Gothic Books

The Shunned House

H. P. Lovecraft

The Shunned House is a horror fiction novelette by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written on October 16–19, 1924. It was first published in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales...

The Monk - A Romance

Matthew Lewis

The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. A quickly written book from early in Lewis's career, it was published before he turned twenty. It is a prime example ..

The Romance of the Forest

Ann Radcliffe

The Romance of the Forest is a Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe that was first published in 1791. It combines an air of mystery and suspense with an examination of the tension between hedonism and morali..

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins' fifth published novel, written in 1859. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first in the genre of "sensatio..

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a Ne..

What Dreams May Come

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

What Dreams May Come is a fiction work on man-woman relationships written by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, an American author. Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. Her b..

Fifty-One Tales

Lord Dunsany

Fifty-One Tales is very brief, well-crafted stories, many having surprise endings, all steeped in the dye of myth and calling to every reader's neglected imagination.A multitude of very short stories ..

Jim Harrison, boxeur

Arthur Conan Doyle

Jim Harrison, boxeur is a boxing story and the French version of Rodney Stone, a Gothic mystery and boxing novel by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1896...