Gothic Fiction

Masterpieces of Mystery: Ghost Stories

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Robert Louis Stevenson


'The Listener'First, it was a strange array of cats, then an increasingly mysterious, and then terrifying increase in...happenstances and...…

The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems

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James Thomson


While primarily known for being pessimistic, the poetry of James Thomson (1834-1882) is also beautiful and psychologically complex. This 190…

Adelgitha; or, The Fruits of a Single Error

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Matthew Lewis


The second original tragedy written by Gothic writer Matthew Lewis, Adelgitha; or, The Fruits of a Single Error is a markedly more serious a…

Portrait Of A Man With Red Hair; A Romantic Macabre

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


Is the father insane or merely sadistic, a man entombed in a spirit of malevolence? This 1925 novel by a perceptive observer explores the te…

A Moment of Time

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Richard Hughes


British author Richard Hughes is perhaps most well-known for his sea-faring adventure novel A High Wind in Jamaica, but a dive into his shor…

The Black Flemings

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Kathleen Norris


The brick New England mansion on the rocky coast had been Gabrielle’s only home. She leaves and returns to find Wastewater Hall a deadly me…

A Mystery of the Campagna

Read by Newgatenovelist


Anne Crawford


A group of artists are busy pursuing their calling in Rome when one of them decides to seek a remote villa to work alone. But when his frien…

December Tales

Read by Ben Tucker


William Harrison Ainsworth


December is a time of winding down and of nature resetting itself. In this volume of so-titled December Tales, we listen to stories of human…

The Monk: A Romance (Version 2)

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Matthew Lewis


As one of the pioneers of Gothic fiction, this classic novel is seriously underrated. The story revolves around Ambrosio, the abbot, who is …

The Stoneground Ghost Tales, Version 2

Read by Peter Yearsley


Edmund Gill Swain


A collection of gentle ghost stories set around a church by the fens in East Anglia. The author was an associate of Montague Rhodes James, …

The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl (Version 2)

Read by Christoph Stangenberg


Adelbert von Chamisso


In Peter Schlemihl, the luckless hero enters into a deal with a mysterious stranger, only to learn, that he dealt with the proverbial. He so…

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