Fiction - Gothic

He swore off women, she swore off men...Jason Pickering Goddard's career as a playboy hockey star comes to a dramatic halt when he tragically damages his legs in a car accident. Swearing off women, he decides to stand in as Director of Special Events...

First published in 1889, this volume contains Louisa May Alcott's short stories "A Modern Mephistopheles" and "A Whisper in the Dark". Although best known for her children's classics, Alcott also wrote many "blood and thunder" stories in her early years. Her favourite of these...

The most powerful and feared vampire disappeared at the height of his powers and passed into legend. Most vampires think he's dead. He is not dead. Terrill has gone into hiding to evade his bitter enemy's wrath, and has vowed never to kill another...

Young Sarah Jane Anderson can't believe the house she was hired to clean was... that one. Old, overgrown, and shunned, the interior of the house is another world.Inside she meets the ailing lady Bethany Van Doren who is suffering from Parkinson's Disease. Sarah is...

Reproduction of the original: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BronteAuthor: Anne BronteISBN-10: 3734082633ISBN-13: 9783734082634Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2019Pages: 450Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d

This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality. Exploring the dark side of animal nature and the 'otherness' of animals as viewed by humans, and employing cutting-edge theory on non-human...

The Day of the Dead: Sliver Fictions, Short Stories & an Homage is a series of collisions between genders in the realms of sexuality, relationships, art and grief in three sections: Men & Women, Muses and The Dead. Owen explores secrecies, abject pasts, misunderstood...

The Grim reaper's scythe isn't to harvest your soul...... he's there to protect you from the monster in wait. There is a painting in my house during the day...... that turns into a window at night. I can hear the last words that were...

First published in 1790, A Sicilian Romance is a gothic novel by best-selling author Ann Radcliffe. The villainous Marquis of Mazzini returns to his original Castle after a long absence when he one of his servants, Vincent, passes way. His daughters, Julia and her...

Full text.An enthralling work of Gothic fiction, modelled on the Arabian Nights.William Beckford's Vathekis a story with elaborate imagery, sardonic humour and an unforgettable gallery of grotesques - which describes a journey to the halls of Eblis, or Hell, in the pursuit of knowledge.Author:...

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall By Anne BrontAuthor: Anne BrontëISBN-10: 1974607496ISBN-13: 9781974607495Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/24/2017Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.41d

Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818) published The Monk: A Romance to great sensation and scandal in 1796 - before he was 21 - made even more so when it was revealed that the author was a member of Parliament. The book is a prime example...

An engrossing, fanciful collection of stories, written with insight, wisdom, and humor, O Monstrous World is full of cinematic plot twists and literary miracles. These are stories about lawmakers, karate teachers, antique dealers, monster hunters, and even professors told with authority and humor. Josh...

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear Book #4 of 20 in the SDE Classics Science Fiction CollectionYoung scientist Victor Frankenstein, grief-stricken over the death of his mother, sets out in a series of laboratory experiments testing the ability to create life...

A boy's mother lies upstairs seriously ill, and in every crash of thunder or hollow chime of the clock he seems to hear a portent of her death.--A scholar of the occult finds his marriage threatened by horrifying and otherworldly noises emanating from the...

The body of a young girl, found floating in the icy waters of Scarborough Marsh... Six men, over a span of thirty-five years, disappear without a trace... A harbinger of evil, so ancient it defies memory, surfaces on the rocky shores of Mateguas... Journey,...

'As Cecilia advanced from the door, she thought the figures on the coffins began to move, their marble features became fleshy​--the lights they held waxed pale​--a strong sulphureous vapour rose from the tombs. Horror overwhelmed her, and again she made an effort to depart;...

In a Glass Darkly is a collection of five short stories by Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in 1872, a year before his death. The stories, which belong to the gothic horror and mystery genres, are presented as selections from the posthumous papers of...

After a family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe decides to travel from England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance. Villette was Charlotte Bront 's fourth novel. In 1842 Charlotte...

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel by the English author Anne Bront . It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Bront s' novels, it had an instant and phenomenal...

"I breathe freely in the neighbourhood of this lake; the ground upon which I tread has been subdued from the earliest ages; the principal objects which immediately strike my eye, bring to my recollection scenes, in which man acted the hero and was the...

"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm." The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) Strange Case of Dr...

The house of the title is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death. The current resident, the dignified but desperately poor Hepzibah Pyncheon, opens a shop in a side room to support her...

Edgar Allan Poe's short story about a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition who is strapped to a wooden table and tortured, while a razor sharp pendulum dangles from the ceiling.Author: Russell Lee, Edgar Allan PoeISBN-10: 1515353168ISBN-13: 9781515353164Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/04/2015Pages: 42Format:...

Christopher Glowry is a morose man who lives with his son, Scythrop, in a partially run down family mansion, Nightmare Abbey. He surrounds himself with like minded servents and "friends". Recovering from a lost love, Scythrop throws himself into his plan of reforming the...

Edgar Allan Poe's fictional detective C. Auguste Dupin is back for his third and final case. This time he investigates the stolen letter of an unnamed female who is being blackmailed by the devious "Minister D."Author: Russell Lee, Edgar Allan PoeISBN-10: 1514619288ISBN-13: 9781514619285Publisher: Createspace...

THERE are some strange summer mornings in the country, when he who is but a sojourner from the city shall early walk forth into the fields, and be wonder-smitten with the trance-like aspect of the green and golden world. Not a flower stirs; the...

A mysterious attack on Margaret Trelawney's father brings young lawyer Malcolm Ross into the Egyptologist's bizarre home, and the couple soon find they are battling ancient forces greater than they previously could have imagined. The Egyptian queen Tera has been awoken, and is coming...

The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W Somerset Maugham, told in episodic form by a first-person narrator, in a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and...

"This edition makes an essential contribution to our current debates about and growing interest in Sarah Fielding." -- Carolyn Woodward, University of New Mexico Author: Sarah FieldingISBN-10: 1551111209ISBN-13: 9781551111209Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/26/2004Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d

After being convicted of thirteen barbarous murders--including that of his pregnant wife--Eric Adair has been sentenced to spend the remainder of his life alone in a cell at the Institute for the Criminally Insane. The only problem is that Eric hasn't been alone in...

"Debuting author Andreas layers a sense of foreboding with spats of violence to create a sinister and atmospheric story that will appeal to horror fans." --BooklistWhen three children in a Catholic group home are brutally murdered, the survivors are hurried into separate foster homes...

Between 1819 and 1820, Mary Shelley wrote Matilda, her second novel following the classic Frankenstein. The story is reminiscent of Shelley's own life, if not outright autobiographical, with characters resembling herself, her husband Percy Shelley, and her father William Godwin. Matilda is an often...

Author: Robert Louis StevensonISBN-10: 1613829159ISBN-13: 9781613829158Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/07/2012Pages: 88Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

This best selling classic is known for its stunning depiction of a split personality, split in the implication that within the same person there is both a seemingly good and an evil personality each being quite distinctive from the other.Author: Robert Louis StevensonISBN-10: 1613829132ISBN-13:...

Of the many admiring reviews Bram Stoker's Dracula received when it first appeared in 1897, the most astute praise came from the author's mother, who wrote her son: "It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has...

The House of Seven GablesBy Nathaniel HawthorneAuthor: Nathaniel HawthorneISBN-10: 1613824084ISBN-13: 9781613824085Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2013Pages: 334Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.70d

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeBy Robert Louis StevensonAuthor: Robert Louis StevensonISBN-10: 1613823053ISBN-13: 9781613823057Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2012Pages: 76Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.16d

"The Mysterious Stranger", an anonymous tale originally published in German in 1823 and translated into English soon after, is the earliest vampire story with many of the elements that later found their way into Bram Stoker's Dracula: a Carpathian Mountains setting, an aristocratic vampire...

When Michael Flint is asked to investigate a reputedly haunted house, he is intrigued. Leo Rosendale's childhood was blighted by a macabre tragedy in the grim Deadlight Hall - twin girls vanished, their fate never discovered. What took place there, one long-ago midnight? Michael...

Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret:...

Shelley's mold-breaking and genre-creating Frankenstein hasn't been out of print since its first publication in 1818, though the story of science and dark melodrama has been reconfigured and reanimated many times over the years--in shadowy cinematic style in the 1930s; comedic, loveable boob-tube style...

The most shocking of the Brontës' novels, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall had an instant success. Today, most critics consider it to be one of the first feminist novels. In leaving her husband and taking away their child, Helen violates not only social conventions,...

This intriguing combination of fantasy thriller and moral allegory depicts the gripping struggle of two opposing personalities - one essentially good, the other evil - for the soul of one man. Its tingling suspense and intelligent and sensitive portrayal of man's dual nature reveal...

It is only rarely reprinted and, indeed, it is accorded no great stature among the classics of English literature. But The Monk caused a sensation when it was first published in 1796, and its 20-year-old author, British novelist MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS (1775-1818), earned the...

Before DRACULA came CARMILLA A Strange Agony. The exquisite and deadly vampire Carmilla haunts J. Sheridan LeFanu's influential novel. A Gothic tale of blood and terror, Carmilla inspired later classics by Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson, ever shadowed by a love that dare...

Romantic provocateur, flamboyant bohemian, precocious novelist, perfect poet--not to mention an inexhaustible journalist, critic, and man-about-town--Th ophile Gautier is one of the major figures, and great characters, of French literature. In My Fantoms Richard Holmes, the celebrated biographer of Shelley and Coleridge, has found...

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply...

Jason and Erika were having a wonderful time at the Halloween carnival...until their swan boat in the Tunnel of Love capsizes amid heavy waves and blaring, maniacal laughter. When they come to, they're no longer in a carnival in Ohio, but standing at the...

They say she's a murderess. She claims she's innocent. But Lucy has been known to tell lies...1855, New Hampshire. Lucy Blunt is set to hang for a double murder. Murderess or victim? Only Lucy knows the truth.In the shadow of the gallows, Lucy reflects...