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
When fear dictates human choices, small misunderstandings quickly ferment into generational burdens. George MacDonald’s The...
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...