Name↕ | Title↕ | Author↕ | First Published↕ | Subjects↕ | Editions↕ | Languages↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A Christmas Carol | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens, Groth | 1843 | Children's fiction, Toy and movable books, Christmas, fiction, Children's plays, English | 3,198 | arm, jpn, por |
The Picture of Dorian Gray | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 1890 | British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Conduct of life, fiction, Fantasy fiction, Appearance (Philosophy) | 3,011 | arm, cos, jpn |
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus | Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus | Mary Shelley | 1818 | Frankenstein (Fictitious character), Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character), Fiction, Victor Frankenstein (Fictitious character) | 2,188 | spa, rus, ger |
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving | 1820 | Fiction, Ghosts, History, Children's stories, American | 1,017 | jpn, baq, por |
Northanger Abbey | Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen | 1818 | Mate selection, Cousins, Fiction, Young women | 1,013 | pol, heb, spa |
Dracula | Dracula | Bram Stoker | 1897 | English literature, Fiction, Horror, Horror stories | 736 | eng, por, fre |
The Mayor of Casterbridge | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | 1800 | British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Wessex (england), fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization | 676 | eng, heb, guj |
The Jewel of Seven Stars | The Jewel of Seven Stars | Bram Stoker | 1902 | Mummies, Horror, Fiction, Archaeologists | 653 | ger, eng |
The Castle of Otranto | The Castle of Otranto | Horace Walpole | 1764 | Castles, Gothic revival (Literature), Translations into Russian, Vampires | 581 | spa, ita, fre |
Carmilla | Carmilla | Sheridan Le Fanu | 1871 | English Fantasy fiction, Fantasy fiction, English, Fiction, Lesbians | 571 | spa, ger, por |
The Invisible Man | The Invisible Man | H. G. Wells | 0 | Ciencia-ficción, Classic Literature, Fiction, Mentally ill | 563 | spa, rus, ger |
The Turn of the Screw | The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | 1898 | Governesses, fiction, Children, fiction, Fiction, ghost, Fiction, fantasy | 563 | eng, chi, fre |
Herland | Herland | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 1915 | Utopias, Fiction, Women, Matriarchat | 541 | eng, fre, ger |
The Murders in the Rue Morgue | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Edgar Allan Poe | 1841 | Murder, Fiction, American Detective and mystery stories, C. Auguste Dupin (Fictitious character) | 532 | epo, heb, spa |
The King in Yellow | The King in Yellow | Robert W. Chambers | 1895 | Fiction, Fiction, horror, Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, fantasy, collections & anthologies | 479 | ger, eng, spa |
The Hobbit | The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1937 | Arkenstone, Battle of Five Armies, invisibility, thrushes | 460 | epo, ger, pol |
The Great God Pan | The Great God Pan | Arthur Machen | 1894 | austin osman spare, arthur machen, pan, occult | 431 | dut, eng, fre |
The House of the Seven Gables | The House of the Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1851 | Fiction, Haunted houses in fiction, Haunted houses, Juvenile fiction | 420 | eng, fre, ger |
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym | Edgar Allan Poe | 1838 | Fiction, Young men, Stowaways, Whaling | 392 | arm, heb, spa |
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1875 | Fiction, Physicians, Physicians in fiction, Multiple personality in fiction | 373 | epo, spa, rus |
The Magician | The Magician | William Somerset Maugham | 1908 | Fiction, Magicians, Magic, English Authors | 313 | eng, chi, por |
The Island of Dr. Moreau | The Island of Dr. Moreau | H. G. Wells | 1896 | Islands, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Fiction, Animal experimentation | 295 | eng, ger, spa |
The Raven | The Raven | Edgar Allan Poe | 1845 | busts, narrative poetry, supernatural, talking birds | 287 | heb, spa, rus |
The Willows | The Willows | Algernon Blackwood | 2002 | Comics & graphic novels, general, Fiction, ghost, Fiction, absurdist, Fiction, horror | 280 | eng, spa |
Beyond the Black River | Beyond the Black River | Robert E. Howard | 2007 | Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, fantasy, collections & anthologies, Fiction, horror, Fantasy fiction | 267 | eng |
Fahrenheit 451 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 1953 | Mechanical Hound, girl next door, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Terrorismo estatal | 260 | jpn, por, bre |
The Haunted Hotel | The Haunted Hotel | Wilkie Collins | 1878 | Fiction, English fiction, Hotels, Horror fiction | 257 | eng, spa, fre |
The White People | The White People | Arthur Machen | 2004 | Horror, Fiction, Short story, Horror and supernatural fiction | 247 | eng |
Daisy Miller | Daisy Miller | Henry James | 1877 | Fiction, Americans, Young women, Americans in fiction | 244 | spa, ger, fre |
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain | The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain | Charles Dickens, John Tenniel | 1848 | Social life and customs, English Christmas stories, Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general | 238 | ger, eng, dut |
The Fall of the House of Usher | The Fall of the House of Usher | Edgar Allan Poe | 1704 | American fiction (fictional works by one author), short stories (single author), American Horror tales, burial vaults | 237 | eng, ger, spa |
Poems | Poems | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1800 | Children's poetry, English, English Manuscripts, English poetry, Facsimiles | 233 | rus, ger, fre |
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts | The Book of Dreams and Ghosts | Andrew Lang | 1897 | Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, horror, Dreams, Ghosts | 228 | eng |
Witch Wood | Witch Wood | John Buchan | 1927 | Fiction, historical, Clergy, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, fantasy, general | 219 | eng |
Uncle Silas | Uncle Silas | Sheridan Le Fanu | 1864 | Uncles, Orphans, Fiction, Governesses | 214 | eng, fre |
The Mysteries of Udolpho | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Radcliffe | 1794 | Castles, Classic Literature, Fiction, Gothic novels | 210 | eng, fre, spa |
Dr. Nikola's Experiment | Dr. Nikola's Experiment | Guy Boothby | 1981 | Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, horror | 209 | eng |
The Hidden Children | The Hidden Children | Robert W. Chambers | 1914 | Fiction, horror, Fiction, historical, general, New york (n.y.), fiction, Pennsylvania, fiction | 208 | eng, spa |
The Hill of Dreams | The Hill of Dreams | Arthur Machen | 1907 | American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, horror, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, biographical | 200 | eng |
The Wendigo | The Wendigo | Algernon Blackwood | 1932 | Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, horror, Collected works (single author, multi-form) | 195 | eng, spa |
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