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Late Victorian Gothic Tales

10 best books like Late Victorian Gothic Tales (Roger Luckhurst): Carmilla, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales, The Willows, The City in the Middle of the Night, The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories, Revenge, The Princesse de Clèves, Harbinger, The Death of King Arthur, Skin

Carmilla
AuthorJ. Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN0809510839
Bloody relevant to read!


BEFORE DRACULA, THERE WAS...

But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.

This is a very important book in historic sense, in the genre of vampire reading, due that it was published 25 years before than Dracula....
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN0451526759
The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe remain among the most brilliant and influential works in American literature. Some of the celebrated tales contained in this unique volume include: the world's first two detective stories -- "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter"; and three stories...
The Willows
AuthorAlgernon Blackwood
ISBN1587156520
Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment—river, sun, wind—and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately threatening character. Most ominous are the masses of dense, desultory, menacing willows,...
The City in the Middle of the Night
AuthorCharlie Jane Anders
ISBN0765379961
"If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives."

Set on a planet that has fully definitive, never-changing zones of day and night, with ensuing extreme climates of endless, frigid darkness and blinding, relentless light, humankind...
The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft
ISBN0142180033
A definitive edition of stories by the master of supernatural fiction

Howard Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chiefly from Edgar Allan Poe) with the genre of science fiction that emerged in the early...
Revenge
AuthorYōko Ogawa
Sinister forces draw together a cast of desperate characters in this eerie and absorbing novel from Yoko Ogawa.

An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Years later, the writer’s stepson reflects upon his stepmother and the...
The Princesse de Clèves
AuthorMadame de La Fayette
ISBN0192837265
***Advance Review Copy generously provided through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.


Well, I have to say the moment I saw this book I thought that it would be about Anne of Cleves a.k.a. the luckiest wife of Henry VIII.

I never heard about the book The Princess of Clèves...
Harbinger
AuthorSara Wilson Etienne
ISBN0399256687
Plagued by waking visions and nightmares, inexplicably drawn to the bones of dead animals, Faye thinks she's going crazy. Fast. Her parents believe Holbrook Academy might just be the solution. Dr. Mordoch tells her it's the only answer. But Faye knows that something's not quite right about Dr. Mordoch...
The Death of King Arthur
AuthorUnknown
Recounting the final days of Arthur, this thirteenth-century French version of the Camelot legend, written by an unknown author, is set in a world of fading chivalric glory. It depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and with its integrity threatened by the...
Skin
AuthorTed Dekker
ISBN1595542779
A freak storm has spawned three tornadoes that are bearing down on the town of Summerville.

Yet under the cover of the storm looms a much more ominous threat: A vindictive killer known as Red who's left a string of victims in his wake and is now bent on exacting his final revenge on the unsuspecting...
The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
AuthorMichael Cox
ISBN0192804472
The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general...
The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Ghost Stories
AuthorM.R. James
Stories by a visionary master of supernatural fiction
 
In volume two of the only annotated edition of M. R. James's complete writings currently available, Penguin Classics brings together tales from James's final two works, A Thin Ghost and Others and A Warning to the Curious. In these stories,...
The Midnight Witch
AuthorPaula Brackston
ISBN1250006082
"The dead are seldom silent. All that is required for them to be heard is that someone be willing to listen. I have been listening to the dead all my life."

Lilith is the daughter of the sixth Duke of Radnor. She is one of the most beautiful young women in London and engaged to the city’s most eligible...
Mycroft Holmes
AuthorKareem Abdul-Jabbar
ISBN1783291532
Fresh out of Cambridge University, the young Mycroft Holmes is already making a name​ ​for himself in government, working for the Secretary of State for War. Yet this most British of civil servants has strong ties to the faraway island of Trinidad, the birthplace of his best friend, Cyrus Douglas,...
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