Silas's past holds a dark mystery: the suspicious suicide of a man to whom Silas owed an enormous gambling debt, which took place within a locked, apparently impenetrable room in...

"Stories of Lough Guir" is a short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery...

The gothic story is narrated by a young woman Laura preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein. Laura lives in a picturesque...

"The Child that Went with the Fairies" is a short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales...

"Dickon the Devil" is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic...

In the five Northumbrian counties you will scarcely find so bleak, ugly, and yet, in a savage way, so picturesque a moor as Dardale Moss. The moor itself spreads north, south,...

When Schalken studied under the immortal Gerard Douw, he was a very young man; and in spite of his phlegmatic temperament, he at once fell over head and ears in love with the...

"Carmilla" is a Gothic vampire novella that follows Laura, a young woman living in a remote castle who befriends the mysterious Carmilla after a carriage accident. As their...

The pretty little town of Golden Friars—standing by the margin of the lake, hemmed round by an amphitheatre of purple mountain, rich in tint and furrowed by ravines, high in...

Though carefully educated in medicine and surgery, I have never practised either. The study of each continues, nevertheless, to interest me profoundly. Neither idleness nor...