Category Archives: Romance
The Lady of the Shroud
Author(s): Bram Stoker As the title suggests, this work does flirt with the supernatural. Yet...
The Chain of Destiny
Author(s): Bram Stoker Frank Stanford, strapping young man, heads out to the countryside to visit...
Hans of Iceland
Author(s): Victor Hugo Hans of Iceland was written in 1821 and is the very first...
What Dreams May Come
Author(s): Gertrude Atherton For Harold Dartmouth and Weir Penrhyn, it’s love at first sight; love,...
The Adventure of the Broad Arrow: An Australian Romance
Morley Roberts pushes late-nineteenth-century imperial adventure fiction to its absolute physical limits, setting his narrative...
The Charwoman’s Shadow
Author(s): Lord Dunsany Delightfully imaginative, somewhat similar to Dunsany’s blockbuster fantasy novel, The King Of...
Black Oxen
Author(s): Gertrude Atherton Lee Clavering, a young playwright falls in love with an Austrian countess,...
House of Mystery
Author(s): Richard Marsh The House of Mystery is based upon the complicated plot involving two...
The Castle Spectre
Author(s): Matthew Lewis Written by Gothic writer Matthew Lewis, whose novel The Monk is one...
The Wyvern Mystery
When domestic seclusion curdles into psychological dread, Victorian sensation fiction finds its truest exponent in...
Fuel of Fire
Author(s): Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler “Then was there war in the house of Baxendale. Guy had...
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne
Author(s): Ann Radcliffe Ann Radcliffe is the founder of the gothic novel. This novel is...
Weird Tales, Volume 2
Author(s): E. T. A. Hoffmann Paradoxically, it is variety that unites the tales you are...
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (version 2)
Author(s): George MacDonald An author who means to end a story with some variation of...
EDWY: A Poem, in Three Parts
Author(s): Ann Radcliffe In Edwy, Ann Radcliffe gives us a delightful piece of poetic moonshine,...
The Marble Faun
Author(s): Nathaniel Hawthorne The Marble Faun is Hawthorne’s most unusual romance. Writing on the eve...
Idylls of the King
Author(s): Alfred, Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a...
Clarimonde (or La Morte Amoreuse)
Author(s): Théophile Gautier This is the story of a priest named Romauld, and his all-consuming...
La Belle et la Bete
Author(s): Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot Gallon de Villeneuve Est-il besoin de résumer ce conte ? Il vous...
The Ninth vibration and other stories
Author(s): L. Adams Beck This is a collection of the following short stories: The Ninth...
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
Long before modern fantasy codified the rules of chivalric romance and supernatural folklore, a 12th-century...
Undine
Author(s): Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte...
Bill & Doreen’s Married Life
Author(s): C. J. Dennis “Bill & Doreen’s Married Life (Selections from “Doreen”)” is the sequel...
Jim of the Hills – A Story in Rhyme
Author(s): C. J. Dennis Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted...
The Lovers
Author(s): Emily Dickinson LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Lovers by Emily Dickinson....
Liber Amoris
When William Hazlitt published his rawest, most controversial work in 1823, he shattered the polished...
Eugene Onéguine
Alexander Pushkin’s verse novel fundamentally reshaped Russian narrative fiction by giving birth to the iconic...
The Princess
Author(s): Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Princess is a serio-comic blank verse narrative poem, written by...
Love not me for comely grace
Author(s): John Wilbye LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Love not me for comely...
Cinnamon and Angelica
Author(s): John Middleton Murry “Was ever love like this? If verily there was, why was...