Written when women-and workers generally-had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess. Pampered and protected at home, she is unprepared for the harsh reality of a governess's life. At the Bloomfields and later the Murrays, she suffers under...

Villette, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies of contemporary...

Astral may be a murderer. She never goes back to find out for sure if her father lived that terrible night or not, but when she's with Davn it's easy to forget her old life and simply be herself: happy, vivacious and kind to a fault. Davn knows he's a murderer. He's done nothing but kill for 200 years, and being with Astral is the only happiness he's had in centuries. The years she's lived with him have been peaceful and healing, but his reclusive...

Do you believe in Evil? Most Dubliners have heard the stories about the Lodge at the Hellfire Club on top of Montpelier Hill, in Rathfarnham, County Dublin, and the evil goings on of the place, but are they aware of what really happened? It is a stormy autumn night in the year 1739, and the Earl of Rosse and some of his associates - all Freemasons and members of the irreverent and infamous Hellfire Club - have invited two guests to play cards with...

Maggie came with her sister Rebecca to Heather House, to recover from the drowning deaths of their two husbands. They thought a few months in the country would be wonderful therapy. But the house seems to be haunted by the ghost of its one-time owner, Heather Lambert, who (it is said) waits in the tower room for the return of her errant husband. And when Maggie discovers the portrait of Heather hidden in the cellar, the woman from the past seems to...

A mediados del siglo XIX, Samuel, un joven de la nobleza inglesa, se entera de que es portador de una maldición que a lo largo de los siglos ha condenado a su linaje a una muerte prematura. Descubrirá el destino que le espera cuando, perseguido por pesadillas demasiado reales, investiga el origen de su dinastía, arriesgando su vida al enfrentarse contra los fantasmas del pasado. El miedo a la muerte comenzará a introducirse en su alma, jugando...

The Shadow in the Corner' is a gothic short story, written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and first published in 1879. It tells the story of Michael Bascom, a reclusive scientist, who lives in an old mansion called Wildheath Grange. His man servant informs him that they need a girl to help his wife around the house. An orphan girl takes the role, but informs Bascom that she is very uncomfortable with her lodgings. She says she sees a mysterious shadow...

A young journalist eagerly heads out on a voyage to see his old friend-an ardent chemist with a top-secret discovery to disclose-but soon finds out it may be better for everyone if he had remained in the dark."...Her story-telling capacity is engaging and sure, and, while her voice is clearly her own, fans of Gothic fiction will detect murmuring echoes of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe." --Karl Yambert

It is 1938 and there is murder afoot on the set of Son of Frankenstein Boris Karloff has been framed for murder! He joins forces with Basil Rathbone, in full Sherlockian mode, and a gleeful Bela Lugosi. It s a case of the legends of horror meet the three stooges as our daring heroes search for a missing movie mogul and end up crossing swords with the Hollywood Mob.

The odyssey of Lord Samuel Kainz continues. Hunted by Death, cursed by life, forged by ambition, he knows neither surrender nor defeat. He has no qualms about annihilating anyone or anything that stands between him and his goal. The fate that awaits him is to cancel himself in the oblivion of the afterlife, like all living beings on this earth, but the same will that saved him will lead him far beyond human possibilities. He will sacrifice his life...