Carmilla (Audiobook)
£1.99A lonely young woman befriends a mysterious new companion who turns out to be a centuries-old vampire, in the novella that predates and influenced Dracula.
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A lonely young woman befriends a mysterious new companion who turns out to be a centuries-old vampire, in the novella that predates and influenced Dracula.

Scholars and antiquarians disturb things better left buried in M.R. James’s classic ghost stories, still the gold standard of the genre.

A man who sold his soul for 150 extra years of life searches desperately for someone willing to take the bargain off his hands, in one of the last great Gothic novels.

A forbidden play is said to drive its readers mad, in the story collection that inspired Lovecraft and, a century later, HBO’s True Detective.

A pious monk’s private lust unravels into sorcery, murder, and a pact with the devil, in a novel so scandalous it nearly got its teenage author prosecuted.

A rancher is torn apart in his own field by something no one can see, in Ambrose Bierce’s chilling account of an invisible predator.

Scholars and antiquarians disturb things better left buried in M.R. James’s classic ghost stories, still the gold standard of the genre.

An engineer in colonial India is haunted by the ghost of a woman he wronged, who keeps appearing to him in her old rickshaw.

A scientific experiment opens a doorway to a pagan god, and the child born of that encounter grows up to spread horror across Victorian London.

A giant helmet falls from nowhere and crushes a prince on his wedding day, opening the novel widely credited with inventing the Gothic genre.

A lonely young woman befriends a mysterious new companion who turns out to be a centuries-old vampire, in the novella that predates and influenced Dracula.

Two canoeists camping on an island in the Danube sense something ancient and hostile moving in the willows around their tent.

Hawthorne’s early short stories of guilt, obsession, and New England Puritanism, told with the same moral unease that runs through The Scarlet Letter.

An orphaned heiress is placed under the guardianship of her sinister uncle, who has both her fortune and her life in his sights.

A man who sold his soul for 150 extra years of life searches desperately for someone willing to take the bargain off his hands, in one of the last great Gothic novels.

Sailors, con men, and the supernatural collide in W.W. Jacobs’s story collection, including his single most famous tale: a monkey’s paw that grants three wishes, at a price.