A Sicilian Romance

Heathcliff and Catherine destroy each other and everyone around them, and the moors keep the ghost that proves it never ended. The novel that made obsessive love read as horror, in a clean modern edition with a designed cover.

Emily Brontë

A governess falls for her employer and discovers what he keeps locked upstairs. Bronte built the blueprint for every gothic romance with a secret in the attic, and it reads faster than its length suggests.

Charlotte Brontë

Victor Frankenstein gives life to a creature whose only real demand is to be loved back. Shelley's novel works as horror because the creature is right, and it still reads as the first true work of science fiction.

Mary Shelley

A disfigured genius haunts the Paris Opera and shapes a young singer's career from behind the walls. Leroux mixes obsession, mystery and pity in a way the stage adaptations never quite capture.

Gaston Leroux

Dorian trades his soul so a portrait ages in his place, then spends the rest of the book finding out what that costs. Wilde's only novel is beautiful, cruel and quotable on almost every page.

Oscar Wilde