
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. HuysmansLength995h 5m
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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.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length995 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 4, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction: Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft (pt. 1)
26The Premature Burial
2Introduction: Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft (pt. 2)
27The Imp of the Perverse
3Supernatural & Mystery Thrillers
28The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
4The Tell-Tale Heart
29Hop-Frog
5The Fall of the House of Usher
30The Turn of the Screw (pt. 1)
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6The Cask of Amontillado
31The Turn of the Screw (pt. 2)
7The Pit and the Pendulum
32The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
8The Masque of the Red Death
33Owen Wingrave
9The Black Cat
34The Real Right Thing
10The Oblong Box
35Jolly Corner
11The Murders in the Rue Morgue
36Sir Edmund Orme
12The Purloined Letter
37The Ghostly Rental
13The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
38The Way It Came
14The Gold-Bug
39The Third Person
15Metzengerstein
40The Willows
16The Assignation
41The Wendigo
17Berenice
42The Damned (pt. 1)
18Morella
43The Damned (pt. 2)
19King Pest
44The Kit-Bag
20Shadow
45The Glamour of the Snow
21Silence
46The Empty House
22Ligeia
47A Haunted Island
23William Wilson
48A Case of Eavesdropping
24The Man of the Crowd
49Keeping His Promise
25The Oval Portrait
50With Intent to Steal