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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the genuineness and dignity of the weirdly horrible tale as a literary form... As may naturally be expected of a form so closely connected with primal emotion, the horror-tale is as old as human thought and speech themselves.

Contents: Edgar Allan Poe - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - The Gold Bug - The Black Cat - The Pit and the Pendulum - The Tell-Tale Heart - The Fall of the House of Usher - The Masque of the Red Death - The Cask of Amontillado - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - Hop-Frog - The RavenBram Stoker - DraculaMary Shelley - FrankensteinJoseph Sheridan Le Fanu - CarmillaRobert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeH.P. Lovecraft - The Alchemist - At the Mountains of Madness - Azathoth - The Beast in the Cave.

The moonlight spills like silver across ancient walls, and somewhere in the velvet darkness, a whisper stirs—a name, half-sighed, half-forgotten. Carmilla. A name as soft as a caress, as chilling as a shadow at the edge of the candle's glow. She does not knock at your door; she drifts through it like a dream. She is beauty wrapped in mystery, desire woven with dread. This is not a story of fangs bared in the night, nor of crude terrors lurking in the crypt. Carmilla is subtler, more intoxicating—a tale that shivers on the border between love and death, fascination and fear.

Carmilla, publié en 1872, est le plus célèbre roman de l'écrivain irlandais Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. L'œuvre est d'ailleurs l'un des romans gothiques et vampiriques les plus célèbres du genre tant les atmosphères y sont puissantes et mystérieuses. Laura, candide à souhait, incarne la parfaite héroïne gothique. Carmilla, quant à elle, personnage énigmatique et dangereux, incarne la sensualité et présente l'homosexualité féminine sous un jour nouveau, sombre, venimeux et exalté. Carmilla est un livre important dans la culture vampirique.

Love has many forms, many needs. Some fall into the dark, into the shadows. Forbidden love has connotations of desire, of possession but also of matters far more unsavoury. It’s a delicate facet of love that our classic authors explain with careful words and superbly crafted narratives.

En este relato encontraremos la historia de un ensalmador a quien la gente consideraba el mejor en este campo, era buscado por hombres, mujeres, niños y ancianos, lo que él no sabía es que desde el mas allá también iban a requerir tales servicios.

Un hombre atormentado por una figura que lo sigue y observa, un mono. Un ser perturbador que sólo el ve y después de un tiempo escucha. Le habla blasfemias incitándolo a dañar a otros o a él mismo. La manera en que el reverendo le relata su historia al doctor Hesselius llega hacer inquietante.

El convenio de Sir Dominick relata la travesía de un noble a través de un antiguo bosque, y su encuentro con una vieja casa nobiliaria en ruinas. En estas ruinas, el hombre se encuentra con un peculiar sujeto, que le desvelará los secretos del dueño de la casa,

Vor dem Schloss eines pensionierten Generals verunglückt eine Kutsche. Wirklich nur ein Unfall ...? Die mysteriöse Insassin ist gezwungen, ihre junge Tochter in der Obhut der Schlossbewohner zurückzulassen.Die ätherisch schöne Carmilla übt auf alle, aber besonders auf Laura, die gleichaltrige Tochter des Generals eine starke Faszination aus. Ein undefinierbarer Zauber umgibt das Mädchen. Noch ahnt niemand, dass Carmilla ein dunkles Geheimnis hütet.

Three Gothic Novels is a compelling collection that brings together three quintessential works of Gothic literature: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Each novel delves into the macabre and the supernatural, exploring themes of fear, horror, and the unknown, while also probing deeper questions about humanity, morality, and the boundaries of science and nature. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley tells the haunting tale of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who defies natural laws to create life, only to be horrified by the monstrous being he brings into existence.