Varney the Vampire James Malcom Rymer http://feedbooks.com/book/1585 urn:isbn:1587153688 en 1847 Novels Horror Gothic http://feedbooks.com/book/1585.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1585.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1585.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1585.mobi Carmilla Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu http://feedbooks.com/book/1506 urn:isbn:1587155958 en 1871 Short Fiction Horror Sexuality Gothic "Carmilla" is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. "Carmilla" predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years and has been adapted many times for cinema. http://feedbooks.com/book/1506.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1506.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1506.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1506.mobi Dracula's Guest Bram Stoker http://feedbooks.com/book/462 en 1914 Short Fiction Horror Gothic This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/462.png http://feedbooks.com/book/462.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/462.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/462.mobi The Demon Spell Hume Nisbet http://feedbooks.com/book/1325 en 1894 Short Fiction Horror This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1325.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1325.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1325.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1325.mobi The Vampire Jan Neruda http://feedbooks.com/book/2956 en 1920 Short Fiction Horror Early vampire short story with an interesting twist to the tradition. http://feedbooks.com/book/2956.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2956.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2956.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2956.mobi The Man Bram Stoker http://feedbooks.com/book/458 en 1905 Novels Horror Gothic This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/458.png http://feedbooks.com/book/458.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/458.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/458.mobi The House of the Vampire George Sylvester Viereck http://feedbooks.com/book/3837 urn:isbn:0982046707 en 1907 Novels Horror Sexuality Gothic The first known gay vampire novel and one of the first psychic vampire stories. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/3837.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3837.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3837.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3837.mobi The Swampers Hume Nisbet http://feedbooks.com/book/1344 en 1897 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1344.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1344.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1344.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1344.mobi The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne http://feedbooks.com/book/1513 urn:isbn:0553212702 en 1851 Novels Romance Gothic In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family’s salvation—or its downfall. Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables “a Romance,” and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared “the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel.” http://feedbooks.com/book/1513.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1513.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1513.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1513.mobi Dracula Bram Stoker http://feedbooks.com/book/88 urn:isbn:0743477367 en 1897 Novels Horror Gothic Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and conservative sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/88.png http://feedbooks.com/book/88.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/88.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/88.mobi Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë http://feedbooks.com/book/135 urn:isbn:0553212583 en 1847 Novels Gothic Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centres (as an adjective, wuthering is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather). The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them. http://feedbooks.com/book/135.png http://feedbooks.com/book/135.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/135.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/135.mobi Northanger Abbey Jane Austen http://feedbooks.com/book/357 urn:isbn:0375759174 en 1817 Novels Gothic Jane Austen’s first novel, Northanger Abbey—published posthumously in 1818—tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen’s fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature. The satirical Northanger Abbey pokes fun at the gothic novel while earnestly emphasizing caution to the female sex. http://feedbooks.com/book/357.png http://feedbooks.com/book/357.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/357.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/357.mobi Uncle Silas Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu http://feedbooks.com/book/1505 urn:isbn:0140437460 en 1864 Novels Crime/Mystery Gothic Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery/thriller novel by the Anglo-Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as one of the earliest examples of the locked room mystery subgenre. It is not a novel of the supernatural (despite a few creepily ambiguous touches), but does show a strong interest in the occult and in the ideas of Swedenborg. Like many of Le Fanu's novels, it grew out of an earlier short story, "A Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess" (1839), which he also published as "The Murdered Cousin" in the 1851 collection Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery. The setting of the original story was Irish; presumably it was changed to Derbyshire for the novel because this would appeal more to a British audience. http://feedbooks.com/book/1505.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1505.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1505.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1505.mobi The Land of the Hibiscus Blossom Hume Nisbet http://feedbooks.com/book/1345 en 1899 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1345.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1345.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1345.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1345.mobi The Mystery of the Semi-Detached Edith Nesbit http://feedbooks.com/book/1323 en 1893 Short Fiction Ghost Stories This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1323.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1323.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1323.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1323.mobi Supernatural Horror in Literature Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://feedbooks.com/book/234 urn:isbn:0486201058 en 1938 Non-Fiction Essay Horror Gothic Great modern American supernaturalist brilliantly surveys history of genre to 1930s, summarizing, evaluating scores of books, including works by Poe, Bierce, M.R. James, "Monk" Lewis, many others. Praised by critics as diverse as Edmund Wilson and Vincent Starrett. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/234.png http://feedbooks.com/book/234.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/234.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/234.mobi The Monk Matthew Lewis http://feedbooks.com/book/331 urn:isbn:0192833944 en 1796 Novels Romance Sexuality Gothic The Monk is remembered for being one of the more lurid and "transgressive" of Gothic novels. It is also the first book to feature a priest as the villain. The story concerns Ambrosio - a pious, well-respected monk in Spain - and his violent downfall. http://feedbooks.com/book/331.png http://feedbooks.com/book/331.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/331.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/331.mobi The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe http://feedbooks.com/book/814 urn:isbn:0553212281 en 1843 Short Fiction Horror Gothic "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it into pieces and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the hallucination that the man's heart is still beating under the floorboards. It is unclear what relationship, if any, the old man and his murderer share. It has been suggested that the old man is a father figure or, perhaps, that his vulture eye represents some sort of veiled secret. The ambiguity and lack of details about the two main characters stand in stark contrast to the specific plot details leading up to the murder. The story was first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is widely considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and one of Poe's most famous short stories. http://feedbooks.com/book/814.png http://feedbooks.com/book/814.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/814.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/814.mobi I, Robot Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/337 urn:isbn:1560259817 en 2005 Short Fiction Science Fiction "I, Robot" is a science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow published in 2005. The story is set in the type of police state needed to ensure that only one company is allowed to make robots, and only one type of robot is allowed. The story follows single Father detective Arturo Icaza de Arana-Goldberg while he tries to track down his missing teenage daughter. The detective is a bit of an outcast because his wife defected to Eurasia, a rival Superpower. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/337.png http://feedbooks.com/book/337.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/337.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/337.mobi Blindsight Peter Watts http://feedbooks.com/book/976 urn:isbn:0765312182 en 2006 Novels Science Fiction Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown. Two months of silence, while a world holds its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn't want to meet? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed, and the fainter one she'll do any good if she is. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge. You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you can trust such freaks and retrofits with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. But you'd give anything for that to be true, if you only knew what was waiting for them... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/976.png http://feedbooks.com/book/976.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/976.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/976.mobi