Classic & Older Gothic

Macbeth

by Roma Gill

A trusted Scottish general, spurred by witches' prophecies and his wife's ruthless ambition, murders his king to seize the throne. Macbeth's crime plunges him into paranoia and bloodshed, a spiraling descent into tyranny and madness. Shakespeare's compact tragedy explores the corrosive nature of unchecked ambition and the psychological torment of guilt.

More Classic & Older Gothic

• The Hound of the Baskervilles — Anne Perry
• The Vile Village — Brett Helquist
• The Wide Window — Lemony Snicket
• The Plague — Albert Camus
• Sophie's World — Paulette Møller
• The Idiot — Frederick Whishaw
• Othello — William Shakespeare
• Death on the Nile — Agatha Christie

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