The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) is the archetypal Gothic novel.

Whether the evolution of the human mind from the animal was by insensible gradations.

Agrave rebours, Against the Grain or Against Nature in English.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse.

British writer Edith Maude Hull was best known for her classic romantic novel.

Supported by a family inheritance that gave her £500 a year, Mary Henrietta Kingsley traveled.

The power of eloquence to move and persuade men is universally recognized.

The Imaginary Invalid is a three-part comedy about a miser who imagines illnesses for himself.

The String of Pearls is the first installment of the Sweeney Todd penny part serial.

The Cloud upon the Sanctuary is a work of Christian mysticism written in 1909.

The Female Quixote completely inverts the adventures of Don Quixote.

A young man, Olenin, is stationed in the Caucasus, where he falls in love with the place.

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Silverado Squatters as the travel memoir of his honeymoon.

A founding member of the Theosophical Society, and perhaps the first well-known European.

The most popular novel by Gothic mystery and thriller writer Sheridan Le Fanu.

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt follows on from The Lost World.

Described by H. P. Lovecraft as being one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination.

The Boats of the Glen Carrig is horror writer William Hope Hodgson's 1907 novel.

Collected here are a number of short stories by the popular American writer.