The Monk by Matthew Lewis

The Monk

Matthew Lewis

442 pages first pub 1796 (editions)

fiction classics horror dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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One of the most extravagantly dark works of Gothic fiction ever written in English, admired by the likes of Lord Byron and the Marquis de Sade, The Monk drew a firestorm of criticism when it was published in 1796. Contemporaries condemned it as "l...

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