The haunting past, love that surpasses death, tormented visions and guilty secrets, the dead awakening the living, heroes falling victim to their dark selves, the allure of the supernatural and the paradoxical, the curse of art, obsessions and forbidden desires; all part of either the author's imagination or the reality of the Victorian era...

With a dreamlike eerie atmosphere and a compelling spirit, sometimes with the morbidity of underground horror and other times with a distinct sensitivity to the hidden aspects of human psyche, with pervasive melancholy but also touches of horror and eccentricity, by famous authors such as Edith Wharton, Charlotte Brontë, and Elizabeth Gaskell, and renowned personalities of the 19th century like Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Vernon Lee, eighteen classic mystery and supernatural stories that unravel the enchanting yet gloomy paths of the Victorian world...