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The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60+ Novels and Stories from H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, M.R. James, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Mary Shelley, and ... Turn of the Screw; The Mezzotint; and more
The Ultimate Horror Collection is a fully-indexed collection of over 60 classic horror stories.
Included here are stories by H.P. Lovecraft; Edgar Allan Poe; M.R. James; Oscar Wilde; Joseph Le Fanu; Bram Stoker; Mary Shelley; Robert Louis Stevenson; and Henry James.
Oscar Wilde
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
CARMILLA
Mary Shelley
FRANKENSTEIN
Robert Louis Stevenson
THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
Henry James
THE TURN OF THE SCREW
Bram Stoker
DRACULA
H.P. Lovecraft
THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE
THE DUNWICH HORROR
THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS
THE HAUNTER OF THE DARK
THE CALL OF CTHULHU
THE RATS IN THE WALLS
FROM BEYOND
DAGON
AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
IN THE VAULT
THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH
THE DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE
M. R. James
CANON ALBERIC'S SCRAP-BOOK
LOST HEARTS
THE MEZZOTINT
THE ASH-TREE
NUMBER 13
CASTING THE RUNES
COUNT MAGNUS
"OH, WHISTLE, AND I'LL COME TO YOU, MY LAD"
A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS
A VIEW FROM A HILL
A NEIGHBOUR'S LANDMARK
THE UNCOMMON PRAYER-BOOK
WAILING WELL
THE FENSTANTON WITCH
Edgar Allan Poe
A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM
A TALE OF JERUSALEM
A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS
ELEONORA
THE BLACK CAT
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
THE GOLD BUG
HOP-FROG
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE
THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET
THE OBLONG BOX
THE OVAL PORTRAIT
THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
THE PURLOINED LETTER
THE TELL—TALE HEART
THE RAVEN
TO HELEN
EULALIE
A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
ANNABEL LEE
THE HAUNTED PALACE
ALONE
DREAM LAND
ELDORADO
THE CITY IN THE SEA
THE BELLS
A VALENTINE
A SONNET TO SCIENCE
Included here are stories by H.P. Lovecraft; Edgar Allan Poe; M.R. James; Oscar Wilde; Joseph Le Fanu; Bram Stoker; Mary Shelley; Robert Louis Stevenson; and Henry James.
Oscar Wilde
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
CARMILLA
Mary Shelley
FRANKENSTEIN
Robert Louis Stevenson
THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
Henry James
THE TURN OF THE SCREW
Bram Stoker
DRACULA
H.P. Lovecraft
THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE
THE DUNWICH HORROR
THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS
THE HAUNTER OF THE DARK
THE CALL OF CTHULHU
THE RATS IN THE WALLS
FROM BEYOND
DAGON
AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
IN THE VAULT
THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH
THE DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE
M. R. James
CANON ALBERIC'S SCRAP-BOOK
LOST HEARTS
THE MEZZOTINT
THE ASH-TREE
NUMBER 13
CASTING THE RUNES
COUNT MAGNUS
"OH, WHISTLE, AND I'LL COME TO YOU, MY LAD"
A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS
A VIEW FROM A HILL
A NEIGHBOUR'S LANDMARK
THE UNCOMMON PRAYER-BOOK
WAILING WELL
THE FENSTANTON WITCH
Edgar Allan Poe
A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM
A TALE OF JERUSALEM
A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS
ELEONORA
THE BLACK CAT
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
THE GOLD BUG
HOP-FROG
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE
THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET
THE OBLONG BOX
THE OVAL PORTRAIT
THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
THE PURLOINED LETTER
THE TELL—TALE HEART
THE RAVEN
TO HELEN
EULALIE
A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
ANNABEL LEE
THE HAUNTED PALACE
ALONE
DREAM LAND
ELDORADO
THE CITY IN THE SEA
THE BELLS
A VALENTINE
A SONNET TO SCIENCE
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Oscar Wilde
5,481 books38.8k followersOscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with other males. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release, he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with other males. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release, he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
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July 20, 2025
*Audiobook Review*
Absolutely masterful. They don’t make ‘em like they used to. They truly don’t. The word exquisite comes to mind.
Such an excess of words that somehow, extraordinarily, never comes across as verbose. Quite the opposite, nothing short of a total mastery of the English language that totally consumes the imagination. Something I’ve always enjoyed about “ye old” English, but this is the greatest display I’ve had the pleasure of reading/hearing.
Johnathan Keeble must be a Shakespearean actor, he is in a completely other league. His female counterpart has comparable skill.
All round the best anthology collection of short stories n novellas I’ve ever bought. Get amongst it classic lit or horror fans - this is writing and imagery at its most visceral.
Absolutely masterful. They don’t make ‘em like they used to. They truly don’t. The word exquisite comes to mind.
Such an excess of words that somehow, extraordinarily, never comes across as verbose. Quite the opposite, nothing short of a total mastery of the English language that totally consumes the imagination. Something I’ve always enjoyed about “ye old” English, but this is the greatest display I’ve had the pleasure of reading/hearing.
Johnathan Keeble must be a Shakespearean actor, he is in a completely other league. His female counterpart has comparable skill.
All round the best anthology collection of short stories n novellas I’ve ever bought. Get amongst it classic lit or horror fans - this is writing and imagery at its most visceral.
November 17, 2025
This took fooorrrreeeeeever to listen to but now I've got a lot of the classics under my belt that I've put off.
Honestly, I think most of these are in the public domain and probably have better audio versions out there so don't feel like you have to listen to this one in particular.
EXCEPT!
The guy who did the Lovecraft sections. He really earned his paycheck with all the guttural noises and phlegm-hocking. A+
Honestly, I think most of these are in the public domain and probably have better audio versions out there so don't feel like you have to listen to this one in particular.
EXCEPT!
The guy who did the Lovecraft sections. He really earned his paycheck with all the guttural noises and phlegm-hocking. A+
November 25, 2025
Audiobook review: Aside from “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe” which was utterly unbearable and certainly could not be listened to after a few fair minutes of self imposed torture, the remainder is an astounding narration of some really great stories, many of which I’ve never had the occasion to read before. Frankenstein in particular as well as Dracula, or stand out favorites, both in story and narration.
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