The Book of Monsters: 40 Timeless Horror Novels
Gothic Vampires, Haunted Castles, Lost Worlds, and Cosmic Terrors in 40 Classic NovelsBy Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Conan Doyle, George W. M. Reynolds, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Robert E. Howard, Alexandre Dumas Père, Mrs. Loudon, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. G. Wells, Washington Irving, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, William Beckford, Albert W. Aiken, Gaston Leroux, Guy Boothby, Mayne Reid, John William Polidori, Theophile Gautier, Richard Marsh, H. Rider Haggard, Ambrose Pratt, David Franklin Powell, Abraham Merritt, Jules Verne, Florence Marryat, Robert Montgomery Bird, Edward Sylvester Ellis, Edgar Saltus, F. Marion Crawford, George MacDonald, Richard Francis Burton, Lallu Lal, John T. Platts, Mazhar Ali Khan
Length380h 22m
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The Book of Monsters: 40 Timeless Horror Novels surveys the monster as a uniquely flexible figure of dread: scientific transgression, revenance, vampiric contagion, colonial encounter, occult mystery, and evolutionary anxiety all assume compelling form here. Moving from Gothic romance and sensation fiction to adventure tale, proto-science fiction, detective narrative, and cosmic horror, the volume situates such landmarks as Frankenstein, Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde's contemporaries, and tales of ancient curses within a broad nineteenth- and early twentieth-century tradition. Its contributors represent an unusually expansive international genealogy of the fantastic. British, Irish, French, American, and South Asian literary cultures meet through novelists, translators, antiquarians, popular serial writers, and innovators of scientific romance. Their works register the pressures of empire, industrial modernity, new medical and evolutionary thought, and shifting conceptions of race, gender, and the unconscious. The collection therefore reveals monstrosity not as a fixed genre device but as a changing cultural language. Ideal for students, scholars, and devoted general readers, this anthology offers an exceptional opportunity to trace horror's formal development across forty substantial works. Its breadth rewards comparative reading, inviting readers to observe how terror, wonder, and social critique converse across languages, periods, and narrative modes.
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Rating★★★★ 4.1 (12)
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GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length380 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Grimm's Fairy Tales - Complete Edition: 200+ Stories in One Volume (Annotated)
26CHAPTER XV.
2Frankenstein
27CHAPTER XVI.
3PREFACE
28CHAPTER XVII.
4VOLUME ONE (pt. 1)
29CHAPTER XVIII.
5VOLUME ONE (pt. 2)
30CHAPTER XIX.
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6VOLUME TWO
31CHAPTER XX.
7VOLUME THREE (pt. 1)
32CHAPTER XXI.
8VOLUME THREE (pt. 2)
33CHAPTER XXII.
9The Vampyre
34CHAPTER XXIII.
10EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM GENEVA.
35CHAPTER XXIV.
11Dracula
36CHAPTER XXV.
12CHAPTER I.
37CHAPTER XXVI.
13CHAPTER II.
38CHAPTER XXVII.
14CHAPTER III.
39Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood
15CHAPTER IV.
40CHAPTER I.
16CHAPTER V.
41CHAPTER IV.
17CHAPTER VI.
42CHAPTER V.
18CHAPTER VII.
43CHAPTER VIII.
19CHAPTER VIII.
44CHAPTER X.
20CHAPTER IX.
45CHAPTER XIII.
21CHAPTER X.
46CHAPTER XV.
22CHAPTER XI.
47CHAPTER XVII.
23CHAPTER XII.
48CHAPTER XX.
24CHAPTER XIII.
49CHAPTER XXII.
25CHAPTER XIV.
50CHAPTER XXIV.
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