Fiction - Gothic

"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...

Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. At three, Helen lost her mother, and the beloved grandmother...

"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:...

From bestselling author Debbie Herbert comes a chilling, fast-paced story about family tragedy and confronting what terrifies us most.In the eighteen years since her father went to prison for killing her mother and brother, Della Stallings has battled a crippling phobia. Her fear only...

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...

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story,...

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...

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was born on August 28th, 1814, at 45 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, into a literary family with Huguenot, Irish and English roots. The children were tutored but, according to his brother William, the tutor taught them little if anything....

Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years. First published as a serial in The Dark Blue (1871-72), the story is narrated by a young...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was...

Return to the dark and macabre world of H.P. Lovecraft with this fourth installment in the critically acclaimed horror anthology series Black Wings of Cthulhu Through his collaborations with today's most talented and acclaimed practitioners of Lovecraftian fiction, editor S. T. Joshi has made...

More dark tales of eldritch horror set in the Cthulhu Mythos universe, first created by horror master H.P. Lovecraft Volume three of the critically acclaimed Black Wings series offers seventeen original tales of horror, following in the footsteps of the master. Stephen King has...

Robert Louis Stevenson was a literary sensation in his time, and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was an instant classic, with the title entering the English language. This Gothic novella, exploring the nature of evil, is a "must read".Author: Robert Louis StevensonISBN-10: 1781399093ISBN-13: 9781781399095Publisher:...

What the Immortals are saying about Elder Bonds..."A well-rounded introduction to the Immortal Curse world and the brilliance of those who live there."-Lucian"Amazing. The sex is hot, the words are hotter, and the stories are exceptional "-Balthazar"A few people die, but not nearly enough."-Alik"The...

Author: Matthew LewisISBN-10: 1731706448ISBN-13: 9781731706447Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2018Pages: 374Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.58lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Author: William BeckfordISBN-10: 1731703961ISBN-13: 9781731703965Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/06/2018Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d

Author: William BeckfordISBN-10: 1731703953ISBN-13: 9781731703958Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/06/2018Pages: 116Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

After losing both of his parents, Academy of Magecraft student Steven Durant doesn't want to see anyone else lose a loved one before their time. Traditional resurrection methods, however, only create mindless, flesh-hungry zombies; they're no cure for death. He's certain his unique brand...

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux and translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fant me de l'Op ra) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialization in Le...

The world is hanging precariously in the balance between the good and evil forces who have come to earth in the aftermath of human wars using nuclear bombs and biological weapons. The planet has been decimated. Nations have fallen. Technology has been eradicated. Those...

Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) was the most popular and best-selling novelist of her time, earning a widespread readership and previously unheard-of sums of money for her Gothic novels The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and The Italian (1797). But after publishing The Italian, at the height...

What is haunting young Liza Prescott?Molly Allworth has been in service since leaving college when her mother died. Still, her situation is getting desperate and when the agency offers her a position that sounds too good to be true, she cannot resist.Soon, she finds...

Gabriel John Utterson and his cousin Richard Enfield reach the door of a large house on their weekly walk. Enfield tells Utterson that months ago he saw a sinister-looking man named Edward Hyde trample a young girl after accidentally bumping into her. Enfield forced...

Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent seven years researching European folklore and stories of vampires, being most influenced by Emily Gerard's 1885 essay, "Transylvania Superstitions". Despite being the most widely known vampire novel, Dracula was not the first. It was preceded and partly inspired by...