Gothic Fiction
Frankenstein
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 Canterville Ghost
A modern American family move into a traditionally drafty and very haunted English mansion. So far so good but anyone knowing Wilde can expe…
The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto is a groundbreaking work of Gothic fiction that transports listeners to a mysterious and foreboding castle, where the …
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…
A Sicilian Romance
A Sicilian Romance is a Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe. It was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790. The pl…
Horror Stories
Ada Buisson was a Victorian novelist and short story author. This collection includes her three horror stories, all of which were published …
The Romance of the Forest
A Gothic novel famously mentioned by Jane Austen in "Northanger Abbey" as an inspiration for the romantic ideals and supernatural …
The Magician
The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a cari…
Dracula
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequ…
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…
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…
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…
The Necromancers
Following the death of his fiancée, Laurie Baxter becomes consumed by an obsession with the supernatural. Attempting to reach his dec…
The House on the Borderland
This story helped propel 19th Century gothic fiction in the direction of “cosmic” horror. In fact, H.P. Lovecraft lists it as among his grea…
Uncle Silas
Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery that immerses listeners in a world of suspense and intrigue. The story follows the young heiress, …
The Turn of the Screw
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…
Dracula
Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania …
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…
The House of the Vampire
The House of the Vampire is a 1907 novella that is a very unusual vampire story. A young writer comes under the powerful influence of a myst…
Wuthering Heights
The story centers on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this un…