Gothic

Gothic fiction combines horror, romance, and the supernatural within gloomy, decaying settings.

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Moon Stricken is a short-story anthology collecting 21 tales in the horror and macabre genres.

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Shadows of Carcosa is an anthology of weird and cosmic horror fiction published by NYRB Classics.

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Juliette is an eighteenth-century French philosophical novel written by the Marquis de Sade, presented as a first-person memoir…

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The poem tells the story of an ancient Mariner who stops a wedding guest to recount his harrowing…

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The volume was undertaken by the Royal Society of Literature as a tribute to Coleridge, who had been…

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A nightwatchman exiled from daylight illuminates hidden truths with his harsh lantern, revealing the madness beneath society's masks.

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