The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

The novel that defined the vampire, told through letters, diaries, and ship logs as Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to London. Few books are read more often in the last week of October.

Bram Stoker

Victor Frankenstein builds a living man from the dead and then abandons him. Our own Project Aldus edition of the novel that created the modern monster, set in clean type with an illustrated cover.

Mary Shelley

A respected London doctor and the brutal stranger who shares his key. A short, tense mystery about the darkness hiding inside an ordinary man, readable in a single evening.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A beautiful young man stays untouched by age and sin while his portrait rots in a locked room. Our own Project Aldus edition of Wilde's only novel, with an illustrated cover.

Oscar Wilde

A lonely girl in a remote Styrian castle welcomes a mysterious guest who sleeps all day. Le Fanu's vampire novella came out 25 years before Dracula and still feels unsettling.

Sheridan Le Fanu