Build an instant library of classics with our full set of Clockwork Editions volumes, each annotated with new introductions by contemporary scholars and authors.

Included in this bundle:

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, edited by Carmen Maria Machado

Award-winning author Carmen Maria Machado’s signature style provides a new dimension to this cult classic vampire story. Isolated in a remote mansion in a central European forest, Laura longs for companionship—until a carriage accident brings the secretive and sometimes erratic Carmilla into her life. Le Fanu’s compelling vampire tale was a source of influence for Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, edited by John Edgar Browning

Reader, have you ever wondered who struck fear into the heart of H. P. Lovecraft? It was Robert Chambers and The King in Yellow, a wicked link in a terrifying lineage containing tales that have inspired generations of American horror writing. Now, the terror visits you.

The Afterlife of Frankenstein edited by David Sandner

In this anthology, scholar of the fantastic David Sandner explores the first hundred years of Frankenstein’s influence. This collection of short stories and excerpts from work published between 1818 to 1918 demonstrates what a pioneering myth Frankenstein has always been—from the very day when lightning first struck and it opened its eyes on the world.

Medusa’s Daughters edited by Theodora Goss

Curated and annotated by award-winning fantasy author and Victorianist Theodora Goss, this collection of rare and strange gems serves as a tantalizing sampler of work by fin-de-siècle women writers, whose legacy still echoes in the speculative fiction we know and love today.

Under That Calamity by John Perceval, edited by Lindsey Grubbs

After experiencing auditory hallucinations, John Perceval was institutionalized against his will for three years. His memoir A Narrative of the Treatment Experienced by a Gentleman, During a State of Mental Derangement, was first published in 1838 in London with the aim of exposing the inhumane treatments inflicted on those who likewise suffered—in Perceval's words—"under that calamity."

Featuring annotation and perspectives from Lindsey Grubbs, a scholar of the cultural history and contemporary ethics of psychology and neuroscience, Under That Calamity offers a candid, humane look at nineteenth-century treatment of the mentally ill that still resonates in the present day.

Edited by Theodora Goss

“A gothic landscape that is at once timeless and timely, filled with brilliant, angry, determined women who leap right off the page.”

—Fran Wilde, Nebula Award-winning
author of Updraft

After a period of decline, Gothic literature underwent a revival at the end of the 1800s. As the century turned, women writers such as Vernon Lee, Mary Coleridge, and Rosamund Mariott Watson left an indelible mark on fantasy and horror literature. Like Medusa herself, their poetry and short stories embody the very essence of magic and monstrosity.

Curated and annotated by award-winning fantasy author and Victorianist Theodora Goss, this collection of rare and strange gems serves as a tantalizing sampler of work by fin-de-siècle women writers, whose legacy still echoes in the speculative fiction we know and love today.

Recipient of the Foreword INDIES Gold Award for Anthology

Transport yourself into centuries past with this complete set of our beautiful Clockwork Editions series. Designed by Kimberly Glyder, this series gives rare and strange classics a fresh face, featuring black and white interior illustrations plus footnotes and a new introduction by a contemporary scholar or author. Each book in this set is a paperback original edition with French flaps.

Included in this set:

The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, edited by John Edgar Browning

Reader, have you ever wondered who struck fear into the heart of H. P. Lovecraft? It was Robert Chambers and The King in Yellow, a wicked link in a terrifying lineage containing tales that have inspired generations of American horror writing. Now, the terror visits you.

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, edited by Carmen Maria Machado

Award-winning author Carmen Maria Machado’s signature style provides a new dimension to this cult classic vampire story. Isolated in a remote mansion in a central European forest, Laura longs for companionship—until a carriage accident brings the secretive and sometimes erratic Carmilla into her life. Le Fanu’s compelling vampire tale was a source of influence for Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Medusa’s Daughters: Magic and Monstrosity from Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle, edited by Theodora Goss

Curated and annotated by award-winning fantasy author and Victorianist Theodora Goss, this collection of rare and strange gems serves as a tantalizing sampler of work by fin-de-siècle women writers, whose legacy still echoes in the speculative fiction we know and love today.