
Horror Classics: 560+ Titles in One Edition
A Monumental Anthology of Gothic Ghosts, Vampires, Weird Fiction, and Psychological TerrorBy Wilhelm Hauff, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, John Buchan, Louis Tracy, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, Thomas De Quincey, John Meade Falkner, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, Daniel Defoe, John Kendrick Bangs, Cleveland Moffett, Rudyard Kipling, Ambrose Bierce, Frederick Marryat, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, Saki, William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Walter Hubbell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Richard Marsh, Catherine Crowe, H. G. Wells, Robert W. Chambers, W. W. Jacobs, E. F. Benson, Jerome K. Jerome, M. R. James, E. T. A. Hoffmann, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Edith Nesbit, Sabine Baring-Gould, Francis Marion Crawford, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Nikolai Gogol, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Gertrude Atherton, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Louisa M. Alcott, Amelia B. Edwards, Fitz-James O'Brien, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Pedro De Alarçon, J. K. HuysmansLength985h 54m
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Horror Classics: 560+ Titles in One Edition surveys the evolution of supernatural and psychological terror from Romanticism through Gothic sensation fiction, fin-de-siècle decadence, and early twentieth-century weird tales. Its extraordinary range encompasses ghost stories, occult investigations, monstrous encounters, Gothic romances, maritime nightmares, satire, and proto-cosmic horror. Canonical narratives of haunted houses, revenants, doubles, cursed artifacts, and forbidden knowledge stand beside less familiar experiments, revealing horror as a flexible language for social unease, moral anxiety, and imaginative excess. The volume gathers an international, transatlantic body of writers whose work shaped the modern fantastic: Romantic and Gothic innovators, Victorian popular storytellers, realist and decadent stylists, and architects of the weird tale. British, American, French, German, Russian, and Spanish traditions meet here, illustrating exchanges among Gothic revivalism, sensationalism, spiritualist culture, imperial adventure, and modern psychological fiction. Women writers and popular-fiction pioneers significantly broaden this history, complicating any narrow account of horror's inheritance. Ideal for students, scholars, and devoted readers, this capacious anthology offers a rare opportunity to trace recurring motifs across radically different voices and forms. It rewards both sustained study and selective reading, fostering illuminating dialogue between celebrated masterpieces and neglected curiosities. Readers will find not merely a repository of chills, but a rich archive of literary innovation and cultural history.
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GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length985 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 4, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Emily Brontë (Annotated)
26The Man of the Crowd
2Introduction: Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft (pt. 1)
27The Oval Portrait
3Introduction: Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft (pt. 2)
28The Premature Burial
4Supernatural & Mystery Thrillers
29The Imp of the Perverse
5Edgar Allan Poe
30The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
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6The Tell-Tale Heart
31Hop-Frog
7The Fall of the House of Usher
32Henry James
8The Cask of Amontillado
33The Turn of the Screw (pt. 1)
9The Pit and the Pendulum
34The Turn of the Screw (pt. 2)
10The Masque of the Red Death
35The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
11The Black Cat
36Owen Wingrave
12The Oblong Box
37The Real Right Thing
13The Murders in the Rue Morgue
38Jolly Corner
14The Purloined Letter
39Sir Edmund Orme
15The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
40The Ghostly Rental
16The Gold-Bug
41The Way It Came
17Metzengerstein
42The Third Person
18The Assignation
43Algernon Blackwood
19Berenice
44The Willows
20Morella
45The Wendigo
21King Pest
46The Damned (pt. 1)
22Shadow
47The Damned (pt. 2)
23Silence
48The Kit-Bag
24Ligeia
49The Glamour of the Snow
25William Wilson
50The Empty House