
Length971h 33m
About this audiobook
Fortress of Terror gathers more than 550 horror classics, supernatural mysteries, and macabre tales into a capacious survey of fear's literary forms. Gothic castles, haunted houses, revenants, occult experiments, psychological disturbances, colonial encounters, and grotesque comic reversals appear alongside detective-inflected mysteries and tales of cosmic dread. The volume moves fluently from Romantic sensation and Victorian ghost story to fin-de-siècle decadence, American weird fiction, and early modern horror, making its most striking achievement the breadth with which it stages terror as both entertainment and cultural diagnosis. Its contributors constitute an extraordinary transnational archive: canonical novelists, popular serial writers, antiquarians of folklore, experimenters in speculative fiction, and major architects of the weird tale. British, American, French, German, Russian, Irish, and other traditions converge here, illuminating the Gothic's evolution through Romanticism, realism, spiritualism, imperial anxiety, the New Woman, decadence, and modernity's scientific uncertainties. Across these divergent social and literary contexts, recurring figures—the double, the vampire, the cursed object, the threatened domestic space—acquire fresh ideological and emotional force. This anthology is especially recommended for readers seeking both immersion and scholarly range. It offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare styles, national traditions, and changing conceptions of monstrosity within one volume. Students, researchers, and devoted readers of the uncanny will find an invaluable map of horror's enduring conversations.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length971 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE WIRE DEVILS (Annotated)
26The Gold-Bug
2Fortress of Terror: 550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Tales
27Metzengerstein
3Introduction: Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft
28The Assignation
4Introduction
29Berenice
5The Dawn of the Horror-Tale
30Morella
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6The Early Gothic Novel
31King Pest
7The Apex of Gothic Romance
32Shadow
8The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction
33Silence
9Spectral Literature on the Continent
34Ligeia
10Edgar Allan Poe
35William Wilson
11The Weird Tradition in America
36The Man of the Crowd
12The Weird Tradition in the British Isles
37The Oval Portrait
13The Modern Masters
38The Premature Burial
14Supernatural & Mystery Thrillers
39The Imp of the Perverse
15Edgar Allan Poe
40The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
16The Tell-Tale Heart
41Hop-Frog
17The Fall of the House of Usher
42Henry James
18The Cask of Amontillado
43The Turn of the Screw (pt. 1)
19The Pit and the Pendulum
44The Turn of the Screw (pt. 2)
20The Masque of the Red Death
45The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
21The Black Cat
46Owen Wingrave
22The Oblong Box
47The Real Right Thing
23The Murders in the Rue Morgue
48Jolly Corner
24The Purloined Letter
49Sir Edmund Orme
25The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
50The Ghostly Rental