Beowulf
A hero comes to the aid of a king whose hall is raided nightly by a monster. Three battles across a lifetime, ending with an old man and a dragon.
Books
Books held in the site library.
The Yellow Wallpaper
Genre: Gothic
A woman confined to an upstairs room for a rest cure becomes fixated on the pattern of the wallpaper. Her journal records, entry by entry, what she starts to see moving inside it.
Jane Eyre
Genre: Romance
An orphan girl endures a brutal childhood, takes a post as a governess, and falls for her employer. She discovers what he has been keeping locked on the third floor.
Dracula
A young solicitor travels to a remote castle to close a property sale and finds his host is not what he seems. Told through letters and journals as the horror spreads to England.
The Time Machine
Genre: Science Fiction
An inventor builds a machine that carries him forward through time, arriving in a distant future where humanity has split into two species. What begins as a pastoral idyll turns out to rest on something far darker.
Frankenstein
Genre: Gothic, Science Fiction
A young scientist assembles a living creature from dead matter, then abandons it in horror at what he has made. The creature, articulate and desperately lonely, comes looking for its maker.