El concepto que se pierde en la noche de los tiempos y que reza que «la sangre es la vida» encontró su encarnación literaria definitiva en Europa en el siglo XIX.
Hijo de padre angloirlandés y madre griega, Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) llegó en 1890 a Japón, donde, subyugado por el país (casó con una japonesa, fue profesor en la Universidad Imperial de Tokio y llegó a ser súbdito japonés, adoptando el nombre de Yakumo Koizumi), permaneció hasta su muerte, dedicado a la enseñanza y a la literatura.
A Victorian surgeon performs a delicate brain operation on a young woman, intending to let her glimpse the world beyond material reality - "e;to see the great god Pan.
A group of friends rent a rambling, reputedly haunted house for the winter - and, refusing to be frightened off, each claims a bedroom and a story to tell.
In an isolated castle in Styria, a lonely young woman named Laura welcomes a mysterious guest - beautiful, languid, and strangely intense - left behind after a carriage accident outside the gates.
On Christmas Eve, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his dead business partner, Jacob Marley, who warns him of three spirits still to come.
Settled into a quiet cottage with his new bride, a skeptical young husband dismisses the local legend that two marble knights lying in effigy at the nearby church rise from their tombs and walk every Halloween night - until superstition curdles into something he can no longer explain away.
When young doctor Carl Foster hears the celebrated opera singer Rosetta Rosa perform in London, he is instantly captivated - and soon finds himself drawn into a web of hypnotic obsession, jealousy, and unexplained deaths that trail in her wake.
Chemist Redlaw is haunted, quite literally, by his own grief - until a spectral double offers him a devastating gift: the power to forget every wrong and sorrow he has ever known, and to pass that same forgetting on to everyone he meets.
Solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to a remote Transylvanian castle to finalize a property sale, and finds himself the prisoner of his aristocratic client - Count Dracula.
Heinrich von Kleists bekannteste Erzählungen auf einen Schlag: Sie handeln von einer adligen Witwe, die per Zeitungsannonce den ihr unbekannten Vater ihres ungeborenen Kindes sucht; einem Pferdehändler, der auf Rache sinnt und Selbstjustiz übt; einer Bettlerin, deren Geist in einem Schloss herumspukt; einem Zweikampf nach einem Mord in Adelskreisen; einem Wunder im Aachener Dom sowie der tragisch endenden Geschichte um ein Adoptivkind.
Eine oft unterschätzte Horrorgeschichte aus der Feder des berühmten Sherlock-Holmes-Erfinders Arthur Conan Doyle: Robert Armitage erzählt von dem mysteriösen Tod seines Freundes John Barrington Cowles.
Eine dunkle Legende aus der Bretagne, neu erzählt von Selma Lagerlöf: Wer in der Silvesternacht stirbt, ist dazu verdammt, ein Jahr lang die Seelen der Verstorbenen sicher ins Reich der Toten zu geleiten, indem er sie von ihren Körpern erlöst.
Der Dienstbote Toby Veck lebt mit seiner Tochter Meg in ärmlichen Verhältnissen und bekommt jeden Tag die harschen Standesunterschiede in der viktorianischen Gesellschaft zu spüren.
In this elegant gothic horror tale set in post-revolutionary Russia, two formerly aristocratic sisters race to uncover their family's long-buried secrets in a house haunted by a past dangerous - and deadly - to remember.
Celebrating its 50th anniversary with 20 million copies sold, Peter Benchley's Jaws is the gripping pulp thriller that inspired Steven Spielberg's classic, blockbuster film adaptation.
PENGUIN HORROR: A celebration of the very best literary horror, a series of terrifying novels and tales that for generations have thrilled, captivated and kept readers wide awake at night.
PENGUIN HORROR: A celebration of the very best literary horror, a series of terrifying novels and tales that for generations have thrilled, captivated and kept readers wide awake at night.
Discover a chilling twentieth century classic, delving into the dark and complex heart of childhood'Some people are coming here today, now you will have a companion.
In the decaying hills of Dunwich, something monstrous stirs Wilbur Whateley is a strange child of uncertain parentage, growing to abnormal size at abnormal speed.
'So frightening I had to stop reading it at night' - Judy (Netgalley)The chilling new horror from bestselling author, Helen Phifer1933, Mother Superior Agnes offers sanctuary to a desperate young woman fleeing for her life.
PENGUIN HORROR: A celebration of the very best literary horror, a series of terrifying novels and tales that for generations have thrilled, captivated and kept readers wide awake at night.
Carnegie Medal winning author Tanya Landman delivers an eerily captivating and accessible retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Gothic novel of murder and monstrosity.
Collins Classics brings you a haunting selection of the finest horror stories from classic literature - featuring works by Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and Mary Shelley - with additional content.
