The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis

400 pages first pub 1796 (editions)

fiction classics horror dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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When Matthew Lewis’s The Monk was published in 1796, readers were shocked by this gripping and horrific novel. Lewis’s story, which drove the House of Commons—of which he was a member—to deem him licentious and perverse, follows the abbot Ambrosio...

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