Portraits, Corpses, and Other Damned Things

By: Diana Stanhope

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

When classical literature meets visceral horror, no masterpiece is safe.

In these eight tales of gothic dread, the greatest works of the 19th century are reimagined as something darker, more visceral, more unforgiving. A clockmaker tears his beloved apart to rebuild her with gears and brass. An artist drinks moonlight and loses herself to the masterpiece growing inside her. A priest transforms into the werewolf he swore didn't exist. A man's beauty becomes a contagion that consumes London.

From Frankenstein's laboratory to Poe's torture chambers, from Jekyll's transformation to Dorian's corruption, these stories take the familiar and make it wrong, twisting classic horror into something that gets under your skin and refuses to let go.

For readers who like their horror literary, their gothic fiction uncompromising, and their monsters uncomfortably human.