The Light Has Been Broken: 560+ Macabre Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Dark Tales presents a vast and thrilling array of gothic and supernatural fiction that navigates the intricacies of human emotion and the eerie unknown. This anthology captures a fantastic range of literary styles from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, embodying the era's fascination with the uncanny, the mysterious, and the macabre. The collection includes captivating stories that traverse themes of spectral encounters, bewildering mysteries, and the exploration of the human psyche's darker recesses. Notable pieces within this compilation weave suspense with philosophical musings, luring readers into a dimly lit world where reality and imagination converge. The anthology assembles works by some of the greatest literary minds across various epochs and cultural backgrounds. With contributions from American, British, French, and Russian authors, among others, The Light Has Been Broken showcases the breadth of gothic and supernatural traditions. Esteemed authors such as H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, and Edgar Allan Poe share their visions alongside European counterparts like Guy de Maupassant and Theophile Gautier. This eclectic gathering of storytellers reflects significant literary movements, notably Romanticism and Victorian Gothic, and enriches the overall tapestry of the anthology with their distinctive perspectives. Readers are invited to explore The Light Has Been Broken for its encyclopedic range of gothic and supernatural narratives. Each story provides a unique lens through which to examine the collective and personal fears that have captivated readers for centuries. This anthology offers an educational mosaic of gothic literature's evolution, encouraging a dialogue between past and present imaginations. Whether one delves into these tales for academic inquiry or personal enjoyment, the collection promises a compelling journey through the shadowy corridors of the human experience, awakening a deep appreciation for the supernatural narrative tradition.
The Light Has Been Broken: 560+ Macabre Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Dark Tales : The Mark of the Beast, The Ghost Pirates, The Vampyre, Sweeney Todd, The Sleepy Hollow…
Authors:
- Wilhelm Hauff
- Charles Dickens
- Mark Twain
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Adelbert von Chamisso
- Oscar Wilde
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Edgar Allan Poe
- William Hope Hodgson
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- John Buchan
- Louis Tracy
- Bram Stoker
- Anatole France
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Jack London
- Henry James
- Théophile Gautier
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Richard Le Gallienne
- Jane Austen
- Ralph Adams Cram
- Thomas De Quincey
- John Meade Falkner
- Guy de Maupassant
- Thomas Hardy
- William Archer
- Daniel Defoe
- John Kendrick Bangs
- Cleveland Moffett
- Brander Matthews
- Marie Belloc Lowndes
- Horace Walpole
- Rudyard Kipling
- Lafcadio Hearn
- Hugh Walpole
- Ambrose Bierce
- Frederick Marryat
- Ellis Parker Butler
- Washington Irving
- Leonid Andreyev
- David Lindsay
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Grant Allen
- Arthur Machen
- Wilkie Collins
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Thomas Peckett Prest
- James Malcolm Rymer
- Fergus Hume
- Edward Bellamy
- Walter Hubbell
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Leopold Kompert
- Richard Marsh
- Florence Marryat
- Catherine Crowe
- John William Polidori
- Vincent O'Sullivan
- H. G. Wells
- Robert W. Chambers
- W. Jacobs
- M. P. Shiel
- E. F. Benson
- Jerome K. Jerome
- M. R. James
- E. T. A. A Hoffmann
- Stanley G. Weinbaum
- George W. M. M Reynolds
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Robert E. Howard
- Edith Nesbit
- Sabine Baring-Gould
- William Thomas Beckford
- Francis Marion Crawford
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Mary Louisa Molesworth
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Nikolai Gogol
- Mary Shelley
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Frank R. Stockton
- A. T. Quiller-Couch
- Ann Radcliffe
- Louisa M. Alcott
- Amelia B. Edwards
- Leonard Kip
- Matthew Gregory Lewis
- Fitz-James O'Brien
- Katherine Rickford
- Bithia Mary Croker
- Catherine L. Pirkis
- Émile Erckmann
- Alexandre Chatrian
- Pedro De Alarçon
- H. H. Munro (Saki)
- Pliny the Younger
- Helena Blavatsky
- Villiers de l'Isle Adam
- William F. Harvey
- Fiona Macleod
- William T. Stead
- Gambier Bolton
- Andrew Jackson Davis
- Nizida
- Walter F. Prince
- Chester Bailey Fernando
Format:
Duration:
- 17075 pages
Language:
English
Categories:
Weihnachten : Gedichte und Geschichten
Wilhelm Hauff
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Der kleine Muck
Hörbücher für Kinder, Wilhelm Hauff
audiobook
Hauffs Märchen: Die Karawane (Kalif Storch, der kleine Muck, das Gespensterschiff, die Rettung Fatmes, die abgehauene Hand, der falsche Prinz)
Wilhelm Hauff, Hörbücher für Kinder
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Wilhelm Hauffs Werke : Märchen, Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte und Schriften
Wilhelm Hauff
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Orientalische Märchen: Die große Hörbuch Box : Die schönsten Geschichten aus 1001 Nacht!
Ludwig Bechstein, Wilhelm Hauff
audiobook
Gruselkabinett, Box 43: Folgen 168, 169, 170, 171
Georges Rodenbach, Per McGraup, Eric Stenbock, Wilhelm Hauff
audiobook
Gruselkabinett, Box 40: Folgen 157, 158, 159
Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, Wilhelm Hauff
audiobook
Die Sängerin : Ein fesselnder Roman voller Intrigen und Hindernisse, der die Welt der Oper und Musik in lebendige Charaktere und atmosphärische Szenen hüllt
Wilhelm Hauff
book
Die schönsten Märchen, Folge 19: Rumpelstilzchen / Zwerg Nase
Gebrüder Grimm, Wilhelm Hauff, René Bach, Brita Subklew
audiobook
Die schönsten Märchen, Folge 15: Das Wirtshaus im Spessart
Wilhelm Hauff, Kurt Vethake
audiobook
Die schönsten Märchen, Folge 10: Die Prinzessin und der Schweinehirt / Der fliegende Koffer
Hans Christian Andersen, Kurt Vethake, Wilhelm Hauff
audiobook
Die schönsten Märchen, Folge 8: Der kleine Muck
Wilhelm Hauff, Eberhard Alexander-Burgh
audiobook
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 and died on the 30th November 1900. He was an Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest.
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Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker was born November 8, 1847, in Dublin, Ireland. Stoker was a sickly child who was frequently bedridden; his mother entertained him by telling frightening stories and fables during his bouts of illness. Stoker studied math at Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 1867. He worked as a civil servant, freelance journalist, drama critic, editor and, most notably, as manager of the Lyceum Theatre. Although best known for Dracula, Stoker wrote eighteen other books, including Under the Sunset, The Snake’s Pass, The Jewel of Seven Stars, The Lady of the Shroud, and The Lair of the White Worm. He died in 1912 at the age of sixty-four.
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Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sister authors. Her novels are considered masterpieces of English literature – the most famous of which is Jane Eyre.
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Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights. The novel’s violence and passion shocked the Victorian public and led to the belief that it was written by a man. Although Emily died young (at the age of 30), her sole complete work is now considered a masterpiece of English literature.
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Jack London
Jack London (1876–1916) was a prolific American novelist and short story writer. His most notable works include White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and The Sea-Wolf. He was born in San Francisco, California.
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Henry James
Henry James (1843–1916) was an American writer, highly regarded as one of the key proponents of literary realism, as well as for his contributions to literary criticism. His writing centres on the clash and overlap between Europe and America, and is regarded as his most notable work.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most famous for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes and long-suffering sidekick Dr Watson. Conan Doyle was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels—Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion—which observe and critique the British gentry of the late eighteenth century. Her mastery of wit, irony, and social commentary made her a beloved and acclaimed author in her lifetime, a distinction she still enjoys today around the world.
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe was born at the beginning of a period of history known as the English Restoration, so-named because it was when King Charles II restored the monarchy to England following the English Civil War and the brief dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell. Defoe’s contemporaries included Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys.
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, in 1865. One of the most revered writers in recent history, many of his works are deemed classic literature. To this day, he maintains an avid following and reputation as one of the greatest storytellers of the past two centuries. In 1907, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1936, but his stories live on—even eighty years after his passing.
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Washington Irving
Washington Irving was an American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and biographer. His work centres on his New England home and often features moral allegories with Puritan inspiration, with themes revolving around inherent good and evil. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism.
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Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) began his literary career writing articles and short stories for Dickens' periodicals. He published a biography of his father and a number of plays, but his reputation rests on his novels. Collins is well known for his mystery, suspense, and crime writings. He is best known for his novels in the emerging genres of Sensation and Detective fiction.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Celebrated feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She is perhaps best remembered as the author of the short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, which details a woman’s descent into madness after she is cooped up in a misguided attempt to restore her to health. The story was a clear indicator of Gilman’s views on the restraints of women and related to her own treatment for postpartum depression.
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Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was born to well-known parents: author and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and philosopher William Godwin. When Mary was sixteen, she met the young poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a devotee of her father’s teachings. In 1816, the two of them travelled to Geneva to stay with Lord Byron. One evening, while they shared ghost stories, Lord Byron proposed that they each write a ghost story of their own. Frankenstein was Mary’s contribution. Other works of hers include Mathilda, The Last Man, and The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck.
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was a British novelist and short-story writer. Her works were Victorian social histories across many strata of society. Her most famous works include Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.
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