Gothic Fiction

The Ghost of Guir House

by Charles Willing Beale Read by Roger Melin 4.1
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 Stoneground Ghost Tales

by Edmund Gill Swain Read by Peter Yearsley 4.5
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, …

The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

by Ann Radcliffe Read by Lauren Randall 4.4
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 …

Widdershins

by Oliver Onions Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.5
Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair…

Rappaccini's Daughter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by Brett W. Downey 4.2
The story is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified past. From his quarters, Giovanni, a young student of letters, observes Beatrice, th…

Benighted

by John Boynton Priestley Read by Ben Tucker 4.4
Phillip and Margaret Waverton, along with a cheerful young acquaintance Roger Penderel, finds themselves driving through a terrible storm wi…

The Goddess

by Richard Marsh Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
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 Turn of the Screw

by Henry James Read by Nikolle Doolin 3.8
The Turn of the Screw is a haunting novella by Henry James that delves into the unsettling world of the supernatural. Set in a remote Englis…

Carmilla

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Read by Louise J. Belle 4.5
Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, originally published as a serial in the London-based literary ma…

Afterward

by Edith Wharton Read by Charlie Blakemore 4.3
Mary and Ned Boyne have fled their dreary life in Wisconsin for a home in rustic Dorsetshire. But you can only run so far, and some things -…

The Statement of Stella Maberly

by F. Anstey Read by Anne Fletcher 4.4
From childhood Stella Maberly has been violently wilful and jealous, yet certain of her own superiority. She can be loving and friendly, but…

Der Horla

by Guy de Maupassant Read by Hokuspokus 4.5
Seltsame Dinge geschehen um den Ich-Erzähler, der seine Gedanken und Gefühle seinem Tagebuch anvertraut. Woher kommen die schreckl…

Wieland; Or, The Transformation

by Charles Brockden Brown Read by Karen Joan Kohoutek 4
The lives of a prosperous, intellectual family are disrupted when they meet the mysterious Carwin. Set in the period before the Revolutionar…

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

by James Hogg Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
An early example of a psychological mystery and modern crime fiction, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner details the …

Clarimonde

by Théophile Gautier Read by Joy Chan 4.8
Clarimonde is a haunting tale that intertwines love and the supernatural, exploring the depths of desire and the boundaries of life and deat…

Walpurgisnacht

by Gustav Meyrink Read by Hokuspokus 4.6
In der Nacht des 30. April, der Walpurgisnacht, stört ein schlafwandelnder Schauspieler die Abendgesellschaft im Hause des Barons Elsen…

The Black Flemings

by Kathleen Norris Read by KirksVoice 4.4
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…

Der Golem

by Gustav Meyrink Read by Hokuspokus 4.6
"Der Golem" von Gustav Meyrink gilt als ein Klassiker der phantastischen Literatur. Es handelt sich dabei nicht um eine Adaption d…

Bungay Castle

by Elizabeth Bonhôte Read by Patti Cunningham 4
Bungay Castle is a gothic novel by Elizabeth Bonhôte. It was first published in 1796 and follows the fortunes of the De Morney family …

Nightmare Abbey

by Thomas Love Peacock Read by Mark F. Smith 3.7
Deep in the fens of the British coast sits the gloomy mansion that goes by the name Nightmare Abbey. It is inhabited by persons of very low …

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