Gothic Fiction
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be rea…
Lady Audley's Secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel, Lady Audley's Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 186…
The Canterville Ghost
The American Minister and his family have bought the English stately home Canterville Chase, complete with the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterv…
The House of the Seven Gables
"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief." Hawthorne's …
The Wendigo
Another camper tale, this time set in the Canadian wilderness. A hunting party separates to track moose, and one member is abducted by the W…
The Room in the Dragon
J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls insta…
The Oakdale Affair
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Jack London / H.H. Knibbs-inspired, selfless, poetry-spouting, hobo character, Bridge, makes another appearance in the…
Round the Sofa
Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story tell…
The Ghost Pirates
The Ghost Pirates is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (of quasi-human aspe…
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The quiet Dutch community of Sleepy Hollow lay in the Adirondack mountains on the western shore of the mighty Hudson River in America’s colo…
John Marchmont's Legacy
Like Wuthering Heights, the center of this story is a dramatic love triangle, the setting is a huge English manor. Olivia Marchmont has alwa…
The Dunwich Horror
In a rundown farmhouse near isolated, rural Dunwich, a bizarre family conjures and nurtures an evil entity from another realm, with the purp…
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet…
Black Magic
Witches, spells, ghosts, pacts with the Devil, occult rituals, love triangles, popes and the Anti-Christ are some of the ingredients of this…
Frankenstein
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 18 years…
The Great God Pan
The Great God Pan is a haunting novella by Arthur Machen that delves into the intersection of nature, the supernatural, and the darker aspec…
Present at a Hanging
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …
Carmilla
Carmilla is a pioneering Gothic novella that explores the dark and seductive world of vampirism through the eyes of a young woman. Set in th…
The Picture Of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 Ju…
The Willows
The Willows is a masterful exploration of the uncanny, set against the backdrop of a remote wilderness. Two friends embark on a canoe trip a…