A guided descent through the Gothic tradition, beginning with haunted places and psychological unease, moving through vampires and uncanny doubles, and culminating in the genre's most enduring monsters. Included works: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) — The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) — The Haunted House (Charles Dickens) — The Canterville Ghost, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) — The Turn of the Screw (Henry James) — Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (M...

The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...

Step beyond the candlelight into a world of ruined castles, haunted houses, forbidden experiments and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Gothic Shadows unites fifteen complete classics by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Henry James and other masters of supernatural literature. From Frankenstein and Dracula to Carmilla, The Turn of the Screw, The Phantom of the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Gray, this collection traces the evolution of Gothic fiction across more ...

Step beyond the candlelight into a world of ruined castles, haunted houses, forbidden experiments and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Gothic Shadows unites fifteen complete classics by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Henry James and other masters of supernatural literature. From Frankenstein and Dracula to Carmilla, The Turn of the Screw, The Phantom of the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Gray, this collection traces the evolution of Gothic fiction across more ...

Step beyond the candlelight into a world of ruined castles, haunted houses, forbidden experiments and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Gothic Shadows unites fifteen complete classics by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Henry James and other masters of supernatural literature. From Frankenstein and Dracula to Carmilla, The Turn of the Screw, The Phantom of the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Gray, this collection traces the evolution of Gothic fiction across more ...

Step beyond the candlelight into a world of ruined castles, haunted houses, forbidden experiments and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Gothic Shadows unites fifteen complete classics by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Henry James and other masters of supernatural literature. From Frankenstein and Dracula to Carmilla, The Turn of the Screw, The Phantom of the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Gray, this collection traces the evolution of Gothic fiction across more ...

Step beyond the candlelight into a world of ruined castles, haunted houses, forbidden experiments and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Gothic Shadows unites fifteen complete classics by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Henry James and other masters of supernatural literature. From Frankenstein and Dracula to Carmilla, The Turn of the Screw, The Phantom of the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Gray, this collection traces the evolution of Gothic fiction across more ...

Step beyond the candlelight into a world of ruined castles, haunted houses, forbidden experiments and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Gothic Shadows unites fifteen complete classics by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Henry James and other masters of supernatural literature. From Frankenstein and Dracula to Carmilla, The Turn of the Screw, The Phantom of the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Gray, this collection traces the evolution of Gothic fiction across more ...

Open the door to haunted houses, cursed portraits and creatures that changed horror forever. Gothic Shadows gathers fifteen complete classics including Dracula, Frankenstein, Carmilla, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Turn of the Screw and The Phantom of the Opera. Moving from elegant ghost stories to dark psychological terror, this carefully ordered collection reveals the many faces of the Gothic tradition. Clear book dividers and a detailed contents structure create a seamless reading exp...

Open the door to haunted houses, cursed portraits and creatures that changed horror forever. Gothic Shadows gathers fifteen complete classics including Dracula, Frankenstein, Carmilla, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Turn of the Screw and The Phantom of the Opera. Moving from elegant ghost stories to dark psychological terror, this carefully ordered collection reveals the many faces of the Gothic tradition. Clear book dividers and a detailed contents structure create a seamless reading exp...

When Emily St. Aubert is orphaned and left in the care of her cold, scheming aunt, she is swept from the sunlit tranquility of her childhood home into the crumbling towers of Udolpho — a remote castle in the Apennines ruled by the sinister Signor Montoni. Behind a mysterious black veil, in locked chambers and moaning corridors, Emily confronts secrets that blur the line between the supernatural and the all-too-human cruelty of those who hold power over her. Published in 1794, Ann Radcliffe...

Descend into the dark heart of the Gothic tradition with fifteen complete works of terror, mystery and the supernatural. Gothic Shadows moves from haunted landscapes and psychological unease to vampires, doubles and the enduring monsters that transformed world literature. The collection includes The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Turn of the Screw, Carmilla, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Frankenstein, Dracula and seven furt...