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...

This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H.: The Rainbow Le Fanu, Sheridan: In a Glass Darkly Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The Mon...

It’s Christmas in New York City, and all antique shop owner Sebastian Snow wants is for his business to make money and to save his floundering relationship with closeted CSU detective, Neil Millett. But when Snow’s Antique Emporium is broken into and a heart is found under the floorboards, Sebastian can’t let the mystery rest.He soon finds himself caught up in murder investigations that echo the macabre writings of Edgar Allan Poe. To make matters worse, Sebastian’s sleuthing is ca...

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...

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.

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...

Edgar Allan Poe: Masterpieces – Huge Collection of Gothic Classics in One Kindle EditionIf you enjoy classic horror, mystery and Gothic literature, this is a fantastic collection to have on your Kindle.Edgar Allan Poe: Masterpieces brings together an enormous selection of works by one of the most influential writers of all time, including his novels, famous short stories, poetry, letters, essays, articles and literary critici...

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...

This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven includes:• All 25 illustrations by Gustave Doré from the 1884 Harper & Brothers edition• A informative introduction• A detailed biography of Edgar Allan Poe• An illustrated version and a text-only version of the poemNo poem has ever received the kind of immediate and overwhelming response that Poe’s “The Raven” did when i...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This collection of the greatest mysterious dark tales gathers together more than 100 authors and more than 1000 short stories (!), which makes it truly unique in its kind. Be ...

Rufus O’Callaghan has eked out a living on the streets of New York City by helping the police put away criminals as a confidential informant. But when Rufus shows up for an arranged meeting and finds his handler dead, his already-uncertain life is thrown into a tailspin. Now someone is trying to kill Rufus too, and he’s determined to find out why.After leaving the Army under less than desirable circumstances, Sam Auden has drifted from town to town, hitching rides and catching Grey...

The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now we have compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever, with over 80...