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Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (1976) Plot summary[edit] A vampire named Louis tells his 200-year-long life story to reporter referred to simply as "the boy" (the character's name is revealed to be Daniel Molloy in Queen of the Damned).

Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (1976)

In 1791, Louis is a young indigo plantation owner living south of New Orleans. Interview With The Vampire Trailer. Anne Rice on Sparkly Vampires, ‘Twilight,’ ‘True Blood,’ and Werewolves. President Obama met the Tunisian prime minister on Friday and praised his country as one of the very few bright lights in the Arab world.

Anne Rice on Sparkly Vampires, ‘Twilight,’ ‘True Blood,’ and Werewolves

Thank Olfa Riahi for that. The most famous investigative reporter in Tunisia is a 32-year-old blogger named Olfa Riahi. She broke the country’s biggest post-revolutionary news story—known as Sheratongate –and helped to save the country’s liberal revolution from the Islamists. When Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa met with President Barack Obama on Friday he was promised $500 million in loan guarantees and heard America’s enduring commitment to Tunisia’s democratic transition. But without Riahi, that transition might have come to a dead end. William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily (1930) "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. Source: Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast (mp3)Length: 37 minReader: Miette The story: This story defines "Southern Gothic" for me.

"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

Faulkner introduces us to the life of Emily Grierson, a spinster in a small Southern town. Although Miss Emily becomes more and more reclusive, we gain insights into her character through the details of brief encounters between her and the townspeople. In this way, Faulkner builds up a portrait of a genteel lady of the Confederacy whose pride is so strong it seems the only thing propping up her life. Miss Emily reminds me of some of the elderly belles I knew when I lived in Middle Tennessee. Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898) Henry James, the Turn of the Screw on LibriVox. Collected Stories. Title: Collected Stories Author: H.

Collected Stories

P. Lovecraft eBook No.: 0600031.txt Edition: 1 Language: English Character set encoding: Latin-1(ISO-8859-1)--8 bit Date first posted: January 2006 Date most recently updated: May 2006 Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks are created from printed editions which are in the public domain in Australia, unless a copyright notice is included. We do NOT keep any eBooks in compliance with a particular paper edition. Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this file. When I drew nigh the nameless city I knew it was accursed. Remote in the desert of Araby lies the nameless city, crumbling and inarticulate, its low walls nearly hidden by the sands of uncounted ages.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons death may die. Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft. H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound (1997) Call of Cthulhu HP Lovecraft - Audio Book - With Words / Closed Captions. Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897) 100 Years of Horror Dracula and His Disciples with Sir Christopher Lee.avi. Christopher Lee - Dracula. Bela lugosi Dracula. Dracula : Bram Stoker. <div style="padding:5px; font-size:80%; width:300px; background-color:white; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; border:1px dashed gray;"> Internet Archive's<!

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M4B audiobook of Complete Book. Varney, The Vampyre, Rymer and/or Prest (1847) LibriVox: Varney the Vampire. Thomas Peckett PREST (1810 - 1859) This is volume 1 of 3.

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Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to vampire stories such as Dracula, which it heavily influenced. Flora Bannersworth is attacked in her own room in the middle of the night, and although her attacker is seemingly shot dead, the body is nowhere to be found. The discovery of two small bite marks on Flora's neck leads Mr Marchdale, an old friend of the family, to the conclusion that she was bitten by a vampire. Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) 12 Creepy Tales by Edgar Allan Poe : Edgar Allan Poe. <div style="padding:5px; font-size:80%; width:300px; background-color:white; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; border:1px dashed gray;"> Internet Archive's<!

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Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)

One can only presume that the asterisks (*), in series throughout the text, formed part of the 1820 edition. They have been reproduced in this ebook as they appeared in the paper edition which was used to create this ebook. Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks are created from printed editions which are in the public domain in Australia, unless a copyright notice is included. We do NOT keep any eBooks in compliance with a particular paper edition. Copyright laws are changing all over the world. GO TO Project Gutenberg of Australia HOME PAGE by. LibriVox. J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla (1872) The Vampire Lovers (1970)

LibriVox: Carmilla, J. S. Le Fanu (1872) Percy Bysshe Shelly, Zastrozzi. Title: Zastrozzi Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * eBook No.: 0606461h.html Language: English Date first posted: August 2006 Date most recently updated: August 2006 This eBook was produced by: Richard Scott Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks are created from printed editions which are in the public domain in Australia, unless a copyright notice is included.

Percy Bysshe Shelly, Zastrozzi

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For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org. M4B format in Grab Bag 05. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) Frankenstein : Mary Shelley. <div style="padding:5px; font-size:80%; width:300px; background-color:white; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; border:1px dashed gray;"> Internet Archive's<!

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‘As he visited me for several successive days, and the mildness of his countenance encouraged me to address him, I inquired whether he who had formerly attended me was dead. ‘ "Oh no! " ‘ "Say rather my friend," I replied. ‘ "Only say you won’t let me starve, monsieur. " M.G. Lewis, The Monk (1796) M.G. Lewis, Tales of wonder (1801) Librivox: The Monk: A Romance, Matthew Lewis (1796) <div style="padding:5px; font-size:80%; width:300px; background-color:white; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; border:1px dashed gray;"> Internet Archive's<!

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From an early accession to the throne, and the talents he possessed to adorn it, his subjects were induced to expect that his reign would be long and happy. His figure was pleasing and majestic; but when he was angry one of his eyes became so terrible that no person could bear to behold it, and the wretch upon whom it was fixed instantly fell backward, and sometimes expired. For fear, however, of depopulating his dominions and making his palace desolate he but rarely gave way to his anger.

Being much addicted to women and the pleasures of the table, he sought by his affability to procure agreeable companions; and he succeeded the better as his generosity was unbounded, and his indulgences unrestrained, for he was by no means scrupulous, nor did he think with the Caliph Omar Ben Abdalaziz that it was necessary to make a hell of this world to enjoy Paradise in the next. Librivox: The History of the Caliph Vathek, William Beckford (1786) Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764)

Librivox: The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole (1764) Gothic fiction articles. Genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance. Romantic Gothic Literature. Every once in a while, a certain movement will have such a profound influence on the world that it changes the way people think and act. The Romantic Age: Topic 2: Overview. The Gothic begins with later-eighteenth-century writers' turn to the past; in the context of the Romantic period, the Gothic is, then, a type of imitation medievalism.

When it was launched in the later eighteenth century, The Gothic featured accounts of terrifying experiences in ancient castles — experiences connected with subterranean dungeons, secret passageways, flickering lamps, screams, moans, bloody hands, ghosts, graveyards, and the rest. By extension, it came to designate the macabre, mysterious, fantastic, supernatural, and, again, the terrifying, especially the pleasurably terrifying, in literature more generally. Hume, "Gothic Versus Romantic" Burke, The Sublime and the Beautiful (1757)