
Length994h 39m
About this audiobook
The Power of Darkness assembles more than 560 supernatural thrillers, macabre tales, and eerie mysteries into an expansive map of literary unease. Ranging from Gothic romance, ghost story, and sensation fiction to psychological horror, weird fiction, fantasy, satire, and proto-science fiction, the volume traces darkness through haunted houses, doubles, curses, revenants, occult experiments, and inexplicable crimes. Canonical Gothic atmospheres stand beside concise shocks and elaborate mysteries, revealing how terror repeatedly tests the limits of reason, morality, and perception. Its contributors span eighteenth-century Gothic pioneers, nineteenth-century British, American, French, German, and Russian storytellers, and early twentieth-century practitioners of the weird tale. Novelists associated with realism, adventure fiction, social criticism, children's literature, and detective narrative join major architects of the supernatural tradition. This breadth situates the anthology at the intersection of Romanticism, Victorian sensation and Spiritualism, fin-de-siècle decadence, colonial encounter, and modern horror, showing how varied cultural anxieties assume spectral form. Recommended for students, scholars, and devoted readers of the uncanny, this capacious collection offers an exceptional opportunity to compare forms, periods, and national traditions within one volume. Its juxtapositions invite readers to follow a sustained dialogue between terror and humor, rational inquiry and occult possibility, intimate dread and social fear. It is both a rich educational resource and a compelling invitation to explore the enduring literary power of darkness.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (26)
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GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length994 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Something Wicked: 560+ Horror Classics, Macabre Tales & Supernatural Mysteries
26The Gold-Bug
2The Power of Darkness: 560+ Supernatural Thrillers, Macabre Tales & Eerie Mysteries
27Metzengerstein
3Introduction: Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft
28The Assignation
4Introduction
29Berenice
5The Dawn of the Horror-Tale
30Morella
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6The Early Gothic Novel
31King Pest
7The Apex of Gothic Romance
32Shadow
8The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction
33Silence
9Spectral Literature on the Continent
34Ligeia
10Edgar Allan Poe
35William Wilson
11The Weird Tradition in America
36The Man of the Crowd
12The Weird Tradition in the British Isles
37The Oval Portrait
13The Modern Masters
38The Premature Burial
14Supernatural & Mystery Thrillers
39The Imp of the Perverse
15Edgar Allan Poe
40The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
16The Tell-Tale Heart
41Hop-Frog
17The Fall of the House of Usher
42H. P. Lovecraft
18The Cask of Amontillado
43The Call of Cthulhu
19The Pit and the Pendulum
44I. The Horror in Clay
20The Masque of the Red Death
45II. The Tale of Inspector Legrasse
21The Black Cat
46III. The Madness from the Sea
22The Oblong Box
47The Shadow over Innsmouth
23The Murders in the Rue Morgue
48I
24The Purloined Letter
49II
25The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
50III