Who doesn't love a bit of surprise, danger, eerie atmosphere, and just the right hint of romance! So, here's presenting to you our best ever gothic collection, with all the well known classics, all the hidden gems, and lots of surprises for all the fans of chills, darkness and mystery out there. Also, our biggest-ever collection is meticulously edited and formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom The Castle of Otranto The Old English Baron Vathek The Ghost-Seer The Castle of Wolfenbach Caleb Williams The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian A Sicilian Romance The Romance of the Forest The Monk The Orphan of the Rhine The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Christabel Zastrozzi St. Irvyne Manfred Northanger Abbey Frankenstein... Isabella, or the Pot of Basil La Belle Dame Sans Merci The Raven The Tell-Tale Heart The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado... The Vampyre... The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Porphyria's Lover St, John's Eve The Viy... Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street The House of the Seven Gables... The Woman in White Goblin Market The Headless Horseman Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Carmilla Uncle Silas The Man-Wolf The Great Amherst Mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles... The Picture of Dorian Gray The Horla The Forsaken Inn The Yellow Wallpaper The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man The Beetle The Turn of the Screw... Dracula… The Necromancers The House on the Borderland The Phantom of the Opera… Wolverden Tower...

本作はゴシック文学の黎明期から黄金期までを網羅した、まさに暗黒の宝石箱です。単なる恐怖の枠を超え、人間の内面に潜む狂気や禁忌への憧憬、そして生と死の境界線を美しくも残酷に描き出しています。メアリー・シェリーやポーらが紡ぐ言葉は、読者の無意識下に眠る根源的な不安を揺さぶり、理性を超えた陶酔感へと誘うでしょう。 多くの名作が映像化されていますが、視覚的な刺激に訴える映像版に対し、原作の魅力は静謐な文体が生み出す圧倒的な心理描写の深みにあります。活字でしか味わえない精神的な震えを体験した後に映像を観ることで、怪奇の様式美がより鮮明に立体化されるという、メディアを跨いだ極上のシナジーを堪能できるはずです。