What could be better than curling up in front of the fireplace on a chilly fall or winter evening with a good, classic Gothic novel? The fire radiating warmth and peace and the book pages emanating an eerie chill. What better experience for a bibliophile than to delve into this collection of gothic literature?

It will take a long time to read through all the atmospheric novels included in this collection. You will have plenty of time to consider and appreciate your own life and surroundings – far from the horrors of these novels!

Contents:

1. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
2. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
3. A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe
4. The Monk: A Romance by Matthew Gregory Lewis
5. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
6. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
7. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
8. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
9. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
11. Dracula by Bram Stoker
12. Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin
13. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
14. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
15. Vathek: An Arabian Tale by William Beckford
16. The Old English Baron: a Gothic Story by Clara Reeve
17. Salathiel the Immortal by George Croly
18. Varney the Vampire or The Feast of Blood by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Pecket Prest
19. Beware the Cat by William Baldwin
20. The Beetle by Richard Marsh