The Pit and The Pendulum is a classic short story written by Edgar Allan Poe that was first published in 1843. Set in the Spanish Inquisition, the story is a tale of terror and suspense that explores the depths of human fear and desperation. The protagonist of the story is an unnamed prisoner who is being held captive by the Spanish Inquisitors...

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a classic short story that explores themes of guilt, obsession, and madness. The story is told from the perspective of a narrator who claims to be sane, but is consumed by a growing sense of paranoia and guilt. The narrator becomes fixated on an old man's eye and eventually becomes driven to kill him. The story is known...

The short story involves Mr. and Mrs. White and their adult son, Herbert. Sergeant-Major Morris, a friend who served with the British Army in India, comes by for dinner and introduces them to a mummified monkey's paw. An old fakir placed a spell on the paw, so that it would grant three wishes but only with hellish consequences as punishment for...

It was the easiest £3,000 Nelson Ryan had ever made - but suddenly he realised he was being played for a sucker. A telephone call, seemingly innocent enough, led him to the murder of a Chinese call-girl who talked too much. It also pitched him straight into the teeming, sordid night life of colourful Hong Kong. From now on, Ryan would stick at...

Mary Ann Evans chose to write realistic works, so the first and only genre work of Mary Ann was the story The Lifted Veil, about a man wielding the gift of foresight. This is one of the classic works of Victorian Gothic....

Prince Prospero with a thousand close associates during an epidemic hides in a closed monastery, leaving his subjects to the mercy of fate. The monastery is secured and isolated to everyone, so they can not be afraid of infection. The masquerade ball arranged by the prince is so magnificent that the Red Death itself comes to participate ......

Two pleasant days in a boat on the Danube, enjoy its beauty and decide to spend the night on a small island. Gradually they are killed in that they were in ignorance and in a hostile world....

Roderick Asher, the last offspring of an ancient family, invites a friend of his youth to visit him and stay in a family castle on the shores of a gloomy lake. Lady Madilein, Roderick’s sister is seriously and hopelessly ill, her days are numbered and even her friend’s arrival is not able to dispel Asher’s sadness. After the death of Madeline, one...

Mr. and Mrs. Allen invite a young, naive, never leaving a village home, Catherine Morland to visit them in Bath. There she is busy with the eccentric general Tinley, his son Henry Tinley, his daughter Elenor Tinley. Catherine is invited to the general’s family estate - Northanger Abbey, where the girl, a lover of Gothic novels, imagines the...

In the ancient English castle of Canterville lives a real English ghost. It scares the inhabitants of the castle at night - the venerable Otis family. In the arsenal of ghosts, there are petty pranks, and quite terrible horror stories. But no one in the castle for some reason believes in mysterious ghosts ... What a disrespect for traditions! The...