Gothic Shadows

A guided descent through the Gothic tradition, beginning with haunted places and psychological unease, moving through vampires and uncanny doubles, and culminating in the genre's most enduring monsters.



Included works:

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) — The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) — The Haunted House (Charles Dickens) — The Canterville Ghost, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) — The Turn of the Screw (Henry James) — Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (M. R. James) — Carnacki, The Ghost Finder (William Hope Hodgson) — The Great God Pan (Arthur Machen) — The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ann Radcliffe) — The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) — Carmilla (Sheridan Le Fanu) — Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) — Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) — Dracula (Bram Stoker).