Gothic Fiction

The White People

by Arthur Machen Read by Charlie Blakemore 4.4
Literary critics see Arthur Machen’s works as a significant part of the late Victorian revival of the gothic novel and the decadent movement…

The Italian

by Ann Radcliffe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The love story between a nobleman and a beautiful lady whom he meets in church leads both of them to unexpected places, as many people would…

The Romance of the Forest

by Ann Radcliffe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
A Gothic novel famously mentioned by Jane Austen in "Northanger Abbey" as an inspiration for the romantic ideals and supernatural …

Dead Love Has Chains

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by Celine Major 4.2
We see another facet of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's amazing talent in Dead Love Has Chains, written in her seventies. Focusing on character and…

The Canterville Ghost

by Oscar Wilde Read by Phil Chenevert 4.6
A modern American family move into a traditionally drafty and very haunted English mansion. So far so good but anyone knowing Wilde can expe…

Horror Stories

by Ada Buisson Read by Newgatenovelist 4.6
Ada Buisson was a Victorian novelist and short story author. This collection includes her three horror stories, all of which were published …

The Ghost of Guir House

by Charles Willing Beale Read by Roger Melin 4.1
Do you think you understand ghosts? Now you will.Paul Henley, seemingly summoned to a mysterious rural Virginia mansion from his home in New…

Tales and Stories

by Mary Shelley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
While Mary Shelley will most likely always be known for her enduring classic of mad science Frankenstein, this collection intends to show th…

A Sicilian Romance

by Ann Radcliffe Read by Betsie Bush 4.2
A Sicilian Romance is a Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe. It was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790. The pl…

The Old Ladies

by Hugh Walpole Read by David Wales 4.4
“Quite a number of years ago there was an old rickety building on the rock above Seatown in Polchester, and it was one of a number in an old…

Dracula

by Bram Stoker Read by Corrinne LePage 4.7
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequ…

The House on the Borderland

by William Hope Hodgson Read by John Van Stan 4.4
This story helped propel 19th Century gothic fiction in the direction of “cosmic” horror. In fact, H.P. Lovecraft lists it as among his grea…

Uncle Silas

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Read by Great Plains 4.3
Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery that immerses listeners in a world of suspense and intrigue. The story follows the young heiress, …

Bulemanns Haus

by Theodor Storm Read by Hokuspokus 4.6
Nach dem Tod seines Vaters kehrt Herr Bulemann nach in Übersee verbrachten Jahren in seine Heimatstadt zurück und zieht in das Hau…

The Necromancers

by Robert Hugh Benson Read by Dustin Pete 4.5
Following the death of his fiancée, Laurie Baxter becomes consumed by an obsession with the supernatural. Attempting to reach his dec…

The House of the Vampire

by George Sylvester Viereck Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.2
The House of the Vampire is a 1907 novella that is a very unusual vampire story. A young writer comes under the powerful influence of a myst…

The Castle of Otranto

by Horace Walpole Read by Great Plains 4.1
The Castle of Otranto is a groundbreaking work of Gothic fiction that transports listeners to a mysterious and foreboding castle, where the …

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James Read by Sandra Cullum 4.4
A gothic, ghost story, you are a jury of one. Is the Governess correct in her assumptions that her charges, two adorable and exemplary child…

Das alte Haus

by Friedrich Gerstäcker Read by Karlsson 4.6
Es ist nicht geheuer in dem alten Haus nebenan, davon sind die Dienstboten im Hause Hechner fest überzeugt und auch im Städtchen g…

The Stoneground Ghost Tales

by Edmund Gill Swain Read by Peter Yearsley 4.5
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, …

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