With a penchant for melancholy, gothic mystery and abstruse Kantian metaphysics, Scythrop throws himself into a quixotic mission of reforming the world and regenerating the human species, and dreams up various schemes to achieve these ends.

ON the other hand, Metcalf's Connecticut night promises not rebirth or spiritual flight but an episode of suburban gothic mystery.

A voracious reader since childhood, she frequently chose to read books with a supernatural slant, including folktales, compilations of regional ghost stories and gothic mysteries.

Described by its publisher as "a stylish blend of gothic mystery and modern crime noir", the book balances two very different narratives, that of a 19th-century whaler trapped in the Arctic Circle alongside a contemporary Melbourne cab driver's night from hell.

Bharadwaj's second feature is the Victorian gothic mystery, Basil.

The American Boy, a gothic mystery linked to Edgar Allan Poe's boyhood years in England, was one of the ten titles featured in Channel 4's Richard and Judy Book Club 2005 and was also selected for The Times Top Ten Crime Novels of the Decade.

Explore a realm of gothic mystery, horror and romance with this dark symphony of the night.

Mr. Cicero's cartoonish, easel-size narrative paintings combine humor, gothic mystery and Magritte-style surrealism.

The ensuing triangle is like a soft-core updating of Henry James, with Matthew representing an open-minded, skeptical sensibility exposed to the dark shadows and gothic mysteries of Old Europe.

They are firmly set within concrete locations, mostly in Central Europe, and they usually present a gothic mystery, which is subsequently resolved through intellectual effort and rational analysis.