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 Devil's Elixirs
by E. T. A. Hoffmann | 
The Magician
by W. Somerset Maugham | 
In a Glass Darkly
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu | 
Melmoth the Wanderer
by Charles Robert Maturin | 
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 | 
Tales of Hoffmann
by E. T. A. Hoffmann | 
The Castle of Otranto
by Horace Walpole | 
At the Mountains of Madness
by H. P. Lovecraft | 
The Fatal Eggs
by Mikhail Bulgakov | 
The Horla
by Guy de Maupassant |
Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of the most fiendish characters in literature. In a satanic bargain, Melmoth exchanges his soul for immortality. The story of his tortured wanderings through the centuries is pieced together through those who have been implored by Melmoth to take over his pact with the devil. Influenced by the Gothic romances of the late 18th century, Maturin's diabolic tale raised the genre to a new and macabre pitch. Its many admirers include Poe, Balzac, Oscar Wilde and Baudelaire.