DEEP, DARK & UNSETTLING: 100+ Gothic Classics in One Edition
Over a Century of Haunted Castles, Vampires, Mad Science, and Psychological TerrorBy Théophile Gautier, William Blake, Horace Walpole, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, William Thomas Beckford, Eliza Parsons, Eleanor Sleath, William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, Percy Bysshe Shelley, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Thomas Love Peacock, Edgar Allan Poe, John William Polidori, Washington Irving, Charles Robert Maturin, James Hogg, Victor Hugo, Frederick Marryat, Nikolai Gogol, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George W. M. Reynolds, James Malcolm Rymer, Thomas Peckett Prest, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, Mayne Reid, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Walter Hubbell, Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassant, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Arthur Machen, George MacDonald, John Meade Falkner, Marie Corelli, Richard Marsh, Henry James, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, Guy Boothby, W. W. Jacobs, M. R. James, Robert Hugh Benson, E. F. Benson, Gaston Leroux, William Hope Hodgson, Grant Allen, Tobias Smollett, Clara Reeve, Friedrich Schiller, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti
Length787h 31m
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DEEP, DARK & UNSETTLING gathers more than a century of Gothic experimentation into a capacious archive of terror, wonder, and psychological disturbance. Its contents range from foundational castle romances, spectral ballads, and Faustian tales to detective mysteries, decadent fantasies, imperial nightmares, and proto-science-fictional horrors. Recurring images—ruined houses, forbidden manuscripts, doubles, revenants, persecuted heroines, and corrupted inheritances—demonstrate how Gothic writing transformed private dread into a searching critique of modernity. Particularly striking are the volume's encounters with vampirism, uncanny domesticity, criminal sensation, and cosmic menace. The collection unites British, Irish, American, French, German, Russian, and other European voices whose careers span Romanticism, Victorian sensation fiction, Decadence, realism, Symbolist fantasy, and the early supernatural tale. Poets, novelists, dramatists, journalists, and popular serial writers alike contribute to the Gothic's evolution from eighteenth-century antiquarian romance into a flexible international mode. The presence of canonical innovators beside prolific authors of popular fiction reveals that the genre developed through continual exchange between high literary ambition, periodical culture, folklore, scientific speculation, and mass entertainment. Ideal for students, scholars, and devoted readers of dark fiction, this edition offers an exceptional opportunity to trace Gothic conventions across languages, periods, and forms. Its extraordinary breadth invites comparative reading: each tale illuminates, complicates, or unsettles the next. Readers will find both an accessible treasury of classics and a rich map of the enduring anxieties that Gothic literature has made imaginatively visible.
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GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length787 hrs 31 mins
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Publish dateOct 12, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Lewis Carroll: The Complete Novels (The Giants of Literature - Book 9) (Annotated)
2DEEP, DARK & UNSETTLING: 100+ Gothic Classics in One Edition
3Tobias Smollett
4The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
5Part One.
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6Chapter One Some Sage Observations That Naturally Introduce Our Important History.
7Chapter Two A Superficial View Of Our Hero's Infancy.
8Chapter Three He Is Initiated In A Military Life, And Has The Good Fortune To Acquire A Generous Patron.
9Chapter Four His Mother's Prowess And Death; Together With Some Instances Of His Own Sagacity.
10Chapter Five A Brief Detail Of His Education.
11Chapter Six He Meditates Schemes Of Importance.
12Chapter Seven Engages In Partnership With A Female Associate, In Order To Put His Talents In Action.
13Chapter Eight Their First Attempt; With A Digression Which Some Readers May Think Impertinent.
14Chapter Nine The Confederates Change Their Battery, And Achieve A Remarkable Adventure.
15Chapter Ten They Proceed To Levy Contributions With Great Success, Until Our Hero Sets Out With The Young Count For Vienna, Where He Enters Into League With Another Adventurer.
16Chapter Eleven Fathom Makes Various Efforts In The World Of Gallantry.
17Chapter Twelve He Effects A Lodgment In The House Of A Rich Jeweller.
18Chapter Thirteen He Is Exposed To A Most Perilous Incident In The Course Of His Intrigue With The Daughter.
19Chapter Fourteen He Is Reduced To A Dreadful Dilemma, In Consequence Of An Assignation With The Wife.
20Chapter Fifteen But At Length Succeeds In His Attempt Upon Both.
21Chapter Sixteen His Success Begets A Blind Security, By Which He Is Once Again Well-nigh Entrapped In His Dulcinea's Apartment.
22Chapter Seventeen The Step-Dame's Suspicions Being Awakened, She Lays A Snare For Our Adventurer, From Which He Is Delivered By The Interposition Of His Good Genius.
23Chapter Eighteen Our Hero Departs From Vienna, And Quits The Domain Of Venus For The Rough Field Of Mars.
24Chapter Nineteen He Puts Himself Under The Guidance Of His Associate, And Stumbles Upon The French Camp, Where He Finishes His Military Career.
25Chapter Twenty He Prepares A Stratagem But Finds Himself Countermined—Proceeds On His Journey, And Is Overtaken By A Terrible Tempest.
26Chapter Twenty-One He Falls Upon Scylla, Seeking To Avoid Charybdis.
27Chapter Twenty-Two He Arrives At Paris, And Is Pleased With His Reception.
28Chapter Twenty-Three Acquits Himself With Address In A Nocturnal Riot.
29Chapter Twenty-Four He Overlooks The Advances Of His Friends, And Smarts Severely For His Neglect.
30Chapter Twenty-Five He Bears His Fate Like A Philosopher; And Contracts Acquaintance With A Very Remarkable Personage.
31Chapter Twenty-Six The History Of The Noble Castilian.
32Chapter Twenty-Seven A Flagrant Instance Of Fathom's Virtue, In The Manner Of His Retreat To England.
33Chapter Twenty-Eight Some Account Of His Fellow-Travellers.
34Chapter Twenty-Nine Another Providential Deliverance From The Effects Of The Smuggler's Ingenious Conjecture.
35Chapter Thirty The Singular Manner Of Fathom's Attack And Triumph Over The Virtue Of The Fair Elenor.
36Chapter Thirty-One He By Accident Encounters His Old Friend, With Whom He Holds A Conference, And Renews A Treaty.
37Chapter Thirty-Two He Appears In The Great World With Universal Applause And Admiration.
38Chapter Thirty-Three He Attracts The Envy And Ill Offices Of The Minor Knights Of His Own Order, Over Whom He Obtains A Complete Victory.
39Chapter Thirty-Four He Performs Another Exploit, That Conveys A True Idea Of His Gratitude And Honour.
40Chapter Thirty-Five He Repairs To Bristol Spring, Where He Reigns Paramount During The Whole Season.
41Chapter Thirty-Six He Is Smitten With The Charms Of A Female Adventurer, Whose Allurements Subject Him To A New Vicissitude Of Fortune.
42Chapter Thirty-Seven Fresh Cause For Exerting His Equanimity And Fortitude.
43Chapter Thirty-Eight The Biter Is Bit.
44Part Two.
45Chapter Thirty-Nine Our Adventurer Is Made Acquainted With A New Scene Of Life.
46Chapter Forty He Contemplates Majesty And Its Satellites In Eclipse.
47Chapter Forty-One One Quarrel Is Compromised, And Another Decided By Unusual Arms.
48Chapter Forty-Two An Unexpected Rencontre, And A Happy Revolution In The Affairs Of Our Adventurer.
49Chapter Forty-Three Fathom Justifies The Proverb, “What's Bred In The Bone Will Never Come Out Of The Flesh.”
50Chapter Forty-Four Anecdotes Of Poverty, And Experiments For The Benefit Of Those Whom It May Concern.
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