Gothic Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
The Romance of the Forest - Ann Radcliffe
The Romance of the Forest - Ann Radcliffe
- Author: Ann Radcliffe
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
A Gothic novel famously mentioned by Jane Austen in "Northanger Abbey" as an inspiration for the romantic ideals and supernatural fears of Catherine. Ann Radcliffe has been called the "Great Enchantress" of her age and this is one of her finest...
The Bright Messenger - Algernon Blackwood
The Bright Messenger - Algernon Blackwood
- Author: Algernon Blackwood
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Julian LeVallon, born and raised alone in the Jura Mountains, is referred to psychiatrist Dr. Edward Fillery for care in London. But is LeVallon merely a schizophrenic with a secondary personality, "N.H." (non-human), or is he really an Elemental...
Black Magic: a Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist - Marjorie Bowen
Black Magic: a Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist - Marjorie Bowen
- Author: Marjorie Bowen
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction
Witches, spells, ghosts, pacts with the Devil, occult rituals, love triangles, popes and the Anti-Christ are some of the ingredients of this chilling early horror work (set in the middle-ages) by Marjorie Bowen that some consider to be the ultimate...
Dracula (version 3) - Bram Stoker
Dracula (version 3) - Bram Stoker
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction
Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and the battle between Dracula and a small...
Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale - Charles Brockden Brown
Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale - Charles Brockden Brown
- Author: Charles Brockden Brown
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
The lives of a prosperous, intellectual family are disrupted when they meet the mysterious Carwin. Set in the period before the Revolutionary War, this is often described as the first American Gothic novel. - Summary by Karen Joan Kohoutek...
Owen Wingrave - Henry James
Owen Wingrave - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
A young man of good family with a long distinguished military tradition indicates that he will not follow his ancestors' path into the army. Dire results ensue. Benjamin Britten in 1970 wrote an opera based on this story. ( Summary by david wales)...
Fifty-one Tales (version 2) - Lord Dunsany
Fifty-one Tales (version 2) - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Fantasy Fiction
A multitude of very short stories populated with things that lurk in the dark corners of human imagination. Wonderfully crafted and sometimes ending with an unexpected outcome, these stories are well rooted in mythology and speak of things beyond...
The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction / Gothic Fiction
The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. 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. In the spring of...
The Dunwich Horror - H. P. LOVECRAFT
The Dunwich Horror - H. P. LOVECRAFT
- Author: H. P. LOVECRAFT
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
In a rundown farmhouse near isolated, rural Dunwich, a bizarre family conjures and nurtures an evil entity from another realm, with the purpose of destroying the world and delivering it to ancient gods to rule, and only an aged university librarian...
The Castle of Otranto - Horace WALPOLE
The Castle of Otranto - Horace WALPOLE
- Author: Horace WALPOLE
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally held to be the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century. Thus, Castle, and Walpole...
Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf - George W. M. REYNOLDS
Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf - George W. M. REYNOLDS
- Author: George W. M. REYNOLDS
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Historical Fiction
Wagner is a poor, lonely old shepherd living on the edge of the Black Forest. In a devil's pact he gains youth and wealth for the price of transforming into a ravenous wolf once a month. This book contains everything from murder, kidnap, robbery,...
Zofloya - Charlotte DACRE
Zofloya - Charlotte DACRE
- Author: Charlotte DACRE
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
Victoria de Loredani lives the life of a fairy tale princess in Venice. She has everything one might desire and more, until the sinister Count Ardolph enters her world. The Count carries off Victoria's mother in an elopement, and sets off a series...
The Statement of Stella Maberly - F. Anstey
The Statement of Stella Maberly - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
From childhood Stella Maberly has been violently wilful and jealous, yet certain of her own superiority. She can be loving and friendly, but soon loses friends, when in the grip of her “demons” she acts with disdain and subtle cruelty, and then...
The Monk: A Romance - Matthew LEWIS
The Monk: A Romance - Matthew LEWIS
- Author: Matthew LEWIS
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk: A Romance is a story of frustrated and unrequited desire between mentor and pupil mixed with elements of the supernatural. It includes several subplots: rape, torture and incest. It is the old story of the forces of...
Weird Tales - E. T. A. Hoffmann
Weird Tales - E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction
This recording includes both volumes of E. T. A. Hoffmann's Weird Tales, a collection of gothic novellas set in Germany, Italy, and some of the wilder parts of Europe. What there is of the supernatural in these tales is introduced with great...
The Man-Wolf - Émile ERCKMANN
The Man-Wolf - Émile ERCKMANN
- Author: Émile ERCKMANN
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
"The Man-Wolf" is a 38,000 word novella that appears in the English language collection of short stories entitled, The Man-Wolf and Other Tales. The other tales in that collection were not recorded for this project. The Man-Wolf is a gothic tale of...
The Flight of the Shadow - George MacDonald
The Flight of the Shadow - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
A fantastical story of personal growth and a warning against the dangers of keeping secrets. This novel by George MacDonald is a deceptively easy read aimed to be accessible to teens, but the ideas will remain in your mind long afterwards....
Our Lady of the Pillar - José Maria de EÇA DE QUEIRÓS
Our Lady of the Pillar - José Maria de EÇA DE QUEIRÓS
- Author: José Maria de EÇA DE QUEIRÓS
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction / Short Stories
A ghost story and love story all at once, set in medieval portugal. Don Ruy is in love with Dona Leonor, but her husband has guessed his feelings and hatches a plan. Don Ruy rides right into a trap, but on the way, a dead man joins him and saves his...
The Tower of Dago - Mór JÓKAI
The Tower of Dago - Mór JÓKAI
- Author: Mór JÓKAI
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
This is the story of Feodor von Ungern, who, betrayed by his brother Zeno, installs himself with his son and a group of his most trusted men in a dark tower on the island of Dago. Sheltered in this tower, he terrorises the seas, until, one day, his...
Hieroglyphic Tales - Horace WALPOLE
Hieroglyphic Tales - Horace WALPOLE
- Author: Horace WALPOLE
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Literary Fiction
Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...mere whimsical trifles, written chiefly for private entertainment, and for private amusement... an attempt to vary...
Auriol, or The Elixir of Life - William Harrison Ainsworth
Auriol, or The Elixir of Life - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
If you stumble upon the elixir of life, which provides you with eternal life, youth and health, then it's rather a bad idea to spoil this great gift by signing a pact with the devil on top of it to receive great financial fortune as well. Auriol...
Werewolf -- Five Pieces - Saki
Werewolf -- Five Pieces - Saki
- Author: Saki
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Short Stories
Five stories and essays about werewolves. - Summary by david wales...
The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems - James Thomson
The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems - James Thomson
- Author: James Thomson
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Single author
While primarily known for being pessimistic, the poetry of James Thomson (1834-1882) is also beautiful and psychologically complex. This 1903 edition, varying as it does in selection from the edition of the same name published during his lifetime,...
Horror Stories - Ada Buisson
Horror Stories - Ada Buisson
- Author: Ada Buisson
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Ada Buisson was a Victorian novelist and short story author. This collection includes her three horror stories, all of which were published in the journal Belgravia in 1867-1869. - Summary by Newgatenovelist...
The Castle of Otranto (Version 2) - Horace WALPOLE
The Castle of Otranto (Version 2) - Horace WALPOLE
- Author: Horace WALPOLE
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first Gothic novel, a genre appealing to a taste for terror and set in a remote past when prodigies and magic can be imagined to have existed, with violent contrasts between purity and ungoverned passions....
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Version 2) - James HOGG
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Version 2) - James HOGG
- Author: James HOGG
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Gothic Fiction
An early example of a psychological mystery and modern crime fiction, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner details the experience of its criminal anti-hero. It is set in Scotland within a world where angels, devils, and demonic...
Dracula (version 5) - Bram Stoker
Dracula (version 5) - Bram Stoker
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
Dracula as written by Bram Stoker in 1897 was not the first depiction of vampires and other such creatures, Gothic horror stories had been around since the early part of the century. The story related by Bram Stoker is told in an epistolary fashion...
Carmilla (Version 3) - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
Carmilla (Version 3) - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Author: Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction
Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, originally published as a serial in the London-based literary magazine The Dark Blue. It is one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897)...
The House of Mystery - Richard Marsh
The House of Mystery - Richard Marsh
- Author: Richard Marsh
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance
The House of Mystery is based upon the complicated plot involving two women who look exactly alike, one rich and one poor, and so mistaken identities bring about comic and tragic madness. (Summary by Jim Locke)...
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Version 3) - Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Version 3) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
The Picture of Dorian Gray follows the title character as he downspirals due to gaining his wish of eternal youth. - Summary by Isabella Garcia...
Two Supernatural Stories - Perceval Landon
Two Supernatural Stories - Perceval Landon
- Author: Perceval Landon
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction / Single Author Collections
Perceval Landon was a journalist and short story author, and in these two tales he explored the supernatural. In ‘Railhead’, a man receives an urgent message – from an out-of-service telegraph. In ‘Thurnley Abbey’, the titular abbey’s past might be...
The Turn of the Screw (Version 3) - Henry James
The Turn of the Screw (Version 3) - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
A gothic, ghost story, you are a jury of one. Is the Governess correct in her assumptions that her charges, two adorable and exemplary children, Miles and Flora are victims of malevolent spirits? As the story unfolds it gets darker and more...
Portrait Of A Man With Red Hair; A Romantic Macabre - Hugh Walpole
Portrait Of A Man With Red Hair; A Romantic Macabre - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Is the father insane or merely sadistic, a man entombed in a spirit of malevolence? This 1925 novel by a perceptive observer explores the territory exceptionally.- Summary by david wales...
The Lady of the Shroud - Bram Stoker
The Lady of the Shroud - Bram Stoker
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Epistolary Fiction / Gothic Fiction
As the title suggests, this work does flirt with the supernatural. Yet it is essentially a political novel—a utopian experiment in a fictitious Balkan country, the Land of the Blue Mountains. The story spans the years from 1892 to 1909. It includes...
The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories - E. F. Benson
The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories - E. F. Benson
- Author: E. F. Benson
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction
These stories have been written in the hopes of giving some pleasant qualms to their reader, if by chance, anyone be occupying in their perusal a leisure half-hour before he goes to bed when the night and the house are still, he may perchance cast...
Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (Version 4) - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (Version 4) - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction
This is a classic (gothic) horror story, and one of the earliest examples of science fiction. The main characters are Dr. Frankenstein and his creation, the daemon. Shelley called the scientist a "pale student of unhallowed arts" and his creation a...
The Wyvern Mystery - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
The Wyvern Mystery - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Author: Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction / Romance
A classic with a pinch of romance, a pinch of gothic, and a dash of mystery, are you interested yet? When young Alice Maybell’ father dies she is taken in by Squire Fairfield, a widower with two handsome young sons, Charles and Harry. As Alice grows...
Master Zacharius - Jules Verne
Master Zacharius - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Master Zacharius is a man of science, skill, and overpowering pride. He is the first to successfully, and accurately, regulate time. Does this not make him God-like? What then, should such a man do when his time is running out and his legacy is in...
The Goddess: A Demon - Richard Marsh
The Goddess: A Demon - Richard Marsh
- Author: Richard Marsh
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction
After a night of drinking and gambling, John Ferguson has a terrifying dream of his neighbor being violently torn to shreds by an unknown attacker. When he wakes up, he sees a strange and bloodied woman climbing through his window, suffering from...
