Category Archives: Gothic Fiction
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Version 3)
Author(s): Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray follows the title character as he downspirals...
The Flight of the Shadow
Author(s): George MacDonald A fantastical story of personal growth and a warning against the dangers...
Auriol, or The Elixir of Life
Author(s): William Harrison Ainsworth If you stumble upon the elixir of life, which provides you...
Dracula (version 5)
Author(s): Bram Stoker Dracula as written by Bram Stoker in 1897 was not the first...
Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
Author(s): Charles Brockden Brown The lives of a prosperous, intellectual family are disrupted when they...
The Man-Wolf
Author(s): Émile ErckmannAlexandre Chatrian “The Man-Wolf” is a 38,000 word novella that appears in the...
Master Zacharius
Author(s): Jules Verne Master Zacharius is a man of science, skill, and overpowering pride. He...
The Castle of Otranto (Version 2)
Author(s): Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first Gothic novel, a...
The Blood of the Vampire
Author(s): Florence Marryat The Blood of the Vampire is a Gothic novel, often compared to...
The Romance of the Forest
Author(s): Ann Radcliffe A Gothic novel famously mentioned by Jane Austen in “Northanger Abbey” as...
The Tower of Dago
Author(s): Mór Jókai This is the story of Feodor von Ungern, who, betrayed by his...
Trilby
Author(s): George du Maurier Trilby, published in 1894, fits into the gothic horror genre which...
The Italian
Author(s): Ann Radcliffe The love story between a nobleman and a beautiful lady whom he...
Owen Wingrave
Author(s): Henry James A young man of good family with a long distinguished military tradition...
Rookwood
Author(s): William Harrison Ainsworth A rich and complex Gothic-Romance centring on the murky deeds of...
Benighted
Author(s): John Boynton Priestley Phillip and Margaret Waverton, along with a cheerful young acquaintance Roger...
Sicilian Romance
Author(s): Ann Radcliffe A Sicilian Romance is a Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe. It was...
Wuthering Heights (version 3 dramatic reading)
Author(s): Emily Brontë The story centers on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between...
The Castle of Otranto
Author(s): Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It...
The Monk: A Romance
Author(s): Matthew Lewis Matthew Gregory Lewis’s The Monk: A Romance is a story of frustrated...
The Stoneground Ghost Tales, Version 2
Author(s): Edmund Gill Swain A collection of gentle ghost stories set around a church by...
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Version 2)
Author(s): James Hogg An early example of a psychological mystery and modern crime fiction, The...