Classic horror and the Gothic

9 books

DraculaBram Stoker · 1897Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic novel Dracula is told through journals, letters, and diaries that present its events as documented fact. It opens with Jonathan Harker traveling through Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula at his remote Carpathian castle.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheusMary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 1818An 1818 Gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, told partly through letters from an explorer writing to his sister from a polar voyage, opening his account of an ambitious expedition toward the North Pole and his longing for a sympathetic friend.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Canterville GhostOscar Wilde · 1887An 1887 comic ghost story by Oscar Wilde, in which an American minister's skeptical family moves into a haunted English manor and torments its centuries-old resident ghost, Sir Simon, with their practical modern ways.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Cask of AmontilladoEdgar Allan Poe · 1846A short Gothic horror story from 1846 in which the narrator, seeking revenge for insults from Fortunato, lures his wine-loving acquaintance into the family catacombs with the promise of tasting a rare Amontillado.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Fall of the House of UsherEdgar Allan Poe · 1839This 1839 gothic tale by Edgar Allan Poe follows a nameless narrator who rides to the gloomy House of Usher to visit his boyhood friend Roderick Usher, who has summoned him while suffering from acute bodily illness and mental disorder.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Masque of the Red DeathEdgar Allan Poe · 1842A short Gothic tale by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1842, about Prince Prospero, who seals himself and his courtiers inside a walled abbey to escape a deadly plague and holds a magnificent masked ball while the Red Death ravages the world outside.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Phantom of the OperaGaston Leroux · 1910A 1910 Gothic mystery novel by Gaston Leroux, presented as an investigator's account, in which the narrator claims a ghost truly haunts the Paris Opera House, connected to the kidnapping of singer Christine Daae and a tragic tale beneath the Opera.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Red RoomH. G. Wells · 1896A short gothic ghost story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1896. A skeptical young man spends a night alone in a supposedly haunted castle room, confronting eerie elderly custodians, dark corridors, and his own fear of the unknown.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson · 1886A Gothic mystery novella published in 1886, told through the eyes of lawyer Mr. Utterson, who investigates the sinister Mr. Hyde and his puzzling connection to the respectable Dr. Jekyll.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية