Classic Fiction - Horror and Gothic

• Author(s): R. L. Stevenson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMr. Utterson goes for a walk with his friend and relative Mr. Enfield, who tells a sad story in which a brute of a man knocks down a litt...

• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Picture of Dorian Gray is a gothic and moral fantasy novel by Oscar Wilde. This is the only novel he wrote and published in 1891 after he...

• Author(s): Mary Shelley • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWhen Frankenstein, a young idealist Genevan student of natural philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt, stumbled into the secret of infus...

• Author(s): H.G. Wells • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThis nightmarish tale by H.G. Wells contains all the suspense and adventure of science fiction at its best. It begins with a quiet country inn...

• Author(s): Charlotte Bronte • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJane Eyre remains one of the most widely read of English Classics. In this novel, Charlotte Bronte invented a romantic tale of passion a...

• Author(s): Emily Bronte • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWuthering Heights is a classic tale of possessive and thwarted passion, one of the forerunners of today's soap operas and romance novels. Th...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureNorthanger Abbey, written during the same period as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, represents Jane Austen's genius at its fre...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureInterest in supernatural phenomena was high during the time of Charles Dickens. He was open-minded, willing to accept, and put to test th...

• Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by...

• Author(s): A. Conan Doyle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Hound of the Baskervilles is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s third crime novel featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. It was originally ser...

• Author(s): Henry James • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIn January 1895, when Henry James was in the depths of depression due to the failure of his play Guy Domville, the Archbishop of Canterbury t...