Literary Gothic Rises from the Past

February 1, 2022 3:45 PM

Every link of my first post from October 2002 has disappeared into the WWW's afterlife, with no revenants in sight. But fear not (or fear?): other repositories of Gothic ghoulishness have risen to take their place.

(What, after all, is more Gothic than the mysterious double, er, post?)

Single-author site with e-texts:

Thin Ghost (M. R. James)

Selected authors available at WikiSource:

Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Ghosts (1904)
E. F. Benson, The Room in the Tower and Other Stories (1912)
Wilkie Collins, After Dark (1856)
Rudyard Kipling, The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales (1890)
J. S. Le Fanu, In A Glass Darkly (1872)
Edith Nesbit, Grim Tales (1893)

And at Project Gutenberg:

Algernon Blackwood, Day and Night Stories (1917)
Arthur Conan Doyle, Tales of Terror and Mystery
Elizabeth Gaskell, Curious, If True
Vernon Lee, Hauntings (1890)
Mary Shelley, Tales and Stories


And at archive.org:

Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ralph the Bailiff and Other Stories (both ghost/horror tales and sensation fiction)
Margaret Oliphant, Stories of the Seen and Unseen
Bram Stoker, Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914)

posted by thomas j wise (3 comments total)

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posted by gwint at 4:10 PM on February 1, 2022 [2 favorites]

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posted by zenon at 4:49 PM on February 1, 2022

Link rot (WP).
posted by cenoxo at 5:41 PM on February 1, 2022