In an exploration of the societal limitations for women regarding marriage and property in the eighteenth century, this gothic masterpiece is an early work of feminist fiction.
In a vivid tale of gothic horror and wartime terror, Charlotte Smith's evocative prose brings to life the haunting beauty of forbidden love against the backdrop of the French revolution.
From the prolific English gothic horror novelist, The Castle of Wolfenbach is Eliza Parsons' masterpiece and an important early influence in the genre.
In this enthralling gothic novel, Clara Reeve takes the foundation laid by Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto and crafts a unique narrative set against the backdrop of medieval England.
In a chilling world of dark seduction and supernatural terror, this classic gothic novella is an early work of vampire fiction and a haunting feminist romance.
In the late 19th century, a group of writers across Europe challenged artistic and social convention to create stories steeped in transgression, sensuality and obsession.
When a young nurse is sent to care for a child at a remote and isolated family estate in northern England, she soon becomes consumed by the family's dark and tragic history.
Eine Schiffspassage nach Java wird für den jungen Kaufmannssohn Hans Heinrich Jacobsen und seinen treuen chinesischen Begleiter Chang Lee zu einer Fahrt in die Hölle.
Step into the surreal world of "e;The Metamorphosis,"e; where Franz Kafka paints a horrifying yet captivating tale of Gregor Samsa's unexpected transformation.
La leyenda de Sleepy Hollow es un relato corto de terror y romanticismo, escrito por Washington Irving en 1820, en su colección de ensayos e historias cortas The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon.
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.
The Rider on the White Horse is a classic German novella, in which the individual wrestles with the mass, the man with the most elementary forces of nature.
An einer Eisenbahnstrecke im nördlichen England, dort, wo die Zuggleise durch einen düsteren Taleinschnitt und kurz darauf in den Tunnel führen, geschehen seltsame Dinge: Der Streckenwärter sieht im Tunnel immer wieder eine geisterhafte Gestalt, kurz darauf ereignet sich jedes Mal ein Unglück …Charles Dickensʼ (1812–1870) fesselnde Erzählung, bekannt unter dem Titel »The Signal-Man – Der Bahnwärter«, entstand unter dem Eindruck eines schweren Eisenbahnunglücks 1865 in Staplehurst, Kent, das der Autor zwar knapp überlebte, das ihn aber zeitlebens psychisch belastete.
Zwei Meisterwerke der Schauerliteratur: »Die schwarze Katze« ist der Bericht eines Mannes, der die Kontrolle über sein Handeln verliert und zum Mörder wird.
The author of Ghost in the Guacamole returns as a spiritual medium and her spectral sidekick encounter murder and mystery in a Massachusetts farmhouse— Mysterious plots abound when spiritual medium Emma Whitecastle offers aid to a famous novelist, but her spectral sidekick Granny Apples will help her write all the wrongs.
