiment in a fictiti…
Tales and Stories
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Mary Shelley
While Mary Shelley will most likely always be known for her enduring classic of mad science Frankenstein, this collection intends to show th…