Edith Wharton's ghost stories whisper of passion, exile, and the things we cannot forgetIn an old Dorset house, a couple settle into a life of quiet comfort until a presence makes itself felt.
A crumbling mansion, a family line rotting from within, and a narrator who begins to suspect the house itself is alive with dread - Poe's masterpiece of Gothic horror builds its terror out of atmosphere alone, one exquisitely unsettling image at a time.
Captain Walshawe was no one's idea of an honest man while he lived - a soldier of fortune with a talent for cruelty and a knack for landing on the right side of every dishonest bargain.
Deep in the Irish countryside, a mother's child disappears along a lonely road one evening - and returns, hours later, changed in ways the whole village can sense but nobody can quite name.
In a remote village haunted by old superstitions, a girl marked by a strange encounter finds herself pulled toward a fate no one around her will name out loud.
A baronet inherits more than a title and a crumbling estate - he inherits a family history soaked in old wrongs, and a house that seems determined to make him pay for debts he never personally incurred.
A young painter's apprentice falls for his master's niece - only to watch her married off to a wealthy, unsettling stranger who vanishes with her the same night.
In the crumbling stronghold of Cappercullen, an old Irish family carries a legend nobody quite dares to test: break faith with the dead, and something will come to collect.
Presented as a factual record rather than fiction, this account follows a family driven from their own home by disturbances that defy every rational explanation they try.
A servant girl's account of her mistress's final days becomes something far stranger once the old woman herself refuses to stay buried, while, in a linked tale, a churchyard sexton learns that some crimes leave a debt that outlives the grave entirely.
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.
