Genre
Horror & Gothic.
From the epistolary dread of Dracula to the creeping madness of The Yellow Wallpaper, our Horror & Gothic shelves hold the uncanny and the sublime. Lose yourself in haunted antiquaries, cursed pearls, and cosmic terrors that lurk at the edge of reason.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Thomas De Quincey’s strange and influential memoir of addiction, dream-life, and Romantic prose remains one of the nineteenth century’s most uncanny autobiographical classics.
$8.00
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole's foundational gothic novel, where a doomed castle, a monstrous prophecy, and supernatural terror announce a whole new genre.
$5.00
The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories
A collection of Rudyard Kipling's early supernatural and uncanny tales, set largely in colonial India, where the heat, the isolation and the guilt of the living conjure visitors wh
$9.50
Twenty-Five Ghost Stories
A gathering of short supernatural tales for a shivery evening, hauntings, apparitions and uncanny visitations collected in the classic manner of the ghost-story anthology.
$9.50
The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgson's visionary tale of horror and cosmic wonder, in which a remote house becomes the threshold to unimaginable forces.
$9.00
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
Algernon Blackwood's unsettling tales of the uncanny, where dread seeps in through the ordinary.
$9.50
The Damned Thing: 1898, From "In the Midst of Life"
Ambrose Bierce's chilling tale of an unseen menace, told at a coroner's inquest over a mangled corpse.
$9.50
The Great God Pan
Arthur Machen's chilling novella of forbidden experiment and ancient dread, in which a glimpse behind the veil of the world unleashes a creeping, unnameable horror.
$9.50
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux's haunting gothic romance of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera and fixes his obsession on a young soprano.
$9.50
The String of Pearls
The original penny dreadful that gave the world Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, and Mrs Lovett's terrible pies.
$9.50
The Monk
Matthew Lewis's notorious Gothic novel, a lurid, gripping tale of a revered monk undone by temptation, in which piety collapses into obsession, corruption and supernatural terror.
$9.50
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe's landmark Gothic novel, in which a young woman, orphaned and imperilled, is carried to a brooding Italian castle where terror, mystery and the power of the imaginati
$5.00
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James’s gothic novella traps a young governess, two children, and a country house inside one of literature’s most unnerving studies in ambiguity, repression, and dread.
$6.50
The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables is a polished DotBooks classic novel for readers who want character, atmosphere, and enduring literary appeal in a clean digital edition.
$7.50
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's chilling short story of a woman confined for her health, whose narrowing world comes to fixate on the pattern of her room's wallpaper.
$4.50
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A respected doctor’s dangerous experiments unleash his hidden self, a creature of pure appetite.
$5.00
Dracula
A creeping dread unfolds through letters and diaries as an ancient evil crosses into Victorian London.
$8.50