Books like The Picture of Dorian Gray
A beautiful young man wishes that his portrait would age instead of him, and when the wish comes true, he is free to pursue every pleasure while the painting records what his soul becomes.
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A lawyer discovers that his respectable colleague harbours a monstrous alter ego, and the duality between them becomes the defining metaphor for Victorian moral hypocrisy.
Dracula
A Transylvanian count moves to London to spread his undead curse, and a band of Victorian friends must destroy him before he destroys England.
Interview with the Vampire
In a San Francisco room, a vampire tells a young reporter his story, from his making on an eighteenth-century Louisiana plantation to his years with Lestat and the child vampire Claudia.
Carmilla
Laura lives with her father in a lonely castle in Styria until a carriage accident leaves a beautiful girl in their care, and the guest's languid affection arrives with a sickness that spreads through the countryside.
The Turn of the Screw
A young governess at a remote English country house becomes convinced that the two children in her care are being visited by the ghosts of two dead servants, or perhaps she is the one who is haunted.
Fingersmith
In 1860s London, Sue Trinder, a young thief, is placed as maid to a rich, sheltered heiress, Maud Lilly, as part of a con to steal her fortune, and nothing goes as planned.
Uncle Silas
After her father's death, young Maud Ruthyn is sent to live as the ward of her uncle Silas, a reclusive man still shadowed by an old scandal, in his decaying house in Derbyshire.
The Séance
A young woman who once staged seances to console her grieving mother inherits Wraxford Hall, a decaying Suffolk mansion where a family vanished years before, along with a bundle of papers about what happened there.
The Silent Companions
Newly widowed and pregnant, Elsie Bainbridge arrives at her late husband's crumbling country estate, where a locked garret holds a painted wooden figure that looks uncannily like her.
The Monk
Ambrosio, the abbot of a Capuchin monastery in Madrid, is revered for his piety, until a novice in his own house confesses a secret that sets him on the road to ruin.
Great Expectations
An orphan navigates Victorian England's class system, from the marshes to London, discovering that his mysterious benefactor is not who he assumed.
The Empusium
In 1913 a young engineering student from Lwów checks into a guesthouse for consumptives in the Silesian mountains, where the men talk endlessly about the inferiority of women while something in the surrounding forest seems to be watching.