Gothic stories

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76 stories

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1,226

Seventy-six stories where the house, the guest, or the face across the table is not what it claims to be. A lodger whose bag must never be touched, a tenant who pays her rent in paintings signed under a false name, a client never available in daylight, orphans placed with a guardian who must never be disturbed.

TeenThe Woman in WhiteA drawing master walks the Finchley Road at midnight and a woman dressed entirely in white puts her hand on his shoulder.Complete · 136 chaptersMatureWuthering HeightsYour new landlord lives four miles off, in a farmhouse where the dogs are not pets and no one offers tea twice.Complete · 117 chaptersTeenThe LodgerA soft-spoken gentleman takes the upstairs rooms, pays a month in advance, and asks only that his bag never be touched.Complete · 113 chaptersMatureDracula - Season TwoLucy Westenra is fading by inches, and four men give her their blood without asking what keeps taking it out.Complete · 72 chaptersMatureJane EyreThe red-room at Gateshead is where they lock a ten-year-old for striking back, and it is where her story begins.Complete · 70 chaptersMatureFrankensteinA ship frozen into the polar ice takes aboard a stranger who has been chasing something across the floes by dog-sledge.Complete · 64 chaptersMatureDracula - Season ThreeThe Count quits London with his last boxes of earth, and the six people who know what he is follow him toward the Borgo Pass.Complete · 62 chaptersMatureThe Phantom of the OperaThe voice behind the dressing-room wall has given three months of singing lessons and calls itself the Angel of Music.Complete · 61 chaptersMatureThe Tenant of Wildfell HallThe new tenant of the half-ruined hall pays her rent with paintings signed in a false name and answers no questions.Complete · 54 chaptersMatureDracula - Season OneA young solicitor travels east to close a property sale with a client who is never available in daylight.Complete · 36 chaptersMatureThe Picture of Dorian Gray - Season OneIn a rose-scented studio a painter finishes the best portrait of his life and begs his friend not to spoil the sitter.Complete · 32 chaptersMatureThe Turn of the ScrewA young governess takes charge of two beautiful orphans at Bly, on the strict condition that the guardian never be disturbed.Complete · 32 chaptersMatureThe Picture of Dorian Gray - Season TwoEighteen years on, your face has not aged a day — and this morning there is a dead man in the attic schoolroom.Complete · 28 chaptersTeenCarmillaA carriage overturns outside a lonely Styrian schloss and leaves a girl behind in it.Complete · 22 chaptersTeenA Beleaguered CityOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenA Romance of Two WorldsYou play a musician too exhausted and sleepless for your own work, sent to Cannes with the Everards when a doctor's remedies run out.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenA Sicilian RomanceOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenA Terrible SecretSir Victor Catheron returns three months late from a promised June homecoming, and you, Inez, want the reason before you forgive the delay.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenArdathOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureBasilOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenCaleb WilliamsYou are Caleb Williams, newly orphaned and hired as secretary to the melancholy Mr Falkland for your reading, not your birth.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureGone to EarthHazel Woodus walks home to the Callow with wreath frames for a failing neighbor, her pet fox Foxy waiting by the hearth.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenGuy ManneringA wrong turn on the moor brings you, a young astrologer fresh from Oxford, to Ellangowan on the night its heir is born.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenKate DantonOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureLilithYou inherit a house with a librarian nobody else remembers, and following him down a corridor turns his coat into wings.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureMelmoth the WandererOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureOf One BloodOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenPeter IbbetsonYou play Peter Ibbetson, orphaned as a boy called Gogo and shipped from a Passy garden to an English uncle who erases the name with it.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMaturePhantastesOngoing · 6 chaptersMaturePharos, the EgyptianYou play Cyril Forrester, a painter whose Egyptian canvas has just made his name.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenRodney StoneOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureRookwoodOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe BeetleYou are Robert Holt, three days without food or work, and every casual ward in Hammersmith turns you away before midnight.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Castle of OtrantoYou are the bride. The bells have rung over Otranto since morning, and the groom, Matilda's feverish brother Conrad, has not left his room.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Dead SecretYou play Rosamond Treverton, marrying blind Leonard Frankland in a hushed dawn ceremony your father can barely bring himself to attend.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Ghost PiratesYou are Jessop, signing aboard the Mortzestus despite dockside talk that she lost half her crew last voyage, none returning for their gear.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Haunted HotelYou play Agnes Lockwood, burning the last of Lord Montbarry's letters the morning he marries someone else.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Hidden HandYou play the Major of Hurricane Hall, roused from bed on a storm-locked night by a minister who insists your office, not your prayers, is needed.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Hill of DreamsYou play Lucian, a schoolboy who loses himself down a flooded lane on the last day of his holidays and comes out in country he does not recognize.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe House on the BorderlandOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Hunchback of Notre-DameEpiphany night in the Place de Greve: the crowd that walked out of a poet's mystery play is yours now, and the drum and the goat hold it.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe ItalianOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Jewel of Seven StarsOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Lair of the White WormYou play Adam Salton, summoned from Australia to be your great-uncle's heir at Lesser Hill in Derbyshire.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Lancashire WitchesOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Midnight QueenOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe MonkMadrid fills the Capuchin church an hour early to hear a monk who has barely left its walls since childhood.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Mysteries of UdolphoOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Mystery of CloomberYou are John West, moved with your father and sister Esther to a remote Wigtownshire agency after his scholarship outpaced his rent.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Mystery of the SeaBack in Cruden Bay, you catch a vision no one else sees: a man ahead of his family carrying a child's coffin, an hour before that child drowns.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Old Curiosity ShopOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Old English BaronYou are Edmund Twyford, a cottager's son raised among Baron Fitz-Owen's sons and never let forget it.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Phantom ShipOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified SinnerOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Romance of the ForestOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Sorrows of SatanYou are Geoffrey Tempest, a rejected writer with no coal and rent due tomorrow, holding three unopened letters.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Soul of LilithOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Three ImpostorsOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe White Witch of RosehallOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThelmaYou play Sir Philip, left ashore under Norway's midnight sun while your friends row off to an island.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenTrilbyOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenUncle SilasYou play Maud Ruthyn, watching your father conduct furtive, unexplained business with a visiting religious associate at Knowl.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureVendettaYou play Count Fabio Romani, whose wife Nina and small daughter Stella still trust that cholera will spare their villa.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureVeraYou play Lucy, sitting at her father's desk the night he has died, when a stranger appears at the gate with no umbrella and no invitation.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureWitch WoodYou are David Sempill, newly ordained minister of a parish that distrusts your youth and fears the black wood above the manse.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenZanoniOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureZiskaOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenAnne HerefordAn express carried eleven-year-old Anne Hereford north in mourning, alone except for a guard's occasional care.Preview · 1 chapterTeenAyesha: The Return of SheA year after returning from Kor, Horace Holly and Leo Vincey lived in an old Cumberland house seeking a path back to Ayesha.Preview · 1 chapterMatureFolle-FarineThe brook wheel turns beneath wet black timbers while flour dust slips through the open mill door.Preview · 1 chapterTeenLady's WalkMr Temple had met the Campbell family during travel in Switzerland, where lost luggage and bad hotels had failed to damage their easy friendship.Preview · 1 chapterTeenPut Yourself in His PlaceThe old church between Cairnhope's forks had stood deserted but guarded since the village moved into the valley.Preview · 1 chapterMatureThe Baronet's Bride; Or, A Woman's VengeanceMidnight rain lashes the tall windows of Kingsland Court while Sir Jasper paces beneath the crest that commands, Strike once, and strike well.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Bride of LammermoorOn the morning after Lord Ravenswood's funeral, you sat in the old castle library while the legal officer requested an urgent hearing.Preview · 1 chapterMatureThe Queen of the IsleCampbell's Isle lies six miles from the mainland, two miles of forest and pasture ringed by Atlantic water and winter silence.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Witch of PragueA memorial Mass filled Prague's Teyn Church until worshippers stood shoulder to shoulder beneath the dark Gothic vaults.Preview · 1 chapter

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