The Castle of Otranto

The Monk

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Matthew Lewis
• Narrated By Nigel Carrington
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The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest. The great struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads the monk Ambrosio, into temptation and the breaking of his vows, then to sexual obsession and rape, and finally to murder in order to conceal his guilt. Written when Matthew Lewis was only 19, The Monk was criticised when first published in 1796 for its lewdness and impiety, but this criticism only added to its popularity.

The Mysteries of Udolpho

• UNABRIDGED (31 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Ann Ward Radcliffe
• Narrated By Alison Larkin
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This was the most popular novel of Radcliffe's time; Radcliffe's portrayal of her heroine's inner life raised the Gothic romance to a new level. The atmosphere of fear and the gripping plot continue to thrill today. This is the story of the orphaned Emily St Aubert, who finds herself separated from the man she loves and confined within the Castle of Udolpho by her aunt's new husband Montoni. Here she must cope with an unwanted suitor, Montoni's threats, and the wild imaginings and terrors which threaten to overwhelm her.

Frankenstein

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Mary Shelley
• Narrated By Dan Stevens
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Narrator Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) presents an uncanny performance of Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel, an epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.

In a Glass Darkly

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• Narrated By Nicholas Boulton, David Horovitch, Jonathan Keeble, and others
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Demons, vengeful spirits, insanity, premature burials, and lesbian vampires. In a Glass Darkly contains five diabolical tales of horror and mystery that will get the heart racing. Each story, including the famous "Green Tea" and "Carmilla", is presented as a case from the posthumous papers of Dr. Martin Hesselius, a metaphysical physician who has no doubt as to the existence of supernatural phenomena - unlike our anxious protagonists....

The House of the Seven Gables

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Narrated By Anthony Heald
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In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family of Salem.

The Haunting of Hill House

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Shirley Jackson
• Narrated By Bernadette Dunne
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Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House.

Northanger Abbey

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Jane Austen
• Narrated By Juliet Stevenson
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When Catherine Morland, a country clergyman's daughter, is invited to spend a season in Bath with the fashionable high society, little does she imagine the delights and perils that await her. Captivated and disconcerted by what she finds, and introduced to the joys of "Gothic novels" by her new friend, Isabella, Catherine longs for mystery and romance. When she is invited to stay with the beguiling Henry Tilney and his family at Northanger Abbey, she expects mystery and intrigue at every turn.

Carmilla

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• Narrated By Phoebe Fox, Rose Leslie, David Tennant, and others

Audible Originals bring you a brand new audiobook adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic gothic novella, Carmilla - starring Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey), David Tennant (Doctor Who and Broadchurch) and Phoebe Fox (Life in Squares and The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death)

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Robert Louis Stevenson
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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When a brute of a man tramples an innocent girl, apparently out of spite, two bystanders catch the fellow and force him to pay reparations to the girl's family. The brute's name is Edward Hyde. A respected lawyer, Utterson, hears this story and begins to unravel the seemingly manic behavior of his best friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and his connection with Hyde.

The Turn of the Screw

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Henry James
• Narrated By Emma Thompson, Richard Armitage - introduction
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Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Emmy winner Emma Thompson lends her immense talent and experienced voice to Henry James' Gothic ghost tale, The Turn of the Screw. When a governess is hired to care for two children at a British country estate, she begins to sense an otherworldly presence around the grounds. Are they really ghosts she's seeing? Or is something far more sinister at work?

Against Nature (Against the Grain)

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Narrated By Nicholas Boulton

Against Nature was one of the most shocking French novels of the 19th century. When it was published in 1884, it thrilled the aesthetes, the poets, and the intellectuals of Europe on both sides of the Channel (notably Oscar Wilde) because for all its lofty tone, it had, as its core, an unbridled decadence, and it was this same character that challenged, even horrified, established bourgeois society.

The Old Curiosity Shop

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Charles Dickens
• Narrated By Anton Lesser
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Provoking an unprecedented outpouring of public grief when it was first published, it follows the story of Little Nell and her feckless grandfather. Forced to leave their magical shop of curiosities in London, they are pursued across the English countryside by the grotesquely evil dwarf Quilp. They escape - but at what cost?

A Sicilian Romance

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Ann Ward Radcliffe
• Narrated By Alison Larkin
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A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe is considered the pioneer of the gothic novel.

On the northern shore of Sicily, the magnificent remains of a castle, which formerly belonged to the noble house of Mazzini, can still be seen. It stands in the center of a small bay, and upon a gentle acclivity, which, on one side, slopes toward the sea, and on the other rises into an eminence crowned by dark woods....

Lord Jim

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Joseph Conrad
• Narrated By Ric Jerrom

Jim, the first mate aboard a small steamer named the Patna, travels from port to port in the Pacific Ocean. When the ship hits floating wreckage, Jim and the crew are forced to abandon it, leaving hundreds of ethnic travelers onboard. However, Jim's reprehensible actions are soon discovered by the court, and he is compelled to face his guilt and redeem himself - a journey that leads him to a remote exotic location where he is revered as the Lord, "Tuan Jim".

Antony and Cleopatra

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 24 mins)
• By William Shakespeare
• Narrated By Kenneth Branagh, Alex Kingston

Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston star in Shakespeare's tragedy of love and power. As part of BBC Radio 3's celebration of the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston star in this brand-new production. Lovers, politicians, superstars... Antony & Cleopatra is Shakespeare’s late and epic tragedy of mature love, and the catastrophic fall from grace and power that it brings about.

Ivanhoe

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Walter Scott
• Narrated By David McCallion
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Ivanhoe is the perfect novel for any listener who loves an action-packed adventure based on the mythology and legends of Medieval times in England. Set in the 12th century, Ivanhoe is the story of a young man who joins up with Richard the Lion Hearted during a dark time where England is split between the Normans and the Saxons, pitting friends and family against each other through the conquering of land and the changing seats of the Royal Family.

The Canterbury Tales [Audio Connoisseur]

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Geoffrey Chaucer, Neville Coghill (translator)
• Narrated By Charlton Griffin

If you want to understand the daily life and psychology of the Late Middle Ages, Neville Coghill's famous translation of The Canterbury Tales provides one of the very best means of doing so. Within its pages are to be found a broad range of society – high and low, male and female, rich and poor – who express their innermost beliefs and extravagant fantasies in a series of stories they tell as they make their way to Canterbury cathedral.

Robinson Crusoe

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Daniel Defoe
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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Widely regarded as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is one of the most popular and influential adventure stories of all time. This classic tale of shipwreck and survival on an uninhabited island was an instant success when first published in 1719, and it has inspired countless imitations.