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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Strange Tales
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Include books by the same authorThe Face in the Glass and Other Gothic Tales
Mary Elizabeth Braddon · 256 pages
The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe · 30 pages
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado" [a.mon.ti.ˈʝa.ðo]) is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. Like several of Poe's
Gothic Tales
Elizabeth Gaskell · 366 pages
Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact; 'Lois the Witch', a novella based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to hysteria; while in 'The Old Nurse's Story' a mysterious child roams the freezing
Gothic Tales
Mary Shelley; Edited with an Introduction by Daniel Cook
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
William L. Hedges · 358 pages
Originally entitled, "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.", this collection of essays, sketches, and tales established Washington's reputation as America's foremost professional author. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" are classics of American fiction and display Irving's ability to depict American landscapes and culture. This volume also contains a number of gently ironic
The Blood of the Vampire
Florence Marryat; Introduction by Rachel Stewart
The Fall of the House of Usher & Other Stories
Adrian Kelly, Edgar Allan Poe · 62 pages
Great Short Works
Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson · 564 pages
The first new edition of this landmark anthology since 1945 presents a more complicated, perverse, and culturally engaged Poe. Along with the author's familiar masterworks in poetry and fiction, this new Portable Poe includes satirical tales that reflect his critique of American culture.
Classic Tales of Horror
Rudyard Kipling, William Edmondstoune Aytoun, E.F. Benson, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, M.R. James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins · 240 pages
Contains: [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) Hop-Frog [Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W) King Pest Lig
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
Bram Stoker · 131 pages
Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the macabre. This collection, comprising Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, a volume of spine-chilling short stories collected and published by Stoker's widow after his death, and The Lair of the White Worm, an intensely intriguing novel of myths, legends and unspeakable
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton · 280 pages
The lady's maid's bell. -- The eyes. -- Afterward. -- Kerfol. -- The triumph of night. -- Miss Mary Pask. -- Bewitched. -- Mr. Jones. -- Pomegranate seed. -- The looking glass. -- All Souls'. --
Carmilla
J. Sheridan Le Fanu · 86 pages
First published as a serial in The Dark Blue (1871–72), *Carmilla* is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is an anagram of Mircalla). The character is a prototypical example of the lesbian vampire, expressing romantic desires toward the protagonist. The novella notably never acknowledges homosexuality
The Beetle
Richard Marsh · 330 pages
The Beetle was published in 1897, the same year as Dracula —and outsold it six to one that year. Like Dracula , the novel is steeped in the evil mysteries of an ancient horror: in this case, a mysterious ancient Egyptian creature bent on revenge. The story is told through the sequential points of view of a group of middle-class Victorians who find themselves enmeshed in the creature’s plot. The
Haunted Castles
Ray Russell · 256 pages
"Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro. Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro's favorites, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Ray Russel
The Three Impostors and Other Stories
Arthur Machen · 234 pages
Collected Ghost Stories
M.R. James · 468 pages
Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, James's stories draw on the terrors of the everyday. Documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot.
The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories
Wilkie Collins · 336 pages
Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Charles Dickens, Richard Marsh, and Others
Hugh Lamb · 256 pages
Gaslit Horror: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Lafcadio Hearn, Bernard Capes and Others
Hugh Lamb, Lafcadio Hearn, Robert W. Chambers, Bernard Capes, J.E. Preston Muddock, Isabella Varley Banks, Charles J. Mansford · 256 pages
Includes : Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks - The Pride of the Corbyns (1882) ; Charles J. Mansford - Maw-Sayah (1894) ; Mrs. L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace - The Mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel (1897) ; Bernard Capes - The Black Reaper (1899) ; S. Levett-Yeats - The Devil's Manuscript (1899) ; Dick Donovan - The Mystic Spell (1899) ; Lafcadio Hearn - Nightmare-Touch (1900) ; Robert W. Chambers - Un Peu d'Amour
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 40 pages
In the decades since the long-lost text of "The Yellow Wall-Paper" was rediscovered and reprinted by The Feminist Press, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic narrative of confinement and madness has become essential to the canon of North American literature. First published in 1892, "The Yellow Wall-Paper" is written as the secret journal of a woman who, failing to relish the joys of marriage and m