
Into Eternal Darkness: 100+ Gothic Classics in One Edition
Haunted Castles, Vampire Tales, Ghost Stories, and Psychological Horror ClassicsBy Charles Dickens, Friedrich Schiller, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, William Godwin, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Guy Boothby, Jane Austen, Mayne Reid, John Meade Falkner, Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Hugh Benson, Horace Walpole, Frederick Marryat, Thomas Love Peacock, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Robert Browning, Walter Hubbell, Marie Corelli, Charles Brockden Brown, James Hogg, William Blake, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Keats, Richard Marsh, Clara Reeve, Charles Robert Maturin, John William Polidori, Lord Byron, W. W. Jacobs, E. F. Benson, M. R. James, E. T. A. Hoffmann, George W. M. Reynolds, William Thomas Beckford, Christina Rossetti, Tobias Smollett, Nikolai Gogol, Mary Shelley, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Eliza Parsons, Eleanor Sleath, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre ChatrianLength783h 48m
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Into Eternal Darkness: 100+ Gothic Classics in One Edition maps the Gothic imagination across more than a century of literary experiment. Its expansive selection moves from ruined castles, persecuted heroines, and supernatural visitations to psychological terror, urban mystery, colonial unease, and fin-de-siècle decadence. Poetry, novels, tales, detective-inflected narratives, and sensational fiction meet here, revealing the genre's capacity to transform private dread into social critique. Foundational haunted-house visions, revenant tales, and studies of divided selves stand beside lesser-known popular works that demonstrate the Gothic's remarkable formal breadth. The volume gathers British, Irish, American, French, German, and Russian voices whose careers intersect with Romanticism, Victorian sensation fiction, Decadence, Symbolist fantasy, and early modern horror. These writers collectively shaped the conventions of terror while repeatedly revising them: the sublime landscape, the dangerous inheritance, the threatening double, the unstable narrator, and the uncanny intrusion into domestic life. Women writers, canonical novelists, poets, and practitioners of popular serial fiction alike broaden the tradition beyond its familiar landmarks, situating Gothic writing within debates about gender, class, science, empire, religion, and modernity. Ideal for students, scholars, and devoted readers of dark literature, this compendium offers an exceptional opportunity to trace the Gothic's evolution through a richly varied archive. It invites comparison across national traditions and styles, rewarding both sustained study and selective exploration. Readers will find not merely a treasury of chills, but an illuminating dialogue among works that continue to define literary darkness.
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GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length783 hrs 48 mins
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Publish dateDec 21, 2023
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Table of contents
1The Greatest Westerns of Charles Alden Seltzer (Annotated)
2Into Eternal Darkness: 100+ Gothic Classics in One Edition
3Tobias Smollett
4The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
5Part One.
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6Chapter One Some Sage Observations That Naturally Introduce Our Important History.
7Chapter Two A Superficial View Of Our Hero's Infancy.
8Chapter Three He Is Initiated In A Military Life, And Has The Good Fortune To Acquire A Generous Patron.
9Chapter Four His Mother's Prowess And Death; Together With Some Instances Of His Own Sagacity.
10Chapter Five A Brief Detail Of His Education.
11Chapter Six He Meditates Schemes Of Importance.
12Chapter Seven Engages In Partnership With A Female Associate, In Order To Put His Talents In Action.
13Chapter Eight Their First Attempt; With A Digression Which Some Readers May Think Impertinent.
14Chapter Nine The Confederates Change Their Battery, And Achieve A Remarkable Adventure.
15Chapter Ten They Proceed To Levy Contributions With Great Success, Until Our Hero Sets Out With The Young Count For Vienna, Where He Enters Into League With Another Adventurer.
16Chapter Eleven Fathom Makes Various Efforts In The World Of Gallantry.
17Chapter Twelve He Effects A Lodgment In The House Of A Rich Jeweller.
18Chapter Thirteen He Is Exposed To A Most Perilous Incident In The Course Of His Intrigue With The Daughter.
19Chapter Fourteen He Is Reduced To A Dreadful Dilemma, In Consequence Of An Assignation With The Wife.
20Chapter Fifteen But At Length Succeeds In His Attempt Upon Both.
21Chapter Sixteen His Success Begets A Blind Security, By Which He Is Once Again Well-nigh Entrapped In His Dulcinea's Apartment.
22Chapter Seventeen The Step-Dame's Suspicions Being Awakened, She Lays A Snare For Our Adventurer, From Which He Is Delivered By The Interposition Of His Good Genius.
23Chapter Eighteen Our Hero Departs From Vienna, And Quits The Domain Of Venus For The Rough Field Of Mars.
24Chapter Nineteen He Puts Himself Under The Guidance Of His Associate, And Stumbles Upon The French Camp, Where He Finishes His Military Career.
25Chapter Twenty He Prepares A Stratagem But Finds Himself Countermined—Proceeds On His Journey, And Is Overtaken By A Terrible Tempest.
26Chapter Twenty-One He Falls Upon Scylla, Seeking To Avoid Charybdis.
27Chapter Twenty-Two He Arrives At Paris, And Is Pleased With His Reception.
28Chapter Twenty-Three Acquits Himself With Address In A Nocturnal Riot.
29Chapter Twenty-Four He Overlooks The Advances Of His Friends, And Smarts Severely For His Neglect.
30Chapter Twenty-Five He Bears His Fate Like A Philosopher; And Contracts Acquaintance With A Very Remarkable Personage.
31Chapter Twenty-Six The History Of The Noble Castilian.
32Chapter Twenty-Seven A Flagrant Instance Of Fathom's Virtue, In The Manner Of His Retreat To England.
33Chapter Twenty-Eight Some Account Of His Fellow-Travellers.
34Chapter Twenty-Nine Another Providential Deliverance From The Effects Of The Smuggler's Ingenious Conjecture.
35Chapter Thirty The Singular Manner Of Fathom's Attack And Triumph Over The Virtue Of The Fair Elenor.
36Chapter Thirty-One He By Accident Encounters His Old Friend, With Whom He Holds A Conference, And Renews A Treaty.
37Chapter Thirty-Two He Appears In The Great World With Universal Applause And Admiration.
38Chapter Thirty-Three He Attracts The Envy And Ill Offices Of The Minor Knights Of His Own Order, Over Whom He Obtains A Complete Victory.
39Chapter Thirty-Four He Performs Another Exploit, That Conveys A True Idea Of His Gratitude And Honour.
40Chapter Thirty-Five He Repairs To Bristol Spring, Where He Reigns Paramount During The Whole Season.
41Chapter Thirty-Six He Is Smitten With The Charms Of A Female Adventurer, Whose Allurements Subject Him To A New Vicissitude Of Fortune.
42Chapter Thirty-Seven Fresh Cause For Exerting His Equanimity And Fortitude.
43Chapter Thirty-Eight The Biter Is Bit.
44Part Two.
45Chapter Thirty-Nine Our Adventurer Is Made Acquainted With A New Scene Of Life.
46Chapter Forty He Contemplates Majesty And Its Satellites In Eclipse.
47Chapter Forty-One One Quarrel Is Compromised, And Another Decided By Unusual Arms.
48Chapter Forty-Two An Unexpected Rencontre, And A Happy Revolution In The Affairs Of Our Adventurer.
49Chapter Forty-Three Fathom Justifies The Proverb, “What's Bred In The Bone Will Never Come Out Of The Flesh.”
50Chapter Forty-Four Anecdotes Of Poverty, And Experiments For The Benefit Of Those Whom It May Concern.