The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
3.18
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I…
Want to Read $ 3.66"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"This life is but a pilgrimage."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
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1. The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
3.18
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more
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- 18th century
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"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"This life is but a pilgrimage."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
2. The Old English Baron
By: Clara Reeve , James Trainer
3.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
When Sir Philip Harclay returns to England after a long absence, he finds that his childhood friend… read more
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3. A Sicilian Romance
By: Ann Radcliffe
3.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of t… read more
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"Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of producing a pleasing, yet lasting effect, which effect, therefore, we call happiness. Happiness has th…"-Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance
"As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I recurred, by a natural association of ideas, to the times when these walls s…"-Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance
4. The Man of Feeling
By: Henry MacKenzie , Brian Vickers , Stephen Bending
3.01
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement, in which… read more
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- classics
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"Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain respect for the follies of mankind: fo…"-Henry MacKenzie, The Man of Feeling
5. The Romance of the Forest
By: Ann Radcliffe
4.18
Format: 213 pages,
Set in a Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fa… read more
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6. The Mysteries of Udolpho
By: Ann Radcliffe , Jacqueline Howard
4.18
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
With The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe raised the Gothic romance to a new level and inspired … read more
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7. The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents
By: Ann Radcliffe , Robert Miles
4.18
Format: 213 pages,
From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ell… read more
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8. The Vampyre; A Tale
By: John William Polidori
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more
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9. Vathek
By: William Beckford
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Beckford's Gothic novel, Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author … read more
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11. Melmoth the Wanderer
By: Charles Robert Maturin , Victor Sage
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of the most fiendish characters in literature. In a s… read more
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12. Dracula
By: Bram Stoker , David J. Skal , Nina Auerbach
4.02
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here. When Jonathan Harker visi… read more
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- literature
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"Despair has its own calms."-Bram Stoker, Dracula
"This man belongs to me, I want him!"-Bram Stoker, Dracula
"Enter freely and of your own free will!"-Bram Stoker, Dracula
"We learn from failure, not from success!"-Bram Stoker, Dracula
13. Northanger Abbey
By: Jane Austen , Alfred J. MacAdam
3.85
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Auste… read more
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"I have no talent for certainty."-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
"But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea."-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
14. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
By: James Hogg , John Carey
3.88
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly, especially in his best-known n… read more
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15. The Turn of the Screw
By: Henry James
3.39
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more
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"When I'm bad I am bad !"-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"He fairly glittered in the gloom."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"There was something between them." "There was everything."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
16. Oroonoko
By: Aphra Behn , Janet Todd
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, th… read more
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17. The Fall of the House of Usher
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.87
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more
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"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
18. Carmilla
By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
3.86
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more
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"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
19. The Monk
By: None
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murde… read more
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20. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
By: Samuel Richardson , Thomas Keymer , Alice Wakely
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century… read more
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21. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
3.87
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847. Mary Shelley's seminal novel of t… read more
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"I am malicious because I am miserable"-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
"One wondering thought pollutes the day"-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!"-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
"I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave"-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
