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Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)

“Carmilla” is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman’s susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. “Carmilla” predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by twenty five [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Novellas and Short Stories

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe (1842)

The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avator and its seal — the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Novellas and Short Stories

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (1845)

ONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Poetry