20 Must Read Ghost Novels
Twenty Classic Tales of Haunted Castles, Occult Mysteries, Psychological Dread, and Supernatural TerrorBy Henry James, Horace Walpole, Gaston Leroux, Francis Marion Crawford, Emily Brontë, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Frederick Marryat, H. P. Lovecraft, Frederic Henry Balfour, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, William De Morgan, John Meade Falkner, Wilkie Collins, Charles Willing Beale, Duchess, Paul Dickey, Charles Goddard, Eliza Parsons, Richard Marsh, William Hope Hodgson
Length207h 52m
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20 Must Read Ghost Novels surveys the haunted house, spectral visitation, ancestral curse, and psychological apparition across more than a century of Gothic fiction. Moving from early terror fiction and Victorian sensation to fin-de-siècle decadence, imperial adventure, and cosmic horror, the volume reveals how ghosts serve as figures of grief, inheritance, desire, social transgression, and metaphysical doubt. Its selections encompass melodramatic plotting, antiquarian atmosphere, domestic suspense, maritime unease, and visionary dread, with memorable tales of cursed estates, revenants, and unsettling presences. The contributors form an unusually broad genealogy of Anglophone supernatural writing. They include foundational Gothic innovators, major Victorian novelists, popular sensation writers, and later practitioners of weird and horror fiction; women writers and lesser-known genre specialists stand beside canonical names. Together, these voices trace the Gothic's evolution from Romantic anxieties about ruin and persecution through Victorian concerns with secrecy and modernity to twentieth-century encounters with the uncanny and unknowable. Their differing social, national, and literary positions make haunting a richly variable cultural language. Recommended for students, Gothic enthusiasts, and readers seeking an expansive introduction to ghostly fiction, this anthology offers a valuable comparative reading experience. It invites readers to follow recurring motifs across sharply distinct styles while recognizing the historical transformations that give each apparition its force. Within one volume, the works conduct a compelling dialogue about fear, memory, and the persistence of the past.
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GenreHorror, Fantasy
Length207 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Turn of the Screw
2Prologue
3I
4II
5III
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6IV
7V
8VI
9VII
10VIII
11IX
12X
13XI
14XII
15XIII
16XIV
17XV
18XVI
19XVII
20XVIII
21XIX
22XX
23XXI
24XXII
25XXIII
26XXIV
27The Castle of Otranto
28The Castle of Otranto
29Horace Walpole (pt. 1)
30Horace Walpole (pt. 2)
31The Phantom of the Opera
32Prologue
33Chapter I. Is it the Ghost?
34Chapter II. The New Margarita
35Chapter III. The Mysterious Reason
36Chapter IV. Box Five
37Chapter V. The Enchanted Violin
38Chapter VI. A Visit to Box Five
39Chapter VII. Faust and What Followed
40Chapter VIII. The Mysterious Brougham
41Chapter IX. At the Masked Ball
42Chapter X. Forget the Name of the Man's Voice
43Chapter XI. Above the Trap-Doors
44Chapter XII. Apollo's Lyre
45Chapter XIII. A Master-Stroke of the Trap-Door Lover
46Chapter XIV. The Singular Attitude of a Safety-Pin
47Chapter XV. Christine! Christine!
48Chapter XVI. Mme. Giry's Astounding Revelations as to Her Personal Relations with the Opera Ghost
49Chapter XVII. The Safety-Pin Again
50Chapter XVIII. The Commissary, The Viscount and the Persian
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