
Length972h 54m
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
GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length972 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
26Morella
2The Dawn of the Horror-Tale
27King Pest
3The Early Gothic Novel
28Shadow
4The Apex of Gothic Romance
29Silence
5The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction
30Ligeia
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6Spectral Literature on the Continent
31William Wilson
7Edgar Allan Poe
32The Man of the Crowd
8The Weird Tradition in America
33The Oval Portrait
9The Weird Tradition in the British Isles
34The Premature Burial
10The Modern Masters
35The Imp of the Perverse
11Edgar Allan Poe
36The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
12The Tell-Tale Heart
37Hop-Frog
13The Fall of the House of Usher
38Henry James
14The Cask of Amontillado
39The Turn of the Screw (pt. 1)
15The Pit and the Pendulum
40The Turn of the Screw (pt. 2)
16The Masque of the Red Death
41The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
17The Black Cat
42Owen Wingrave
18The Oblong Box
43The Real Right Thing
19The Murders in the Rue Morgue
44Jolly Corner
20The Purloined Letter
45Sir Edmund Orme
21The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
46The Ghostly Rental
22The Gold-Bug
47The Way It Came
23Metzengerstein
48The Third Person
24The Assignation
49Algernon Blackwood
25Berenice
50I