– the horrors (and the classics)
a vibe that only a few people get – una vibra que solo cierto grupo de personas entenderá
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The Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allan Poe • 2014
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson • 2024
The Haunting of Hill House is a 1959 gothic horror novel by American author Shirley Jackson. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and has been made into two feature films, a play, and is the basis of a Netflix series. The book is dedicated to Leonard Brown, Jackson's English teacher at Syracuse University.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe • 2023
The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe • 2014
The Best of Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, and 30 Others
Edgar Allan Poe • 2006
Ligeia
Edgar Allan Poe • 2004
The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe • 2022
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe • 2017
The Phantom Of The Opera
Gaston Leroux • 2023
Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the world’s finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striking on any shelf.<br/>The Phantom of the Opera tells the tale of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera House. Mesmerized by the talents and beauty of the young soprano Christine, the Phantom lures her as his protégé and falls fiercely in love with her. One of the most well-known and well-loved gothic horror stories, Leroux's suspenseful tale of unrequited love, passion and tragedy is both dark and moving in its portrayal of Erik, the anti-hero in his yearning for Christine. The novel has been adapted into several formats, most notably a 1925 silent film directed by Rupert Julien and a 1986 musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the most successful theatrical show of all time.
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
Emily Brontë • 2002
<b>Coming soon to the big screen is Emerald Fennell’s feature film “<i>Wuthering Heights</i>,” which captures the spirit of this epic love story and stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff.<br></b><br>Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor.<br><br>Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. <br><br>In this edition, a new preface by Lucasta Miller, author of <i>The Brontë Myth</i>, looks at the ways in which the novel has been interpreted, from Charlotte Brontë onwards. This complements Pauline Nestor's introduction, which discusses changing critical receptions of the novel, as well as Emily Brontë's influences and background.
El Rastro De Tu Sangre En La Nieve
Gabriel Garcia Marquez • 1987
Bound in publisher's original stiff wrappers with the front cover and spine stamped in black. Text is in Spanish.
Dracula: The Original 1897 Edition (A Bram Stoker Classic Novel)
Bram Stoker • 2023
Perfume: The Story of Murder
Patrick Suskind • 1986
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • 2019
"The Sorrows of Young Werther" is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's literary masterpiece, a novel that encapsulates the intensity and volatility of youthful passion. As Werther finds himself entangled in an unrequited love affair with Charlotte, his emotions spiral into obsession, despair, and deep melancholy. Presented through a series of letters, Goethe's work is not just a love story; it's a profound exploration of emotion, society's constraints, and the dark corners of human psyche. A cornerstone of the Sturm und Drang movement, this novel resonates with readers across generations, capturing the timeless agony of love and loss.
Carmilla
J. Sheridan LeFanu • 2020
Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1993
<b>Hailed by <i>Washington Post Book World</i> as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of <i>Crime and Punishment </i>has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. • <b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME</b></b><br><br>With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of <i>Crime and Punishment, </i>Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. <br><br>In <i>Crime and Punishment</i>, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that is almost unequalled in world literature for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision. Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.
Strange Case Of Dr Jeckyll And Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson • 2020
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly: New Edition
Mary Shelly • 2020
Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare • 1992
Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
William Shakespeare • 2003
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 1848
White Nights" is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, originally published in 1848, early in the writer's career. Like many of Dostoevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her lover, with whom she is finally reunited.



