Victorian Gothic

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915), little known now, but a renowned writer in her time, gives us five tales of the "weird" as she might herself have said. Here we have five of her better known stories, peopled with jilted lovers, blood thirsty old ladies, and grand, old houses whose restless ancestors refuse to abandon them! The five tales: "The Cold Embrace", "The Shadow in the Corner", "At Chrighton Abbey", "Good Lady Ducayne", and "Eveline's Visitant".

Featuring work by M. R. James, Edith Nesbit, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Atherton and many more, this enhanced audio collection of eight enduring stories - some well-known, others less familiar - transport you to a candlelit fireside to hear tales of lonely coastlines, deadly rivers, dark, creaking corridors, horrific, everlasting love and unknown entities lurking in black velvet shadows.

Every heart holds a secret... But some secrets are better left buried. When seventeen-year old Phoebe Turner visits Wilton's Music Hall to watch her Aunt Cissy performing on stage, she risks the wrath of her mother Maud who marches with the Hallelujah Army, campaigning for all London theatres to...

In the ancient city of Winton, three brothers grow up in the shadow of their family's old flour mill — and of the father whose sins seem to echo through its walls. Everything changes when a strange child named Zyp appears out of the woods, claiming to be a changeling with no home of her own...

‘If I wasn’t dead, I would sue.’—Bram Stoker This is the origin story of the first real vampyre (not Dracula). The trouble with immortality is that eventually you get sick to death of it, and so to soothe his sickened soul, the Comte De’Ath decides to take a trip. From psychoanalysis...

Step behind the veil of Victorian London into a world where love is never safe from the dark. First published in 1894, Tales of the Supernatural gathers six haunting tales in which romance and the occult are bound together by blood, ritual, and forbidden bargains. From a blood pact sworn beside...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Jane Eyre is a beloved classic of Victorian literature. Orphaned and mistreated by her aunt, young Jane Eyre endures a harsh childhood before becoming a governess at the mysterious Thornfield Hall. There she falls in love with the brooding, enigmatic Mr...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A young man determined to prove that ghosts do not exist accepts a challenge that takes him into an old English manor and its infamous Red Room. The room has a disturbing history, and those who have tried to spend the night there have met with...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. *The Tenant of Wildfell Hall* is Anne Brontë's boldest novel. When the mysterious widow Helen Graham and her young son move into the neglected Wildfell Hall, the local gentry are scandalised. Gilbert Markham, the earnest young farmer, falls under her...

A nightmare becomes a warning. A marriage becomes a mystery. And one terrible date refuses to release its hold. On the eve of his birthday, Francis Raven awakens to a terrifying vision: a strange woman stands over him with a knife, intent on taking his life. Was it merely a nightmare—or...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. First published in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s, The Yellow Wallpaper is a haunting tale of isolation, confinement, and psychological unraveling. Confined to an upstairs room by her physician husband, a young woman is forbidden to work or write as...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Twenty-five years before Dracula, there was Carmilla. When a carriage overturns outside a lonely Styrian castle, nineteen-year-old Laura takes in a mysterious survivor. Carmilla is languid, ardent, and awake only after dark. As young women in the...

Deliciously read by Sam Woolf (The Crown, The Witcher) and Anna Popplewell (Chronicles of Narnia, Reign) 'Haunting and seductive . . . I drank in this wonderfully sapphic, gothic tale with a sense of ever-deepening dread' - Francesca May, author of This Vicious Hunger Chilling, gothic and...

"The Scottish accents of narrators Tim Campbell and Mhairi Morrison introduce YA listeners to this historical romance/mystery set in nineteenth-century Edinburgh." —AudioFile Immortality: A Love Story is the eagerly anticipated sequel to Dana Schwartz's #1 bestselling gothic romance, Anatomy...

At the height of her fame—outselling Dickens, Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells combined—Marie Corelli crafted these mesmerizing tales that blend forbidden passion with gothic suspense. From ghostly brides seeking vengeance to artists consumed by obsession, each story pulses with the dark romanticism that made Corelli Victorian Britain's most beloved storyteller.

A chilling collection of classic gothic horror and ghost stories adapted or written by women In this breathtaking collection of gothic horror and eerie tales, draw the curtains and pull the blankets close for two classic Victorian horror tales in new adaptations, Dracula starring Nicky Henson...

Before Dracula struck England, his shadow was already drenched in blood. Step across the threshold of terror with this definitive collection of gothic nightmares from the legendary Bram Stoker. This heart-pounding anthology unearths Stoker's finest short fiction, led by the legendary title story...

Inspired by The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, this tantalizing sequel to Megan Shepherd's gothic suspense novel, The Madman's Daughter, explores the hidden natures of those we love and how far we'll go to save them from themselves. To defeat the darkness, she must first embrace it...

Arthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background, his travels, and his increasing interest in spiritualism and the occult to produce a spectacular array of Gothic tales. Many of Doyle's writings are recognized as the very greatest tales of terror. They range from hauntings in the polar wasteland to evil surgeons and malevolent jungle landscapes. This collection brings together over 30 of Conan Doyle's best Gothic tales

Innkeeper’s daughter Jane Heatherington is sold into indentured servitude to cover her father’s debts. She's sold to Aidan Warrick, a man whose handsome face and form mock the rumors that skulk in his shadow, rumors that paint him a smuggler, a pirate...and worse. Isolated and alone, Jane's only companion is the man she dare not trust, the man who looks at her with heated desire she both fears and craves. Jane must decide if Aidan Warrick is the dark prince of her dreams or a monster preying on the innocent....