Classic Horror & Gothic

Dracula crossing the Carpathians, the nameless second Mrs. de Winter at Manderley, Poe's narrators losing their grip one unreliable sentence at a time. The essential shelf of Victorian and early-modern horror — mood-matched music under every chapter so the dread builds the way the author wrote it, with click-to-explain for the period diction that trips modern readers.

49 books

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Frankenstein

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Dracula

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The King in Yellow

The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

Short Fiction

Short Fiction by Daphne du Maurier

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

At the Mountains of Madness

At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft

The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

The Island of Doctor Moreau

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

The Vampire

The Vampire by John William Polidori

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H. P. Lovecraft

John Silence Stories

John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood

The Monk

The Monk by M. G. Lewis

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe

Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories by E. F. Benson

The Mysteries of Udolpho

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

The Purple Cloud

The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel

The House on the Borderland

The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson

The Castle of Otranto

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

The House of the Seven Gables

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Night Land

The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson

Can Such Things Be?

Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce

Melmoth the Wanderer

Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin

The Beetle

The Beetle by Richard Marsh

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

The Room in the Dragon Volant

The Room in the Dragon Volant by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

The Return

The Return by Walter de la Mare

The Dark Other

The Dark Other by Stanley G. Weinbaum

Uncle Silas

Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

The Three Impostors

The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen

Vathek

Vathek by William Beckford

The Magician

The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham

Brood of the Witch-Queen

Brood of the Witch-Queen by Sax Rohmer

The Lodger

The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes

A Sicilian Romance

A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe

Nightmare Abbey

Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock

Là-Bas

Là-Bas by J.-K. Huysmans

The Lady of the Barge

The Lady of the Barge by W. W. Jacobs

The Wyvern Mystery

The Wyvern Mystery by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

The Hill of Dreams

The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen

The Duchess of Malfi

The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

The Old English Baron

The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve

Master Flea

Master Flea by E. T. A. Hoffmann

Short Fiction

Short Fiction by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke

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