Publisher: Good Press
"The Castle of Otranto" is a novel by Horace Walpole, generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole used the word "gothic" in the subtitle – "A Gothic Story." The story is set in a haunted castle. The events develop in the spirit of medievalism and terror, which became a standard mod for the genre ever since.
Mssrs Phillips and Dyson continually run across different people who all seem to be on the lookout for the same person. Who is he? What do they want with him? And what is the connection to the small golden coin that came into Mr Dyson's possession?Show book
Olivia Corey has been offered the role of her life. They’re making a movie called The Curse of Collinwood by Mr D Curtis. Apparently it’s based on a true story about an old house in Maine where all manner of terrible things happen.Olivia is offered the role of ‘Amanda Harris’, a woman created from a painting, destined to fall in love with a cursed man, destined to roam the Earth to find him again.How could she refuse? After all, it’s the part she was born to play…Show book
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, released in 1886. The work is also known as , Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde The book follows a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.This classic novella introduced the phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" to refer to people with an unpredictably dual nature: usually very good, but sometimes shockingly evil.Show book
He's had it up to HERE! Agent Rose is missing, and an Ancient Vampire is taking over a small town. Only TnT, the Midget with a Chainsaw, stands between him and his goal of a vampire army capable of destroying the country! Midget with a Chainsaw is the second volume in the Grindhouse Chronicles series. These books are heavily inspired by Grindhouse Cinema and are filled with eclectic heroes, unique villains and over the top violence. If you love those movies then you’ll love the Grindhouse Chronicles.Show book
The Queen of Spades is decidedly one of Pushkin's gloomier tales, which inspired several movie adaptations and a magnificent opera by Tchaikovsky. Its determined but misguided protagonist stakes his life on a very old secret that might or might not even exist - with dire consequences.Show book
A Diagnosis of Death by Ambrose Bierce: Ambrose Bierce's truly chilling tale of death.Show book
