Generations of readers have thrilled to this famous Gothic tale and its hypnotic pre-Freudian exploration of the psyche.

This new edition includes Radcliffe's important essay 'On the Supernatural in Poetry', in which she distinguishes terror writing from horror.

The novel is considered a landmark in the Gothic genre for its use of suspense, terror, and intricate plot twists.

A Sicilian Romance is an early novel by one of the masters of Gothic fiction, Ann Radcliffe.

Often cited as the archetypal Gothic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, along with Radcliffe's novel The Romance of the Forest, plays a prominent role in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey, in which an impressionable young woman, after ...

This novel introduces Schedoni, the villainous scheming monk, and tells of the romance between a young Neapolitan nobleman and his lover, a match opposed by his mother, who enlists the help of Schedoni to stop the affair.