Discover the classic Gothic horror novel of haunted cellars, opera, murder and unrequited love that inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running west end hit.
Shelley's suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literture-the power of human imagination, the potential hubris of science, the gulf between appearance and essence, the effects of human cruelty, the desire for revenge and the need for forgiveness, and much more.
Professor William Dyer of the the Miskatonic University knew that the Antarctic was a forlorn, dangerous place, but nothing could have prepared him and his expedition for what they would find in the Mountains of Madness.
Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext - ungekurzt und unbearbeitet mit Worterklarungen am Fu jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes.
Ob bei einer außergewöhnlichen Busfahrt, während einer Ehekrise, in der Zirkusmanege oder in einer Geisterstadt im mittleren Westen der USA, überall stellt sich die Frage nach dem Leben und dem Tod, nach der Welt dazwischen und dem, was uns jenseits des weißen Lichts erwarten könnte.
An old manuscript unleashes the great priest Cthulhu from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, for him to rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway.
As the nights draw in and Halloween is just around the corner, what better to read than this collection of seriously spooky stories about ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night.
Diesmal entführt Andreas Gruber Sie mit seinen Horrorgeschichten in das Leipzig des Jahres 1840, nach New Orleans um 1908 und in das Wien des Jahres 1945.
First published in 1978, five years after the release of the classic horror film from which it is adapted, The Wicker Man by director Robin Hardy and screenwriter Anthony Shaffer, is a gripping horror classic.
The Penguin English Library Edition of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil'Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality.
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The stories in A Ghostly Gallery were written over a period of sixty years, the whole length of Joan Aiken's writing career; some appeared in her very first collections of what her father Conrad Aiken called "e;Twentieth century Fairy stories for the young of all ages.
'Let us now praise Ray Bradbury'THE TIMESBradbury's first story collection is a must-read for any fan of the genre, spinning stardust and cobwebs in its wondrous wake.
In "Tod im Spiegellabyrinth" folgen wir einer Gruppe von Freunden, die in ein geheimnisvolles, altes Herrenhaus eintreten, um die dunklen Geheimnisse ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit zu erkunden.
The modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, the supernatural and psychological horror, medical and scientific horror, colonial horror, and tales of the uncanny and precognition.
