Gothic stories

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63 stories

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63 Gothic stories on netfable, free to read — interactive fiction told as a conversation, where every reply is your choice.

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 chapters · ~8 hr 50 min · About 8 hr 50 min totalBy netfable official

MatureWuthering HeightsYour new landlord lives four miles off, in a farmhouse where the dogs are not pets and no one offers tea twice.Complete · 117 chapters · ~6 hr 30 min · About 6 hr 30 min totalBy netfable official

TeenThe LodgerA soft-spoken gentleman takes the upstairs rooms, pays a month in advance, and asks only that his bag never be touched.Complete · 113 chapters · ~5 hr 25 min · About 5 hr 25 min totalBy netfable official

TeenThe Old Curiosity ShopYou are Nell, and when your grandfather's debt hands the shop to Daniel Quilp you take to the north roads.Ongoing · 73 chapters · ~3 hr 5 min · About 3 hr 5 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureDracula - Season TwoLucy Westenra is fading by inches, and four men give her their blood without asking what keeps taking it out.Complete · 72 chapters · ~4 hr 40 min · About 4 hr 40 min totalBy netfable official

18+Three ThronesComplete · 71 chapters · ~4 hr 45 min · About 4 hr 45 min totalBy Lydia Kerr

MatureJane 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 chapters · ~4 hr 10 min · About 4 hr 10 min totalBy netfable official

MatureFrankensteinA ship frozen into the polar ice takes aboard a stranger who has been chasing something across the floes by dog-sledge.Complete · 64 chapters · ~3 hr 40 min · About 3 hr 40 min totalBy netfable official

MatureThe 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 chapters · ~3 hr 45 min · About 3 hr 45 min totalBy netfable official

TeenZanoniYou are Viola, daughter of the composer Gaetano Pisani, and the stranger watching your secret San Carlo debut has not aged in seventy years.Ongoing · 50 chapters · ~2 hr 35 min · About 2 hr 35 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe House by the Church-YardYou play Doctor Walsingham, rector of Chapelizod, summoned by an unsigned letter to a stormy midnight burial of a lead coffin marked only R.Ongoing · 48 chapters · ~2 hr 35 min · About 2 hr 35 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenDemosYou are Mrs Waltham, a Wanley widow whose daughter Adela expected Hubert Eldon to inherit the Manor.Ongoing · 40 chapters · ~1 hr 45 min · About 1 hr 45 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureLilithYou are the heir of a house with one librarian nobody else remembers, and his black coat widens into wings.Ongoing · 40 chapters · ~1 hr 35 min · About 1 hr 35 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThelmaYou play Sir Philip Errington, who courts Thelma at her father's timber gaard beneath the Norwegian fjeld.Ongoing · 36 chapters · ~2 hr 10 min · About 2 hr 10 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureWylder's HandYou are Charlie de Cresseron, called to Brandon Hall by an old schoolfellow, Mark Wylder, to advise him through the marriage settlement binding him to Dorcas Brandon.Ongoing · 34 chapters · ~1 hr 25 min · About 1 hr 25 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenCaleb WilliamsYou are Caleb Williams, newly orphaned and hired as secretary to the melancholy Mr Falkland for your reading, not your birth.Ongoing · 32 chapters · ~1 hr 25 min · About 1 hr 25 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenGuy ManneringA wrong turn on the moor brings you, a young astrologer fresh from Oxford, to Ellangowan on the night its heir is born.Ongoing · 32 chapters · ~1 hr 20 min · About 1 hr 20 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureMelmoth the WandererYou are John Melmoth, called from Trinity College to a decaying house where your dying uncle points at an empty corner and swears a portrait dated 1646 walks the locked courtyard.Ongoing · 32 chapters · ~2 hr 5 min · About 2 hr 5 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe 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 chapters · ~1 hr 30 min · About 1 hr 30 min totalBy netfable official

MatureThe 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 chapters · ~2 hr 25 min · About 2 hr 25 min totalBy netfable official

18+FrostboundComplete · 31 chapters · ~2 hr 35 min · About 2 hr 35 min totalBy Willow Oakley

TeenRodney StoneYou are Roddy, working the forge with Boy Jim and his uncle Champion Harrison when a lord's coach passes too fast and too close, and the guinea tossed as apology lands refused in the mud.Ongoing · 30 chapters · ~1 hr 40 min · About 1 hr 40 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenUncle SilasYou play Maud Ruthyn, watching your father conduct furtive, unexplained business with a visiting religious associate at Knowl.Ongoing · 30 chapters · ~1 hr 45 min · About 1 hr 45 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureRookwoodYou are Luke, brought by your grandfather, sexton Peter Bradley, into Rookwood's midnight vault to learn a secret about your mother, Susan Bradley: a hidden marriage to Sir Piers Rookwood that would make you heir before cousin Ranulph.Ongoing · 28 chapters · ~1 hr 35 min · About 1 hr 35 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe ItalianYou play Vincentio di Vivaldi, son of a proud Neapolitan house, who trails a veiled young woman and her aunt home from Mass and returns by night to listen beneath their window.Ongoing · 28 chapters · ~1 hr 40 min · About 1 hr 40 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe 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 chapters · ~1 hr 25 min · About 1 hr 25 min totalBy netfable official

TeenA 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 · 26 chapters · ~1 hr 40 min · About 1 hr 40 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Hound of the BaskervillesSir Charles Baskerville is found dead on his own grounds, his face changed, with the prints of an enormous hound nearby.Complete · 26 chapters · ~1 hr 50 min · About 1 hr 50 min totalBy netfable official

TeenThe House on the MoorUrgent letters draw Reginald Leyburn toward the father he has not seen for seven years.Ongoing · 26 chapters · ~1 hr 10 min · About 1 hr 10 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe 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 · 26 chapters · ~1 hr 20 min · About 1 hr 20 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Sorrows of SatanYou are Geoffrey Tempest, a rejected writer with no coal and rent due tomorrow, holding three unopened letters.Ongoing · 26 chapters · ~1 hr 15 min · About 1 hr 15 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe BeetleYou are Robert Holt, three days without food or work, and every casual ward in Hammersmith turns you away before midnight.Ongoing · 24 chapters · ~1 hr 15 min · About 1 hr 15 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Dead SecretYou play Rosamond Treverton, marrying blind Leonard Frankland in a hushed dawn ceremony your father can barely bring himself to attend.Ongoing · 24 chapters · ~56 min · About 56 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe MonkMadrid fills the Capuchin church an hour early to hear a monk who has barely left its walls since childhood.Ongoing · 24 chapters · ~1 hr 20 min · About 1 hr 20 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Romance of the ForestYou are Adeline, pushed at gunpoint from a locked room into the carriage of a stranger, Pierre de la Motte, who cannot promise safety but offers more than your keepers did.Ongoing · 24 chapters · ~48 min · About 48 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Midnight QueenYou are Sir Norman Kingsley, crossing plague-emptied London to keep an appointment with your friend Ormiston, who loves the veiled fortune-teller La Masque without ever having seen her face.Ongoing · 23 chapters · ~1 hr 10 min · About 1 hr 10 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenCarmillaA carriage overturns outside a lonely Styrian schloss and leaves a girl behind in it.Complete · 22 chapters · ~1 hr 20 min · About 1 hr 20 min totalBy netfable official

MatureThe Soul of LilithYou are Sir Frederick Vaughan, bored at the theatre, when a white-haired stranger named El-Rami takes the seat ahead of you and names things about your evening he has no way to know.Ongoing · 22 chapters · ~1 hr 15 min · About 1 hr 15 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureWhite GlovesYour uncle Edmond has died, and the man who was his butler has been looking for you ever since — he finds you, of all places, on a dating app.Complete · 19 chapters · ~3 hr · About 3 hr totalBy Maeve Monroe

18+Little MoonComplete · 11 chapters · ~1 hr 10 min · About 1 hr 10 min totalBy Kira Mason

TeenA Beleaguered CityYou play the mayor of Semur, already weighing a public taunt about faith and money when the town wakes to a grey dawn that will not lift into daylight.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenA Sicilian RomanceYou play Julia Mazzini, growing up between your sister Emilia and a locked south wing of Castle Mazzini where a dying servant's last words and unexplained lights keep pointing after your father shuts the subject down.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~20 min · About 20 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureBasilYou are Basil, drifting west on a London omnibus to escape a father who has already planned your life, when a linen-draper's daughter named Margaret Sherwin sits beside you, guarding a wet parcel.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenCastle DangerousYou are Lady Augusta de Berkely, disguised as a minstrel's sick apprentice to stand beside the governor England mocks as castle dangerous.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~29 min · About 29 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenCastle RackrentYou are Thady Quirk, steward to the Rackrents, whose loyalty means keeping the house's secrets while debts eat the estate.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureJezebel's DaughterYour uncle Ephraim Wagner is dead, and his will hands the business entirely to his widow.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenKit and KittyYou are Kit Orchardson, a gardener under Uncle Corny's maxims against women, until a face appears in the manor pew at Sunbury church.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~27 min · About 27 min published so farBy netfable official

MaturePharos, the EgyptianYou play Cyril Forrester, a painter whose Egyptian canvas has just made his name.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Black RobeYou are a retired officer persuaded to escort your gloomy friend Lewis Romayne to Boulogne, where an old acquaintance's card party turns ugly when a stranger needles Romayne over a glass of wine.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe 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 chapters · ~25 min · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Enchanted CastleYou spend the holidays exploring Yalding Castle with Gerald and Jimmy and find a girl asleep among the garden statues, claiming to be an enchanted princess under a hundred-year spell.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe 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 chapters · ~20 min · About 20 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Honorable MissYou are Lucy Meadowsweet, a widow in Northbury, a town that reads lit windows like omens.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~28 min · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe House on the BorderlandYou and your fishing companion Tonnison camp forty rough miles out in a nameless corner of western Ireland, a fortnight's stay agreed with their driver, until a villager's broken warning sends you upriver rather than home.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~22 min · About 22 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Jewel of Seven StarsYou play Malcolm Ross, roused before dawn by a message from Margaret Trelawny: someone has tried to murder her father in a locked, bolted room surrounded by Egyptian relics.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe 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 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Mysteries of UdolphoAn evening walk in Gascony: your father carries a book, you carry the lute, and the path drops through chestnuts to the fishing house he kept when Paris wanted his ambition.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Old English BaronYou are Edmund Twyford, a cottager's son raised among Baron Fitz-Owen's sons and never let forget it.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~29 min · About 29 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified SinnerYour guardian, Reverend Wringhim, declares you sealed among the elect, incapable now of losing grace whatever you do, and your mother Rabina weeps with joy at the news.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Three ImpostorsYou are Dyson, a London idler with unfinished manuscripts and a taste for the marvelous, until Charles Phillipps turns years of friendly argument into evidence: a worn gold coin found on the pavement, and a spectacled young man in the fog begging you not to let three strangers see it.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~20 min · About 20 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenTrilbyYou share a Latin Quarter studio with two fellow painters when two shabby musicians talk their way in, followed by Trilby, a laughing model who sings an old song beautifully out of tune.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~22 min · About 22 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureZiskaYou are Armand Gervase, a French painter at a Cairo costume ball, arguing that death ends everything while your friend Denzil Murray anxiously awaits the mysterious Princess Ziska.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~26 min · About 26 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenPenshurst Castle in the Time of Sir Philip SidneyLucy Gifford longed to leave the hilltop, while her widowed sister Mary guarded the old home and feared every glittering promise below.Preview · 1 chapter · ~5 min · About 5 min published so farBy netfable official

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