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Gothic & Horror

Dread, and the architecture of it.

The laboratory and the locked room, the portrait that will not stay still, the creature made and then abandoned. Gothic literature gave the world its lasting images of dread — and remains far stranger, and far more humane, than the century of imitation that followed it.

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The volumes 40 on this shelf
The catalog
  1. I Great Ghost Stories Various
  2. II Devil Stories Various
  3. III Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
  4. IV Curious, If True Elizabeth Gaskell
  5. V Clarimonde Théophile Gautier
  6. VI Hieroglyphic Tales Horace Walpole
  7. VII Caleb Williams William Godwin
  8. VIII Dracula's Guest Bram Stoker
  9. IX The Dolliver Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne
  10. X Fanshawe Nathaniel Hawthorne
  11. XI Gone to Earth Mary Webb
  12. XII Miss Ludington's Sister Edward Bellamy
  13. XIII Thérèse Raquin Émile Zola
  14. XIV A Romance of Two Worlds Marie Corelli
  15. XV The Life Everlasting Marie Corelli
  16. XVI The Jewel of Seven Stars Bram Stoker
  17. XVII The Lady of the Shroud Bram Stoker
  18. XVIII A Spirit in Prison Robert Hichens
  19. XIX The Midnight Queen May Agnes Fleming
  20. XX Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes
  21. XXI The Prophet of Berkeley Square Robert Hichens
  22. XXII The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg
  23. XXIII The Shape of Fear Elia Wilkinson Peattie
  24. XXIV Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist Charles Brockden Brown
  25. XXV Wieland Charles Brockden Brown
  26. XXVI The Monk M. G. Lewis
  27. XXVII The Purcell Papers — Complete Edition Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  28. XXVIII The Fifth String John Philip Sousa
  29. XXIX The Parasite Arthur Conan Doyle
  30. XXX The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux
  31. XXXI A Mirror of Shalott Robert Hugh Benson
  32. XXXII The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne
  33. XXXIII Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
  34. XXXIV Mosses from an Old Manse Nathaniel Hawthorne
  35. XXXV The Great God Pan Arthur Machen
  36. XXXVI The Turn of the Screw Henry James
  37. XXXVII The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
  38. XXXVIII The Haunted Hotel Wilkie Collins
  39. XXXIX Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  40. XL The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne