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Gothic & Horror

Free illustrated audiobooks and picture books of Gothic & Horror books: Dorian Gray, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Jane Eyre, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Phantom of the Opera. Each one is retold in pictures and narrated page by page, with the original text free to read alongside.

Illustration from Dorian Gray: On a hot summer afternoon, the scent of roses and lilac drifted through Basil Hallward's London studio. Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde BritishAges 13+ 72 pages · 25 min Illustration from Dracula: In May 1893 the young solicitor Jonathan Harker travelled east across the Danube to settle a London house sale for a Transylvanian nobleman. Dracula Bram Stoker BritishAges 13+ 135 pages · 37 min Illustration from Frankenstein: In the spring of 17—, Robert Walton, a young English captain, hired a ship at Archangel and signed on a crew of hardy whalers. Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley BritishAges 13+ 78 pages · 29 min Illustration from The Hound of the Baskervilles: One morning at Baker Street, Watson picked up the walking-stick that a visitor had left behind the night before. The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle BritishAges 10+ 60 pages · 23 min Illustration from Jane Eyre: No walk was possible that dreary November day. Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë BritishAges 13+ 159 pages · 48 min Illustration from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Mr. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson BritishAges 13+ 40 pages · 15 min Illustration from The Phantom of the Opera: Years after the tragedy, a writer searched the Opera's archives until he was certain the famous ghost had been a living man. The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux FrenchAges 13+ 81 pages · 31 min

About Gothic & Horror

Gothic fiction is the literature of dark houses, family secrets, storms, and the fear of what hides inside people as much as outside them. It began in eighteenth-century England and gave the world some of its most lasting monsters and mysteries, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to Bram Stoker's Dracula, the vampire count who travels from his Transylvanian castle to London, and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, whose masked figure haunts a Paris theatre.

Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray turns a portrait into the record of its subject's hidden life. The shelf also holds books that borrow the gothic's moods: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, with its locked third floor at Thornfield Hall, and Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, set on the fog-bound moor. Each is an illustrated, narrated retelling, frightening in atmosphere rather than gore.