Horror & Gothic
A Sicilian Romance
Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel uses a decaying castle, family secrets, imprisonment, romance, and supernatural atmosphere to build a story of fear and discovery
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Horror & Gothic
Explore horror and Gothic writing, including stories that use unease, suspense, the uncanny, and dark atmospheres. This collection currently contains 29 titles in Literra’s catalogue.
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Horror & Gothic
At the Mountains of Madness
Lovecraft uses Antarctic exploration as a frame for cosmic horror, scientific discovery and the unsettling idea that humanity’s history may be far stranger than assumed
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Berenice
Poe's gothic tale follows an obsessive narrator whose fixation on his cousin's teeth turns grief and illness into a horrifying act of violence
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Carmilla
Le Fanu’s vampire novella builds horror through intimacy, secrecy, attraction and the slow recognition that something impossible is entering ordinary life
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Carnacki the Ghost Finder
William Hope Hodgson's collection presents supernatural investigations by occult detective Carnacki, who confronts haunted houses, strange forces, and unexplained phenomena
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Carnacki, the ghost finder
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder collects supernatural investigations featuring Thomas Carnacki, an eccentric detective who approaches hauntings with a mixture of scientific curiosity, ritual knowledge, skepticism, and sheer nerve. Each story usually begins with an apparently impossible phenomenon—a
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Cool Air
Lovecraft's narrator discovers that a reclusive doctor is using extreme cold to delay bodily decay, turning medical desperation into a disturbing encounter with mortality
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Dagon
A shipwrecked narrator recounts a terrifying encounter with an ancient underwater presence, combining isolation, the unknown, madness, and cosmic horror
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Dracula
An epistolary vampire novel assembled from diaries, letters and records, mixing fear with questions about modernity, trust, knowledge and the unknown
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Dracula's Guest
A collection of Bram Stoker stories and fragments featuring Gothic settings, uncanny events, danger, supernatural menace, and psychological unease
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Dracula's guest
Dracula’s Guest is the most famous surviving piece associated with Bram Stoker’s Dracula beyond the novel itself. It follows an English traveler who becomes stranded in a bleak, unfamiliar landscape and encounters an atmosphere of supernatural danger before reaching safety
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La vampire
La Vampire is a sensational Gothic novel built around the idea of a female supernatural predator whose beauty, sexuality, and apparent humanity conceal something monstrous. The vampire figure allows the author to combine erotic attraction with fear: the person who appears desirable is also the
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Men, women, and ghosts
Men, Women, and Ghosts gathers Amy Lowell’s poems of haunted rooms, strange encounters, memory, desire, and the uneasy border between the ordinary and the supernatural. Lowell does not treat a ghost as merely a monster that appears and disappears
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The Boats of the Glen Carrig
Hodgson’s sea-horror novel follows survivors of a shipwreck into bizarre islands inhabited by strange creatures, dangerous environments, and unexplained horrors
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The Dunwich Horror
A rural New England horror story combining occult knowledge, inherited secrecy and an encounter with forces that ordinary categories cannot comfortably contain
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The Ghost Pirates
A sailing voyage slowly turns uncanny as the crew confronts an invisible or barely understood threat at sea. Hodgson uses isolation and uncertainty to make the ship itself feel like a trap
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The Haunted Hotel A Mystery of Modern Venice
Wilkie Collins combines mystery and supernatural menace in a Venetian hotel whose dark history, vanished identities, and apparent hauntings are connected to an older crime
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The Horror at Red Hook
Lovecraft places a detective in a Brooklyn neighborhood where occult activity and cultural unease combine into a story of supernatural horror
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The House on the Borderland
A cosmic-horror narrative in which a seemingly isolated house becomes the vantage point for visions of time, space and forces beyond ordinary comprehension
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The Jewel of Seven Stars
Bram Stoker blends archaeology, occultism, and supernatural horror as the discovery of an ancient Egyptian mummy raises the possibility of a centuries-old power returning
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The King in Yellow
Linked stories and theatrical references turn art, obsession and forbidden knowledge into sources of unease and psychological instability
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The Lair of the White Worm
A rural landscape hides a creature and a legend that draw a group of characters into a strange confrontation. It is broader and more bizarre than Dracula, useful for seeing what else Stoker did with Gothic horror
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The Man Whom the Trees Loved
A marriage and an encounter with a landscape become increasingly strange as the natural world seems to acquire its own presence and hostility. The story’s power comes from suggestion more than explanation
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The Outsider
A short Gothic tale whose power comes from the narrator’s isolation and the reversal of what the reader expects a “monster” story to reveal
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The Oval Portrait
Poe's brief gothic story links obsessive art with death when a wounded traveler discovers a portrait whose beauty has a horrifying history
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The Phantom of the Opera
A hidden figure beneath the Paris Opera, a singer at the centre of a dangerous obsession and a maze of secret spaces give Leroux a story that sits between mystery, Gothic romance and horror
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
James Hogg uses conflicting narratives, religious fanaticism, guilt, and possible supernatural manipulation to tell the disturbing story of a man who believes himself chosen by God
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The Vampire Maid
Hume Nisbet's early vampire fiction follows a man drawn into an eerie encounter with a beautiful woman whose apparent innocence gives way to supernatural danger and obsession
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The Yellow Wallpaper
A first-person account of a woman confined to a room while her perceptions and sense of agency change under a controlling domestic and medical regime
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