Cursed Relics: 11 Horror Classics
Eleven Gothic Tales of Haunted Idols, Cursed Jewels, Forbidden Manuscripts, and Occult TerrorBy Bram Stoker, Richard Marsh, Guy Boothby, Mrs. Loudon, H. Rider Haggard, Ambrose Pratt, Victor Appleton, Baroness Orczy, Charlotte Bryson Taylor, Algernon Blackwood
Length102h 6m
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Cursed Relics: 11 Horror Classics gathers tales in which objects become reservoirs of dread: antiquities, heirlooms, curios, and seemingly ordinary possessions carry histories that refuse to remain buried. Spanning Gothic sensation, imperial adventure, occult fiction, supernatural mystery, and early popular horror, the collection maps a crucial transition from Victorian anxieties to Edwardian and early twentieth-century fantastic literature. Its standout premise—the cursed relic as both material artifact and narrative engine—allows terror to emerge through excavation, inheritance, commerce, and forbidden knowledge. The contributors form a notable constellation of British and Anglophone popular writers, including major practitioners of Gothic romance, adventure fiction, occult tales, detective-inflected suspense, and juvenile fantastical narrative. Their varied careers illuminate the period's fascination with empire, archaeology, spiritualism, technological modernity, and the unstable boundary between rational explanation and supernatural retribution. Across these voices, the relic becomes a cultural symbol: an imported object, a domestic possession, or an archaeological remnant capable of exposing concealed fears about history and possession. Recommended for students and readers of classic horror, this volume offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare modes of suspense within a single thematic frame. Its breadth encourages attentive reading of how different styles transform the same haunting question: what obligations, dangers, and memories adhere to the things we inherit, acquire, and desire?
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length102 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Revenge of the Mummy: 10+ Occult & Supernatural Classics
2The Jewel of the Seven Stars
3Chapter I A Summons in the Night
4Chapter II Strange Instructions
5Chapter III The Watchers
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6Chapter IV The Second Attempt
7Chapter V More Strange Instructions
8Chapter VI Suspicions
9Chapter VII The Traveller's Loss
10Chapter VIII The Finding of the Lamps
11Chapter IX The Need of Knowledge
12Chapter X The Valley of the Sorcerer
13Chapter XI A Queen's Tomb
14Chapter XII The Magic Coffer
15Chapter XIII Awaking From the Trance
16Chapter XIV The Birth-Mark
17Chapter XV The Purpose of Queen Tera
18Chapter XVI Powers--Old and New
19Chapter XVII The Cavern
20Chapter XVIII Doubts and Fears
21Chapter XIX The Lesson of the "Ka"
22Chapter XX The Great Experiment
23The Beetle
24BOOK I The House with the Open Window
25CHAPTER I OUTSIDE
26CHAPTER II INSIDE
27CHAPTER III THE MAN IN THE BED
28CHAPTER IV A LONELY VIGIL
29CHAPTER V AN INSTRUCTION TO COMMIT BURGLARY
30CHAPTER VI A SINGULAR FELONY
31CHAPTER VII THE GREAT PAUL LESSINGHAM
32CHAPTER VIII THE MAN IN THE STREET
33CHAPTER IX THE CONTENTS OF THE PACKET
34BOOK II The Haunted Man
35CHAPTER X REJECTED
36CHAPTER XI A MIDNIGHT EPISODE
37CHAPTER XII A MORNING VISITOR
38CHAPTER XIII THE PICTURE
39CHAPTER XIV THE DUCHESS' BALL
40CHAPTER XV MR LESSINGHAM SPEAKS
41CHAPTER XVI ATHERTON'S MAGIC VAPOUR
42CHAPTER XVII MAGIC? — OR MIRACLE?
43CHAPTER XVIII THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE BEETLE
44CHAPTER XIX THE LADY RAGES
45CHAPTER XX A HEAVY FATHER
46CHAPTER XXI THE TERROR IN THE NIGHT
47CHAPTER XXII THE HAUNTED MAN
48BOOK III The Terror by Night and the Terror by Day
49CHAPTER XXIII THE WAY HE TOLD HER
50CHAPTER XXIV A WOMAN'S VIEW
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