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 Frankenstein Mary Shelley http://feedbooks.com/book/91 urn:isbn:0743487583 en 1818 Novels Science Fiction Horror Gothic Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture, people have tended to refer to the Creature as "Frankenstein", despite this being the name of the scientist. Frankenstein is a novel infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films. It is arguably considered the first fully realized science fiction novel. http://feedbooks.com/book/91.png http://feedbooks.com/book/91.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/91.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/91.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 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 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne http://feedbooks.com/book/1523 en 1850 Novels Romance Gothic The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is an American novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his magnum opus. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery, refuses to name the father, and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne explores questions of grace, legalism, sin and guilt. http://feedbooks.com/book/1523.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1523.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1523.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1523.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 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 The Monk Matthew Lewis http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/331.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/331.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/331.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/331.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 Supernatural Horror in Literature Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/234.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/234.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/234.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/234.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 Woman in White Wilkie Collins http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3696 urn:isbn:0141439610 en 1860 Novels Crime/Mystery Thriller Gothic The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859–1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of 'sensation novels'. As was customary at that time, The Woman in White was first published as a magazine serial. The first episode appeared on 29 November 1859, following Charles Dickens's own A Tale of Two Cities in Dickens's magazine All the Year Round in England, and Harper's Magazine in America. It caused an immediate sensation. Julian Symons (in his 1974 introduction to the Penguin edition) reports that "queues formed outside the offices to buy the next instalment. Bonnets, perfumes, waltzes and quadrilles were called by the book's title. Gladstone cancelled a theatre engagement to go on reading it. And Prince Albert sent a copy to Baron Stockmar." (from Wikipedia) http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3696.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3696.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3696.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3696.mobi The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe http://www.feedbooks.com/book/332 urn:isbn:0140437592 en 1794 Novels Crime/Mystery Romance Gothic Follow the fortunes of Emily St. Aubert who suffers, among other misadventures, the death of her father, supernatural terrors in a gloomy castle, and the machinations of an Italian brigand. Considered by many to be the first "Gothic" novel. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/332.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/332.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/332.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/332.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 Vampire Maid Hume Nisbet http://feedbooks.com/book/1326 en 1900 Short Fiction Horror Gothic This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1326.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1326.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1326.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1326.mobi Uncle Silas Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/1505.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1505.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1505.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1505.mobi 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 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 Marble Faun Nathaniel Hawthorne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1548 en 1860 Novels Romance Gothic The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance, and possibly one of the strangest major works of American fiction. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and travel guide. The climax comes less than halfway through the story, and Hawthorne intentionally fails to answer many of the reader's questions about the characters and the plot. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1548.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1548.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1548.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1548.mobi The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole http://www.feedbooks.com/book/710 urn:isbn:0192834401 en 1764 Novels Gothic The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, and it was indeed the first novel to describe itself by that term. Castle is thus generally credited with initiating the Gothic literary genre, one that would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century. Thus, Walpole is arguably the forerunner of such authors as Charles Robert Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, and Daphne du Maurier. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/710.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/710.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/710.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/710.mobi