Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale is a Gothic novel by Charles Brockden Brown, first published in 1798. It recounts the terrifying story of how Theodore Wieland is driven to madness and murder...
Trilby (1894) is a gothic horror novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle period after Bram Stoker's Dracula. Trilby...
A "hero hunts MacGuffin, gets into trouble, maybe out of it" tech yarn. Has literary merit the way high-gloss pornography has artistic merit. The paint-by-numbers: "Agent Eric Gray has seen better nights (and...