The Haunted Hotel

A governess sees two figures on the grounds that nobody else admits to seeing. James never resolves whether the ghosts or the narrator are the problem.

Henry James

A woman in white stops a stranger on a London road at midnight, and the conspiracy behind her takes six hundred pages to unpick. The novel that launched the sensation genre.

Wilkie Collins

A family legend about a spectral hound on Dartmoor turns into a case for Sherlock Holmes. Gothic atmosphere with a rational solution waiting at the end.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Something lives beneath the Paris Opera and it wants a singer. Leroux frames the whole gothic romance as a journalistic investigation.

Gaston Leroux