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• Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 8

  WE PASSED a few sad hours, until eleven o'clock, when the trial was to commence. My father and the rest of the family being obliged to…

• Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Chapter 9

  NOTHING is more painful to the human mind, than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness…

• Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Letter 1

  To Mrs. Saville, England. YOU will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have…

• Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Letter 2

  HOW slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and snow! yet a second step is taken towards my enterprise. I have hired a…

• Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Letter 3

  MY DEAR Sister, -- I write a few lines in haste, to say that I am safe, and well advanced on my voyage. This letter will reach England by a…

• Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Letter 4

  SO STRANGE an accident has happened to us that I cannot forbear recording it, although it is very probable that you will see me before…

• Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Preface

  THE event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of…

• Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus: Title Page

  Sacred Texts Gothic Index Next Buy this Book at Amazon.com Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, [1818]…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter I--Adam Salton Arrives

  Adam Salton sauntered into the Empire Club, Sydney, and found awaiting him a letter from his grand-uncle. He had first heard from the old…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter II--The Caswalls of Castr...

  Mr. Salton had all his life been an early riser, and necessarily an early waker. But early as he woke on the next morning--and although…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter III--Diana's Grove

  Curiosity took Adam Salton out of bed in the early morning, but when he had dressed and gone downstairs; he found that, early as he was…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter IV--The Lady Arabella March

  "Now, there is no hurry, but so soon as you are both ready we shall start," Mr. Salton said when breakfast had begun. "I want to take you…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter IX--Smelling Death

  Adam Salton, though he talked little, did not let the grass grow under his feet in any matter which he had undertaken, or in which he was…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter V--The White Worm

  Mr. Salton introduced Adam to Mr. Watford and his grand-daughters, and they all moved on together.

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter VI--Hawk and Pigeon

  This is an excerpt from a late Victorian Gothic horror novel — almost certainly Bram Stoker's *The Lair of the White Worm* (1911) —…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter VII--Oolanga

  This is an excerpt from a late Victorian Gothic horror novel — almost certainly Bram Stoker's *The Lair of the White Worm* (1911) — in…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter VIII--Survivals

  This is an excerpt from Bram Stoker's Gothic horror novel *The Lair of the White Worm* (1911), following the tradition of late-Victorian…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter X--The Kite

  On the following day, a little after four o'clock, Adam set out for Mercy. He was home just as the clocks were striking six. He was pale…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter XI--Mesmer's Chest

  After a couple of weeks had passed, the kite seemed to give Edgar Caswall a new zest for life. He was never tired of looking at its…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter XII--The Chest Opened

  Left alone in the turret-room, Edgar Caswall carefully locked the door and hung a handkerchief over the keyhole. Next, he inspected the…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter XIII--Oolanga's Hallucinations

  During the last few days Lady Arabella had been getting exceedingly impatient. Her debts, always pressing, were growing to an embarrassing…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter XIV--Battle Renewed

  The consequences of that meeting in the dusk of Diana's Grove were acute and far-reaching, and not only to the two engaged in it. From…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter XIX--An Enemy in the Dark

  Adam Salton went for a walk before returning to Lesser Hill; he felt that it might be well, not only to steady his nerves, shaken by the…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter XV--On the Track

  Those who had seen Edgar Caswall familiarly since his arrival, and had already estimated his cold-blooded nature at something of its true…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter XVI--A Visit of Sympathy

  Caswall was genuinely surprised when he saw Lady Arabella, though he need not have been, after what had already occurred in the same way…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter XVII--The Mystery of &quo...

  That afternoon Adam decided to do a little exploring. As he passed through the wood outside the gate of Diana's Grove, he thought he saw…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter XVIII--Exit Oolanga

  This is an excerpt from a late Victorian Gothic horror novel — almost certainly Bram Stoker's *The Lair of the White Worm* (1911) — and…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter XX--Metabolism

  "Am I looking grave?" asked Sir Nathaniel inconsequently when he re- entered the room. "You certainly are, sir." "We little thought when…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter XXI--Green Light

  When old Mr. Salton had retired for the night, Adam and Sir Nathaniel returned to the study. Things went with great regularity at Lesser…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter XXII--At Close Quarters

  "She has diabolical cunning," said Sir Nathaniel. "Ever since you left, she has ranged along the Brow and wherever you were accustomed to…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter XXIII--In the Enemy's House

  Sir Nathaniel was in the library next morning, after breakfast, when Adam came to him carrying a letter. "Her ladyship doesn't lose any…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter XXIV--A Startling Proposi...

  The more Mimi thought over the late events, the more puzzled she was. What did it all mean--what could it mean, except that there was an…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter XXV--The Last Battle

  Lady Arabella had instructed her solicitors to hurry on with the conveyance of Diana's Grove, so no time was lost in letting Adam Salton…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter XXVI--Face to Face

  Mimi was greatly distressed when she saw her cousin lying prone. She had a few times in her life seen Lilla on the verge of fainting, but…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter XXVII--On the Turret Roof

  The storm which was coming was already making itself manifest, not only in the wide scope of nature, but in the hearts and natures of human…

• Lair of the White Worm: Chapter XXVIII--The Breaking of t...

  When Lady Arabella had crept away in her usual noiseless fashion, the two others remained for a while in their places on the turret roof…

• Preface to the First (1870) Edition.

  "THE genius of Eastern nations," says an established and respectable authority, "was, from the earliest times, much turned towards…

• The Book of Were-Wolves Index

  | | THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVES by SABINE BARING-GOULD [1865] | Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was a Vicar in the Church of England in Devon…

• The Book of Were-Wolves: Chapter I. Introductory

  I SHALL never forget the walk I took one night in Vienne, after having accomplished the examination of an unknown Druidical relic, the…

• The Book of Were-Wolves: Chapter II. Lycanthropy Among th...

  Definition of Lycanthropy--Marcellus Sidetes--Virgil--Herodotus--Ovid--Pliny--Agriopas--Story from Petronius--Arcadian Legends--Explanation…

• The Book of Were-Wolves: Chapter III. The Were-Wolf in th...

  Norse Traditions - Manner in which the Change was effected - Vœlundar Kvœda - Instances from the Völsung Saga - Hrolf's Saga - Kraka -…

• The Book of Were-Wolves: Chapter IV. The Origin of the Sc...

  Advantage of the Study of Norse Literature--Bear and Wolf-skin Dresses--The Berserkir--Their Rage--The Story of Thorir--Passages from the…

• The Book of Were-Wolves: Chapter IX. Natural Causes of Ly...

  Innate Cruelty--Its Three Forms--Dumollard--Andreas Bichel--A Dutch Priest--Other instances of Inherent Cruelty--Cruelty united to…

• The Book of Were-Wolves: Chapter V. The Were-Wolf in the ...

  Stories from Olaus Magnus of Livonian Were-wolves--Story from Bishop Majolus--Story of Albertus Pericofcius--Similar occurrence at…

• The Book of Were-Wolves: Chapter VI. A Chamber of Horrors

  Pierre Bourgot and Michel Verdung--'Me Hermit of S. Bonnot--The Gandillon Family--Thievenne Paget--The Tailor of Châlons--Roulet. IN…

• The Book of Were-Wolves: Chapter VII. Jean Grenier

  On the Sand-dunes--A Wolf attacks Marguerite Poirier--Jean Grenier brought to Trial--His Confessions--Charges of Cannibalism proved--His…

• The Book of Were-Wolves: Chapter VIII. Folk-Lore Relating...

  Barrenness of English Folk-lore--Devonshire Traditions--Derivation of Were-wolf--Cannibalism in Scotland--The Angus Robber--The Carle of…

• The Book of Were-Wolves: Chapter X. Mythological Origin o...

  Metempsychosis--Sympathy between Men and Beasts--Finnbog and the Bear--Osage and the Beaver--The Connexion of Soul and Body--Buddism--Case…

• The Book of Were-Wolves: Chapter XI. The Maréchal ...

  Introduction--History of Gilles de Laval--The Castle of Machecoul--Surrender of the Marshal--Examination of Witnesses--Letter of De…

• The Book of Were-Wolves: Chapter XII. The Maréchal...

  The Appearance of the Marshal--Pierre de l'Hospital--The Requisition--The Trial adjourned--Meeting of the Marshal and his Servants--The…

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