
Length965h 25m
About this audiobook
Warlock's Play gathers more than 550 supernatural mysteries, macabre tales, and horror classics into an expansive archive of literary unease. Ranging from Gothic romance, ghost story, occult fiction, and sensational crime to psychological terror, weird fiction, satire, and speculative nightmare, the volume traces the genre's remarkable formal flexibility. Haunted houses, revenants, doubles, cursed objects, forbidden knowledge, and inexplicable visitations recur in narratives that move from atmospheric antiquarian dread to brisk popular entertainment. Standout modes include the spectral Christmas tale, the scientific uncanny, and the cosmopolitan occult adventure. Its contributors form an exceptional transnational assembly, spanning British, American, French, German, Russian, and other literary traditions from classical antiquity through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Canonical novelists appear beside periodical writers, folkloric stylists, Decadents, Spiritualist commentators, and foundational practitioners of Gothic and weird fiction. Together, these voices situate horror within Romanticism, Victorian sensation fiction, fin-de-siècle Decadence, colonial adventure, and early modern psychological and cosmic dread. The collection reveals how supernatural literature has continually registered anxieties about modernity, empire, science, gender, death, and the limits of rational explanation. Ideal for students, scholars, and devoted readers of the uncanny, Warlock's Play offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare traditions, techniques, and historical moments within one volume. Its breadth encourages sustained exploration and productive dialogue among masterpieces, rediscovered curiosities, and popular classics.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.3 (12)
Includes Amazon
GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length965 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1OWEN WISTER Ultimate Collection: Historical Novels, Western Classics, Adventure & Romance Stories (Including Non-Fiction Historical Works) (Annotated)
26The Gold-Bug
2Warlock’s Play: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics
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
42Henry James
18The Cask of Amontillado
43The Turn of the Screw (pt. 1)
19The Pit and the Pendulum
44The Turn of the Screw (pt. 2)
20The Masque of the Red Death
45The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
21The Black Cat
46Owen Wingrave
22The Oblong Box
47The Real Right Thing
23The Murders in the Rue Morgue
48Jolly Corner
24The Purloined Letter
49Sir Edmund Orme
25The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
50The Ghostly Rental