Creatures of the Night (Boxed Set Edition)
Classic Vampire, Werewolf, and Gothic Horror Tales from Medieval Folklore to Pulp FictionBy Robert E. Howard, Bram Stoker, E. F. Benson, John William Polidori, Richard Francis Burton, Jan Neruda, Sheridan Le Fanu, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Alice and Claude Askew, Hume Nisbet, Dudley Wright, Marie de France, Alexandre Dumas Père, George W. M. Reynolds, Eugene Field, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Rudyard Kipling, Gladys Gordon Trenery, Clifford Ball
Length155h 30m
About this audiobook
Creatures of the Night (Boxed Set Edition) surveys the nocturnal imagination across centuries, gathering Gothic terror, supernatural romance, adventure fantasy, folklore, and fin-de-siècle sensation. Its range extends from medieval lays and early vampire lore to Victorian penny dreadfuls, colonial uncanny tales, and twentieth-century weird fiction. Vampires, spectres, shape-shifters, and morally ambiguous outsiders emerge not merely as monsters but as figures through whom writers test desire, empire, mortality, class anxiety, and the unstable boundary between civilisation and wilderness. The contributors form a remarkably broad international and historical constellation. Medieval French narrative, Romantic Gothic experimentation, Irish ghost fiction, French fantastic literature, British popular serials, and American pulp horror meet in a volume shaped by the long afterlife of the Gothic. Figures associated with foundational vampire writing stand beside chroniclers of sensational popular fiction and masters of the uncanny, while travel writing, folklore, and adventure traditions deepen the collection's cultural reach. Together, these voices reveal how the night creature continually changes form in response to shifting literary markets, national traditions, and social fears. Ideal for students, scholars, and devoted readers of the fantastic, this boxed set offers an unusually capacious encounter with supernatural literature's evolving archive. It invites comparison across genres and eras, rewarding readers with both historical perspective and the immediate pleasures of dread, wonder, and narrative surprise.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, Fantasy
Length155 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 15, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Devil's Ultimatum – 12 Horror Classics
26CHAPTER XVIII.
2Vampires
27CHAPTER XIX.
3The Vampyre (John William Polidori)
28CHAPTER XX.
4EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM GENEVA.
29CHAPTER XXI.
5INTRODUCTION
30CHAPTER XXII.
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6THE VAMPYRE
31CHAPTER XXIII.
7EXTRACT OF A LETTER, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF LORD BYRON'S RESIDENCE IN THE ISLAND OF MITYLENE.
32CHAPTER XXIV.
8Dracula (Bram Stoker)
33CHAPTER XXV.
9CHAPTER I.
34CHAPTER XXVI.
10CHAPTER II.
35CHAPTER XXVII.
11CHAPTER III.
36Dracula's Guest (Bram Stoker)
12CHAPTER IV.
37Clarimonde (Théophile Gautier)
13CHAPTER V.
38Carmilla (Sheridan Le Fanu)
14CHAPTER VI.
39PROLOGUE
15CHAPTER VII.
40CHAPTER 1. AN EARLY FRIGHT
16CHAPTER VIII.
41CHAPTER 2. A GUEST
17CHAPTER IX.
42CHAPTER 3. WE COMPARE NOTES
18CHAPTER X.
43CHAPTER 4. HER HABITS — A SAUNTER
19CHAPTER XI.
44CHAPTER 5. A WONDERFUL LIKENESS
20CHAPTER XII.
45CHAPTER 6. A VERY STRANGE AGONY
21CHAPTER XIII.
46CHAPTER 7. DESCENDING
22CHAPTER XIV.
47CHAPTER 8. SEARCH
23CHAPTER XV.
48CHAPTER 9. THE DOCTOR
24CHAPTER XVI.
49CHAPTER 10. BEREAVED
25CHAPTER XVII.
50CHAPTER 11. THE STORY
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