A Halloween Pick-Me-Up pt. 1

Does the Halloween season have you singing the blues instead of rolling in the red and orange? Do you find yourself sitting all night in the pumpkin patch all alone? Has all that candy gone to your waist? Does your costume chafe and itch? Are all your parties attended by poopers?

Then it must be time for a quick Halloween pick-me-up. What better than free online classic Halloween fiction? Thanks to those wonderful wacky folks at Project Gutenberg, now you can have your pick of free online classic Horror novels for that quality holiday experience.

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dracula on MP3 Audio by Bram Stoker

A popular bestseller in Victorian England, Stoker’s hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula, whose nocturnal atrocities are symbolic of an evil ages old yet forever new, endures as the quintessential horror story.

Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker

A demented mesmerist, hellbent on mentally crushing the girl he loves; a gigantic kite raised to rid the land of an unnatural infestation of birds, and all the while, the great white worm slithers below, seeking its next victim . . .

The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker

A young lawyer is called to the home of a beautiful woman, where her archaeologist father lies in a coma. The injured man is discovered to be dabbling in ritual magic in an attempt to raise an ancient Egyptian queen from the dead. A deadly supernatural struggle begins.

Frankenstein, or Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein, or Modern Prometheus on Ogg Vorbis Audio by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Shelley’s classic hints in part at the possible dangers inherent in the pursuit of pure science; it also portrays the injustice of a society which persecutes outcasts such as the Monster.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

A study of the nature of good and evil and the duality that can exist within one person. Resonant with psychological perception and ethical insight, Stevenson’s novella is recognized as an incisive study of Victorian morality and sexual repression, as well as a great thriller.

The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells

The Invisible Man on MP3 Audio by H. G. Wells

A brilliant scientist uncovers the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams and the power he unleashes cause him to spiral into intrigue, madness, and murder.

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau on MP3 Audio by H. G. Wells

A shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life.

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

The War of the Worlds on MP3 Audio by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells invented the myth of invasion from outer space. Martians land near London, conquering all before them, and ruin the metropolis; the fate of civilization and even of the human race remains in doubt.

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This classic tells of a mid-19th-century Russian official’s breakaway from society and descent “underground.”

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Spellbound before his own portrait, Dorian Gray utters a fateful wish. In exchange for eternal youth he gives his soul, to be corrupted by the malign influence of his mentor, the aesthete and hedonist Lord Henry Wotton.

Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Rober Maturin within The Lock and Key Library.

The tormented Melmoth, a Faustian transgressor desperately seeks a victim to release him from his fatal bargain with the devil.

The Wandering Jew (Complete) by Eugene Sue

An epic tale based on the legend of the man doomed to walk the earth until the Second Coming of Christ.

The Monk: A Romance by Matthew Gregory Lewis

The Monk tells of the violent downfall of the monk Ambrosio. Proud Ambrosio is privately tormented with lust for Matilda, and innocent Antonia. Sentenced to death, he sells his soul to the devil, with unusually bad results.

Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest or James Malcolm Rymer

A popular tale in Victorian England, Varney the Vampire helped set the stage for Dracula.

The Vampyre: A Tale by John William Polidori

Born of the same ghost-story competition that produced Frankenstein, Polidori’s tale is a reaction to the dominating presence of his employer Lord Byron, and transformed the figure of the vampire from the bestial ghoul into the glamorous aristocrat whose violence and sexual allure make him literally a “lady-killer”.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

A startling tale of murder and madness set in a time of troubles like our own.

The History of Caliph Vathek by William Beckford

Vathek, the debauched and pleasure- seeking ninth Caliph of the Abassides, who decides to build a great tower to penetrate the secrets of heaven.

Wieland, or the Transformation: An American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown

A shadow falls over the Enlightenment when a stranger pays a visit in this tale of one family’s slide down the slippery slope of reality.

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

In a faraway medieval realm, Manfred, an arrogant and evil prince, rules with an iron fist. Banishing his wife to the castle dungeon, he confines — and plans to wed — the lovely Isabella, fiancee of his recently deceased son.

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Under the Paris Opera House lives a disfigured musical genius who uses music to win the love of a beautiful opera singer.

The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson

A diary kept by an old recluse tells of a lonely house in Ireland besieged by hideous forces from other worlds and swine-like monstrosities emerging from an abyss beneath the house.

The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson

Three weeks into their voyage, the crew of the Mortzestus fear she is haunted. A mist has fallen around the Mortzestus, causing it to flicker between dimensions, and there is no way out.

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