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50 Masterpieces of Gothic Fiction Vol. 1: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Picture Of Dorian Gray...
Here you will find the following works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:
Austen, Jane: “Northanger Abbey”
Benson, E. F.: “Caterpillars”
Bierce, Ambrose: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
Blackwood, Algernon: “The Listener”
Blackwood, Algernon: “The Willows”
Brontë, Charlotte: “Jane Eyre”
Brontë, Charlotte: “Villette”
Brontë, Emily: “Wuthering Heights”
Chambers, Robert W.: “The Repairer of Reputations”
Collins, Wilkie: “The Woman in White”
Crawford, F. Marion: “The Upper Berth”
De La Mare, Walter: “Out of the Deep”
De La Mare, Walter: “Seaton’s Aunt”
Dickens, Charles: “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”
Doyle, Arthur Conan: “The Hound of the Baskervilles”
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins: “The Shadows on the Wall”
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Gogol, Nikolai: “The Viy”
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: “The Ambitious Guest”
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: “The House of the Seven Gables”
Hodgson, William Hope: “The Voice in the Night”
Hodgson, William Hope: “The Whistling Room”
Hugo, Victor: “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”
Jacobs, W. W.: “The Monkey’s Paw”
James, Henry: “The Real Thing”
James, Henry: “The Turn of the Screw”
James, M. R.: “The Ash-Tree”
James, M. R.: “Casting the Runes”
Kafka, Franz: “In the Penal Colony”
Kipling, Rudyard: “The Mark of the Beast”
Le Fanu, J. Sheridan: “Green Tea”
Le Fanu, J. Sheridan: “Schalken the Painter”
Lee, Vernon: “Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady”
Lovecraft, H. P.: “The Call of Cthulhu”
Lovecraft, H. P.: “The Dreams in the Witch House”
Lovecraft, H. P.: “The Dunwich Horror”
Machen, Arthur: “The Great God Pan”
Oliphant, Margaret: “The Open Door”
Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Black Cat”
Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Cask of Amontillado”
Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Masque of the Red Death”
Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Radcliffe, Ann: “The Mysteries of Udolpho”
Shelley, Mary: “Frankenstein”
Stevenson, Robert Louis: “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
Stoker, Bram: “Dracula”
Stoker, Bram: “The Jewel of Seven Stars”
Wilde, Oscar: “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Austen, Jane: “Northanger Abbey”
Benson, E. F.: “Caterpillars”
Bierce, Ambrose: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
Blackwood, Algernon: “The Listener”
Blackwood, Algernon: “The Willows”
Brontë, Charlotte: “Jane Eyre”
Brontë, Charlotte: “Villette”
Brontë, Emily: “Wuthering Heights”
Chambers, Robert W.: “The Repairer of Reputations”
Collins, Wilkie: “The Woman in White”
Crawford, F. Marion: “The Upper Berth”
De La Mare, Walter: “Out of the Deep”
De La Mare, Walter: “Seaton’s Aunt”
Dickens, Charles: “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”
Doyle, Arthur Conan: “The Hound of the Baskervilles”
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins: “The Shadows on the Wall”
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Gogol, Nikolai: “The Viy”
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: “The Ambitious Guest”
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: “The House of the Seven Gables”
Hodgson, William Hope: “The Voice in the Night”
Hodgson, William Hope: “The Whistling Room”
Hugo, Victor: “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”
Jacobs, W. W.: “The Monkey’s Paw”
James, Henry: “The Real Thing”
James, Henry: “The Turn of the Screw”
James, M. R.: “The Ash-Tree”
James, M. R.: “Casting the Runes”
Kafka, Franz: “In the Penal Colony”
Kipling, Rudyard: “The Mark of the Beast”
Le Fanu, J. Sheridan: “Green Tea”
Le Fanu, J. Sheridan: “Schalken the Painter”
Lee, Vernon: “Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady”
Lovecraft, H. P.: “The Call of Cthulhu”
Lovecraft, H. P.: “The Dreams in the Witch House”
Lovecraft, H. P.: “The Dunwich Horror”
Machen, Arthur: “The Great God Pan”
Oliphant, Margaret: “The Open Door”
Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Black Cat”
Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Cask of Amontillado”
Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Masque of the Red Death”
Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Radcliffe, Ann: “The Mysteries of Udolpho”
Shelley, Mary: “Frankenstein”
Stevenson, Robert Louis: “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
Stoker, Bram: “Dracula”
Stoker, Bram: “The Jewel of Seven Stars”
Wilde, Oscar: “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
2,349 books8,606 followersMary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, often known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor of the works of her husband, Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was the daughter of the political philosopher William Godwin and the writer, philosopher, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer in her own lifetime, though reviewers often missed the political edge to her novels. After her death, however, she was chiefly remembered only as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein. It was not until 1989, when Emily Sunstein published her prizewinning biography Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality, that a full-length scholarly biography analyzing all of Shelley's letters, journals, and works within their historical context was published.
The well-meaning attempts of Mary Shelley's son and daughter-in-law to "Victorianise" her memory through the censoring of letters and biographical material contributed to a perception of Mary Shelley as a more conventional, less reformist figure than her works suggest. Her own timid omissions from Percy Shelley's works and her quiet avoidance of public controversy in the later years of her life added to this impression.
The eclipse of Mary Shelley's reputation as a novelist and biographer meant that, until the last thirty years, most of her works remained out of print, obstructing a larger view of her achievement. She was seen as a one-novel author, if that. In recent decades, however, the republication of almost all her writings has stimulated a new recognition of its value. Her voracious reading habits and intensive study, revealed in her journals and letters and reflected in her works, is now better appreciated. Shelley's recognition of herself as an author has also been recognized; after Percy's death, she wrote about her authorial ambitions: "I think that I can maintain myself, and there is something inspiriting in the idea". Scholars now consider Mary Shelley to be a major Romantic figure, significant for her literary achievement and her political voice as a woman and a liberal.
Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer in her own lifetime, though reviewers often missed the political edge to her novels. After her death, however, she was chiefly remembered only as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein. It was not until 1989, when Emily Sunstein published her prizewinning biography Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality, that a full-length scholarly biography analyzing all of Shelley's letters, journals, and works within their historical context was published.
The well-meaning attempts of Mary Shelley's son and daughter-in-law to "Victorianise" her memory through the censoring of letters and biographical material contributed to a perception of Mary Shelley as a more conventional, less reformist figure than her works suggest. Her own timid omissions from Percy Shelley's works and her quiet avoidance of public controversy in the later years of her life added to this impression.
The eclipse of Mary Shelley's reputation as a novelist and biographer meant that, until the last thirty years, most of her works remained out of print, obstructing a larger view of her achievement. She was seen as a one-novel author, if that. In recent decades, however, the republication of almost all her writings has stimulated a new recognition of its value. Her voracious reading habits and intensive study, revealed in her journals and letters and reflected in her works, is now better appreciated. Shelley's recognition of herself as an author has also been recognized; after Percy's death, she wrote about her authorial ambitions: "I think that I can maintain myself, and there is something inspiriting in the idea". Scholars now consider Mary Shelley to be a major Romantic figure, significant for her literary achievement and her political voice as a woman and a liberal.
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November 17, 2020
Paid $0.99 for this and it was $0.98 too much.
Some very good reading in some places but overall it was a lot of drivel.
I wouldn't recommend this book unless you are a fan of Old English drivel.
Most of it is extremely tedious to slog through.
Some very good reading in some places but overall it was a lot of drivel.
I wouldn't recommend this book unless you are a fan of Old English drivel.
Most of it is extremely tedious to slog through.
November 7, 2020
Some of my all time favorites in one glorious book form. I haven't read all 50 of these yet but will get all of them done eventually. A great collection!!
October 17, 2021
A collection of the gothic classics. As a fan of gothic fiction, this collection has everything!
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July 24, 2025Completed:
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen 5/10
Caterpillars - EF Benson 4/10
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 4/10
The Listener 9/10
The Willows 8/10
Jane Eyre 6/10
Villette 5/10
Withering Heights 7/10
The Repairer of Reputations - 2/10 ( I don’t understand what happened in this at all)
The woman in white - DNF @15% (too long and confusing)
The Upper Berth - 5/10
Out of the Deep - 3/10 (This was hard to follow)
Seaton’s Aunt -5/10
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen 5/10
Caterpillars - EF Benson 4/10
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 4/10
The Listener 9/10
The Willows 8/10
Jane Eyre 6/10
Villette 5/10
Withering Heights 7/10
The Repairer of Reputations - 2/10 ( I don’t understand what happened in this at all)
The woman in white - DNF @15% (too long and confusing)
The Upper Berth - 5/10
Out of the Deep - 3/10 (This was hard to follow)
Seaton’s Aunt -5/10
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