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Northanger Abbey
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Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “hor…
Staley Fleming's Hallucination
Read by gregnkim
Ambrose Bierce
In Ghost Story Collection 005
A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyo…
The Other Wing
Read by Psudonae Vox
Algernon Blackwood
In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 008
A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up…
Ghost Story Collection
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Various
A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyo…
Haunted Places Part 2
Read by Matthew M. Benzing
Margaret Widdemer
In The Haunted Hour; an anthology
I have not considered as ghost-poems anything but poems which related to the return of spirits to earth. They "The Blessed Damozel,&quo…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection
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Various
A collection of twelve stories for Halloween. Enjoy some of the classics, like Poe and Lovecraft, but also some of the lesser-known contribu…
Von Kempelen and His Discovery
Read by NickNumber
Edgar Allan Poe
In The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 2
Monday, January 19, 2009 marked Edgar Allan Poe's 200th birthday. Though these tales need no introduction, the rationale for starting with v…
The Ebony Frame
Read by Peter Yearsley
E. Nesbit
In Grim Tales
A collection of gentle stories that draw us into that hidden world where fear is just around the next corner, and where loving hands can tou…
Supernatural Horror in Literature
H. P. Lovecraft
“Supernatural Horror in Literature” is a long essay surveying the field of horror fiction. It was written between November 1925 and May 1927…
Ghost Story Collection
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Various
A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyo…
The House on the Borderland
Read by John Van Stan
William Hope Hodgson
This story helped propel 19th Century gothic fiction in the direction of “cosmic” horror. In fact, H.P. Lovecraft lists it as among his grea…
The Romance of the Forest
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Ann Radcliffe
A Gothic novel famously mentioned by Jane Austen in "Northanger Abbey" as an inspiration for the romantic ideals and supernatural …
The Hounds of Fate
Read by Elli
Saki
In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 003
A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up…
Passeur
Read by Veronica Maresh Mead
Robert W. Chambers
In The Mystery Of Choice
The Mystery of Choice is a collection of short horror stories written by Robert W. Chambers. The stories, set in France, are known for their…
The Castle of Otranto
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Horace Walpole
The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first Gothic novel, a genre appealing to a taste for terror and set in a remote past when prodigies…
A Twilight Fancy by Dora Read Goodale
Read by Craig Franklin
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 1)
The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…
Haunted
Read by Newgatenovelist
Elinor Jenkins
In Poems
Elinor Jenkins was a British poet whose published work focuses largely on the First World War. This volume, based on her collection publishe…
The Canterville Ghost, Chps 1, 2
Read by James K. White
Oscar Wilde
In Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories. This collection exemplifies Wilde's sharp …
Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams, part 2
Read by Bill Cissna
Julian Hawthorne, ed.
In Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1
In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious s…
Magnetic Horror
Read by KHand
Charles Baudelaire
In The Flowers of Evil
This is a collection of French poems by Charles Baudelaire, originally titled "Les Fleurs du mal." It was popular in the symbolist…