Matthew Gregory Lewis

• / Horror
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Horror in literature attains a new malignity in the work of Matthew Gregory Lewis (1773-1818), whose novel The Monk (1796) achieved marvelous popularity and earned him the nickname 'Monk' Lewis. This young author, educated in Germany and saturated wi...

• / General Fiction
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Who is the Bravo of Venice? Count Rosalvo is ordered to destroy the mysterious Bravo, a one-eyed assassin. The Count’s love for the doge’s niece tells him to follow that order, but what about his own dark secret? Adapted from J. H. D. Zschokke’...

• / Romance
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His eyes were swollen with weeping, his gestures were wild as a maniac's, and his voice was the very accent of despair. -- "Oh! not yet!" he exclaimed. "He was the only being in the world that ever really loved me! The slightest drop of blood in h...

• / Horror
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Supernatural events, women in distress, and a corrupt clergy were popular themes in the Gothic novels of the 19th century. All of those elements, along with murder, incest, and the excesses of the Spanish Inquisition, are present in The Monk (1796...