
Length965h 2m
About this audiobook
HALLOWEEN Boxed Set gathers a capacious international archive of Halloween's literary affinities: Gothic terror, ghost story, psychological uncanny, occult speculation, satire, romance, and macabre adventure. Ranging from eighteenth-century Gothic architecture and nineteenth-century sensation fiction to fin-de-siècle decadence and early weird fiction, the volume maps the genre's shifting techniques—framing narratives, spectral visitation, doubles, curses, haunted houses, and ambiguous apparitions. Its scope accommodates both canonical landmarks and rarer popular forms, making Halloween not merely a seasonal occasion but a rich literary mode of threshold, memory, and dread. The contributors form an extraordinary transatlantic and European constellation, bringing together writers associated with Romanticism, Victorian Gothic, realism, Symbolism, American supernatural fiction, and the emerging traditions of cosmic horror and popular suspense. Familiar innovators of the ghostly and grotesque stand alongside influential women writers, journalists, folkloric collectors, and cosmopolitan experimenters. Across distinct national traditions and historical moments, these voices reveal how anxieties about class, empire, science, gender, religion, and modernity found imaginative expression in the supernatural. This boxed set is especially rewarding for readers seeking both pleasurable chills and a broad education in Gothic and weird literature. Its multiplicity of styles invites comparison across eras and cultures, while the conversation among its tales illuminates the enduring power of the Halloween imagination.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (58)
Includes Amazon, Goodreads
GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length965 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Halloween Boxed Set: 200+ Horror Classics & Supernatural Mysteries
26Metzengerstein
2Introduction: Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft
27The Assignation
3Introduction
28Berenice
4The Dawn of the Horror-Tale
29Morella
5The Early Gothic Novel
30King Pest
Show all chaptersShow less
6The Apex of Gothic Romance
31Shadow
7The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction
32Silence
8Spectral Literature on the Continent
33Ligeia
9Edgar Allan Poe
34William Wilson
10The Weird Tradition in America
35The Man of the Crowd
11The Weird Tradition in the British Isles
36The Oval Portrait
12The Modern Masters
37The Premature Burial
13Supernatural & Mystery Thrillers
38The Imp of the Perverse
14Edgar Allan Poe
39The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
15The Tell-Tale Heart
40Hop-Frog
16The Fall of the House of Usher
41Henry James
17The Cask of Amontillado
42The Turn of the Screw (pt. 1)
18The Pit and the Pendulum
43The Turn of the Screw (pt. 2)
19The Masque of the Red Death
44The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
20The Black Cat
45Owen Wingrave
21The Oblong Box
46The Real Right Thing
22The Murders in the Rue Morgue
47Jolly Corner
23The Purloined Letter
48Sir Edmund Orme
24The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
49The Ghostly Rental
25The Gold-Bug
50The Way It Came