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The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Edith Birkhead
A seminal essay on the development of horror as a genre, highly influential on later writers. - Summary by Timothy Ferguson
PD Goth
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
A collection of spooky stories culled from etexts found on Project Gutenberg (Summary by BellonaTimes)
Day
Read by MoonLylith
James Thomson
In The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems
While primarily known for being pessimistic, the poetry of James Thomson (1834-1882) is also beautiful and psychologically complex. This 190…
Preface
Read by Ben Tucker
William Harrison Ainsworth
In December Tales
December is a time of winding down and of nature resetting itself. In this volume of so-titled December Tales, we listen to stories of human…
Gothic by Aldous Huxley
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Álvaro Velez Ladrón de Guevara, Arnold James, Edith Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Iris Tree, Sherard Vines and Henry James
In Wheels - A Third Cycle
A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The third volume, publish…
Invasion of the Goths
Read by marbenx
H. A. Guerber
In The Story of the Romans
A collection of short stories and histories of Rome, from its beginning to its end. (Ann Boulais)
English Gothic by Osbert Sitwell
Read by Nemo
Various, Translated Byálvaro Velez Ladrón De Guevara, Aldous Huxley, Arnold James, Wilfred Owen, Francisco de Quevedo, Osbert Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell, Iris Tree, Sherard Vines and Henry James
In Wheels - The Fourth Cycle
A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The fourth volume, publis…
Railhead
Read by Newgatenovelist
Perceval Landon
In Two Supernatural Stories
Perceval Landon was a journalist and short story author, and in these two tales he explored the supernatural. In ‘Railhead’, a man receives …
Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
Read by Karen Joan Kohoutek
Charles Brockden Brown
The lives of a prosperous, intellectual family are disrupted when they meet the mysterious Carwin. Set in the period before the Revolutionar…
Preface and Chapter I
Read by Leni
José Maria de Eça de Queirós and José Maria De Eça De Queirós
In Our Lady of the Pillar
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 fee…
Gothic
Read by Jack Watson Warr
Aldous Huxley
In Leda
Though he gained recognition for his later essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1920, Leda is…
The She-Wolf by Saki
Read by David Wales
Saki
In Werewolf -- Five Pieces
Five stories and essays about werewolves. - Summary by david wales
The Italian
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Ann Radcliffe
The love story between a nobleman and a beautiful lady whom he meets in church leads both of them to unexpected places, as many people would…
Staley Fleming's Hallucination
Read by heshman08
Ambrose Bierce
In Horror Story Collection 005
An occasional collection of 10 horror stories by various readers. We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusi…
Furisode
Read by Scott Carpenter
Lafcadio Hearn
In In Ghostly Japan
This collection of 14 stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, contains Japanese ghost stories, but also several non-fiction pieces. Hearn tries…
Supernatural Horror in Literature
H. P. Lovecraft
“Supernatural Horror in Literature” is a long essay surveying the field of horror fiction. It was written between November 1925 and May 1927…
Grim Tales
Read by Peter Yearsley
E. Nesbit
A collection of gentle stories that draw us into that hidden world where fear is just around the next corner, and where loving hands can tou…
Dracula's Guest & Other Weird Tales
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Bram Stoker
Nine Gothic Horror Tales by the author of Dracula.
Staley Fleming's Hallucination
Read by gregnkim
Ambrose Bierce
In Ghost Story Collection 005
A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyo…
Short Science Fiction Collection 060
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Various
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…