Títulos en Gótico

Basil Hallward había terminado el retrato. El joven Dorian, al verlo, no pudo más que desear, desde su frívola inocencia, que fuera su imagen la que envejeciera y se corrompiera con el paso de los años mientras él permanecía intacto. Y así fue: a partir de entonces, Dorian Gray conservó no solo la lozanía y la hermosura propias de la juventud, sino el aspecto puro de los inocentes. Pero ¿a qué precio? El retrato de Dorian Gray es un logro insoslayable de la literatura universal, vertido aquí magníficamente por el escritor y traductor Alejandro Palomas.

I misteri del castello di Udolfo fu pubblicato nel 1749 ed ha in se tutti gli elementi del romanzo gotico: paure , minacce fisiche e psicologiche, eventi apparentemente soprannaturali, ambientazione in castelli in rovina e ricchi di passaggi segreti, un’eroina virtuosa perseguitata. Il tutto incorniciato da descrizioni meticolose e pittoriche dei Pirenei e degli Appennini. La scrittura di Ann Radcliffe ha ispirato Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, ma anche Dickens e altri grandi romanzieri. Cornice musicale di Ludwig van Beethoven.

You’ve heard of these groups–the secretive ones that only the crème de la crème are invited into, the ones outsiders speculate about for centuries–I’m the second in my family invited to attend, but to them, I’m fresh meat. New blood. New money, too. They think they’ll elbow past me, that I’m here for their amusement, for them to walk all over, they’ll find out soon enough that I’m not. I may look like one of them, with my designer bags and clothes straight from the Parisian runways, but I’m not.

Questo racconto dell'orrore si trasforma nelle mani di Henry James in un lungo percorso psicologico di fronte all'orrore. L'ambientazione nel classico maniero inglese ne fa formalmente un racconto gotico di fantasmi. Cornice musicale: Barcarola di Saint Saens in Fa maggiore.

A "Bluebeard" story in which a young woman marries a man whom she discovers has killed his previous wives and is trying to kill her as well.

We met at his ex's wedding, where she uttered their safe word in her vows. Immediately, his jaw clenched, and his hands balled into tight fists. Moments later, he told her I was with him. When in reality, I had snuck into the wedding. Knowing full well he was trouble, I tried to leave when he gripped my arm and whispered in a low, intimidating voice, "Do you sneak into weddings often?" His words had me stuck to the spot.

Waking up naked on the roadside with a body that doesn't feel like mine? Not exactly the miracle I asked for. Turns out, Death gave me a second chance—minus the instructions. I'm no longer just a Grim Reaper. I'm something else. Something unstable. My scythe is gone. My raven's missing. And...

I've been watching her. Wanting her. Stalking her. I'm obsessed with the shy, innocent barista who works at my favorite coffee shop. She doesn't know that I bought the house across the street from her apartment so that I can watch over her. I secretly collect her paintings and hang them in my bedroom. And I won't hesitate to break into her home to find out what kind of books she likes to read. I'll do whatever it takes to win her heart.

Montressor es tan buen actor, que su buen amigo Fortunato no se da cuenta ni por un momento de lo que hay realmente tras su fachada de amabilidad y cortesía.Aparte de los juegos de palabras que el autor hace con los nombres de los personajes que en realidad representan los dos lados de una moneda. (Montressor – mi tesoro) (Fortunato – afortunado), se produce una constante antítesis entre ellos, mientras Montressor va con máscara negra y atuendo de caballero, Fortunato está vestido a la usanza de la locura del carnaval como un bufón. Mientras el primero está completamente sobrio, el segundo está totalmente ebrio.

An exploration into the depths of obsession, revenge, and the heart—traversing the darkest regions of the universe and mind, where memory lives beyond death, and love is the most dangerous force of all. “To even comprehend it, you have to abandon the comfort of known physics. You have to reach into the unknown, into the void itself, and hope some semblance of humanity survives.”—Orion Night

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the candlelit studio of a Dutch master, the young apprentice Godfried Schalken loves his teacher's beautiful niece, Rose – and dares to dream she might one day be his. Then a stranger comes to the door: Mynheer Vanderhausen of Rotterdam, immensely...

She was never meant to be claimed… until the Wolf Prince decided she was his. I was taken by the pack that destroyed mine. Given to the Wolf Prince who never fails. Torben Eriksson is supposed to break me. Instead, he gets too close. Close enough to expose the secret I've buried for fifteen years—I'm an omega. When my scent slips, I become prey. Every wolf wants me. Torben is the only one who can protect me. And the one man I should fear the most. Because the longer I stay in his world…the harder it is to remember I'm his prisoner.

"El gato del Brasil" de Arthur Conan Doyle trata sobre un joven aristócrata inglés que se encuentra al borde de la ruina decide visitar a su primo millonario que acaba de regresar de Brasil. El joven descubre que, entre otras curiosas aficiones, su pariente tiene un inmenso e intrincado jardín tropical lleno de especies exóticas -con raras plantas, aves y reptiles- donde destaca un enorme e inquietante animal enjaulado: el gato de Brasil, cuyo alimento preferido es la carne humana.

Forever untangling the branches of her strange family tree, Edwina Blackwood is at a turning point. Her parents’ disappearances still strike her as unaccountably odd. Her sister’s questionable life and untimely death have left her shaken. Spellfire has transformed her home and livelihood to ash. And now a devious stalker is on her trail. With supernatural detective Ian Cameron by her side, Edwina can’t get out of London fast enough.

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.

Yorkshire, 1843. When disgraced former schoolmaster John Eyre arrives at Thornfield Hall to take up a position as tutor to two peculiar young boys, he enters a world unlike any he's ever known. Darkness abounds, punctuated by odd bumps in the night, strange creatures on the moor, and a sinister silver mist that never seems to dissipate. And at the center of it all, John's new employer - a widow as alluring as she is mysterious.

Louisiana, año 1830. Harriet, esclava de la plantación Beaumont de Saint Francisville, acude a Marie Laveau, la Reina del Vudú de Nueva Orleans, para vengarse de su amo, hombre tiránico y cruel atormentado por la muerte de su esposa. En una casa maldita de la Louisiana del Viejo Sur Harriet vivirá una historia de venganza, magia y libertad. ¿Qué secretos esconde la mansión Beaumont? ¿Qué hay bajo las oscuras aguas del bayou? Viaja a la Nueva Orleans del siglo XIX, a las plantaciones de algodón y el vudú.

El Extraño caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde (a veces abreviado simplemente a El Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde) es una novela escrita por Robert Louis Stevenson, publicada por primera vez en inglés en 1886, cuyo título original es The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Trata acerca de un abogado, Gabriel John Utterson, que investiga la extraña relación entre su viejo amigo, el Dr. Henry Jekyll, y el misántropo Edward Hyde.

El relato "El gato negro" se publicó por vez primera en el periódico United States Saturday Post, en 1843. El gato como símbolo del mal tiene una larga tradición en Occidente. En la supersticiosa Edad Media llegó incluso a representar a Satanás al visitar la tierra; era el animal de compañía de las brujas. En el romanticismo se puso de moda como animal literario por excelencia, por su aire misterioso, sus ojos relucientes y su aparente serenidad. El propio autor del relato, Edgar Allan Poe, tuvo en casa ese animal doméstico.

Vendue par mon propre père à Lorenzo Vitali – un homme forgé dans la violence et drapé dans sa cruauté. Je suis prisonnière dans une cage dorée, retenue par des chaînes plus lourdes que l’acier. Il exige un héritier. Le moindre contact physique avec lui menace de me consumer. Je devrais le haïr. Je devrais le craindre. Mais ce n’est pas ce qu’il exige qui me terrifie. C’est lui.