The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Radcliffe's 1794 novel defined the Gothic genre and influenced every horror writer who followed. Emily St. Aubert is a young woman of sensibility trapped in the remote Castle Udolpho by her villainous uncle and his sinister companion. Behind the castle's ancient walls lie terrible secrets: mysterious music in empty corridors, a veiled picture too horrible to behold, and the threat of a forced marriage to a man she despises. Radcliffe invented the atmospheric Gothic novel—the crumbling castle, the innocent heroine, the tyrannical villain, the supernatural that may or may not be real. A Raven's Gate Classics edition with haunting new cover art.