Gothic Novel & Horror Fiction
Explore chilling Gothic novels and horror fiction with our curated list of the best books. Dive into dark tales, eerie settings, and spine-tingling suspense perfect for fans of the macabre.
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The Monk
by Matthew Lewis
Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest. The great struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads its main character, the monk Ambrosio, to temptation and the breaking of his vows, then to sexual obsession and rape, and finally to murder in order to conceal his guilt. This edition contains a new introduction which shows how Lewis played with convention, ranging from gruesome realism to social comedy, and even parodied the Gothic genre in which he was writing.
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American Gothic Tales
by Various
This remarkable anthology of gothic fiction, spanning two centuries of American writing, gives us an intriguing and entertaining look at how the gothic imagination makes for great literature in the works of forty-six exceptional writers. Joyce Carol Oates has a special perspective on the âgothicâ in American short fiction, at least partially because her own horror yarns rank on the spine-tingling chart with the masters. She is able to see the unbroken link of the macabre that ties Edgar Allan Poe to Anne Rice and to recognize the dark psychological bonds between Henry James and Stephen King. In showing us the gothic visionâa world askew where mankindâs forbidden impulses are set free from the repressions of the psyche, and nature turns malevolent and lawlessâJoyce Carol Oates includes Henry Jamesâs âThe Romance of Certain Old Clothes,â Herman Melvilleâs horrific tale of factory women, âThe Tartarus of Maids,â and Edith Whartonâs âAfterward,â which are rarely collected and appear together here for the first time. Added to these stories of the past are new ones that explore the wounded worlds of Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Raymond Carver, and more than twenty other wonderful contemporary writers. This impressive collection reveals the astonishing scope of the gothic writerâs subject matter, style, and incomparable genius for manipulating our emotions and penetrating our dreams. With Joyce Carol Oatesâs superb introduction, American Gothic Tales is destined to become the standard one-volume edition of the genre that American writers, if they didnât create it outright, have brought to its chilling zenith.
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
This Norton Critical Edition presents fully annotated the text of the 1897 First Edition.
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The Shining
by Stephen King
This inspiring and compelling book has won ten awards to date, including Honorable Mentions at the December 2012 New England and London Book Festivals, October 2012 Southern California Book Festival and June 2012 New York Book Festival in the category of Spiritual books; is winner of the North American Bookdealers Ě Exchange (NABE) Pinnacle Award for âInspirationalâ books in Spring 2011; and has become a much sought-after reference for people seeking to affect positive change around the globe. Readers are: * taught how to recognize, harness and channel positive personal power for the betterment of themselves, their loved ones, associates and our universe * provided an invaluable checklist of great leadership behaviors and attitudes * taught how to recognize controlling behaviors of others and the negative patterns in society * inspired to be the best they can be * compelled to ask themselves "why am I here; what good can I do for humanity?" * taught how to recognize a self-limiting posture so they can improve their level of self-awareness......to the point of real self-intelligence and, by so doing, break free of lifeâs boxes, labels and restrictions * encouraged to erase their fears, trust their abilities and remove their baggage........and take the journey to empowerment and fulfilment in everything they do!
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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠In this modern classic, the acclaimed author of The Shards explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. "A seminal book.â âThe Washington Post One of The Atlanticâs Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront. âA masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing.... An important book.â âKatherine Dunn, bestselling author of Geek Love Look for Bret Easton Ellisâs latest novel, The Shards!
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A Writer's Reference With Help for Writing in the Disciplines With 2009 Mla Update + Documenting Sources in Apa Style: 2010 Update
by Diana Hacker
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