The Gothic Tradition: Ruins, dread, and the literature of fear

Horror is older than the novel — but the nineteenth century made it literature. Here are the foundational works of dread: ghosts, monsters, madness, and the dark at the top of the stairs.

In this collection

• Ad Magistrum Ludi
• The Horrible
• The Haunted Cove
• The Devil and the Innkeeper
• The Phantoms of the Fire
• It Blows a Snowing Gale
• The Hydra of Lerna
• The Horla, or Modern Ghosts
• At Sunwich Port, Part 3
• The Moonlit Road
• The Four Pigeons
• Move On
• The Tree
• The Werewolf
• The Voices
• The Judging of the Priestess
• The Scarlet Gown: THE BANISHED BEJANT FROM THE UNPUBLISHED REMAINS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
• To Willie and Henrietta
• Light as My Heart Was Long Ago
• Historical Associations
• Of the Callejon Del Armado
• Mujina
• The Nightmare
• There Where the Land of Love
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