Tales of Hoffmann
by E. T. A. Hoffmann | 
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens | 
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde | 
The Monk
by Matthew Lewis | 
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
by Jan Potocki | 
Lolly Willowes
by Sylvia Townsend Warner | 
The Golden Pot and Other Tales
by E. T. A. Hoffmann | 
The Magician
by W. Somerset Maugham | 
Melmoth the Wanderer
by Charles Maturin | 
Tales
by E. T. A. Hoffmann | 
Dracula
by Bram Stoker | 
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley | 
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
by Edgar Allan Poe | 
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells | 
The Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells | 
Tales of the Unexpected
by Roald Dahl | 
The Castle of Otranto
by Horace Walpole | 
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
by E. T. A. Hoffmann | 
At the Mountains of Madness
by H. P. Lovecraft | 
The Fatal Eggs
by Mikhail Bulgakov |
The charismatic monk Medardus becomes implicated in a deadly mystery against his will. As he travels towards Rome he wrestles with the enigma of his own identity while pursued by his murderous doppelganger. The monk's only hope for salvation lies with the beautiful Aurelie; but in order to escape the curse which lies over his family, he must evade the sinister powers of the living and the dead. In this lively and disturbing gothic tale, Hoffmann combines elements of the fantastic and the sublime to analyse the seductive ambiguities of art and the deeply divided nature of the human imagination.