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1	The haunting of Hill House more books like this by Shirley Jackson add to wishlist Aside from her short story, "The Lottery", "The Haunting of Hill House" is probably Shirley Jackson's most famous work. Dr. Montague is a scholar of the occult, looking for evidence of haunting. He has recruited three volunteers to spend a summer investigating the paranormal phenomena at Hill House. Only Eleanor, a lonely young women all too well ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	We have always lived in the castle more books like this by Shirley Jackson add to wishlist Merricat, Constance and Uncle Julian Blackwood reside at their family estate. Once there were seven Blackwoods in the affluent family, until four of them were poisoned by arsenic in the sugar bowl. The survivors are snubbed, even openly reviled, by the not-so-wealthy townspeople, who believe that Constance did the killing. One day their cousin ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Mysteries of Udolpho more books like this by Ann Ward Radcliffe add to wishlist This classic Gothic novel by the incomparable Ann Radcliffe tells the story of Emily, her lover, Valancourt, and the evil Count Montoni, whose castle Udolpho provides the setting. see all copies from $3.99! new only from $4.89! \| SVS
4	The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story more books like this by Horace Walpole add to wishlist First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the second edition, 'to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern'. He gives us a series of catastrophes, ghostly interventions, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Italian more books like this by Ann Ward Radcliffe add to wishlist A Gothic romance from 1797 by Mrs. Radcliffe, a master of the genre. In this ground-breaking novel the sinister monk Schedoni creates a complex world of evil. The novel was ahead of its time--and also a step forward from Mrs. Radcliffe's other Gothic romances--in its intense concentration on character. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.90! \| SVS
6	Void more books like this by Georges Perec, Gilbert Adair add to wishlist In Perec's extraordinary tour de force--written entirely without the use of the letter "e"--a group of people die or are otherwise eliminated as a result of their inability to "name the unnameable," i.e. to use the letter "e." This novel is a classic text of the Oulipo, the French literary movement that produces works of art using formal ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.59! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Castle of Otranto more books like this by Horace Walpole add to wishlist First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the second edition, `to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern'. He gives us a series of catastrophes, ghostly interventions, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Grotesque more books like this by Patrick McGrath add to wishlist A novel steeped in horror that tells the story of Sir Hugo Coal, once a famous naturalist, now paralyzed and speechless. The Butler has seduced his wife, the Butler's wife is drinking up his claret, and his daughter's fiancé has been dismembered, his body found in a nearby marsh. Sir Hugo knows who killed him but is helpless to intervene. This ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Romance of the Forest more books like this by Ann Ward Radcliffe add to wishlist The Romance of the Forest (1791) heralded an enormous surge in the popularity of Gothic novels, in a decade that included Ann Radcliffe's later works, The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian. Set in Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fate of its heroine Adeline, who is mysteriously placed ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Unicorn more books like this by Iris Murdoch add to wishlist When Marion Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house upon a coast, she finds herself confronted with weird mysteries. Some crime or catastrophe in the past still keeps the house under a spell, whose magic also touches the neighbouring house of Riders, inhabited by a recluse. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	And the ass saw the angel more books like this by Nick Cave add to wishlist 'Bible-black humour...enough visitations, portents and religious lunacy to qualify as the second-greatest story ever told' - "Elle". 'It is as if a Faulkner novel had been crossed with "Whistle Down the Wind" and then narrated by a stoned blues musician' - "Daily Telegraph". see all copies from $11.13! new only from $11.13! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	To Sleep with Evil: Ravenloft more books like this by Ed Greenwood, Andria Cardarelle, Andria Hayday add to wishlist Desperate to escape the terrors of Ravenloft, Marguerite came to Lord Donskoy's castle full of hope for the future. Instead, she found herself betrothed to a mysterious purveyor of flesh whose secret past, like the dead, refused to stay buried. Now Donskoy's marriage has invoked a dark curse, and Marguarite into a web of fear and passion. see all copies from $2.79! new only from $39.99! \| first editions
13 view cover	Waking the Moon more books like this by Elizabeth Hand add to wishlist When an ancient carving of the Mother Goddess starts to sprout leaves, it is seen as a sign of the Goddess's second coming. However, dark forces are working in opposition to such a miracle: dark forces that will try to keep apart the two who are destined to become parents to the Goddess. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Sundial more books like this by Shirley Jackson add to wishlist see all copies from $9.95! signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Sicilian romance more books like this by Ann Ward Radcliffe add to wishlist In "A Sicilian Romance" (1790) Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her an exemplar of the Gothic novel, and the idol of the Romantics. This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily's castles and covents to reveal the shameful secrets ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.01! \| SVS
16 view cover	Melmoth the wanderer more books like this by Charles Robert Maturin add to wishlist Written in 1820 by an eccentric Anglican curate in Dublin, this work brought the terrors of the Gothic novel to a new pitch of claustrophobic intensity. Its tormented villain, a Faustian transgressor desperately seeking a victim to release him from his fatal bargain with the devil, was regarded by Balzac as one of the great outcasts of modern ... see all copies from $3.50! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17	Wingarden more books like this by Elsie Lee add to wishlist see all copies from $2.35! first editions
18	The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western more books like this by Richard Brautigan add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Zofloya: Or the Moor more books like this by Charlotte Dacre, Kim Ian Michasiw (Editor) add to wishlist 'Few venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin.' This is the final judgement of Satan on Victoria di Loredani, the heroine of Zofloya, or The Moor (1806), a tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple murder set in Venice in the last days of the fifteenth century. The novel follows Victoria's progress from spoilt daughter of indulgent aristocrats ... see all copies from $7.49! new only from $7.74! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Italian or the Confessional of the Black Penitents a Romance more books like this by Ann Ward Radcliffe add to wishlist 'His figure was striking, but not so from grace ...and as he stalked along, wrapt in the black garments of his order, there was something terrible in its air; something almost super-human.' First published in 1797, The Italian is one of the finest examples of Gothic romance. The fast-paced, narrative centres on Ann Radcliffe's most brilliant ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.07! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	To Sleep with Evil more books like this by Andria Cardarelle add to wishlist This re-release of the romantic vampire tale features all-new cover art and anew trade paperback format. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
22	The Bird's Nest more books like this by Shirley Jackson add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Old Manor House more books like this by Charlotte Turner Smith add to wishlist This is a sentimental romance with a Gothic setting, written in 1793 by Charlotte Smith, a poet and novelist who wrote to support her eight children. It is a complex story concerning Orlando, a second son, who must enter the military service for a living while his older brother wastes the family's small fortune. Orlando has a slight hope of an ... see all copies from $2.14! new only from $15.50! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Vathek more books like this by William Beckford add to wishlist Vathek (1786), originally written in French, remains one of the strangest eighteenth-century novels and one of the most difficult to classify. Perverse and grotesque comedy alternates with scenes of 'oriental' magnificence and evocative beauty in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to superb damnation among the subterranean ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.93! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Monk a Romance more books like this by M G Lewis add to wishlist The story of a monk who succumbs to the temptations of a young girl, Lewis's early 19th-century novel was vilified in its time as obscene, blasphemous, and morally corrupt. It was, however, admired by many of the great writers of its time--from the Marquis de Sade to Emily Brontë. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $13.55! \| first editions

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