Gothic Fiction

Master Zacharius

by Jules Verne Read by Zachary Katz-Stein 4
Master Zacharius is a man of science, skill, and overpowering pride. He is the first to successfully, and accurately, regulate time. Does th…

The Blood of the Vampire

by Florence Marryat Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Blood of the Vampire is a Gothic novel, often compared to Bram Stoker's Dracula and Le Fanu's Camilla. Harriet is a vampire who kills ac…

The Sorrows of Satan

by Marie Corelli Read by Lisa Statler 4.6
In this 1895 Faustian novel by British author Marie Corelli, we follow the journey of Geoffrey Tempest. Initially a starving and penniless w…

The Stoneground Ghost Tales

by Edmund Gill Swain Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Stoneground Ghost Tales is a collection of nine short stories set in and around a church and parish on the edge of England's fen country…

The Lady of the Shroud

by Bram Stoker Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.1
As the title suggests, this work does flirt with the supernatural. Yet it is essentially a political novel—a utopian experiment in a fictiti…

The Phantom Death

by William Clark Russell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
This is a book of remarkable nautical ghost and horror stories written by William Clark Russell in 1893. The stories are for the most part s…

The Wyvern Mystery

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.3
A classic with a pinch of romance, a pinch of gothic, and a dash of mystery, are you interested yet? When young Alice Maybell’ father dies s…

Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf

by George W. M. Reynolds Read by clarinetcarrot 4.4
Wagner is a poor, lonely old shepherd living on the edge of the Black Forest. In a devil's pact he gains youth and wealth for the price of t…

The Castle Spectre

by Matthew Lewis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Written by Gothic writer Matthew Lewis, whose novel The Monk is one of the most enduring Gothic works from the eighteenth century, The Castl…

Fifty-one Tales

by Lord Dunsany Read by Rosslyn Carlyle 4.5
A multitude of very short stories populated with things that lurk in the dark corners of human imagination. Wonderfully crafted and sometime…

Island Nights' Entertainments

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Tony Addison 4.5
A marvelous depiction of two sides of South Sea Islands' life through three separate tales. One, the experience of the incoming British kee…

The Dark

by Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev Read by Lee Smalley 4.5
The Dark is a novella about a desperate young man, a “terrorist and nihilist”, trying to avoid arrest by taking refuge in a brothel. The sto…

Sir Edmund Orme

by Henry James Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.5
Henry James wrote a number of ghost stories -- The Turn of the Screw being the most famous. Did he believe in ghosts himself, as did many of…

Bungay Castle

by Elizabeth Bonhôte Read by Patti Cunningham 4
Bungay Castle is a gothic novel by Elizabeth Bonhôte. It was first published in 1796 and follows the fortunes of the De Morney family …

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition

by Edgar Allan Poe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
Explore the haunting and imaginative world of Edgar Allan Poe in this comprehensive collection, the final volume of the Raven Edition. This …

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Jane Eyre is a profound exploration of a young woman's journey toward self-discovery and independence. Set in 19th-century England, the nove…

The Canal, and Leonora

by Everil Worrell Read by Ben Tucker 4.7
Everil Worrell was one of the few female writers of weird fiction in the early days of Weird Tales magazine and 1927 marked a seminal year f…

The Last of the Valerii

by Henry James Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.3
An unnamed American painter resident in Rome serves as narrator in this story, watching as his god-daughter Martha, becomes the wife of Prin…

Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is…

The Goddess

by Richard Marsh Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
After a night of drinking and gambling, John Ferguson has a terrifying dream of his neighbor being violently torn to shreds by an unknown at…

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