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...

Christopher Hughes is new to the small New England town of Lancaster, New Hampshire. He’s been hired to save an old library from closing, but his obstacles include not only fighting for state funding, but a Selectman who wants to tear the building down in favor of a shopping center. Christopher is introduced to Miles Sakasai, a charming tattooed repairman on site to restore the historical interior of the building. Working in close proximity has both men falling hard for each other. It also...

The Creepiest Stories from the Cult AuthorEdgar Allan Poe has always known where fear lives: not in the dark outside, but in the mind that cannot let go. His tales don’t simply shock—they mesmerize, tightening the screws with musical precision until the ordinary turns hallucinatory and a single thought becomes a trap. In Tales of Horror, the classics of dread gather in their most compelling form: The Fall of the House of Usher, The Premature B...

Cette collection réunit l'œuvre intégrale d'Edgar Allan Poe, maître du récit gothique et pionnier de la littérature policière. Elle comprend ses nouvelles les plus célèbres, telles que Le Chat noir, La Chute de la maison Usher et Le Cœur révélateur, ainsi que ses poèmes emblématiques comme Le Corbeau et Annabel Lee. Une plongée envoûtante dans le macabre, le mystère et la mélancolie, réunie en un seul volume élégant pour Chronicle Vault.

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works...

Fifty essential works, one sweeping introduction to the world's greatest storytellers. This first volume gathers Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's unforgettable characters, Fyodor Dostoevsky's psychological depth, Victor Hugo's romantic grandeur, Herman Melville's seafaring epic, and Edgar Allan Poe's dark imagination alongside giants from Cervantes to Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters to Shakespeare. Spanning centuries and continents, from the Spanish Golden Age to Gothic romance, Vic...

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...

From Edgar Allan Poe's pioneering tales of ratiocination to Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless detective fiction, this sweeping collection gathers thirty stories of crime, deduction, and hidden truth. Gaston Leroux's locked-room ingenuity, Maurice Leblanc's gentleman-thief capers, G. K. Chesterton's paradox-laden puzzles, and Wilkie Collins's sensation-novel suspense sit alongside contributions from Mark Twain, Jules Verne, and Thomas Hardy, tracing the mystery and investigation short story acr...

Enter the darkest corners of the human imagination with the master of gothic suspense. The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe brings together the haunting fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, one of the most influential writers of Gothic literature, mystery, horror, and psychological fiction. Poe's stories plunge readers into worlds of murder, mystery, obsession, madness, revenge, supernatural terror, and the macabre. His distinctive storytelling combines atmospheric settings with psychological tens...

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 ...