Gothic Fiction
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…
Dracula
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequ…
Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Ba…
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James' classic ghost story comprises the written testimony of a young governess, charged with looking after two small children at an i…
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Everyone knows the story of the Headless Horseman but perhaps you, like me, did not remember what a marvelous story teller Washington Irving…
The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto is a groundbreaking work of Gothic fiction that transports listeners to a mysterious and foreboding castle, where the …
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…
The Turn of the Screw
A gothic, ghost story, you are a jury of one. Is the Governess correct in her assumptions that her charges, two adorable and exemplary child…
Mathilda
The finished draft of a short novel by Mary Shelley. Its adult theme, concerning a father's incestuous love for his daughter and its conseq…
The House of the Vampire
The House of the Vampire is a 1907 novella that is a very unusual vampire story. A young writer comes under the powerful influence of a myst…
The Phantom of the Opera
Christine Daae was brought up in the Paris Opera house. Her musician father suddenly dies, telling her he will send her an angel of music to…
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
A mentally unstable genius, Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a hum…
Olalla
"Olalla" was a "shilling shocker" written for the Christmas season in 1885, just before the publication of Stevenson's D…
The Room in the Tower
These stories have been written in the hopes of giving some pleasant qualms to their reader, if by chance, anyone be occupying in their peru…
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Unspeakable monstrousness overhung the crumbling, stench-cursed town of Innsmouth... and folks there had somehow got out of the idea of dyin…
The House on the Borderland
This story helped propel 19th Century gothic fiction in the direction of “cosmic” horror. In fact, H.P. Lovecraft lists it as among his grea…
Uncle Silas
Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery that immerses listeners in a world of suspense and intrigue. The story follows the young heiress, …
The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first Gothic novel, a genre appealing to a taste for terror and set in a remote past when prodigies…
The Flight of the Shadow
A fantastical story of personal growth and a warning against the dangers of keeping secrets. This novel by George MacDonald is a deceptively…