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Frankenstein (Norton Critical Editions)Frankenstein (Norton Critical Editions)
Best Price: $5.99
It is a classic and, therefore, deserves a close reading. Norton editions are great. The text...
Tales of the Cthulhu MythosTales of the Cthulhu Mythos
Best Price: $8.41
Well done thou good and faithful servants. Especially you J.K. Potter! Much has been said about...
Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the SupernaturalInferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Best Price: $12.50
Inferno is the kind of anthology a reader waits and hopes for. It's filled with disturbing tales...
Frankenstein (Cliffs Notes)Frankenstein (Cliffs Notes)
Best Price: $0.24
Most interpretations of this novel are flawed because they are based Victor Frankenstein's own...
Dracula (Norton Critical Editions)Dracula (Norton Critical Editions)
Best Price: $8.00
Bram Stocker is still a classic read. It was very scary from time to time.


Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Vampyre (English Library)Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Vampyre (English Library)
Best Price: $6.76
I was new to the Gothic genre when I first encountered this Dover publication some years ago. At...
Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics)Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $8.59
I've been on a big horror/fantasy kick and had high hopes for this book, but after the first...
Frankenstein (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)Frankenstein (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
Best Price: $6.00
This edition contains several critical essays about Frankenstein (they follow the actual story)....
Horowitz Horror: Stories You'll Wish You Never ReadHorowitz Horror: Stories You'll Wish You Never Read
Best Price: $2.10
Our 8-year-old son bought this at his primary school book fair. We're putting it on a back shelf...
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature)The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Best Price: $16.88
This book is a wonderful start to anyone wanting to look at the idea of the Gothic. I'm a...


The Dark DescentThe Dark Descent
Best Price: $10.43
Why all the 5 star reviews? Am I really that picky or is everyone else that easy? Did we read...
Gothic (The New Critical Idiom)Gothic (The New Critical Idiom)
Best Price: $17.99
This is an excellent starting point for those interested in getting a very broad but thorough...
The Bloody Red BaronThe Bloody Red Baron
Best Price: $6.00
Time has moved on in the Anno Dracula world, and a World War has started. Dracula, fiend that...
More Horowitz HorrorMore Horowitz Horror
Best Price: $4.99
Ever pictured your own funeral? You won?t be able to help it when you read some of the stories...
The Great God Pan and The Hill of DreamsThe Great God Pan and The Hill of Dreams
Best Price: $6.40
As all Machen's works: Excellent! Brilliant and delightful use of language. For all those who...

Cthulhu 2000Cthulhu 2000
Best Price: $7.30
The trouble with most Cthulhu collections (meaning Lovecraft pastiche) is that the authors don't...
A Bottomless Grave: and Other Victorian Tales of Terror (Dover Thrift Editions)A Bottomless Grave: and Other Victorian Tales of Terror (Dover Thrift Editions)
Best Price: $0.75
The 21 tales gathered in this colleciton run the gamut of the Victorian Eras fascination with...
Titus Crow, Volume 2: The Clock of Dreams; Spawn of the Winds (Titus Crow)Titus Crow, Volume 2: The Clock of Dreams; Spawn of the Winds (Titus Crow)
Best Price: $8.90
I'm a big enough fan of Lovecraft, especially his Dreamlands stories, that I found the first...
The Essential Clive Barker: Selected FictionThe Essential Clive Barker: Selected Fiction
Best Price: $6.71
I'll admit, I was pretty dissapointed at this book when I first cracked it open. It's a rather...
Gothic Tales (Penguin Classics)Gothic Tales (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $7.90
A portrait inexplicably turned to the wall ... a mysterious child who lives on the freezing...

Art of Darkness: A Poetics of GothicArt of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic
Best Price: $23.40
A great book for students looking to understand the Gothic or applications of literary...
Titus Crow, Volume 1: The Burrowers Beneath; The Transition of Titus CrowTitus Crow, Volume 1: The Burrowers Beneath; The Transition of Titus Crow
Best Price: $3.98
"Lumley's Titus Crow books are excellent fantasy stories mixed with a good sampling of...
Titus Crow, Volume 3: In The Moons of Borea, Elysia (Titus Crow)Titus Crow, Volume 3: In The Moons of Borea, Elysia (Titus Crow)
Best Price: $3.59
With flying, time-jumping, interstellar Grandfather clocks, immortal Outer-Space monsters,...
The Mammoth Book of New Terror (Mammoth Book of)The Mammoth Book of New Terror (Mammoth Book of)
Best Price: $2.38
Wow, I really liked this having read some of the other Mammoth Series books Jones had edited...
Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to ScreenHollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
Best Price: $10.64
I first heard of David Skal from the Universal Classic Monster series of DVD's. David was on...

Daphne du Maurier's Classics of the MacabreDaphne du Maurier's Classics of the Macabre
Best Price: $16.00
I read this book as a teenager and loved the strange stories. I only rediscovered that I wanted...
Monsters from the Id: The Rise of Horror in Fiction and FilmMonsters from the Id: The Rise of Horror in Fiction and Film
Best Price: $19.80
How's this for a Grand Unified Theory of horror: All horror monsters (including aliens,...
The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and the MacabreThe Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and the Macabre
Best Price: $10.29
I tried to read it, but the first 3 stories are terrifying, and i could not continue after...
Late Victorian Gothic Tales (Oxford World's Classics)Late Victorian Gothic Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $7.76
I really have enjoyed this collection of Gothic short stories and novellas. Some are more...
The Whisperer and Other VoicesThe Whisperer and Other Voices
Best Price: $11.38
Within Brian Lumley's works is a certain something that oftentimes finds me late at night with...

The Essential Dracula: The Definitive Annotated EditionThe Essential Dracula: The Definitive Annotated Edition
Best Price: $71.91
Why do I like this so much? Maybe because it is a classic? Hard to say why, just really enjoy...
Gothic and Gender: An IntroductionGothic and Gender: An Introduction
Best Price: $27.04
Gothic novels tell terrifying stories of patriarchal societies that thrive on the oppression or...
Beware!: R.L. Stine Picks His Favorite Scary StoriesBeware!: R.L. Stine Picks His Favorite Scary Stories
Best Price: $5.90
The perfect collection of scary stories. My grandson and I cuddle in a large chair with the...
The New Lovecraft CircleThe New Lovecraft Circle
Best Price: $8.90
I've been trying lots of the new Lovecraft inspired anthologies over the last year, having been...
Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and American Traditions (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and American Traditions (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)
Best Price: $19.75
Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and American Traditions is an anthology of...

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15
Best Price: $3.92
This is the second (and last) "Horror" book I try edited by Stephen Jones. He doesn't...
The Mammoth Book of Dracula: Vampire Tales for the New Millennium (The Mammoth Book Series)The Mammoth Book of Dracula: Vampire Tales for the New Millennium (The Mammoth Book Series)
Best Price: $11.63
A very interesting collection of stories , including some very rare material by Bram Stoker not...
Great Horror Stories: Tales by Stoker, Poe, Lovecraft and Others (Thrift Edition)Great Horror Stories: Tales by Stoker, Poe, Lovecraft and Others (Thrift Edition)
Best Price: $1.51
Featuring an international rogues' gallery of authors, this spine-tingling anthology celebrates...
Best New Horror (Mammoth Book  of Best New Horror)Best New Horror (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror)
Best Price: $2.11
Not strong and fast paced enough for me. I like quick stories that flow and catch your...
The Female Investigator in Literature, Film, And Popular CultureThe Female Investigator in Literature, Film, And Popular Culture
Best Price: $35.00
In this book the author examines how women detectives are portrayed in film, in literature and...

The History of Gothic FictionThe History of Gothic Fiction
Best Price: $23.85
Compared to my other Gothic books, this one is a bit more scholarly at times. You have to...
Routledge Companion to Gothic (Routledge Companions)Routledge Companion to Gothic (Routledge Companions)
Best Price: $27.49
In a wide ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the...
Frankenstein, Creation and Monstrosity (Reaktion Books - Critical Views)Frankenstein, Creation and Monstrosity (Reaktion Books - Critical Views)
Best Price: $7.75
Some of the most significant currents in modern intellectual and cultural history pass by way of...
The Monster Made By Man: A Compendium of Gothic AdaptationsThe Monster Made By Man: A Compendium of Gothic Adaptations
Best Price: $14.95
This book is a must read for Gothic Literature fans. Franz Potter does a wonderful job in his...
Uncle Montague's Tales of TerrorUncle Montague's Tales of Terror
Best Price: $5.00
Uncle Montague is a bachelor who lives alone in a house that is packed with artifacts and...

The 13 Best Horror Stories of All TimeThe 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time
Best Price: $8.95
Note: I made some Mormon reader angry over my negative reviews of books written by Mormons out...
The Children of CthulhuThe Children of Cthulhu
Best Price: $8.81
The aim of this anthology was to take Lovecraft's ideas into new realms (as the introduction...
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 (Mammoth Book  of Best New Horror)The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror)
Best Price: $3.97
What's the biggest difference between novel-length and short horror fiction? Well, word count,...
Mary Shelley: FrankensteinMary Shelley: Frankenstein
Best Price: $7.95
Mary Shelley's first novel has established itself as one of modernity's most compelling and...
Clive Barker's Books of Blood 3 (Clive Barker's Books of Blood)Clive Barker's Books of Blood 3 (Clive Barker's Books of Blood)
Best Price: $1.48
I have now read the "Books of Blood 1-3" and although I enjoyed a few of the stories...

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 14The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 14
Best Price: $2.39
There is a massive year long recap here by the editor, mentioning just about anyone who even...
Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century FictionGothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Best Price: $19.95
The Gothic has long been seen as offering a subversive challenge to the norms of realism....
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (Mammoth Book  of Best New Horror)The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror)
The introduction alone is a treasure trove of information regarding the state of horror, and the...
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Volume 12The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Volume 12
Best Price: $4.00
I tend to get all of these Mammoth titles as I like to read before I go to bed at night and the...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Be Read with the Lights On (Alfred Hitchcock Presents)Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Be Read with the Lights On (Alfred Hitchcock Presents)
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